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1. Myanmar: Rohingya refugee crisis – who’s to blame?

   "systematic abuses of genocidal proportions" by the Tatmadaw. Tatmadaw Many, if not most, foreign and ... already in Bangladesh, tens of thousands in hiding in northern parts of Rakhine State and about 100,000 ... 1982 citizenship law classified all Rohingya as immigrants from Bangladesh, regardless of where they ...

2. Indigenous activists: 'Sorry' not enough, compensation now!

   genocidal policy of the Stolen Generations and the Howard years. "We are back to 'flour, tea and ... widely believed there will not be a reference to genocide and there will be a lot of emphasis on the good ... apology won't buy a loaf of bread or a handful of dirt." [On the February 12 convergence and ...

3. On the box

   and aspirations. SBS, Monday, November 18, 12.25am. Movie: Daughter of the Puma (1994) — A young ... eyes of the mother of one of the accused, Gerry Conlon. SBS, Thursday, November 21, 12.30pm. The Legacy ... democracy is "unnatural" for Germans and believes that the genocide of the Jews was a historical ...

4. Noam Chomsky: US role crucial to Israel's crimes

   had observed the previous ceasefire for 19 months. The previous episode of “mowing the lawn” was in ... describes Israel’s month-long offensive in Gaza that killed at least 2000 people and left almost 10,000 ... dissident, who has written extensively about Israel and Palestine, about Israel’s latest bloody campaign of ...

5. After protests, Indonesia lets journos into occupied West Papua

   the genocide and illegal annexation and colonisation of their brothers and sisters in West Papua”. It ... government has banned foreign journalists from entering West Papua." A global day of action on April 29 ... Melbourne rally co-organiser Matt Gale said: “West Papua is one of the world’s most isolated conflict spots. ...

6. Congo: Tshisekedi supporters whip up chauvinism

   thousand French troops are also mustered. Thousands of members of the genocidal forces of the former ... Press at 1000 marched 12 kilometres — chanting "Kabila, assassin of Congo" and "He gave ... By Norm Dixon Seemingly oblivious to the fact that Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic ...

7. Ukraine: Kyiv, Russia sign shakey ceasefire

   Minsk, Belarus on the morning of February 12, after 16 hours of talks, and announced that agreement had ... agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union, bore the brunt of Stalin's genocidal forced collectivisation ... Donbass Soviet Union (USSR) Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France emerged from negotiations in ...

8. Contra attacks increase in Congo and Rwanda

   includes remnants of Mobutu's defeated regime, the army and Interahamwe death squads of the genocidal ... murder of more than half a million Tutsi and anti-government Hutu Rwandans in three months — the French ... openly prepared to reinvade Rwanda and complete the genocide. In league with the army of Mobutu, the ...

9. Mobutu toughs it out

   Mobutu to take. Crowds of people booed and jeered as his motorcade of 12 limousines, three jeeps with ... the Kinshasa international airport. Heavy fighting, the first in almost eight months of civil war, was ... guard, backed by UNITA troops from Angola and soldiers of the genocidal former Rwandan regime. Meanwhile, ...

10. News briefs

    recently murdered. A heated discussion ensued, most of the audience raising the genocidal nature of the ... Association here on October 16. Speakers from the NSW Rape Crisis Centre spoke of their visit to meet with ... volunteers working with the ethnic Chinese women survivors of rape in Indonesia. Susan Pinkham, an indigenous ...

11. Human rights overboard

    John Howard's racist refugee policies have been revived. The suspension, for at least three months ... for those from Sri Lanka and six months for those from Afghanistan, is unjustified and inhumane. The ... refugees are fleeing a well-founded fear of persecution. Under international law, Australia has an ...

12. A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

    as he later told me. In Australia, his trenchant analysis of the genocide committed by his government ... face of evidence of genocide. Aditjondro is respected in Indonesian academic circles and has even had ... estimate". In his research, he quotes a figure of 60,000 East Timorese killed in the first two months of the ...

13. Australian Tamils rally for war crimes inquiry

    run by the Sri Lankan military for 12 months. “There have been many disappearances of Tamil civilians ... International solidarity A Mylvaganam Naarm/Melbourne To mark the 28th anniversary of the 1983 ... Black July massacre of ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, Australian Tamils held a solidarity rally in ...

14. Invest in independence: support 3CR’s Radiothon

    relies on its annual Radiothon to keep the station on air for the next 12 months, covering bills, license ... Indonesia. Five West Papuans bring Melanesian music and news of the community’s struggle against genocide to ... Independence at Radiothon 2012. Buy your share of the media and donate to 3CR this Radiothon. 3CR’s progressive ...

15. Socialist candidate: We need to act locally and globally

    outraged by their total support for Indonesia's genocidal occupation of East Timor. “It's funny, ... Alliance candidate for the seat of Fremantle. Being passionate about sustainable transport he is active in ... waterfront for 12 years during which time he edited the MUA WA journal Rank & File Voice. He now works as ...

16. Khmer Rouge still a major threat

    of the Khmer Rouge regime, which between 1975 and 1979 resulted in the deaths of 1-2 million of the ... defected within six months, and as a result of this and government offensives in some areas, the government ... There is renewed focus on Cambodia as that country marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment ...

17. East Timor’s universal lesson

    on the crosses revealed the extinction of whole families, wiped out in the space of a year, a month ... evidence of genocide. I still have this document, which I find difficult to put down, as if the blood of ... a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down ...

18. Protests erupt in refugee jails

    extended period of time.” An Afghan man detained for 18 months “deliberately smashed his head against ... than 12 months. There are rising numbers that have been held for two years or more. In places such as ... Anti-racism Democracy Refugees & migrants Jay Fletcher Federal police raided the rooms of ...

19. Ocalan's execution will trigger 'new uprising' warns PKK

    been "held for three and a half months in conditions of intense psychological pressure and ... means, in reality, a demand for the execution of all of us as a people, a new genocide. There can be no ... presidential council of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on June 10 warned the Turkish government and military ...

20. 18 questions for radical rapper Intikana

    enslavement, along with the labour of immigrants. In the song, I also refer to the genocide of the original ... Both of my parents are Boricua, also known as Puerto Rican. Boricuas have three primary roots or ... lineages: Taino, Spanish, and Afrikan. This is because Tainos were the native people of the Caribbean when ...

21. Timor: Time to talk peace

    November 12 massacre of East Timorese civilians jolted the international conscience. Some governments, even ... though accomplices in the physical, ethnic and cultural genocide of our people, were not able to hide ... their horror in the face of the Santa Cruz massacre. However, a few months have elapsed, and their ...

22. John Pilger: demolishing global myths

    water. More than 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed by the West's "genocidal" regime of ... 1.2 billion people live in severe poverty — including two-thirds of the world's children — and ... denounce US/British sanctions as "genocidal", with the deaths of over 4000 children under the age ...

23. Supporting refugees and beating back bipartisan cruelty

    neighbouring countries such as Lebanon, which has 1.2 million refugees in a population of 4.4 million, or ... Refugees & migrants Zebedee Parkes refugee crisis protest movement #BringThemHere Hundreds of ... days of protests by refugees on Nauru, landmark court decisions, the Nauru Files, politicians’ offices ...

24. India: 'Defend women’s right to freedom without fear!'

    genocide of 2002. Police or army uniform, and the dominance of caste and community, cannot be a licence to ... involved in 1.2% (267 out of 22,549 cases) of these cases, neighbours were involved in 34.7% cases (7835 ... Feminism Kavita Krishnan Delhi In the midst of the unspeakable horror of a rape and attempted ...

25. Vietnam still struggling with health care crisis

    liberated the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's genocidal regime in 1979, blocks the import of important ... charge the Vietnamese the equivalent of a month's wages for what sells in the West for a few ... conference held in Camberra last month, only about 10% of health expenditure is raised from central ...

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