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  1. VIETNAM: An uphill reforestation battle

    many new species, has documented the destruction caused by US chemical weaponry, and has contributed ... sun. When we initially tried to replant forest in denuded areas, seedlings withered away and died ... doing their utmost to assist the people. However, the problem was there was simply not enough available ...

  2. Caroline Lund (1944-2006)

    died at her home in Oakland, California, on October 14, aged 62. She will be sorely missed by her ... Caroline gave the report to the convention on a document titled "The Worldwide Youth Radicalisation ... Books, 2005). The book was written with the editorial assistance of Caroline. Barry's introduction ...

  3. Inside Washington's Iraqi ministry of terror

    of Iraqis AP reported had died in war-related violence in January — the month before the US ... cleric Moqtada al Sadr. However a human rights report released in September 2005 by the UN Assistance ... officials... say he is now working out of Maliki's security bureau. "US military documents viewed by ...

  4. Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal

    journal, the Lancet, of a study estimating that 100,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the Anglo-American ... approval from the office of the Secretary of Defence to provide military assistance." Uniquely, this ... lies now documented, took place. This epic crime is the greatest political scandal of our time, the ...

  5. The other, human-made tsunami

    documented. This is in keeping with Australia's 40-year support for oppression in Indonesia, notably its ... as many as 20,000 civilians died. Of all the great humanitarian crises in living memory, no country ... assistance. The problem for the Cambodians was that their liberators, the Vietnamese, had come from the wrong ...

  6. BURMA: West ignores victims of 'world's cruellest regime'

    by a Burmese women's group documenting the use of rape as a weapon against women and girls as ... Thailand in 1999 and helped establish the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, based in Mae Sot, ... mostly water. It was not very good for our health and some political prisoners died because of poor ...

  7. The stench of British imperialist hypocrisy

    ally and arms-buyer. British assistance in the creation and support the mujaheddin (their training, via ... conspiracy". A million people died in Indonesia in 1965 when the US and British governments turned on the ... intervention. Mark Curtis has produced a well-documented indictment of British capitalist and state power, based ...

  8. INDONESIA: Solidarity call to end military ties with Indonesia

    copper-and-gold mining project area in West Papua; the military's well-documented assassination of respected ... and military assistance programs against civilians, including Indonesians, East Timorese, West ... detained pastors, human rights defenders and others. One 35-year-old detainee has died while in custody, ...

  9. Fortress First World

    has expressed his concern that the controversy will "not assist our objective to achieve a common ... seekers to go to extreme lengths to enter. Two thousand documented deaths have resulted from attempts to ... the border. Many thousands of people have died crossing the straits of Gibraltar and the Adriatic Sea ...

  10. Real solutions needed to reduce drug-use harm

    seat. Meanwhile, people are dying." The victory of the Labor candidate in the Benalla by-election ... that 80% of users inject at home. The other 20% will be assisted and the wider community won't ... through the sharing of needles. This has led to more than 205,000 documented AIDS cases, making it one of ...

  11. Partial victory for Argentinian political prisoners

    world public opinion that pressure mounted to have civilian courts deal with the thousands of documented ... tortured, and some of whom the armed forces would later claim died in battle or simply disappeared. In the ... Gorriaran Merlo. The latter was controversially kidnapped with the assistance of the Mexican government by ...

  12. Deporting refugees: the human toll

    travel documents issued by the regimes they were fleeing! Example #2 Abebe Fekado was recently refused ... probably die within a year. He could be deported at any time. Regulations signed in October and affirmed by ... obligations", they are not given legal assistance, notified of their legal rights or given the opportunity to ...

  13. The secret word on Groucho

    released 186 pages of its file on Groucho, who died in 1977 at 82. It contains a lengthy report to J. Edgar ... was 23 years after the fact. Hate mail A second set of documents in Groucho's FBI file consists ... "While I would like to be of assistance, the jurisdiction and responsibilities of the FBI... do not ...

  14. Landmines: more deadly than the plague

    in peacetime is as high as 2500 per month. For every survivor, two die, and in some countries 75% of ... worked extensively in Cambodia assisting the victims of landmine explosions. The meeting called for the ... Cumbria-based Mines Advisory Group has documented nearly 750 different types of landmines and initiating ...

  15. War and the UN

    Innocent people continue to die, the earth's ecology continues to be trampled and resources continue ... peace. The secretary general of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in his 1992 document An Agenda ... 100 wars, in which more than 20 million people have died. But with the end of the Cold War, he says, ...

  16. Unaccountable police and Aborigines

    a document, after Jack Hiatt QC accuses Harding of perjury over Nugan Hand Bank affairs. 1981: Gives evidence ... appointment as assistant commissioner. 'Redneck state' Gilligan, Harding and Burke are three of the ... Both the coroner and the Royal Commission found that Eddie Murray had died "at the hands of person ...

  17. Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr

    they may have been there did any police officers offer to assist Rex Jnr., and that they did not assist ... a whisper of life left in Rex’s body, and yet the police officers did not assist. The police reports do ... an off-duty medic who in the immediacy provided assistance. Thirteen hours would pass before Rex ...

  18. New Labour's war on the Kurds

    made refugees. Most Kurdish refugees tried to escape to Iran or Turkey. Over a thousand people died ... over 40 days stating, "I would rather die here than go back and get killed in my own ... a £500 sugar plum. The Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP) was extended from ...

  19. The SIEV-X refugee drownings: what is the government hiding?

    happen: 353 people died [on October 19] when the overcrowded boat on which they were travelling sank on ... government. Documents released by defence minister Senator Robert Hill on July 8 revealed that an intelligence ... didn't have the capability to assist it because we didn't know where it was." The media came to ...

  20. Abortion debate reveals capitalist contradictions

    investigation. Reist’s book Giving Sorrow Words documents 18 women’s tales of grief upon having an abortion. ...

  21. Write on

    last he wrote. He died here in Brisbane in the latter part of the 1970s. I take my hat off to Bill ... year. The NSW Government's sheer determination not to release these documents has set off alarm ... immigration to Australia could assist in solving the problem of world over-population should also have another ...

  22. John Pilger: How Thatcher helped Pol Pot

    Cambodia's population, were to die as a consequence. To mark the anniversary, the evil of Pol Pot will be ... States government documents leave little doubt that the secret and illegal bombing of then neutral ... Holbrooke, the then US assistant secretary of state. I witnessed this. Travelling with a UN convoy of 40 ...

  23. History of Indigenous resistance

    Aboriginal activist Mick Dodson co-chaired the inquiry, with the assistance of co-commissioners in all ... humiliation and demoralisation. Documents such as a General Certificate of Exemption- which stated that, once ... population would "just die out" over time, Aboriginal people retained the strength of culture to ...

  24. Rio Tinto: the world's worst company?

    died from lung diseases like silicosis between 1877 and 1887. The company was rocked by labour ... struggles in the 1920s, as Richard West's book River of Tears documents. In 1920, many left-wing miners ... dollars in profits, it has also benefited from assistance from governments. In Bougainville it had ...

  25. A washing of hands in Cambodia

    victim who reaches an ill-equipped hospital, another will die without treatment. When the 1991 UN peace ... spelled out the UN's responsibility to "assist with mine clearing" (Annex 1, Section C) but ... Pol Pot was conducted in secret. The report, which carefully documented the presence of Thai troops in ...

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