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Revolution to the rhythm of merengue
clandestine organisations linked to the resistance against the 1965 US invasion, and later against the ... suggested by observers were incorporated into the final documents adopted by the congress. Observers came ... Dominicans who died fighting in El Salvador. Other international guests at the conference included the New ...
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Amnesty campaign on Indonesian human rights
which the government uses to crush any form of resistance. Amnesty has documented cases where men in ... Timor. In East Timor 200,000 people, one-third of the population have been killed or have died from ...
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Dili massacre remembered
Guterres, speaking on behalf of the East Timorese resistance, called on "all sectors of the Australian ... Bourke Street Mall, city traffic and trams were stopped as protesters held a "die-in". Outside ... Timorese representative and UDT member Domingos de Oliveira described the continued resistance against the ...
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PALESTINE: Israeli military targets civilians
have halted attacks within Israel by Palestinian resistance organisations. On July 25, the Cairo-based ... mainstream Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth printed the text of the declaration by Palestinian resistance ... more than the 576 Israelis, many of them soldiers or settlers, who died from September 2000 to July 17, ...
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PALESTINE: World's longest running injustice
ambulances to get through checkpoints. Many women and babies have died during child birth over the last 20 ... B'Tselem, which we visited in Jerusalem, has documented the inequity surrounding access to water. It has ... also documented incidents where Israeli soldiers have ordered Palestinians away from wells or springs ...
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India: Modi’s ‘development model’ is anti-poor and anti-minorities
notes comprising their lives’ savings. More than 100 deaths were reported in three months. People died ... of heatstroke in the queues, and they died of anxiety – they committed suicide in fear that their ... documented, most notably for its complicity with the Godhra riots of 2002 when thousands were displaced and ...
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IRAQ: Hussein's capture fails to end war
that the resistance movement had been "decapitated" and dealt a "crippling psychological ... armed resistance is ridiculous. As the Israeli daily Haaretz noted on December 18: "The underground ... undermine the Iraqi resistance rests on the lie that the guerrillas and their supporters are simply ...
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Custodianship in the 21st Century
concepts of racial superiority that leave a deep stain of discrimination on this outmoded document. He ... come and he made it clear throughout almost nine years of stoic resistance and tireless campaigning, ... with Aboriginal people in their fight. We must resist oppressive, discriminatory policies and focus the ...
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Hardie: the company that tried to get away with murder
and confidential documents, Peacock dissects Australia's greatest industrial disaster — which may ... employment of older men because they were more likely to die from other causes before asbestos diseases ... take asbestos out of the company's name (James Hardie Asbestos), to resist adopting warning labels ...
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Human rights abuses: Bush's policies continued
Committee for the Red Cross denied access. Obama has resisted demands for investigations into the criminal ... countries of origin after years of brutal torture. Some have died in suspicious circumstances in custody. ... carrying jars of chemicals and documents with titles like "mass casualty attacks" and "how ...
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Letter from the US: The 'new, open' CIA
still with the essential power. The declassified documents represent less than 1% of the agency's ... campaign" against the workers and peasants, especially the indigenous population. Resistance to the military ... regime flared up many times in the form of guerilla warfare and never completely died out. The CIA ...
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IRAQ: What they don't want you to know
has documented a catalogue of miscarriages, hair loss, and horrific eye, skin and respiratory problems ... to the non-governmental organisation Medact, between 21,700 and 55,000 Iraqis died between March 20 ... "atrocities" to the Iraqi resistance) and that the wider danger it represents throughout the world is ...
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East Timor: Habibie's phoney 'peace' plan
Timorese resistance and the United Nations accepting East Timor as a province of Indonesia, the ... other words, if the East Timorese resistance surrenders, the regime will stop its repression. This is ... be forgiven. Of course, the East Timorese resistance has rejected the offer. Both Xanana Gusmao in ...
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Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference: continuing the struggle
resistance against foreign occupation, dictatorial rule, savage neo-liberal offensives or attacks on their ... (DSP), Resistance, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET), Burma solidarity groups, ... Lisa Macdonald and Max Lane. Other DSP, Resistance or ASIET activists from around the country led ...
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TURKEY: US pushes Ankara toward war with Iraq
military operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime is inevitable. An official document recently ... Code-named "B.020" and signed by Ecevit, the document reads in part: "There is no doubt that ... part." The document continues: "Relations [between Baghdad and the Kurdish parties] should be based ...
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'Stop lying about East Timor'
on assignment as a cameraman for Channel 9, Sydney. He died a terrible death trying to help the ... "inalienable right" to "total and complete independence" and to resist any foreign intervention. ... also said "the authorities handed over documents and a camera said to have been found beside the ...
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Iraq: Sadr bloc quits US-backed government
2004, when Sadr's Mahdi Army militia had mounted armed resistance to the US military in southern ... command. While Iraqi resistance fighters regularly fire rockets and mortar rounds into the compound from ... days. McClatchy also reported on April 16 that more US troops had died in Iraq since October than in any ...
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John Pilger: Genocide in Gaza
compounded; a family of 18 has died beneath a 500-pound US/Israeli bomb; unarmed women have been mown down at ... capture last June of an Israeli soldier, a member of an illegal occupation, by the Palestinian resistance ... documented that "the genocidal policy [in Gaza] is not formulated in a vacuum", but part of ...
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Called to account: General in Dili massacre
a leader in the Timorese resistance movement, who escaped from East Timor after the massacre and is now ... could decide on the amount of damages. I told the court that Kamal did not die at the cemetery. An M16 ... allowed to drive Kamal to the military hospital. He died from "loss of blood due to gunshot ...
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Ocalan's execution will trigger 'new uprising' warns PKK
prepare his case. Ocalan was denied pens and paper and access to legal documents. His lawyers have been ... Turkish troops and pro-Ankara village guards have died. While journalists attending are not allowed to ... "5000 suicide bombers are ready to die for me". According the New York Times' Stephen Kinzer, ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
temporarily because they dared to tell the Iraqi people the truth about the growing resistance. Now the US ... growing Iraqi resistance is a product of the illegal and unprovoked invasion, not some trumped up charge ... in order to impose a Western-style government on the people of that country. No wonder the resistance ...
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Israel subjects Palestinians to apartheid policies
had been occupied since 1967. However — as revealed by documents leaked to WikiLeaks and Al Jazeera ... 2007 a Western-backed coup overthrew Hamas (again proven by documents obtained by WikiLeaks). However, ... Israeli policy is to allow in the minimum amount of food to stop people from actually dying from ...
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Indigenous America: 'A new era has begun'
several of his siblings died at birth. He dropped out of high school because of his family's lack of ... Indigenous Resistence by the indigenous movement. As Jose Bove, of the International Movement of Farmers, ... said, it's a day of "visibility of resistance and solidarity in order to transform ...
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Malaysia swap inhumane: Refugee myths exposed
seekers and refugees, including those with UNHCR documents, are susceptible to detention in “filthy and ... death. In May, two inmates from Myanmar died from leptospirosis, a bacterial infection caused by contact ... KLIA Immigration Depot died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus. Other inmates were hospitalised in ...
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The crimes of Suharto
More than 200,000, almost one third of the population, died in the ensuing years from Indonesian ... terror. There were public executions and torture, with victims being disembowelled and left to die ... people died in Indonesia as in Vietnam in twelve years". Time magazine carried the following report ...