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  1. Statement against war on Tamils initiated by World at the Crossroads participants:

    embarked on the reconquest of the island's north through brutal war with devastating consequences for ... 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Sydney, April 10-12. A selection of the much larger number of names that signed on ... ago the government started registering all Tamils in Colombo on the grounds that they could be ...

  2. John Pilger on Sri Lanka's brutal war: Distant voices, desperate lives

    a declaration of war on the Tamils. The new law meant that Tamils almost disappeared from the civil service by ... affirm you are on the right side of history, regardless of the fact that your government has one of the ... perpetrated their own atrocities. But they are the product, not the cause, of an injustice and a war that long ...

  3. Afghanistan: not a just war

    defence, including an extra $1.4 billion for the war on Afghanistan, is further testament to this. The ... NATO-led troop surge in Afghanistan, a May 4 US air strike on two villages in the country's south-west ... killed up to 150 civilians, including many women and children. It appears that the US army used white ...

  4. On The Box

    On the box World War Il: Behind Closed Doors — focuses on the secret history of the non-aggression ... censorship and public decency on television using the example of the infamous 1970s filmmaker, Ugly George. ... century. ABC, Sunday, May 24, 5pm. Dateline — Investigates allegations of rampant sexual abuse of women in ...

  5. Union support for Tamils

    violence on women are used as weapons of war. Both Trades Hall and the AEU call on the Australian ... it has become clear that, as with many wars and invasions, women and children are bearing the brunt ... government's brutal war against the Tamils. **** Both [Victoria] Trades Hall Council Executive and Australian ...

  6. Protests called against genocide in Sri Lanka

    spoke about how the Sri Lankan army uses rape as a weapon of war. [For details of rallies on May 23, see ... a ceasefire. A protest convoy of 150 cars descended on Parliament House in Canberra on May 12, demanding ... permanent ceasefire." On May 11, 200 people attended a hastily organised protest vigil in Sydney ...

  7. Labor's budget — work until you drop

    impact on women, who rely more on the pension than men. Women have fewer retirement savings than men ... on May 12. Swan's bleak message was clear: for those with a job, it's a matter of work ... overall. The average superannuation payout for women is one third of that for men. Women working full time ...

  8. Afghanistan: US soldier says sorry for occupation's crimes

    them women and children, and on the other side these Taliban and the Northern Alliance terrorists are ... soldier facing prosecution for refusing to be deployed to Iraq on the grounds that the US-led occupation ... US-backed Islamic fundamentalists. Common Dreams said on April 15 that Chiroux, who served in Afghanistan in ...

  9. Australian media fails Tamils

    abuse of women; disappearances. All things that have regularly blighted Sri Lanka's brutal war ... Stu Harrison The Sri Lankan government's war against the Tamil minority has again exposed the ... standard practice in recent years for mainstream journalists covering a war zone to become ...

  10. The struggle for Nepal

    UCPN-M. However, with the Maoists controlling 40% of the parliament, and anger expressed on the streets, ... finally ended in 2006, when the pressure of the Maoist "people's war" combined with urban ... since stalled. There are deep divisions between the political groups on the road forward. It was agreed ...