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  1. Turkey launches new aggression against Iraq and Syria

    (AANES) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Turkish troops fired across the border on November 1, killing ... a liberated area administered by democratic local councils, with equal representation of men and women and the ... northern Iraq. On August 15, Turkish jets bombed a village 150 kilometres from the border where members of ...

  2. Sri Lanka: Small concessions, but Tamils still facing oppression

    Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Tamils The Global Tamil ... Forum issued a statement on May 1 evaluating the first months of in office of Sri Lanka's new ... Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had presided over a genocidal war against the Tamil people and then kept them under ...

  3. Tamil refugee: How Australia is complicit in Sri Lankan genocide

    Refugees & migrants Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Elections National liberation ... Chris Slee Tamils protest in Geneva to demand a UN investigation into Sri Lankan war crimes. Photo via ... There are many reported cases of Tamil women being sexually assaulted. There is a 鈥淪inhalisation鈥 of ...

  4. Behind Eritrea's oppressive regime 鈥 why refugees flee

    Refugees & migrants Imperialism & war Socialism Democracy Economy National liberation ... reported. Some other refugees have gone to Israel, crossing Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on their way. ... Death in captivity is common鈥. Similarly, a United Nations commission of enquiry on Eritrea found that ...

  5. Libya: Fresh protests in struggle for democracy

    restrictions on women鈥檚 freedom: 鈥淚 live outside the city, and on February 13 I was stopped by a group of armed ... public. On March 14 we organised a protest called 鈥榯he march for the dignity of women鈥. As usual we were ... Libya鈥檚 cities. The militias are armed groups originally formed during the 2011 civil war. Most are based ...

  6. New film about exiled Sri Lankan journalists premieres in Melbourne

    Melbourne showing of the film Silenced Voices: tales of Sri Lankan journalists in exile on September 6. The ... accused of war crimes in his previous role as a military officer. Apputhurai Lokeesan, formerly ... photos showing the government's bombardment of civilians during the war against the Liberation ...

  7. Sri Lanka elections called

    Sirisena was elected president on January 9, replacing Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sirisena had been a minister in ... of the United National Party, the main opposition party in Sri Lanka's parliament. On being ... were part of a government that waged a genocidal war against the Tamil people. Sri Lanka's ...

  8. Rally against cut to refugee support

    waging "war" on refugees in an attempt to divert attention away from the real problems facing ... for counselling. Methods of restraint are used on these women that are not used on criminals. ... march for refugee rights on September 2. A similar rally was also held in Sydney. The demonstration was ...

  9. Sri Lanka: Tamils rally in Jaffna against occupation, ethnic cleansing

    Jaffna, a city in the聽north of Sri Lanka, on September 24,聽Tamilnet reported.聽The rally, supported by ... colonialism". The rally聽also聽said: "Seven years after the end of the war, the North and聽East remains ... against women and children, were condemned. The rally聽demanded that "the occupying forces immediately ...

  10. Sri Lanka still unsafe, meeting told

    survive. Many die on building sites, and some women are used as sex slaves. Like the article? Subscribe to ... Action Collective held a public meeting in Melbourne on February 23 to discuss the situation in Sri Lanka ... was acting defence minister in May 2009, in the final days of the war, when the slaughter of Tamils by ...

  11. Iran: 'If people unite, the regime will fall'

    Bishop鈥檚 request, this could change. Bahman said women in Iran are treated as 鈥渟econd class citizens鈥. Only ... men are allowed to initiate divorce. Women must get the permission of a male relative to travel and ... are compelled to wear a hijab. They are subject to harassment in workplaces, schools and on the ...

  12. Tamils still face repression in Sri Lanka

    campaigning for an international war crimes investigation, and for a referendum amongst Sri Lankan Tamils on ... founder of the Eelam Tamil Association of Victoria, at Monash University on August 25. Newman was speaking ... on democracy in south Asia. He began by outlining some common features of the south Asian countries ...

  13. Sri Lanka: New president wins amid discontent, repression

    though he had been part of a government that had waged war on the Tamil people. A TNA statement issued on ... in 2010. In his first term, he presided over the most brutal phase of the war between the Sri Lankan ... between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. Rajapaksa ended the ceasefire, and waged a genocidal war ...

  14. Sri Lanka: Tamil leader says ethnic conflict has 'deepened'

    for refugee status 鈥 on the pretext that the war is now over so there is no reason the flee. ... Democracy National liberation Chris Slee 鈥淐ontrary to popular belief, the end of the war has ... Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Sri Lanka, addressing an academic conference in capital, Colombo, on ...

  15. Who are the Tamil Tigers?

    Chris Slee The Sri Lankan government claims to be on the verge of totally defeating the Liberation ... for an independent state for the Tamil people on the northern and eastern parts of the island. The ... and in July 1983. In these racial holocausts thousands of Tamils, including women and children, were ...

  16. Sri Lanka: Tamils seek end to occupation

    settlements to break up the contiguity of Palestinian land in the West Bank. Even though the war between the ... failure of their pay to keep up with inflation, and against attacks on their pension schemes. In June last ... reason for poverty in the south is the huge government spending on the military occupation of the Tamil ...

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