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  1. Sri Lanka's war on Tamils: the unknown genocide

    "safe zone" is a narrow 12-kilometre strip between a lagoon and the sea north of the town of ... week. "It also serves to conceal, deliberately or unintentionally, the genocidal logic of firing ... people have been bombed for months by this genocidal government; evacuating them from Vanni and ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Tamils not safe under Sri Lankan rule

    presence and 鈥 there鈥檚 no Tamils in the military. 鈥淥n top of that, there are 12,000 suspected combatants ... April 9, the Australian Labor Party government, then led by Kevin Rudd, imposed a three-month suspension ... of the processing of refugees from Sri Lanka. On July 6, the Labor government of PM Julia Gillard ...

  4. Pakistan: New drone killings deepen instability

    had been a six-month cessation of drone attacks against North West Pakistan. Their resumption has come ... pretext of combating terrorism, this law allows for detention for two months without having to appear ... Areas (FATA) killed 20 people on July 16. It brought the number of people killed by US drones in North ...

  5. Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms

    new Ukrainian government. When Yanukovich fled after failing to crush two months of anti-government ... mixed with memories of the genocidal forced collectivisation of agriculture and other atrocities by the ... Today, they are about 12% of the population of Crimea and the Crimean Tatar population in Crimea now ...

  6. East Timor: 'We don't want Australian troops'

    Within a month of Australian troops landing in 1999, Australian companies began operating three oil ... over 200,000 Timorese lives (over a third of the population), Australia's support for this ... genocidal occupation was predicated on a policy outlined in the infamous "Woolcott telegram": that ...

  7. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    bombing the country. He also announced plans to accept a further 12,000 Syrian refugees on top of his ... month with his usual rhetoric of 鈥渘ational security鈥 鈥 maintaining, contrary to evidence, that ISIS ... Tony Abbott announced on September 9 a novel approach to stemming the flow of refugees from Syria: ...