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  1. John Pilger: Time to recognise Blair's crimes

    figures that exceed the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the genocide in Rwanda. And yet, wrote ... theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre ... consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike. The farewell speech of one of the ...

  2. East Timor鈥檚 universal lesson

    on the crosses revealed the extinction of whole families, wiped out in the space of a year, a month ... evidence of genocide. I still have this document, which I find difficult to put down, as if the blood of ... a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down ...

  3. John Pilger: Cambodia's holocaust remembered, 30 years on

    winner of the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. Pilger broke the story of the Khmer Rouge genocide in 1979. His ... over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not ... even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the border. Whole villages were ...

  4. John Pilger: Australia's role in the Balibo killings

    John Pilger John Pilger It is a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal ... occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and ... independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian dictatorship followed, adding to a toll of ...

  5. John Pilger: How Thatcher helped Pol Pot

    block". Khieu Samphan, Pol Pot's prime minister during the years of genocide, took the salute of UN ... will go unmentioned was the support her government gave in the 1980s to the genocidal Pol Pot-led Khmer ... entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, ...

  6. John Pilger: Breaking the Palestine taboo

    entire people. Recently, on the website of the Times of Israel were the words: 鈥Genocide is Permissible.鈥 ... Russia September 12, 2014 1026 'The attack on Gaza was an attack on all of us.'. An Israeli ... Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.鈥 ...