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War crimes and humbug
War crimes and humbug By Fan Yew Teng The 12 European Community states agreed last month to seek ... also guilty of war crimes. The French were also guilty of war crimes and genocide in their ruthless ... against the civilians of Iraq? As Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general, said in his February 12 ...
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Cambodian emergency
growing threat of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, who killed some 20% of Cambodia's population during ... Cambodian emergency This week's issue of the Bulletin magazine has a cover feature on ... foreign minister Gareth Evans was a major architect of the United Nations "peace plan", under ...
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A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor
as he later told me. In Australia, his trenchant analysis of the genocide committed by his government ... face of evidence of genocide. Aditjondro is respected in Indonesian academic circles and has even had ... estimate". In his research, he quotes a figure of 60,000 East Timorese killed in the first two months of the ...
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Timor: Time to talk peace
November 12 massacre of East Timorese civilians jolted the international conscience. Some governments, even ... though accomplices in the physical, ethnic and cultural genocide of our people, were not able to hide ... their horror in the face of the Santa Cruz massacre. However, a few months have elapsed, and their ...
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Vietnam still struggling with health care crisis
liberated the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's genocidal regime in 1979, blocks the import of important ... charge the Vietnamese the equivalent of a month's wages for what sells in the West for a few ... conference held in Camberra last month, only about 10% of health expenditure is raised from central ...
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Sarawak tribes step up forest struggle
Iban region were sentenced to six months' jail, and one to nine months, on charges of criminal ... By Dean Geoffrey Tribespeople in the mountainous rainforests of Sarawak have been battling logging ... companies with a network of blockades for four years. Australian and other international activists recently ...
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Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words
all kinds of torture and also remind me constantly of the unforgettable 12 November 1991 [Dili ... cemetery massacre]. What did the peaceful demonstration of 12 November want? To remind Jakarta and to ... was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian state and illegal possession of firearms, and was ...
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Bosnia: who are the guilty parties?
are mixed, i.e. 1.2 million people are families of mixed faiths. Where should they live Mr ... World war II, is the main force responsible for the genocide in Bosnia. Its constant shelling of ... of repression and hysteria, only 24% of young men obeyed conscription orders in 1992 — only 12% in ...
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Waiting for justice
Between 1982 and 1989, the number of Aboriginal prisoners nationally jumped by 31.9%, from 9826 to 12 ... Aboriginal people the right to run their own lives. From the official policy of genocide to assimilation, the ... had offered no assistance. Yet within a month of her leaving the man who had been treating them badly, ...
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Write on
including a metal head clamp for 4 days a week, 3-4 hours a day for a period of 5 months. As well as being ... "disappeared", never to be seen again. Their aim is the same: genocide of the indigenous people. Please, anyone ... Pacific and Indigenous people. The response to my protest stated that this was due to a lack of financial ...