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After 44 years of occupation: where is the Israeli Peace Camp?
movement?" It is worth considering the wisdom of this statement. This month marks the 44th anniversary of ... a section of the apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine someone spray-painted a quote from Edward Said that ... Israel鈥檚 occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are coming face to face with their worst ...
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CUBA: A people who have triumphed
458 August 1, 2001 [In the largest such march in the history of the country, 1.2 million Cubans ... of imperialism against Cuba will begin past the US Interest Section and over 1.2 million residents of ... and inhumane treatment, confined to punishment cells for 17 months, as all of our people know. Almost ...
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Howard's racist record
of federation". With only 10 months to go to the centenary celebration of our supposedly proud ... complete year 12, compared to the national average of 70%. Despite massive inequalities in the relative ... 390 January 26, 2000 By Margaret Allum On the evening of his election win in 1999, PM John Howard ...
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War crimes and humbug
month to seek a war crimes trial of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for attacking other states, using ... 14 May 29, 1991 War crimes and humbug By Fan Yew Teng The 12 European Community states agreed last ... chemical weapons against civilians and engineering genocide against the Kurds. The proposal was made by ...
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Rwanda one year later
all of the country, lasting three months. When the city of Kigali fell into the hands of the FPR ... present government of Kigali. The second reason is that certain people participated in the genocide: they ... one often speaks: the homeless. At the time of the genocide, homes were also destroyed. Those who ...
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Sudan uprising: 'This is a people's revolution'
gas. This is what Sudanese people are facing after one month of protesting to depose President Omar ... genocide in Darfur were once a component of this force 鈥 led by Lt. Gen Mohammed Hamad Doqlou have already ... a serious threat to the continued existence of Bashir鈥檚 dictatorial regime after weeks of protests, writes聽 ...
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Dili massacre remembered
into Australian governments' complicity in the genocide in East Timor, an initiative of Action in ... about the events of November 12, 1991, and about his experiences during the independence referendum. ... governments' 24 years of complicity in the genocide in East Timor. She announced a public hearing to be held on ...
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Renegades of Munk put the fun into funk
a forum to coincide with the meeting of G20 leaders- dubbed the #Genocidal20 by Aboriginal activists- in ... Rap music Munkimuk Renegades Of Munk South-West Syndicate Vibe 3 on 3 Mark Munk Ross Renegades Of Munk ... Renegades Of Munk Released September 2014 Impossible Odds Records www.renegadesofmunk.com Mark Munk Ross ...
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Aboriginal elder convicted for reclaiming cultural symbols
hours of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict and Buzzacott was given a 12-month good ... highlights one of the definitions of genocide 鈥 deliberate, continuing psychological harm to a race of ... 29-April 6 on charges of stealing a coat of arms. On January 27, 2002, Buzzacott removed the metal ...
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Poet and painter in Villawood detention centre
imprisoned at Villawood detention centre. Both detainees use art to show the oppression of Tamils in their ... homeland of Sri Lanka. In May 2009, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan ... army. Though the war is ended the persecution of Tamils continues. Iniyan and Ravi fled for their lives ...
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PALESTINE: What Israel wants
fenced-in communities. Article II of the United Nations Genocide Convention proscribes that ... 580 November 17, 1993 Rihab Charida & Nikolai Haddad If the olive branch is the symbol of ... hope, then Israel's uprooting of hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees from Palestinian land ...
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鈥楢frin wants peace and freedom鈥
it right now if they choose. This invasion and genocide has been carried out in front of the eyes of ... of massacres and use of chemical weapons, aims to destroy the progressive, democratic Kurdish-led ... sustained armed resistance from groups from various ethnic backgrounds in support of the revolution. But ...
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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 ...
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Antiwar fighter seeks to return to US
claims he destroyed draft files of poor and working class kids and destroyed the computer network of Dow ... avoid being jailed on his return. Malecki said he was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1969 ... after being caught with military files. After 27 months he was released on bail and made it to Sweden. ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki attacks the left
as the world came to learn of Mbeki's genocidal HIV-AIDS policies in 2000. Now, the accusation ... three months: the July launch of the African Union in Durban, the August-September World Summit on ... December 2001 election, while Lesotho activists celebrate last month's bribery conviction of the first ...
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Myanmar: Rohingya refugee crisis 鈥 who鈥檚 to blame?
"systematic abuses of genocidal proportions" by the Tatmadaw. Tatmadaw Many, if not most, foreign and ... already in Bangladesh, tens of thousands in hiding in northern parts of Rakhine State and about 100,000 ... 1982 citizenship law classified all Rohingya as immigrants from Bangladesh, regardless of where they ...
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Cambodian emergency
99 May 12, 1993 Cambodian emergency This week's issue of the Bulletin magazine has a cover ... describes the growing threat of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, who killed some 20% of Cambodia's population ... foreign minister Gareth Evans was a major architect of the United Nations "peace plan", under ...
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Indigenous activists: 'Sorry' not enough, compensation now!
He is continuing the genocidal policy of the Stolen Generations and the Howard years. "We are ... of dirt." [On the February 12 convergence and beyond for Aboriginal rights.] "Under Howard, ... cadres have been organising and regrouping. February 12 will be a coming out of the political spearhead ...
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On the box
and aspirations. SBS, Monday, November 18, 12.25am. Movie: Daughter of the Puma (1994) 鈥 A young ... eyes of the mother of one of the accused, Gerry Conlon. SBS, Thursday, November 21, 12.30pm. The Legacy ... democracy is "unnatural" for Germans and believes that the genocide of the Jews was a historical ...
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After protests, Indonesia lets journos into occupied West Papua
capital, Port Moresby, 鈥渋n protest at the genocide and illegal annexation and colonisation of their ... A global day of action on April 29 featured protests in several cities that called on the Indonesian ... agencies and human rights groups. Melbourne rally co-organiser Matt Gale said: 鈥淲est Papua is one of the ...