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US forces step up war in Somalia
in which innocent Somalis have been killed and bungled raids on non-military installations by US ... commandos. In the latest incident, at least 200 Somalis — mainly women and children — were killed when a US ... Cobra helicopter gunship opened fire on a crowd in Mogadishu on September 10. (Cobras have not been used ...
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Chan signals escalation in Bougainville war
process. He also called on Canberra to end the military assistance to PNG that has enabled the war to ... By Norm Dixon On March 21, the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Julius Chan, made plain his ... intention to escalate the war against the pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) and the ...
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Stories from Australia's unfinished land war
disturbing, especially the section on sexual violence where we are told of the frequency that Aboriginal women ... Stories from Australia's unfinished land war details = Frontier: Stories from White ... Australia's Forgotten War CD-ROM ABC through Dataworks Educational Software $49.95 By Andy Gianniotis ...
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Massive opposition to war across Europe
antiwar activities culminated in an international day of actions against the war on January 26, which saw ... involved since 1945. School students have interrupted classes to go on marches, women in black are ... By Tracy Sorensen PRAGUE — The news that war had broken out met with an instant response right ...
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Behind the war in Jaffna
Behind the war in Jaffna The recent offensive by the Sri Lankan army against the Tamil people ... University and spokesperson for the Tamil Sangam, Queensland about the background to the war. Tamil and ... 1949, Tamils who had been brought by the British from India to work on the tea plantations were ...
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US stepping up economic war against Cuba
Republican whip Newt Ginrich signalled that the US would apply maximum pressure on the Soviet Union to ... the US disinformation machine is putting the blame for the island's economic problems on ... dependence on the US by seeking other trading partners and drastically improve living standards. What most ...
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Fighting the Vietnam War in print
The Viet Nam War, the American War: Images and Representation in Euro-American and Vietnamese ... Reviewed by Phil Shannon The Vietnam War may have ended over 20 years ago, but the US political and ... racism) in an attempt to justify the war it lost politically at home and militarily in Vietnam. Renny ...
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Australia's war for mining company profits
the war. Bougainville is not dependent on the mine: the people can survive without it, Crofts insists. ... By Frank Enright Australia is at war. In fact, it has been for five years, only it hasn't ... been declared to the people of Australia. The "enemy" are the indigenous people on the small ...
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The dogs of war
By Peter Montague Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million US men and women served in Vietnam during ... were sent to Okinawa after the war. These studies showed that dogs which served in Vietnam were 1.8 ... cancer in men and women was similarly correlated with residence in industrialised areas. "The ...
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Forgotten victims of a silent war
NGO s assisting refugees, blames the crisis on the Aquino government's "total war ... life after being shut in a cave which was then set ablaze by soldiers on the central Philippines island ... women's group Gabriela given meals to the children each day. Finally, they were given safe conduct passes ...
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An eloquent novel of war and human values
Youth Brigade to the most heavily bombarded front of the war in Vietnam. She spent the next seven years ... live on in me". The author was arrested and imprisoned without trial for seven months in 1991 on ... central Vietnam. The novel is an unflinching portrayal of the obscenity of war. Early in the book, Quan ...
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The company that brought you the Gulf War
monstrous atrocities committed by the Germans against babies and pregnant women. "After the war ... incredible: is it possible that the war was started on the basis of this one atrocity story?" Garrett ... internal memo issued when pro-war hype was waning emphasises a focus on human rights in Kuwait and the need ...
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Telling the truth about the Spanish Civil War
mid-December Reviewed by Peter Boyle The Spanish Civil War of 1936-38 was one of the great historical events in ... the 20th century. It was built upon great heroism and sacrifice on the part of Spanish workers and ... volunteers in the fight against Franco's fascists. Ken Loach's Land and Freedom is based on the ...
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Campaigning to end the war in Sri Lanka
Party? The NSSP was formed in 1977. It is a party based on the working class, which aims to unite people ... you organise around that? What we do is stand firmly on the position of self-determination for the ... campaign to stop the war. The NSSP is organising intellectuals, the clergy, the workers and the youth and ...
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Running the world after the Cold War
Hispanic narcotics trafficker. For the people of Central America, the war on drugs proved to be as brutal ... as the war on communism. There was more to come. Islamic fundamentalism was sweeping across the ... bombers, oppressed Arab women and a demonised Saddam Hussein. Unlike the Vietnam War, Desert Storm proved ...
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Right threatens civil war in South Africa
Sexwale added on February 17. But the primary aim of Mandela's initiative was prevent a civil war ... Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into ... civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The African National Congress candidate for premier of the PWV ...
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Bosnian women call for peace and justice
Bosnian women call for peace and justice By Jennifer Thompson Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on ... women and children particularly have been targeted in the war. Coupled with a call for the establishment ... of a war crimes tribunal was her call to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Hercegovina so that the ...
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Women's right to choose under attack
Women's right to choose under attack By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya There is a stealthy war being ... waged against women in Australia, a war that threatens to erode most of the reproductive rights and ... assisting the prime minister on the status of women, responded to a question in parliament about future ...
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Bosnian women refugees in Australia
will feature a panel of women refugees speaking on their experiences both before and during the war ... will be hosting a meeting organised to allow Bosnian women survivors of the war to speak about their ... Bosnian women refugees in Australia The International Women's Development Agency in Sydney ...
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'Comfort Women' in long fight for justice
war. "The cases are on behalf of individual women. And because the cases are hard, we have to be ... files on the "comfort women" at the end of the war. Several top Japanese state officials and ... of these women in the war zones was controlled and administered by the military, the Department of ...