Mia Swart
- May 29, 2020
Ethiopian security forces accused of grave human rights abuses
New Amnesty report documents extrajudicial executions, mass detentions during security operations in Amhara and Oromia. A rights group has accused Ethiopian security forces of continuing to commit grave human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions and torture, since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018. In its report on Friday, Amnesty International documented the arbitrary detentions of thousands of people and the forcible evictions of dozens of famil
UNHCR
- May 28, 2020
Chad Emergency Update
Violence in Sudan’s Darfur forces thousands to flee. From late December 2019 to January 2020, clashes between rival communities in El Geneina, in Sudan’s West Darfur State, forced over 16,000 refugees to cross into neighboring Chad. The majority of them are women and children. They arrived exhausted, traumatized and often with signs of malnutrition. Following an alert by authorities in eastern Chad, a joint mission comprising UNHCR, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Chadian
Julia Zulver and Megan Janetsky | BBC News
- May 21, 2020
Colombia: How armed gangs are using lockdown to target activists
On the first day of Colombia's quarantine, Carlota Isabel Salinas was shot dead outside her home. Ms Salinas played a leading role in a women's organization in Bolívar province in northern Colombia. The region had already seen an increase in violence carried out by right-wing paramilitaries in the months before the coronavirus pandemic. Since the start of the lockdown in late March, 28 activists and human rights defenders across Colombia have been murdered. The killings are n
AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
- May 20, 2020
Hundreds killed in inter-communal clashes in South Sudan
An MSF staffer and two other aid workers were also killed in the violence over the weekend in the Jonglei state. At least 287 people, including a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff member and two other aid workers, have been killed in the most recent spat of inter-communal violence in the eastern state of Jonglei in South Sudan, government authorities have told Al Jazeera. At least 300 people were wounded in the violence, which broke out between the Murle and Lou Nuer ethnic
Feisal Omar, Abdi Sheikh, Elias Biryabarema
- May 17, 2020
Suicide bombing in Somalia kills governor, three others in Puntland: police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said. “A suicide car bomb hit the governor’s car. Governor Ahmed Muse Nur and three of his bodyguards died,” police captain Mohamed Osman told Reuters. Al Shabaab has been fighting for years to topple Somalia’s western-backed central government and
Marlise Simons and Norimitsu Onishi | New York
- May 17, 2020
Rwandan Genocide Financier Arrested After 23 Years on the Run
Félicien Kabuga, 84, had been on the run for 23 years, since he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on multiple charges of genocide. A Nairobi newspaper in 2002 carried a photograph of the fugitive Felicien Kabuga. Credit...George Mulala/Reuters PARIS — He was behind the radio station whose hate-filled invectives turned Rwandan against Rwandan, neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse. He was the man, it was said, who imported the hund
The Never Again Association | Poland
- May 15, 2020
The Virus of Hate: Report of The Never Again Association
THE VIRUS OF HATE AND STEVE BANNON’S DECLARATION OF WAR The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association has echoed the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ warning against ‘the tsunami of hate and xenophobia’ sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. The Warsaw-based organization has published its latest REPORT ‘The Virus of Hate: Brown Book of the Epidemic’. The report documents acts of racism, xenophobia and discrimination which have occurred in the context of the coronavirus in Pol
Uzay Bulut | Gatestone Institute
- May 11, 2020
Turkey: Erdogan uses "Leftovers of the Sword" anti-Christian hate speech
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's public use of the insult "the leftovers of the sword" in referring to survivors of the massacres of Christians in his country is alarming on many levels. The phrase not only insults the victims and the survivors of the massacres but also endangers the safety of Turkey's dwindling Christian community, who are often exposed to pressures that include physical attacks. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) "Leftover of the sword" (kılıç ar
Deanna Wilken | Genocide Watch
- May 7, 2020
Genocide Watch Launches Timestream on Rohingya Genocide
Genocide Watch has published its first Timestream presentation, a new educational tool created by Ntrepid LLC. Timestreams on other genocides will follow. The Rohingya Timestream covers the history of the genocide and forced displacement of the Rohingya in Myanmar. It explores key events leading up to the Gambia's case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice. View the Timestream presentation here . .
Diana Chandler | Baptist Press
- May 7, 2020
25 Christians killed in Nigeria's Middle Belt in April
NIGERIA (BP) -- Militant Fulani herdsmen killed at least 25 Christians in several attacks in Nigeria's Middle Belt in April as the local government did little to intervene, Morning Star News reported. The unfettered attacks could lead to a regional civil war in Nigeria's Middle Belt, religious liberty advocate International Christian Concern said Tuesday (May 5). "A full-blown civil war between the Fulani people and the rest of the indigenous people around them could very wel
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