Just Security | Naomi Roht-Arriaza
- Oct 31, 2020
On El Salvador’s 1981 El Mozote Massacre, President Bukele Sides With Impunity
IMAGE: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele speaks during a press conference at the presidential home in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sept. 24, 2020. Beside him are files that he said contained the only case information he could find. He was responding to a judge’s demand, still unfulfilled, for documents related to the 1981 massacre at El Mozote . (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images) Survivors of the largest single massacre in modern Latin American history recentl
Al Jazeera/AFP News Agency
- Oct 30, 2020
‘Himalayan lie’: India raids over Kashmir ‘terror funds’ slammed
Activists and rights groups condemn series of raids by National Investigation Agency in disputed Kashmir, New Delhi and Bengaluru. Al Jazeera \ 30 October 2020 AFP’s Kashmir correspondent Parvaiz Bukhari, right, talks to his colleagues after NIA officers searched his premises on the outskirts of Srinagar [Mukhtar Khan/AP] Activists and rights groups have condemned Indian agency’s raids on non-governmental organisations, activists and journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir
Martin Chulov
- Oct 30, 2020
After Isis, Yazidi women forced to leave their children behind
Mothers who have returned to Iraq without their children say they would rather be back in the hell of their former lives. As bombs crunched into the ground around them in February last year, three young Yazidi women cowered in holes dug in the eastern Syrian desert, cradling their terrified children. In the month that followed, hundreds of people hiding near them were killed by devastating barrages that destroyed what was left of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate and fr
Ehlimana Memišević
- Oct 30, 2020
Višegrad’s rape camps: Denial and erasure
In the Bosnian town of Višegrad, the local authorities are trying hard to whitewash genocidal crimes through tourism. I was born in the 1980s to a Bosniak family in Višegrad, an ethnically diverse town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. A couple of years later, my hometown turned into one of the worst places on earth to be born a Muslim. It was a hot day in June 1992. The disappearances and the mass killings of Bosniak civilians at Višegrad’s famous 16th-century Mehmed Paša S
Al Jazeera
- Oct 29, 2020
Erdogan warns of military action in Syria, decries Russian strike
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country has a ‘legitimate reason’ to intervene in northern Syria with Kurdish fighters in the border area. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Wednesday to launch a new military operation in northern Syria if Kurdish armed groups are not cleared from areas along its border with Syria. In an address to his ruling party’s legislators in parliament, the Turkish leader also said a Russian airstrike that targeted Tur
Lauren Salim | Genocide Watch
- Oct 28, 2020
Report: 2021 Ugandan Election Will Escalate Ethnic Tensions
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986. In February 2021 Uganda will hold elections. Museveni circumvented term limits in the Constitution to run for his sixth term. In June 2020 the Electoral Commission of Uganda declared that due to COVID-19, the campaign for the 2021 Presidential and General Election will be held digitally as a “ scientific election process.” Museveni is far better equipped than opposition groups to disseminate digital information be
Al Jazeera
- Oct 27, 2020
DR Congo: Wanted strongman’s crimes supported by army, says HRW
Guidon Shimiray Mwissa forces continue to commit crimes against civilians with help of the army, new Human Rights Watch report says. Published by Al Jazeera on October 20, 2020. Guidon claims he doesn't receive support from the army and denies committing rights abuses [Screegrab/Al Jazeera] Forces loyal to a wanted Congolese rebel leader are continuing to commit killings, rapes, extortion and forced recruitment of children with support from the country’s army, Human Rights Wa
Tom Shacklock | Genocide Watch
- Oct 27, 2020
GENOCIDE WARNING: CÔTE D'IVOIRE
President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d'Ivoire (credit: BBC News) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for Côte d’Ivoire. Côte d’Ivoire’s political climate has been toxic for decades. In 1995, President Henri Konan Bédié, an ethnic Baoulé and leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), coined the term ‘ivoirité’ to divide ‘true’ Ivoirians belonging to southern (mostly Akan) ethnic groups against people from northern groups belonging to Mandé, Senoufo, Voltai
United Nations News
- Oct 27, 2020
‘Serious concerns’ over rights situation in Myanmar ahead of next month’s elections
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) voiced “serious concerns” on Tuesday over the situation in Myanmar – including rights violations and proliferation of hateful speech against minority communities – as the country prepares for general elections next month. UNICEF/Nyan Zay Htet: Women and children from a local community at a health centre in Sittwe, in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. (file photo) Minority groups, including the Rohingya Muslim community and ethnic Rakhine pop
The Guardian
- Oct 26, 2020
Guinea’s president wins third term amid widespread protests
Opposition supporters take to streets as electoral commission says Alpha Condé won almost 60% of vote Published by The Guardian on October 24, 2020. Confrontation between the youth and police in Conakry, October 21, 2020 [JOHN WESSELS/AFP] Guinea’s president, Alpha Condé, has won a controversial third term with 59.49% of the vote, the National Independent Electoral Commission declared on Saturday. His victory came amid widespread protests that were violently suppressed by sec
Al Jazeera
- Oct 26, 2020
Timeline: A year of bloody protests in Guinea
After a decade in power, President Alpha Conde’s bid for a third term has sparked a year of harshly repressed protests. Published by Al Jazeera on October 14, 2020. On the first day of protests five people were shot dead in the capital Conakry [File: Cellou Binani/AFP] Veteran Guinea President Alpha Conde’s hugely controversial bid to extend his grip on power for a third term has sparked a year of harshly repressed protests in the West African country, costing dozens of lives
Al Jazeera
- Oct 26, 2020
China slams Canada after report calls Uighur policy ‘genocide’
Canadian parliamentary committee says China’s policies in Xinjiang amount to ‘genocide’ against Muslim Uighur minority. China has slammed Canada after a parliamentary committee this week concluded the Chinese government’s policies against the country’s Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang amounts to “genocide”. The committee on Wednesday called on Ottawa to condemn Beijing’s policies against the Uighurs, which it said included “mass detentions, forced labour, pervasive state su
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