Joanne Lin & Usman Hamid | Al Jazeera
- Dec 17, 2020
The US can no longer turn a blind eye to abuses in Papua
The Biden administration has to reconsider its support for the Indonesian military until it addresses abuse of civilians. On October 28, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Indonesia as part of a five-country tour of Asia focused on strengthening ties amid ongoing tensions with China. A day after his arrival, an independent humanitarian team, consisting of several religious leaders, academics, and humanitarian activists in Papua, announced that it had found evidence tha
Genocide Watch
- Dec 17, 2020
Timestream: Fulani and ISWAP Crisis in Nigeria
Genocide Watch staff have published the sixth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream highlights the ongoing genocide of Christians committed by Fulani Jihadists in Nigeria. Extremist Fulanis have committed mass rapes, murders, torture, and massacres, and have permanently displaced Christians and occupied their homes and farmland. Over 12,000 Christians have been killed since June 2015 and 4-5 million have been displaced. Dr. Gregory Stanton
Henry Wilkins | Al Jazeera
- Dec 16, 2020
What next for conflict-hit Burkina Faso after Kabore re-election?
Could Burkinabe president’s second term see a new approach to security or could spiraling violence trigger civil unrest? On November 26, Roch Kabore won a second term as Burkina Faso’s president, securing a solid mandate for himself and his party in an election deemed by international observers to be mostly free and fair. Kabore’s re-election in the conflict-hit country came despite poor approval ratings for the government’s performance on tackling spiralling violence that ha
Reuters
- Dec 16, 2020
Militant attacks force 570,000 to flee homes in northern Mozambique, president says
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Militants have forced 570,000 people to flee their homes in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, President Filipe Nyusi said on Wednesday, vowing to defeat insurgents who stepped up attacks since pledging loyalty to Islamic State last year. Fighters have been taking on the army and seizing entire towns in recent months in the province, home to gas developments worth some $60 billion. Earlier this week, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said at least 424
Human Rights Watch
- Dec 15, 2020
Saudi Arabia: migrants held in inhuman, degrading conditions
Detained Migrants Allege Torture, Killing in Detention, Fears of Covid-19 (Beirut) – A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded rooms for extended periods, and that guards have tortured and beaten them with rubber-coated metal rods, leading to at least three
Ted Regencia | Al Jazeera
- Dec 15, 2020
ICC prosecutor sees 'crimes against humanity' in Philippines
ICC prosecutor finds ‘reasonable basis to believe’ crimes against humanity were committed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs campaign. Human rights advocates say as many as 27,000 people were killed in the drug war as of mid-2019 - including the victims killed by 'unknown gunmen' [File: Bullit Marquez/AP] The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor said on Monday that there is “reasonable basis to believe” the Philippines has committed crimes against hu
Danielle Paquette | The Washington Post
- Dec 15, 2020
Boko Haram claims kidnapping of over 300 boys in Nigeria, marking an alarming move west
DAKAR, Senegal — Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria and abducting more than 300 boys, marking a striking leap from the extremist group's usual area of operation.
Hundreds of gunmen on motorbikes surrounded a boarding school in Katsina state Friday night and opened fire on police, witnesses said, before rounding up students and dragging them into the woods. Abubakar Shekau, the group’s leader, said in an a
Amnesty International
- Dec 15, 2020
Guinea: security forces killed people in pro-opposition neighbourhoods after presidential election
The use of excessive force by Guinean security force in the weeks following the country’s presidential election, has led to more than a dozen killed including a 62-year-old man presumably from torture, and the arrest of hundreds during protests or police operations in pro-opposition neighborhoods, Amnesty International said today. President Alpha Condé was re-elected on 18 October for a third term and will be sworn in today. Amnesty International is highlighting new evidence
Simon Marks and Abdi Latif Dahir
- Dec 15, 2020
As War Goes On in Ethiopia, Ethnic Harassment Is on the Rise
Ethnic Tigray people all over the country report an increase in discrimination and abuse from the authorities. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — On a bright day in mid-November, about a dozen police officers with machine guns barged into the home of Lisanewerk Desta, a theologian who is the head of the library and museum department at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and got to work. The men, who had no warrant, Mr. Lisanewerk said, poured dried goods from his kitchen onto the floor, emp
Al Jazeera/AFP News Agency
- Dec 15, 2020
ICC prosecutor rejects Uighur genocide complaint against China
Office of prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said it cannot act on the complaint because China is not a signatory to The Hague-based court. According to reports and witness testimonies, there are more than a million Uighurs held against their will in different camps in Xinjiang [File: Human Rights Watch] 15 Dec 2020 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors have rejected calls by exiled Uighurs to investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity, in a blow to th
Genocide Watch
- Dec 14, 2020
Timestream: China's Genocide of Uyghur and Turkic Muslims
Genocide Watch staff have published the seventh Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream covers the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghur Muslims from the Qing Dynasty through July 2020. The Chinese government is committing genocide through its policies of mass surveillance, "re-education" internment camps, forced migration, and forced mass sterilization. The international community must act to stop the genocide and seek justice for victim
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