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  • Forgetting Nellie: Forty two years and counting

    Nellie, more than a memory, stays with us as a metaphor. The death toll is comparable to, if not higher than, the 2002 Gujarat riots. Rather, it should be understood as a social and political metaphor that transcends a particular period Assam’s chief minister has  gone on record  more than once to explicitly deny  social  and political

  • Fuel Blockade in Mali Raises Risk of Atrocities as Civilians Face Starvation and Isolation

    All women traveling outside Bamako, whether on public transport or in private cars, must wear the hijab country, to turn the people against their state,” said Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, a member of Mali’s transitional The price of jet fuel has more than doubled, the person said, contributing to a rash of canceled and Mali’s third-largest city, three residents told The Post they had been without electricity for more than Ag Acharatoumane, the member of Mali’s transitional administration, said the government is not yet willing

  • UN: Military operations escalate in Yemen as famine looms

    on political and security measures that he presented to them aimed at ending the war and creating a transitional The conflict, which has killed more than 10,000 civilians and displaced over 3 million people, has ground

  • Gaddafi's Linguistic Genocide in Libya

    Law No. (12) on prohibiting the use of foreign languages and numerals in all transactions  mandated the Any foreign institution operating in Libya had to provide Arabic translations for their materials. Arabic in all transactions . By banning Tamazight names, a fundamental part of any culture, the law took aim at intergenerational transmission One of the most important indicators of language vitality is intergenerational transmission – whether

  • Genocide Country Report: Zimbabwe

    August 2021 By Laura Drysdale A soldier trained his weapon during the 2018 election protests. France-Presse — Getty Images Between 1983 and 1987, the Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army killed more than

  • Tanzania Threatens to Expel Burundians

    Burundian living in Tanzania’s Nyarugusu refugee camp, is the embodiment of the instability that more than More recently, amid a violent political crisis in Burundi in 2015, more than 250,000 Burundians fled In 1996, the military expelled more than 400,000 Rwandan refugees. return, supposedly of their own accord, the international community decided to support the logistics of transporting In 2017, the government suddenly shut down an effective World Food Program cash transfer aid program

  • Mass Atrocities, Including The Use Of Rape And Sexual Violence, In The Tigray Region Of Ethiopia

    centers have indicated an increase in the demand for emergency contraception and testing for sexually transmitted This includes the more than 5,000 Eritrean refugees in and around the area of Shire living in dire conditions , many of them reportedly sleeping in an open field with no water or food, as well as the more than 59,000

  • UN: No Safe Place Left in Ukraine Amid Rising Attacks

    More than 26,000 people have newly registered at transit centres since April alone.

  • Atrocities mount in Sudan as war spirals, says U.N.

    Foreign powers, including the United Arab Emirates and Iran, have stepped in to back one side or the Fighting between two military factions has thrown Sudan into chaos, with plans for a transition to a A health worker measures the circumference of a Sudanese child’s arm at the clinic of a Transit Centre — Getty A United Nations appeal for $2.7 billion in humanitarian funding for Sudan has yielded less than some territory, one of its first major victories since the war started, although it has had to turn to Iran

  • Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Children Into Spoils of War

    New York Times, October 23, 2022 Thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia. ["Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is an act of genocide under Article 2 In fact, this mass transfer of children is a potential war crime, regardless of whether they were orphans Transferring people out of an occupied territory can be a war crime, and experts say the practice is Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, has organized the transfers and said

  • Tillerson, in Myanmar, calls for credible probe of atrocities

    More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military told a joint news conference with Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of a civilian administration that is less than Myanmar is undergoing a transition to democracy after decades of rule by the military, but the generals “Myanmar’s response to this crisis is critical to determining the success of its transition to a more

  • Aung San Suu Kyi: From human rights heroine to alienated icon

    Fergal Keane first met Aung San Suu Kyi more than two decades ago Back when I first met her in July particularly South Africa, where I had just completed my assignment as the BBC correspondent covering the transition She is wary of the media and disdainful of her international critics, far more the steely politician than

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