Tag: genocide
Cambodia Half-Century After Genocide: A Letter from Phnom Penh
"In addition to landmine removal, Cambodia is fast becoming a world leader in the equally dangerous art of reconciliation after a genocidal conflict."
Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
On BBC World Service Newsday, the renowned Burmese genocide scholar & rights activist sounds Rohingya genocide warning
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Dr Maung Zarni, the co-author of the 2014 study "The Slow-burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya" told the BBC World Service Newsday Programme on 22 May that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar's Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.
Rohingya face prospects for genocidal violence again: Buthitaung Township, Rakhine, Western Myanmar
It is evident that the Arakan Army is attempting to forcibly displace Rohingya residents from downtown Buthidaung. This forced relocation must be halted.
Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
Activists Launch “RISE FOR RAFAH” Global Boycott Campaign
We are witnessing the final stages of GENOCIDE taking place in Rafah. We call upon people of conscience worldwide to conduct a global strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza and demand an immediate ceasefire.
British-Burmese Trade Union Solidarity Event. But we cannot NOT talk about Palestine.
The Holocaust and other acts of what Chomsky called "the great European pastimes" – mass killings in peace time or wars – gave us "international criminal and humanitarian law". Now the Great Law Creators are free to bin them – just like the British who invented slavery and the slave trade, just so they could claim "we abolished them"!
Angela Davis’s special message of solidarity
A global YouTube rally in protest of the defunding UN Aid to Palestinian people.
Israel has the right to exist, but not this genocidal, expansionist Israel
Amidst the talk of “the two-state solution”, the United Nations or Nations United Against Evil, must first address the fundamental question: Should this Israel exist, as “the most aggressive, expansionist, overtly racist, Jewish supremacist government in Israel’s history?”
NOT THIS ISRAEL, NOT THIS JEW: A Jewish Voice for Peace
Uncritical support of Israel is destroying the spiritual core of Judaism itself – a dagger in the Jewish heart. Christians had to reckon with their deeds after the Holocaust. Jews need to do that now. Israel may have a right to exist, but not this Israel. It’s counter-intuitive and difficult to digest but conscience can be seduced and obscured: even our own. I promised never again. Never again is now.