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Howard's racist record
federation". With only 10 months to go to the centenary celebration of our supposedly proud nationhood, ... complete year 12, compared to the national average of 70%. Despite massive inequalities in the relative ... By Margaret Allum On the evening of his election win in 1999, PM John Howard announced his support ...
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War crimes and humbug
War crimes and humbug By Fan Yew Teng The 12 European Community states agreed last month to seek ... also guilty of war crimes. The French were also guilty of war crimes and genocide in their ruthless ... against the civilians of Iraq? As Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general, said in his February 12 ...
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Dili massacre remembered
into Australian governments' complicity in the genocide in East Timor, an initiative of Action in ... about the events of November 12, 1991, and about his experiences during the independence referendum. ... governments' 24 years of complicity in the genocide in East Timor. She announced a public hearing to be held on ...
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Rwanda one year later
lasting three months. When the city of Kigali fell into the hands of the FPR [Rwandan Patriotic Front], on ... The speeches of certain politicians, especially at exhumation ceremonies of victims of genocide, are ... one often speaks: the homeless. At the time of the genocide, homes were also destroyed. Those who ...
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Aboriginal elder convicted for reclaiming cultural symbols
hours of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict and Buzzacott was given a 12-month good ... highlights one of the definitions of genocide β deliberate, continuing psychological harm to a race of ... 29-April 6 on charges of stealing a coat of arms. On January 27, 2002, Buzzacott removed the metal ...
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Poet and painter in Villawood detention centre
imprisoned at Villawood detention centre. Both detainees use art to show the oppression of Tamils in their ... homeland of Sri Lanka. In May 2009, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan ... army. Though the war is ended the persecution of Tamils continues. Iniyan and Ravi fled for their lives ...
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John Pilger: Time to recognise Blair's crimes
month by Verso. Peirce is Britain's most distinguished human rights lawyer; her pursuit of infamous ... deaths in the genocide in Rwanda. And yet, wrote Peirce, "the threads of emails, internal government ... Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary ...
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PALESTINE: What Israel wants
Genocide Convention proscribes that "deliberately inflicting on the [national] group conditions of ... Rihab Charida & Nikolai Haddad If the olive branch is the symbol of hope, then Israel's ... uprooting of hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees from Palestinian land is a fitting metaphor for ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki attacks the left
of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Mbeki failed to persuade them to postpone the October 1-2 ... genocidal HIV-AIDS policies in 2000. Now, the accusation of South African sub-imperialism is, indeed, being ... NEPAD through three major conferences in the last three months: the July launch of the African Union in ...
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Sudan uprising: 'This is a people's revolution'
gas. This is what Sudanese people are facing after one month of protesting to depose President Omar ... genocide in Darfur were once a component of this force β led by Lt. Gen Mohammed Hamad Doqlou have already ... a serious threat to the continued existence of Bashirβs dictatorial regime after weeks of protests, writesΒ ...
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Antiwar fighter seeks to return to US
draft files of poor and working class kids and destroyed the computer network of Dow Chemical ... jailed on his return. Malecki said he was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1969 after being ... caught with military files. After 27 months he was released on bail and made it to Sweden. "I do not ...
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Cambodian emergency
the growing threat of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, who killed some 20% of Cambodia's population ... Editorial Cambodian emergency This week's issue of the Bulletin magazine has a cover feature ... foreign minister Gareth Evans was a major architect of the United Nations "peace plan", under ...
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Noam Chomsky: US role crucial to Israel's crimes
had observed the previous ceasefire for 19 months. The previous episode of βmowing the lawnβ was in ... describes Israelβs month-long offensive in Gaza that killed at least 2000 people and left almost 10,000 ... dissident, who has written extensively about Israel and Palestine, about Israelβs latest bloody campaign of ...
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βAfrin wants peace and freedomβ
it right now if they choose. This invasion and genocide has been carried out in front of the eyes of ... of massacres and use of chemical weapons, aims to destroy the progressive, democratic Kurdish-led ... sustained armed resistance from groups from various ethnic backgrounds in support of the revolution. But ...
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Indigenous activists: 'Sorry' not enough, compensation now!
genocidal policy of the Stolen Generations and the Howard years. "We are back to 'flour, tea and ... widely believed there will not be a reference to genocide and there will be a lot of emphasis on the good ... apology won't buy a loaf of bread or a handful of dirt." [On the February 12 convergence and ...
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On the box
and aspirations. SBS, Monday, November 18, 12.25am. Movie: Daughter of the Puma (1994) β A young ... eyes of the mother of one of the accused, Gerry Conlon. SBS, Thursday, November 21, 12.30pm. The Legacy ... democracy is "unnatural" for Germans and believes that the genocide of the Jews was a historical ...
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Myanmar: Rohingya refugee crisis β whoβs to blame?
"systematic abuses of genocidal proportions" by the Tatmadaw. Tatmadaw Many, if not most, foreign and ... already in Bangladesh, tens of thousands in hiding in northern parts of Rakhine State and about 100,000 ... 1982 citizenship law classified all Rohingya as immigrants from Bangladesh, regardless of where they ...
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After protests, Indonesia lets journos into occupied West Papua
the genocide and illegal annexation and colonisation of their brothers and sisters in West Papuaβ. It ... government has banned foreign journalists from entering West Papua." A global day of action on April 29 ... Melbourne rally co-organiser Matt Gale said: βWest Papua is one of the worldβs most isolated conflict spots. ...
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Congo: Tshisekedi supporters whip up chauvinism
thousand French troops are also mustered. Thousands of members of the genocidal forces of the former ... Press at 1000 marched 12 kilometres β chanting "Kabila, assassin of Congo" and "He gave ... By Norm Dixon Seemingly oblivious to the fact that Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic ...
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Ukraine: Kyiv, Russia sign shakey ceasefire
Minsk, Belarus on the morning of February 12, after 16 hours of talks, and announced that agreement had ... agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union, bore the brunt of Stalin's genocidal forced collectivisation ... Donbass Soviet Union (USSR) Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France emerged from negotiations in ...
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Mobutu toughs it out
Mobutu to take. Crowds of people booed and jeered as his motorcade of 12 limousines, three jeeps with ... the Kinshasa international airport. Heavy fighting, the first in almost eight months of civil war, was ... guard, backed by UNITA troops from Angola and soldiers of the genocidal former Rwandan regime. Meanwhile, ...
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Contra attacks increase in Congo and Rwanda
includes remnants of Mobutu's defeated regime, the army and Interahamwe death squads of the genocidal ... murder of more than half a million Tutsi and anti-government Hutu Rwandans in three months β the French ... openly prepared to reinvade Rwanda and complete the genocide. In league with the army of Mobutu, the ...
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News briefs
recently murdered. A heated discussion ensued, most of the audience raising the genocidal nature of the ... Association here on October 16. Speakers from the NSW Rape Crisis Centre spoke of their visit to meet with ... volunteers working with the ethnic Chinese women survivors of rape in Indonesia. Susan Pinkham, an indigenous ...
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A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor
as he later told me. In Australia, his trenchant analysis of the genocide committed by his government ... face of evidence of genocide. Aditjondro is respected in Indonesian academic circles and has even had ... estimate". In his research, he quotes a figure of 60,000 East Timorese killed in the first two months of the ...
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Human rights overboard
John Howard's racist refugee policies have been revived. The suspension, for at least three months ... for those from Sri Lanka and six months for those from Afghanistan, is unjustified and inhumane. The ... refugees are fleeing a well-founded fear of persecution. Under international law, Australia has an ...