Posts Tagged ‘atrocities’

Award-winning Russian Human Rights Activist Shot Dead in North Caucasus

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 23:20 By Madhuri Katti

Fifty year old Natalia Estemirova was a human rights campaigner working with Memorial, the Russian human rights organisation which investigated human rights violations both in Chechnya and Russia. She has documented hundreds of human rights abuse in Chechnya and was a well known regional expert. She was a close friend and colleague of famous human [...]

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Current fashion rage among Israeli soldiers: T-shirts with images of dead Palestinian babies and messages like “One shot, two kills”

Thursday, March 26, 2009 19:34 By GSerrano

T-shirts with messages and images that describe the atrocities committed by the IDF against Palestinians during the Gaza offensive have become fashionable among Israeli soldiers.
A fabric-printing factory in southern Tel Aviv has been receiving an influx of orders from military customers who ask for t-shirts to be printed with slogans and pictures related to their [...]

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YouTube Blocked by China

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 15:38 By Madhuri Katti

You Tube video-sharing site has been blocked in China because of the videos posted on the sites. Apparently a footage showing Chinese soldiers beating up monks and Tibetans was posted by a Tibetan exile group. In the present information age such blockage can hardly suppress news. Though it is yet to be confirmed officially but [...]

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