Posts Tagged ‘ethnic cleansing’

Sudan’s Self-Destruction in 2011

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 23:29 By GSerrano

In Sudan, warlordism makes for uniquely legitimate military infrastructure. The Islamist government in Khartoum is headed by one General Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s chief warlord, who, in spite of an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, continues to ignore the due [...]

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Finally, a genocide case against Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir

Monday, July 13, 2009 19:45 By GSerrano

On March 4, Sudanese President, General Omar al-Bashir, was issued a warrant of arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and missed on the ultimate prosecution for genocide. He simply snubbed such warrant and flaunted his impunity through his trips outside Sudan. This time, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague will finally [...]

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‘War on Terror’ used as war on minorities: Minority Rights Group International

Monday, July 13, 2009 19:41 By GSerrano

According to the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) that trends annual indexes, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan have been topping annual lists for  four straight years of countries where genocide, mass killings, or violent repression victimizes the minority population.
The human rights group gives a more chilling conclusion: countries involved in the so-called ‘war on terror’ [...]

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Rohingya Refugees: The Case of the Burmese Boat People

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 22:36 By GSerrano

The tragedy of the Rohingya refugees occupies a special issue in the migrant debate as it has affected many ASEAN member countries. The Rohingya boat people, part of a Muslim minority group living in western Burma’s Arakan State, fled their country in waves over the recent months because of the tremendous pressure they were under [...]

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The Kosovo government calls for the end of the UN mission in the territory

Thursday, March 26, 2009 15:11 By GSerrano

After a year of independence, the government of the Republic of Kosovo has asked the UN Security Council to end the agency’s mission (UNMIK) that, since 1999, has been responsible for managing the Balkan territory on behalf of the international community.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni said during the recent reunion of the UN’s highest agency [...]

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U.S. warns of the worsening conditions in Sudan’s refugee camps after the expulsion of foreign aid groups

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 22:23 By GSerrano

The U.S. State Department asserts that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will be responsible for every death that will occur after the Khartoum government kicked out foreign aid groups this month.
U.S. diplomats reported that conditions are worsening in the refugee camps that have been accommodating thousands of displaced people from the Darfur region. U.S. and the [...]

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Average Middle-aged Germans: One of the Nazi Killing Machines

Friday, March 6, 2009 7:07 By GSerrano

The issue of complicity in the crimes of the Holocaust is made even more complicated with the existence of a unit of average middle-aged Germans who became the mass murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. They helped the Holocaust succeed as they were transformed from ordinary men into active criminals. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police [...]

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Holocaust: Guilt Has Never Been The Same Since

Monday, February 23, 2009 8:45 By GSerrano

The usual definition of Holocaust as “the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children, and million of others, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II” is far from complete. The list of millions of other victims include the Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, political [...]

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