Bosnian Muslims commemorate Srebrenica genocide
Solemn mourners began gathering in Srebrenica on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less two months after the UN established a memorial day to mark...
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90 minuites that shook the liberal world
GIVE me a sec to think. I need to make a list. Two. The genocide in Gaza, the Middle East tinderbox, Bezalel Smotrich, the lost proxy war in Ukraine, relations with Russia, the danger of nuclear war, the fate of NATO, China, the threat of war with Iran, the emergence of a new world order, Europe鈥檚 turn toward populism, third world debt, global inequality...
Genocide of native Americans not over, says Oscar nominee
Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone is pleased that Indigenous people are getting better representation on the silver screen, including in her new film...
Three evils Israel causes Gaza to suffer
There is no ambiguity about Israel causing Gaza to suffer occupation, apartheid and genocide. To counter Israeli denialism, here is a short primer on why these terms are accurate...
S Africa鈥檚 genocide case against Israel
THE Israeli-Hamas war is a complex, tragic, and enduring issue in contemporary global politics. The South African government has always expressed deep concern over Israel鈥檚 ruthless military operations against the Palestinian people. Indeed, the governing party, the African National Congress, has a long history of solidarity and sympathy for the Palestinian struggle...
Ecocide must be an international crime
BEFORE leaving power in 1990, Chilean general and dictator Augusto Pinochet created a legal framework that guaranteed him absolute impunity. It didn鈥檛 work. He was arrested on charges of genocide and terrorism in London in 1998 by order of the Spanish justice system and, upon his return to Chile, finally had to face justice...
Singer Dua Lipa slams Israel鈥檚 offensive in Gaza, calls it genocide
British-Albanian pop singer Dua Lipa has denounced Israel's offensive in Gaza as a 鈥榞enocide鈥�, after a new pro-Palestinian protest took place in London that saw dozens of people arrested.
1971 genocide deserves global recognition: CJ
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan on Monday said that no other countries in the history of the world had witnessed such genocide in such a short span of time as Bangladesh saw in 1971...
Open letter on Gaza
AS WE write this, Israel has embarked on the final phase of its genocidal war in Gaza, bombing Rafah where more than a million Palestinians have been driven by repeated evacuations from the rest of the Gaza Strip. Today, they have nowhere left to go...
Hats off to our youths for standing against genocide
I HAVE a very good friend who lives in Gaza. She and her daughter once stayed in Malaysia for a few years because her husband studied at a university in Kuala Lumpur. I was also in Malaysia during those years, and we became friends...
Gaza genocide 2.0
THE most widely reported figure currently used for Palestinian casualties in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is more than 35,000 killed and 78,000 wounded. These are only the civilian casualties, reported by the Ministry of Health. More than two-thirds are women and children...
The arsenal of genocide
ON MAY 8, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, US president Joe Biden announced that he had 鈥榩aused鈥� a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah...
脨i锚n Bi锚n Ph煤 at 70
I HAD the most salutary email the other day, a reviving lift amid these, humanity鈥檚 darkest days, surely, in the memory of anyone living. It was from George Burchett, an Australian painter who resides in Hanoi, the city of his birth...
Two peoples鈥� experience of displacement
ISRAEL was founded with a UN mandate in 1948. The background was the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. The idea that Jews needed a state of their own to feel safe was widely accepted...
Paramilitary attacks in Darfur possibly genocide: HRW
A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of 鈥榞enocide鈥� against non-Arab ethnic communities, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday...
The nation鈥檚 conscience
I AM sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University with three organisers of the Columbia University Gaza protest. It is night. New York City Police, stationed inside and outside the gates of the campus, have placed the campus on lockdown...
OIC denounces Gaza genocide, urges sanctions against Israel
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Sunday denounced a 鈥榞enocide鈥� in Gaza, urging its 57 member countries to impose sanctions on Israel in a...
Students on right side of history
HELICOPTERS have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway...
Bangladesh, Gambia for speedy resolution of Myanmar case at ICJ
Bangladesh and the Gambia on Friday expressed hope to witness a speedy resolution of the case filed against Myanmar on the charge of Rohingya genocide with the International Court of Justice.....
Hundreds unite to demand int鈥檒 ban on weapons supply
Hundreds of Bangladeshis rallied at Shahbagh in the capital on Friday demanding an international ban on the supply of weapons by countries, including the United States, used in genocides and racial oppression...
Revolt in the universities
ACHINTHYA Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning that shortly after 7:00am she would join hundreds of students across the country who have been arrested, evicted and banned from campus for protesting the genocide in Gaza...
Iran: last nation standing
BY NOT responding to decades of Israel鈥檚 provocations with an attack on Israeli soil, Iran displayed patience. The Islamic Republic rulers realised the provocations were becoming harsher, more damaging, and without stopping; it was time...
Nicaragua鈥檚 case against Germany arming Israel
AS ISRAEL鈥橲 genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza 鈥� which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans 鈥� enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide...
Israel鈥檚 blowback genocide
WORDS can鈥檛 express the horrors of Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn鈥檛 exist; seeing building after...
Germany, Nicaragua trade barbs at Gaza genocide case
Nicaragua and Germany crossed swords at the UN鈥檚 top court on Monday, with Managua saying Berlin was 鈥榩athetic鈥� to supply aid to Gazans while also providing Israel with weapons...
Germany faces Gaza genocide case at ICJ
Germany faces charges from Nicaragua at the top UN court on Monday that it is 鈥榝acilitating the commission of genocide鈥� against Palestinians with its military and political support for Israel.....
US war against Yemen heats up
THE US war against Yemen is slowly but surely heating up. With more and bigger bombs the US is doing the only thing it knows how when what it is doing isn鈥檛 working, something even Genocide Joe Biden has admitted...