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Sri Lanka: ‘The wrecking of a country’
Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 6:16 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
The modern history of Sri Lanka represents “the wrecking of a country: from the ‘pearl of the Indian Ocean’, to ‘the killing fields of South Asia’”, Dr Brian Senewiratne told a meeting of the Brisbane city Amnesty International group ... More >>
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Friday, 19 June 2009, 1:41 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) expresses serious concern on the rampant human rights violations in the Philippines and the refusal of the Phlippine government to investigate and prosecute its state security forces and stop the impunity of the ... More >>
Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising
Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:43 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Beginning with a series of protests last year, Peru's Amazonian indigenous groups are now leading a full-fledged rebellion against the pro-business policies of President Alan García. The government has responded with brutal violence to the protests, ... More >>
Security Bought at a Terrible Price
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 2:01 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
WASHINGTON, May 26 (IPS) - Colombia’s government must urgently address human rights abuses to enhance its security policy and bring lasting peace to the country, says a new policy brief by the International Crisis Group (ICG). More >>
In memory of Lasantha Wickrematunge
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 12:48 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Just two days before he was killed, a popular TV and radio station, the MTV/MBC network was set on fire. Two weeks after the killing of Lasantha an attempt was made on the editor of the Rivira newspaper, Upali Tennakoon. A month later the editor of the ... More >>
Turkey's PKK-DTP Operations Further Complicate
Friday, 24 April 2009, 5:26 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Simultaneous operations recently conducted in twelve Turkish cities against what police sources described as urban networks of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in which 120 people were detained, including senior members of the pro-Kurdish ... More >>
Paul Grenville - Israel's Key Vulnerability
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 12:49 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Israel has once more sent out a message to the Islamic and Arab world with its onslaught on Gaza that the struggle for the Middle East will be uncompromisingly bloody and violent. It was the same message in the summer of 2006 with the invasion of the Lebanon, ... More >>
Haaretzcom weekend newsletter
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 11:54 am | Patrick Mac Manus
"I love Palestine with a great love, I desire death for the sake of Palestine, the cries of Gaza are in my ears..." More >>
European Parliament resolution on the Philippines
Saturday, 14 March 2009, 2:13 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
"Expresses its grave concern at the hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings of political activists and journalists that have occurred in recent years in the Philippines, and the role that the security forces have played in orchestrating and ... More >>
Removal of Hamas From the EU Terror List!
Monday, 2 March 2009, 1:01 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
We ask that they actively pursue the immediate and unconditional removal of Hamas and all other Palestinian liberation organizations from the European list of proscribed terrorist organizations. More >>
Poor Strongly Represented by New Socialist Party
Sunday, 22 February 2009, 1:45 pm | Patrick Mac Manus
Bulacan, Philippines, February 1, 2009 – "We are the bat people, the people who live under bridges in Manila", explained urban poor organiser Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a section of an urban poor relocation ... More >>
No army can defeat a people
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 9:43 am | Patrick Mac Manus
Today, there is a deep humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. The Tamil people in the north and east are facing annihilation at the hands of the Sinhalese government and its army. More >>
