A decade and a half ago, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush’s administration conjured up not only terrifying images of nuclear mushroom clouds but also of Saddam Hussein plotting with Osama bin Laden to attack the United States. Mr. Bush himself declared that Mr. Hussein “aids and protects terrorists, […]
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The most famous Catholic leader in the world made a speech in Myanmar yesterday without mentioning the ongoing violent crackdown against that country’s Muslim minority. Pope Francis, who has often advocated for refugees in the past, called for respect for “each ethnic group” but did not mention the Rohingya community by name. The pope spoke
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LONDON, Nov 28 — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the honorific freedom of Oxford, the British city where she studied and raised her children, over her “inaction” in the Rohingya crisis. “When Aung San Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of the City in 1997 it was because she reflected
Citizens International Chairman S. M Mohamed Idris urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia unless it lifts the blockade of Yemen, which has produced a humanitarian disaster there This statement is in line with the growing dismal condition in Yemen as described by various sources. New York Times, on its 21st
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Many have criticised the United Nations for practising double standards and the withdrawal of a report on the apartheid practices of Israel from the website of a UN body; the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) fortifies this belief. The report found that, on the basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that
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Bangladesh’s prime minister has claimed that forced disappearances allegedly perpetrated by security forces in the country also occur in Britain and the US, saying “275,000 British citizens disappeared” in the UK each year. Human rights groups and the United Nations have both recently sounded warnings about the growing number of secret, allegedly state-sanctioned, abductions in
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Remember the name the Saudis gave their operation in Yemen when they launched it on 25 March 2015? Operation: Decisive Storm. By 21 April, the storm was officially declared over. The air strikes continued, of course, but the strikes on hospitals, schools and, in one notorious incident, a wedding party in Sanaa, were now part of an operation
Rep. Betty McCollum (pic) introduced a House bill on Tuesday that seeks to prohibit the U.S. from funding the detention and prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system. The legislation is said to be the first time a bill on Palestinian human rights has ever been introduced to Congress. The 11-page bill
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Press release 25 October 2017 (archived) US Military Sanction on Myanmar Military Citizens International welcomes the decision by the US on 23 October, to withdraw its military assistance from Myanmar units and officers involved in violence against Rohingya Muslims. This decision is critical given how the Myanmar Military have been heavily responsible in perpetrating
24 August 2017 African Union Chairperson H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat African Union Headquarters P.O. Box 3243 Roosvelt Street (Old Airport Area) | W21K19 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Your Excellency, Africa-Israel summit ‘justifies colonialism, apartheid’ You are aware that in less than two months, an October summit between the illegal
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