By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Human Rights Watch says the Burmese government’s discriminatory policies are creating a humanitarian crisis that will ultimately result in long-term segregation and statelessness for the Rohingya and Kaman Muslim minorities. The respected New York-based NGO says “an ethnic Arakanese campaign of violence and abuses since June 2012 facilitated by
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The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Anonymous targets genocide in Myanmar (Burma): Operation Rohingya (VIDEO)
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive Greetings Citizens of the World. It is vital the information we are going to share with you is made viral as quickly as possible. The ethnic Rohingya people of Myanmar Burma in Southeast Asia are about to be massacred. Barbarous acts are being carried out by
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Rape and canadian colonialism
Human Rights Watch has accused Canada’s federal police of intimidating and even sexually assaulting aboriginal women and girls in the province of British Columbia. In a scathing report, which was released on Wednesday, the rights organization documented numerous accounts of women and girls in the province’s indigenous communities finding themselves
Continue readingCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship
by Sebastian Rotella | ProPublica In May 1985, a Guatemalan Army lieutenant named Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes deserted, flew to San Francisco and requested political asylum, asserting that leftist guerrillas in his war-torn homeland were gunning for him. The 27-year-old officer described his combat exploits in his application for asylum. He said he
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change Will Drive Genocide
By 2030, more than half the world’s population will live in areas under “severe water stress.” Unmet demand for food, water and energy, are now seen as reliable indicators of looming genocide or mass killing. “We must remain open to the possibility that the past is not necessarily a predictor
Continue readingSocial Issues: Justice for Rwandan Genocide
Thursday, May 31st will be marked as a day justice was found, when former Rwandan minister, Callixte Nzabonimana, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide of his country. The massacre that spanned 100 days, between April and June, saw 800,000 minority Tutsis and political moderate Hutus killed in the tiny
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: As Though We Need Another Reason to Ditch the F-35
Listen up, this is serious. The American Warfare State, the very one that any country buying the F-35 is signing on to serve, has achieved a degree of madness that we cannot afford to overlook. This much is plain from details emerging of a course at the Pentagon’s Joint Forces
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Undermining Solidarity in the Balkans: Reviewing Boris Malagursky’s “The Weight of Chains”
Reviewed by Konstantin Kilibarda Independent Vancouver-based filmmaker Boris Malagursky’s The Weight of Chains is the latest in a long line of misguided attempts to give an ‘alternative’ account to the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. This review seeks to directly address some of the more flawed accounts
Continue readingthe woodshed: Word of the day
‘Backpfeifengesicht’ (Back-fie-fen-ge- zischt.)1. German, literally “a face that cries out for a fist in it’ Example: Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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