Ethnic Cleansing

Bosnia: Shame on Us All

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hakija Turaljic, Ethnic Cleansing, Serbia, Darfur, Slobodan Milosevic, Jacques Poos, European Union, Holocaust, Radovan Karadzic, Serb Elections, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Barack Obama, War Crimes, Bosnia, Belgrade, Douglas Hurd, Armenia, Biljana Plavsic, Dayton Peace Accord, Genocide, Russia, Sudan, Peacekeeping, Republika Srpska, Rwanda, Denazification, World News
Rebecca Tinsley

On the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war we should feel anger and shame because 'the international order' is still ignoring those warning signs when they occur. We should also acknowledge the human consequences of the West's failure in Bosnia.

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Sub-Saharan Africans And Black Libyans Targeted By Rebel Fighters

Bloomberg.com | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Libya, Amnesty International, Sub-Saharan African, Ethnic Cleansing, Black Libyan, Libya Protests, Black Voices News

Black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans are being targeted by rebel fighters who suspect them of backing Muammar Qaddafi, Amnesty International said. ...

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A Long Struggle Ahead For World's Newest Nation

AP | MAGGIE FICK | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Nation, Darfur, Challenges, Civil War, World, Ethnic Cleansing, Sudan, Genocide, United Nations, Development, Independence, South Sudan, Republic of South Sudan, World News

JUBA, Sudan — The people of South Sudan finally get their own country on Saturday, an emotional independence celebration few thought possible du...

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Why the U.S. Must Stand Up to Sudan

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Iran, Ethnic Cleansing, Africa, Gaddafi, Osama Bin Laden, Islamism, Darfur, Genocide, Hizbollah, Sudan, Bashir, Hamas, War on Terror, World News
Rebecca Tinsley

The State Department estimates two million have died in southern Sudan while 300,000 are dead in Darfur thanks to bombing and attacks by the Sudanese armed forces and their militia proxies. The violence continues to this day.

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Never Again: Are We Still Remembering Or Starting To Forget?

Lee Bycel | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Genocide, Rwanda Genocide, Save Darfur, Darfur Genocide, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Ethnic Cleansing, Preventing Genocide, Never Again, Armenian Genocide, South Sudan, Genocide Prevention, Religion News
Lee Bycel

As the decades pass, regrettably, the incomprehensible nightmare become part of history and seems to be replaced by new nightmares. We seem to be forgetting a lot all the time.

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Jews, Israel And Free Speech: A Response To Rabbi Wolpe

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ethnic Cleansing, Bds Movement, Free Speech, David Ben Gurion, Zionism, Israel Debate, Rabbi David Wolpe, Civil Discourse, History of Israel, Religion News
David Moshman

Rabbi David Wolpe has provided guidance to readers as to which Jews should be permitted to participate in public discourse and education about Israel and which should not.

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The Carmel Wildfire Is Burning All Illusions in Israel

Max Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish National Fund, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Natural Disasters, Ethnic Cleansing, Right-Wing, Avigdor Lieberman, Carmel Wildfire, Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionism, Fire, Israel, World News
Max Blumenthal

Israel's performance during the Carmel forest fire revealed the sad truth: its government has prioritized offensive military capacity and occupation maintenance emergency preparedness and general welfare.

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Croatia Ethnically Cleansed Serbs, Claim U.N. Prosecutors

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Balkan War Crimes, Serbia, Operation Storm @Y:World, Croatia, UN War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, Balkan Wars, Serbs, Yugoslavia, War Crimes, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. war crimes prosecutors said Monday that Croatian forces shelled civilians and torched their homes in a deliberate ...

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VIDEO: Israeli Destruction of Bedouin Village

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Bedouin, Racism, Politics, Israel, Ethnic Cleansing, Palestinians, World News
MJ Rosenberg

Professor Neve Gordon of Ben Gurion University in Israel witnessed the destruction of an Israeli Bedouin village earlier this week. Apparently, the...

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Uzbeks: Kyrgyzstan Killings Are 'Attempted Genocide'

The Guardian | Luke Harding | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Genocide, Kyrgyzstan Pogroms @Y:World, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan Violence, Ethnic Cleansing, Uzbeks, World News

Few believe the riots could have taken place without the local administration's connivance. But it is clear that other grievances are at play. Ethnic ...

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One of the Most Dangerous Bills Ever Presented

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Asylum Seekers, World News, World, Ethnic Cleansing, Netanyahu, African Refugees, Sudan, Genocide, Israel, World News
Mya Guarnieri

Yesterday, the Israeli Knesset debated the "Infiltration Prevention Law" which Israeli human rights groups are calling "one of the most dangerous bills ever presented in the Knesset."

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Never Again: Rembering the Balkans

Zainab Salbi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Bosnia, Ethnic Cleansing, Eastern Europe, Ethnic Tensions, International, Economic Development, World, War Crimes, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Zainab Salbi

I wonder how we have allowed ourselves to forget Bosnia and Herzegovina when it is still as fragile as an eggshell.

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Protecting R2P

Lloyd Axworthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, War Crimes, Responsibility to Protect, Kosovo, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Somalia, Kofi Annan, Nirupam Sen, R2p, Srebrenica, Un World Summitban Ki Moon, World News
Lloyd Axworthy

This week, a principle adopted by world leaders four years ago to prevent mass atrocity will face a crucial test.

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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: K.P., Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Bank of Tamileelam, Ban Ki-Moo, Abu Sayyaf Group, Sri Lanka, Palestine Liberation Organization, London, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Air Force, Suicide Bombing, ?€œLittle Brown Brothers?, Racism, Drug Trafficking, The U.N. Security Council, Ethnic Cleansing, New York, Geneva, Jemaah Islamiya, Colombo, P.L.O., India, Times of India, Fight Against Terrorism, Gunrunning., LTTE Sea Tigers, Empty Nest Syndrome, Political Assassination, Tamil Tigers, Human Smuggling, Tamil Diaspora, Ltte, Teddy Roosevelt, Toronto, Switzerland, Washington, Jaffna, Osama Bin Laden, Jane's Information Group, United Nations, Norway, Tamil Nadu, Milf, Black Tigers, Guantanamo Bay, Child Soldiers, Refugee Status, Terrorist Organization, European Union, F.B.I., Amin Awad, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Abu Ghraib, Tsunami, Rajiv Gandhi, Pol Pot, Oslo, Sri Lankan Parliament, Afghanistan, Human Rights Abuse, Sea Piracy, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Asg, Tamil-Canadians, World News
Jim Luce

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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Turkish Prime Minister Admits Ethnic Cleansing

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Ethnic Cleansing, Armenians, Kurds, Akp, Greeks, Prime Minister Erdogan, Turks, Population Exchange, Greece, Cnn-Turk, World News
Harut Sassounian

Erdogan is politically shrewd enough to realize that his condemnation of fascism would resonate at home and in the West, while winning him accolades and support against his powerful domestic opponents.

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President Obama Repeats Bush Folly on UN Racism Conference

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ethnic Cleansing, Geneva, Bush, United Nations, Genocide, President Obama, Durban, Global Racism, Un Racism Conference, Human Rights Abuses, Zionism, Israel, World News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Obama administration's decision to skip Geneva is more than disappointing. It's yet another opportunity the US blew to struggle against global racism.

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Morocco: Disappearing the Amazigh

Jillian York | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amazigh, Moroccan, Ethnic Cleansing, King of Morocco, Morocco, Ethnicity, Names, Arabs, World, Ethnicities, Conflict, Middle East, Ethnic Names, Baby Names, World News
Jillian York

What is Moroccan identity? Is it Arab identity? The official language of Morocco certainly is Arabic, but it is estimated that 23 of Morocco's 30 million people speak one of three Amazigh dialects.

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Livni Wants to Keep Palestinian Citizens of Israel Forever A Minority

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Transfer, Ethnic Cleansing, Baraka, Livni, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Comments by Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, reveal the basic problem of racism that Zionists have when it comes to Palestinians whether under their occupation or Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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Darfur: Media, Myth, and Attic Fire

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Gore, Ethnic Cleansing, Darfur, Obama, Peace, Murder, Oprah Winfrey, Myth, Khartoum, Famine, Genocide, Oprah, New York Times, Libya, Sudan, Un, Global Warming, Bashir, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Even with availability of relief in the form of foodstuff, medicine, and fresh water, people in Darfur are dying -- being murdered -- on a scale never before seen in that region.

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You and Khartoum: Why Darfur is Our Problem

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Omar Al-Bashir, Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, Massacre, Khartoum, Terrorism, Darfur, Genocide, Hezbollah, Sudan, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

What is happening in the world's finance markets is a crisis. What happens when gunmen hold hostages at a bank is a crisis. What is happening in Darfur is genocide.

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee International, General Petraeus Surge, Shi'a Truce, Iraqi Benchmarks, United Nations, Internally Displaced Persons, US Congress, Sunni Ethnic Cleansing, Department of State, Ngo, Muqtada Al Sadr, The Surge, Unhcr, Justice and Accountability Law, Iraqi Refugees, Ehtno-Sectarian Violence, Sadrist Shi'A, Department of Defense, Siic, Kurds, Constitutional Review Committee, Abdul Al-Hakim, Baghdad, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, John McCain, Government Accountability Office, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Basra, Kirkuk, Ethnic Cleansing, Badr Corps, Marine Corps General Jones, Population Shifts Baghdad, Ucla, Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service Report, Second Largest Refugee Crisis, Shi'a Militias, Center for American Progress, War on Terror, De-Baathification Law, Sons of Iraq, Second Presidential Debate, Transparency International, Crc, 2008 Presidential Race, War in Iraq, International Crisis Group, Sigir, Msm, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Peshmerga, Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Dr. John Agnew, General Petraeus, Sunni Awakening, Icg, Krg, Igos, Isf, Idp, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván

Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.

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Satellite Shows Ethnic Cleansing In Iraq Was Key Factor In "Surge" Success

Reuters | Maggie Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Surge, Ethnic Cleansing, Success of the Surge, War Wire, Iraq, Sunnis, Shiites, Foreign Affairs, Home News

WASHINGTON - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphi...

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Georgia's Foreign Minister Says Ethnic Cleansing Is Nearly Done

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia Georgia War, Russia Georgia Conflict, South Ossetia, South Ossetia Ethnic Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, Home News

VIENNA, Austria — Georgia's foreign minister says the ethnic cleansing of Georgians from the separatist province of South Ossetia has nearly bee...

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Top US Envoy: Violence In Kenya Is "Ethnic Cleansing"

AP | MICHELLE FAUL and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kenya, Ethnic Violence in Kenya, Post-Election Violence Kenya, Ethnic Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing Kenya, Politics News

NAIROBI, Kenya — The top U.S. envoy to Africa called the month of post-election violence in Kenya "ethnic cleansing" and said Wednesday Washingt...

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