Ethnic Cleansing

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Never Again: Rembering the Balkans

Zainab Salbi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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

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 08.23.2009 | World

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

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 07.06.2009 | World

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, “Little 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

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 06.28.2009 | World

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

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 05.21.2009 | World

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

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 02.23.2009 | World

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

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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Darfur: Media, Myth, and Attic Fire

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 12.25.2008 | World

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

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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Livni Wants to Keep Palestinian Citizens of Israel Forever A Minority

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 01.14.2009 | World

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

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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You and Khartoum: Why Darfur is Our Problem

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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

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 11.07.2008 | Politics

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

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 10.20.2008 | Home

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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