Human Rights | Genocide

2010-07-31: Headlines

• Sydney Morning Herald: Israel memorial for Aboriginal protester 2010-07-31

  An Aboriginal elder is to be honoured for his unique role in opposing Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews, with a memorial to be unveiled at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. | Eighty-two years ago, William Cooper, then aged 77, led a protest march in Melbourne a month after the notorious "Kristallnacht" co-ordinated attacks on Jews carried out by the Gestapo and Schutzstaffel (SS). | Kristallnacht - which means "crystal night"

• Sudan Tribune: South Africa says it will arrest Sudans Bashir despite AU resolution 2010-07-31

  July 30, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan's President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir would be arrested if he ever visits South Africa, the country's ruling African (...)

• Pakistan Patriot: Pro-Pakistani Dukhtaran-e-Millat shuts down Kashmir 2010-07-31

  Srinagar, July 30: The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi has called for Kashmir Bandh on Saturday to protest against the killing of tw...

• Accra Daily Mail: Administrator: No rights; to a place of abode in own country-Mrs Ingabire 2010-07-31

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• allvoices: 13 year old murdered: shot 22 times 2010-07-31

  July 30 2010, Chicago]-----The urban genocide continues in Chicago. 13 year old Robert Freeman Jr., was shot a staggering 22 times, in the West Pullman neighborhood. | According to NBC Chicago, the murder occurred on Wednesday July 28, around 8:15 p.m.while the teen was standing near a car on 115 St. and South Perry Ave. | A masked gunman reportedly opened fire into a crowd of people nearby.

• Kashmir Media Service: Killing of peaceful Kashmiri protestors widely condemned 2010-07-31

  Srinagar, July 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, pro-liberation leaders and parties have denounced the use of brute force and indiscriminate firing by Indian police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

2010-07-30: Headlines

• Kashmir Media Service: Concern expressed over killing of youth in IHK 2010-07-30

  Washington, July 30 (KMS): The speakers at a peace conference expressed grave concern over the killing of innocent Kashmiri youth by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir during the past few months.

• The Ledger: Support PGTV 2010-07-30

  I need to speak out in support for PGTV - Polk County Government Television. I have had the privilege of working with its staff a dozen times over the past year, and have enjoyed their professionalism, kindness and intense work ethic. It offers a great service for our community.

• Los Angeles Times: The Oliver Stone danger 2010-07-30

  West Salem's Michael Knudtson throws to first to complete a double play after forcing out West Bend West's Blake Wiskirchen in the seventh inning. | knew what it was up against Thursday afternoon at Bukolt Park. | any other they'd played all summer. | said in reference to WIAA state semifinal opponent West Bend West. | "Those are some big boys over there." | the size of West Salem's. | West Bend West batted in the top of the first inning.

• Armenian Weekly: Bruce Boghosian Named AUA President 2010-07-30

  OAKLAND, Calf.€”The American University of Armenia (AUA) will officially welcome incoming president Bruce Boghosian and wife Laura Boghosian at receptions in New York City and Boston in August. AUA is widely regarded as the centerpiece of America€™s commitment to higher education and development in Armenia and the Caucasus.

• Myjoyonline.com: What is human security and national security? 2010-07-30

  In reality, I€™m all by myself leading three distinct lives. As a journalist, you learn to branch out, become more diversified, comb the pitfalls of society and become omnipresent. A fellow editor once had the perfect word. He called it €œubiquitous.€ Being everywhere at the same time. | He lived near me in North Hampton, N.H.

• Armenian Weekly: Vartabedian: Three Lives Toward Greater Fruition 2010-07-30

  In reality, I€™m all by myself leading three distinct lives. As a journalist, you learn to branch out, become more diversified, comb the pitfalls of society and become omnipresent. A fellow editor once had the perfect word. He called it €œubiquitous.€ Being everywhere at the same time. | He lived near me in North Hampton, N.H.

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Scoop.co.nz: The Chilcot Inquiry, Aggression and the ICC 2010-07-29

  The 2003 U.S. led invasion of Iraq was a crime--a profound and catastrophic violation of international law. The crime was aggression: the waging of unprovoked war on a sovereign state. A growing international consensus says that not only was the invasi ...

• Black Star News: Will Obama Administration Screw Africa, Like All The Rest? 2010-07-29

  Rather than becoming a friend of Africans --the millions of ordinary Africans who yearn for democracy-- the U.S. is again acting like an enemy of Africa by embracing tyrannical regimes. U.S. seems fully vested in that terrible type of past relationship with African countries--assisting and abetting genocidal regimes.

• Casper Star-Tribune Online: Touring a murder factory 2010-07-29

  Keywords: attention when I glanced at the front page of today's paper. | with baseball bats. This was done to save ammunition. | their children being murdered before they too were killed! | to be brutally murdered. | be shown at the Wyoming State Fair (Aug. 19-21) in Douglas. | public domain), from my recent trip to Cambodia and Vietnam.

• Den Of Geek: Confused Views: Puppy McWiggletail Gets Humanely Euthanised 2010-07-29

  If you thought Toy Story 3 was a tear-jerker, Matt€™s idea for a heart-rending family blockbuster will have you sobbing in the aisles€...

• NorthJersey.com: Fall exhibition honors Varian Fry 2010-07-29

  The exhibition tells the story of an "unlikely hero" from Ridgewood who became the first American €” and one of only three €” to be designated "Righteous Among the Nations," an award from Yad Vashem, Israel€™s national Holocaust memorial, that honors non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. | The exhibition and all events associated with it are free and open to the public.

• Sudan Tribune: Sudans Bashir says Gration positively impacting views within US administration 2010-07-29

  July 28, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration has succeeded in changing the views of senior figures within the (...)

• New Statesman: Charity must not stop at home 2010-07-29

  The International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, defends the decision to ring-fence overseas aid.

2010-07-28: Headlines

• allafrica.com: Rwanda: Kagame Promises 12 Years of Free Education 2010-07-28

  THE Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Presidential candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that he intends to increase free education from nine to 12 years. | Kagame, made the remarks during a campaign rally in Kamonyi District, where more than 95,000 RPF supporters had converged to listen to their candidates' message. | In 2003, while campaigning for the top office, Kagame pledged nine years of free education, a promise he has since fulfilled.

• Houston Chronicle: Jonah Goldberg: Tables have been turned on the old guard media 2010-07-28

  In Sunday's New York Times, former "green jobs czar" Van Jones wrote, "The high standards and wise judgments of people like Walter Cronkite once acted as a national immune system, zapping scandal mongers and quashing wild rumors." | This may be one of the most unintentionally hilarious lines in recent memory. Jones, you may recall, left the White House when his background

• TheTyee.ca: Five Essential Eco-thrillers 2010-07-28

  Nature on the brink is a hot theme for novels right now. The best might have been written in 1851. | Moby Dick: not to be confused with Jaws. | More than 300 people gathered in Vancouver to envision a healthy society without an expanding economy. | But is 'The Day After Tomorrow' the wake-up call the world needs? | Thanks to James Cameron, Hollywood special effects march on. Hollywood scripts, not so much.

• Montreal Gazette: Send Leon Mugesera home to face justice 2010-07-28

  Find public opinion about news in Montreal, Quebec and the world through newspaper columnists, editorials, blogs, cartoons and letters. Read blogs and reader comments.,After 15 years, Canada is now nearly ready to dispatch Leon...

• The Ledger: History of Nation Reveals Deceit Of Exceptionalism 2010-07-28

  From the moment the first European settler stepped ashore on American soil, there has been a sense that our coming American nationhood would be something exceptional in the making. Our early leaders saw the opportunity to give expression to new forms of cultural, religious and political freedom.

• Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am: Vardan Torosyan : Hayots Ashkharh: Erdogan to be actively engaged in Armenia-Turkey rapprochement 2010-07-28

  Serzh Sargsyan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan to conciliate? | "Pre-election campaign of parliamentary elections will shortly be launched in Turkey, scheduled in 2011 and speaking of Armenia-Turkey rapprochement during this period is tantamount to a political suicide," the daily quotes Turkish studies expert Artak Shakaryan. | According to him, for this reason there is no need to expect progress in the normalization process.

• The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer 2010-07-28

  THE Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Presidential candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that he intends to increase free education from nine to 12 years. | Kagame, made the remarks during a campaign rally in Kamonyi District, where more than 95,000 RPF supporters had converged to listen to their candidates' message. | In 2003, while campaigning for the top office, Kagame pledged nine years of free education, a promise he has since fulfilled.