Day: April 27, 2014

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Kurdish-Berber solidarity

FARCTop FARC leaders Iván Marquez and Jesús Santrich appeared in a YouTube video, alongside some 20 other veteran fighters, all in battle fatigues, to announce they are returning to guerilla insurgency and will launch "a new stage of armed struggle." Reading the manifesto, Marquez charged that "the state has betrayed the Havana Accords," the 2016 peace deal under which the FARC laid down arms. "We announce to the world that the second Marquetalia has begun," he said, referring to the village where the FARC was founded in 1964. He said they would seek to join forces both with the FARC "dissidents" who have remained in arms despite the peace deal, as well as the rival National Liberation Army (ELN). (Photo via La Vanguardia)

KURDISH-BERBER SOLIDARITY

NagasHundreds in India's conflicted eastern state of Nagaland held a two-day cross-country march to protest the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives the military broad power to use deadly force in areas where it is declared to be in effect. The march swelled to a thousand by the time it reached state capital Kohima. The action was called in response to last month's massacre of 14 residents in the village of Oting, where army troops fired on what proved to be truck filled with mine workers—not guerillas, as had apparently been suspected. The march was organized by the Naga Mothers' Association, whose spokesperson Rosemary Dzüvichü accused the Indian government of viewing Nagas as "the other." She lamented: "We still have this colonial attitude being shown to us." (Photo: Nagaland Express)

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