Members of Pakistan’s Shi’ite Hazara ethnic minority held protests in London and Hamburg, charging “genocide” against their people with the complicity of the Islamabad regime—and the silence of the international community.
As junta-loyalist troops continue to fight soldiers who attempted a counter-coup in Bamako, Human Rights Watch charges that Tuareg rebels, Islamist factions and Arab militias alike are committing war crimes in Mali’s breakaway north.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, speaks about the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projects and in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for a new intifada to support the more than 4,000 Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, hundreds of whom started a mass open-ended hunger-strike two weeks ago.
A previously unknown Islamist group claimed responsibility for the latest suicide bombing in Damascus—which killed 11 at a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers. Iran blamed “foreign powers” that want to inflame the conflict for the blast.
China's Camc Engineering won the contract to build a major oil facility on Nicaragua's Pacific coast under the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)—as Canadian mining companies rush into the country's remote interior.
Plans by Anglo-French company Perenco to exploit oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy have been slammed as a “1970s-era” project and forecast to cause huge unnecessary environmental damage to the Amazon.
Peru announced that it will implement its own climate change initiative, in light of the continued absence of an international treaty. But the Environmental Investigation Agency finds that illegal logging thrives in Peru due to endemic corruption.
With lines drawn over the US-backed Conga mining project in Peru’s high Andean region of Cajamarca, the Lima tabloid Perú21 splashes explosive claims that the region has become a critical new zone for cocaine production and trafficking.
Cambodia’s most outspoken activist against illegal logging was shot dead while escorting journalists near a protected forest in Koh Kong province, where he has repeatedly attempted to expose outlaw timber rackets that include military officials.
The Naga people, whose homeland is bisected by the India-Burma border, are slated to be massively relocated by the giant Tamanthi hydro project—even as Delhi tries to broker peace with Naga separatist guerillas.
Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng succeeded in escaping from house arrest in a rural area of China’s Shandong province. From an unknown location, he issued a YouTube appeal to Premier Wen Jiabao.
