Gunmen kidnapped two Chinese men and a Nigerian man working for a local company in the southeastern state of Anambra March 17. The Chinese were the first foreigners kidnapped outside of the country’s oil heartland in the southern Niger Delta…. Read moreChinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria
Suspected Islamist separatists shot and killed three Buddhist women involved with a project for victims of Thailand’s insurgency March 19. The victims were headed to work at a farm project funded by Thailand’s Queen Sirikit in the Nong Chik district… Read moreBuddhist women killed in new Thailand attack
Kyrgyzstan has demanded the US hand over for trial an Air Force serviceman who shot dead a Kyrgyz truck driver in December at the Manas airbase. The Kyrgyz government threatened to review its agreement with the US on the use… Read moreKyrgyzstan demands US hand over airman
Waving Puerto Rican and Iraqi flags, hundreds of demonstrators picketed in front of the US National Guard headquarters in Puerto Rico on March 17 as part of an international weekend of protests against the US invasion and occupation of Iraq,… Read morePuerto Rico: mothers protest war
At dawn on March 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided the low-income Canal neighborhood of San Rafael in Marin County, California. The raids, part of ICE’s national “Operation Return to Sender,” were supposedly based on 30 warrants for… Read moreICE raids protested in California
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) states in its annual report that the “democratic security” policy of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe could have negative implications for human rights in the conflicted South American country. The report said the… Read moreColombia: UN blasts Uribe’s “democratic security” program
Indigenous peoples have no future under the neoliberal system, because it doesn’t respect their traditional self-government (usos y costumbres) and seeks to eliminate their ethnic identity, said the Bishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who… Read moreMexico’s Bishop Ruiz: no future for indigenous under neoliberalism
Two peasant ecologists, Don Marcos Paz and Bulmaro Cuiriz, adherents of the Zapatista “Other Campaign” and the local Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata (UCEZ), were arrested March 9 in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, on what the UCEZ says are false charges of… Read moreMichoacan: peasant ecologists arrested
Some 500 Mexican army troops and Federal Preventative Police took over the Public Security Secretariat of southern Tabasco state March 17, and arrested three high-ranking police commanders. The three officials, summarily fired upon their arrests, are part of a clique… Read moreMexican federales raid Tabasco police
From the American Civil Liberties Union, March 15: DENVER – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a complaint against three White House staffers for illegally ejecting Denver residents from a taxpayer-funded town hall with President Bush, even though they… Read more“Denver Three” sue White House staff
More than 500 Muslim villagers gathered at southern Thailand’s Sabaiyoi town March 18 to demand justice after a midnight attack on an Islamic school left two young students dead and eight wounded. Students were asleep at the boarding school when… Read moreThailand: who is behind school-house attack?
Two Algerian Islamist militants were killed and several wounded when a roadside bomb they were planting outside the capital Algiers exploded prematurely, the official APS news agency said March 14. The two bombs were to be buried and detonated from… Read moreAlgeria: rebels killed planting bombs
