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CRIMEA: LEGACY OF THE DEPORTATION

Crimean Tatars Again Being Erased from History in Their Homeland by Olena Makarenko, Euromaidan Press May 18 is commemorated as a memorial day of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. On that day in 1944, Joseph Stalin… Read moreCRIMEA: LEGACY OF THE DEPORTATION

APOLOGY TO THE ‘WITCHES’: WHY NOW?

by Carole Linda Gonzalez Why apologize for something you are not responsible for? Especially when no one is left alive who deserves an apology. That was the first thought many doubtless had when reading that the first minister of Scotland,… Read moreAPOLOGY TO THE ‘WITCHES’: WHY NOW?

ENVIRONMENTAL WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE

by Elliot Winter, Jurist The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its third month. The suffering of Ukrainian civilians has been awful and the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is satisfied that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe war… Read moreENVIRONMENTAL WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE

ECHOES OF SYRIA, AS PUTIN BOMBS HOSPITALS IN UKRAINE

by Dr Houssam al-Nahhas, The New Humanitarian Many Syrians are experiencing heart-wrenching flashbacks as we watch the mounting devastation in Ukraine and the millions of refugees fleeing. As a Syrian physician who provided medical care amid the war in my country,… Read moreECHOES OF SYRIA, AS PUTIN BOMBS HOSPITALS IN UKRAINE

THE CRIMEAN CLAUSE OF THE UKRAINE QUESTION

by Yevgeny Lerner The current Russian-Ukrainian war started eight years ago with the Russian annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which fell with hardly a shot fired, and largely without notice in the world at large. The most important thing to… Read moreTHE CRIMEAN CLAUSE OF THE UKRAINE QUESTION

AFGHANISTAN: GOING BACK TO ZERO

Legal and Judicial System Collapsing Under Taliban Regime by Mahir Hazim, Jurist The international community and the United States spent billions of dollars on rebuilding the Afghan legal and judicial system and improving the rule of law and governance over… Read moreAFGHANISTAN: GOING BACK TO ZERO

LIBYA: INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT WORSENING PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

by Elham Saudi & Cristina Orsini, The New Humanitarian Eleven years ago, courageous women and men took to the streets of Libya with an unflinching desire for human rights, justice, and democracy. At the time, they were met with an unprecedented… Read moreLIBYA: INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT WORSENING PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

UKRAINE: KHARKOV ANARCHISTS SPEAK

by Bill Weinberg, CounterVortex Ukraine is in the world headlines now as a frontline of confrontation between Russia and the West. Russian-backed separatists have held the country’s eastern Donbas region since 2014, after a pro-Russian government was ousted in Kiev… Read moreUKRAINE: KHARKOV ANARCHISTS SPEAK

MYANMAR: CRISES SPIRAL ONE YEAR AFTER COUP

by Irwin Loy, The New Humanitarian Volatile new conflict zones, rising hunger, and hundreds of thousands uprooted: A year into a military coup, crises are spiralling across Myanmar, but aid blockades are cutting off assistance even as humanitarian needs reach… Read moreMYANMAR: CRISES SPIRAL ONE YEAR AFTER COUP

STATEMENT FROM UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS

from Social Movement, Kyiv The Kremlin has ordered the Russian army to the Ukrainian borders and is threatening to intervene if the US, NATO, and Ukraine do not fulfill its demands. We, the Ukrainian socialists, call on the international left… Read moreSTATEMENT FROM UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS

ON THE ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR

by Frank Arango, Seattle Workers’ Voice In November 2020, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched full-scale war on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which governed Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state. He claimed this was a mere police operation against terrorists, and lied that… Read moreON THE ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR

INDIA: OUTCRY AGAINST ‘SPECIAL POWERS’ AFTER NAGALAND MASSACRE

by Nava Thakuria, CounterVortex Northeast India’s conflicted state of Nagaland, on the Burmese border, is seeing a mass public outcry against long-standing emergency measures in the wake of an army massacre of civilian mine workers. On Dec. 4, army and… Read moreINDIA: OUTCRY AGAINST ‘SPECIAL POWERS’ AFTER NAGALAND MASSACRE