Southeast Asia
UN sees ‘crimes against humanity’ in Burma
Human rights abuses against the Rohingya in Burma may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Tag: genocide
North America
Jill Stein: pro-fascist hippie dupe
Jill Stein, presidential candidate of the Green Party, talks about human rights while her party serves as a stateside propaganda organ of the genocidal Bashar Assad regime.
Greater Middle East
Syria: bloody Ramadan amid Russian aerial terror
Hundreds were killed in the first week of Ramadan in Syria, as the regime and its Russian allies keep up their relentless campaign of air-strikes on rebel-held towns.
Iraq
Syria: Kurdish feminist leads anti-ISIS offensive
Rojda Felat, a Kurdish revolutionary feminist, is leading the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' offensive on Raqqa, capital of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate.
South Asia
India: court convicts 24 in 2002 Gujarat pogrom
A court in Ahmedabad convicted 24 individuals of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat that left more than 1,000 dead.
Africa
AU court sentences Chad ex-ruler to life in prison
A court in Senegal convicted Chad's former dictator Hissène Habré of crimes against humanity committed during his rule, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The Amazon
‘Stop Brazil’s Genocide’ campaign greets Olympics
Advocacy group Survival International has launched a campaign to prevent the annihilation of tribal peoples in Brazil, to coincide with the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
South Asia
Bangladesh executes Islamist for war crimes
Bangladeshi authorities executed Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the the 1971 war of independence—the fifth Jamaat-e-Islami leader to be hanged.
Greater Middle East
Syria: world betrays Aleppo (of course)
As Assad regime and Russian air-strikes continue on the beseiged populace of Aleppo, media in the West increasingly echo regime propaganda of justified "counter-attacks."
Southeast Asia
Mass arrests in West Papua independence protests
Nearly 2,000 were arrested by security forces in Indonesia's Papua province for "illegal" pro-independence demonstrations marking the end of Dutch colonial rule in 1963.
Greater Middle East
American ‘left’ abetting genocide in Syria
In the 1930s, the American left built solidarity with those who stood up to the authors of the Guernica terror in Spain. Today it stands on the side of fascism and genocide in Syria.
Greater Middle East
Syria: Kurdish-FSA conflict cleaves resistance
Fierce fighting between Kurdish-led YPG forces and Arab factions aligned with the Free Syrian Army is deepening a split within the Syrian resistance to both ISIS and Assad.