U.N.: Nations Refuse to Stop Geneocide

Twelve years after the Rwanda genocide, nations still seem unwilling to commit the troops and money that would be needed to stop mass slaughter of civilians, a top U.N. envoy said.

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Rwandans Mark 12-Year Genocide Anniversary

Rwandans observed a nationwide minute of silence Friday to mark 12 years since the former extremist Hutu government launched its slaughter of more than half a million people, mainly ethnic minority Tutsi.

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Saddam Genocide Charge Hard to Prove

Saddam Hussein on Tuesday joined a growing number of former leaders accused of the worst crime known to man: genocide. Defined as the intent to destroy an ethnic group in part or in whole, experts say it is the toughest war crime to prove.

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Kennedy Raises Concerns About Darfur

Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy called Thursday for more attention to reports of genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, saying that Rwanda should serve as a lesson to the world.

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Serbia Challenges U.N. Court's Authority

Serbia on Wednesday challenged the right of the U.N.'s highest court to hear a suit by Bosnia accusing the former Yugoslav republic of genocide, in the first case of a country standing trial for humanity's worst crime.

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Court Weighs if Serbia Committed Genocide

The International Court of Justice heard arguments Monday by Bosnia accusing Serbia of genocide, the first time a state has faced trial for humanity's worst crime.

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World Court Asked to Decide on Genocide

The International Court of Justice opened hearings Monday on a suit by Bosnia accusing Serbia of genocide, the first time an entire nation has faced trial for humanity's worst crime.

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Jews Not Zionists - Zionism conflicts with Torah

Jews Not Zionists are adamant that Zionism and hence the State of Israel conflicts with the Torah, the fundamental repository of Jewish Law and observance - and other truly observant Orthodox Jews agree.

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Orthodox Jewish Neturei Karta condemns Israel's "bloody record"

Neturei Karta International is a worldwide organization of Orthodox Jews opposed to Zionism; they recently demonstrated on 58th anniversary of Israel's independence; they condemn Zionism & Zionist violence & theft.

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Israel ethnic cleansing Palestinians by slow genocide

Israel has racist policy of slow genocide & ethnic cleansing possibly leading up to a final "expulsion" by Israeli military of the West Bank Palestinian population; 80,000 left last year, up 50% on year before.

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Jewish Brit: "brutal, totalitarian" Israeli invasion of Gaza

Roger van Zwanenberg (Pluto Books, UK): "Just as Nazi Germany could not survive for long, so too, a brutal Israel, brutalizing her own and all the surrounding people, cannot survive for long ...totalitarian regime in Israel."

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España ordena capturar a Ríos Montt

(en español) Spain orders the capture of former Guatemalan dictators Efraín Rios Montt and Óscar Mejía Victores on charges of genocide and torture. The order also targets former high-ranking security officers.

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The clock ticks. Sudan heads for disaster

A countdown of less than 90 days has begun until the vulnerable people of Darfur are abandoned by world leaders who cannot make a decision - whether to protect them or leave them at the mercy of a Government that has killed at least a quarter of a million and driven millions more …

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Darfur Security in Freefall: Humanitarian Collapse May Occur Any Moment

Eric Reeves, probably the most authoritative commentator on Darfur, explains the increasingly catastrophic situation, caused especially because the SLA commander who signed the peace accord is now cooperating with government military forces against the IDP population.

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11 years ago today, the UN peacekeepers fled "safe haven," allowed genocide to return to Europe

1995: Serbs overrun UN 'safe haven' The Bosnian Serb army has seized control of the United Nations "safe area" of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers were forced to withdraw.

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The Bracelet Stays On

I was tempted nearly two months ago to take off my green bracelet.

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Intelligence Report links Janjaweed to al Qaeda

A recent international intelligence document says there are credible reports that a cadre of about 15 al Qaeda operatives in Sudan are providing training to troops under the control of Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal.

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Darfur’s once-united rebels are now fighting each other

The attack on the village of Tarny was a textbook Darfur killing spree: Gunmen, riding on horses and in SUVs, swarmed in before dawn, looting livestock and shooting villagers.

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Oxfam partly suspends operations in Sudan’s Darfur due to insecurity

International aid agency Oxfam said on Monday it has temporarily closed two of its offices in the north part of Sudan's Darfur region due to the increasing insecurity, which led to abduction of its employee in the strife- torn region.

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Darfur Activism via Online Game

""The first part of activism is getting something under your skin, and having a personal identification with it, and the immediacy of playing a game can often do that," said mtvU general manager Stephen Friedman to the online publication 1UP.com."

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Slow genocide & Gaza - Israel's Palestinian Genocide

Quote: "The attack on Gaza is more; it is part of an orchestrated Israeli campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people ... We are all witnesses to the Palestinian Genocide." Comment: it is "slow genocide".

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Darfur: An Abject Abandonment of the UN's "responsibility to protect"

Eric Reeves is the most authoritative commentator on the Darfur region. He writes:

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Bus bomber's dad says he'd have broken his son's legs if he would have known he was capable of murder

But his father, speaking to the BBC's Real Story in a programme to be broadcast on the anniversary of the attacks, says that he had no idea what his son was plotting but that he also still has not had it proven to him that it was Hussain who detonated the bomb.

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Put away the flags — Howard Zinn

Couldn't have said it better myself. From the article:

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3 July (Kafka), 4 July (US) , Israel violence psychoanalyzed

Kafka's birthday; Holocaust; American Professor Walter Davis psychoanalyzes Israeli aggression in Gaza: "renewed identification with the aggressor one has now become", "do unto others what was done onto you"

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Australian dirty tricks in Timor Leste?

John Pilger reports on Australian involvement in disempowerment of Timor Leste's overwhelmingly democratically-supported Fretilin government; is this about Australian control of oil and gas reserves?

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Killing a Nation to Rescue a Soldier

Ron Jacobs: If the true goal of the current Israeli military actions in Gaza is to rescue the Israeli Defense Forces recently taken prisoner, than there is no logic to the military destruction of Palestinian power plants.

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Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Jason Miller: I am deeply sickened by fact that the United States government finances Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians with my tax dollars. It enrages me that AIPAC and bellicose supporters of Israel dictate so much of our foreign policy.

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UN wants to go to Darfur now to help African Union

The United Nations should immediately beef up the African Union force in Darfur with communications, transport and other help in preparation for its own operation, the head of U.N. peacekeeping said on Tuesday.

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Video: Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

Pilger uncovers the shocking complicity of the US and Great Britain governments in the East Timor genocide - the same governments who were willing to go to war with Saddam Hussein for his invasion of Kuwait, but who stood aside as Indonesia broke the exact same UN regulations to  …

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The Rise of Anti-Semitism In Turkey

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Khartoum Adamantly Refuses Urgently Required UN Forces in Darfur

Eric Reeves is the most respected commentator on the crisis in Sudan. He writes:

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