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Rohingya – The Hidden Genocide
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Rohingya – The Hidden Genocide

This is a story of a people fleeing the land where they were born, of a people deprived of citizenship in their homeland. It is the story of the Rohingya of western Myanmar, whose very existence as a people is denied ...

Expert Warns of Rohingya Genocide

Expert Warns of Rohingya Genocide

According to Prof. Schabas, one of the foremost experts on international criminal law: “We’re moving into a zone where the word can be used (in the case of the Rohingya). When you see measures preventin ...

Bangladeshi rickshaw driver builds hospital from his own savings
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Bangladeshi rickshaw driver builds hospital from his own savings

Most doctors live and work in the cities in Bangladesh. A long distance away for ailing villagers. After saving his 6 dollars per day earnings as a rickshaw driver for over 30 years, one villager has built a hospital ...

Calls for neutral probe into West Papua mine deaths
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Calls for neutral probe into West Papua mine deaths

A series of unsolved murders on the private property of one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines has left nine people dead since September. ...

Freeport Miners’ Strike – by traverser11
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Freeport Miners’ Strike – by traverser11

Video from the three month long strike at Freeport Mine in West Papua, police repression and actions in solidarity with the miners. ...

HRW: Obama should address West Papua abuses
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HRW: Obama should address West Papua abuses

Human rights organisations want US President Barack Obama to address abuses in Papua during his visit to Indonesia. ...

Indonesian Forces Raid Papuan Independence Gathering
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Indonesian Forces Raid Papuan Independence Gathering

Indonesian forces have raided a meeting of the Papuan independence movement, killing at least two of its members and arresting hundreds more. Rights group Amnesty International is asking the government to release the ...

UN Report: Sudan- “Ethnic Cleansing” Warning!
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UN Report: Sudan- “Ethnic Cleansing” Warning!

UN Security council has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Sudanese troops,from the disputed Abyei region, on the border with South Sudan. ...

Iraq’s Abandoned Children
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Iraq’s Abandoned Children

Iraq is full of street kids; children with one or both parents killed, or some who have merely been abandoned. ...

Bahrain: Pro-Democracy Activists Will Stand Trial

Bahrain: Pro-Democracy Activists Will Stand Trial

Shia comprise about 70 per cent of Bahrain’s population, but are excluded from top government and security posts. More than 30 people have died in the unrest. ...

Yemen: Government Shuts Down Al-Jazeera Offices
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Yemen: Government Shuts Down Al-Jazeera Offices

Authorities in Yemen have ordered Al-Jazeera's offices shut and its journalists stripped of accreditation, escalating a week-long series of reprisals against the station that has included beatings, expulsions, raids, ...

Yemen: Police Fire on Protesters, Alleged Use of Nerve Gas
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Yemen: Police Fire on Protesters, Alleged Use of Nerve Gas

Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations Saturday, killing three people — including a 15-year-old student — as the government clamps down on a growing p ...

Clinton: “We Are Losing the Information War”
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Clinton: “We Are Losing the Information War”

The U.S. is losing an information war to alternative media outlets... ...