A commission probing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state said on Wednesday that there was no evidence of genocide or religious persecution against Rohingya Muslims. The interim report of the commission came days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from the Muslim minority. The size of, what the report calls, the ‘Bengali’ population, mosques …
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A Muslim gathering in a small Myanmar town has been canceled due to a protest from a Buddhist nationalist group — the second such disturbance in the country this month. The event due to be held in the town of Pyay in Bago region, around 440 kilometers northwest of Myanmar’s former capital Yangon, was canceled …
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With renewed international attention on Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank, a closer look at how these Jewish-only colonies affect Palestinians is necessary. Settlements are not just illegal, as the recently passed UN Security Council resolution confirms, but devastating to those they exclude. Settlements do not just consist of creating housing for one ethno-religious …
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President Bush opened it amid global protest, President Obama vowed to close it. After 15 years the Guantanamo Bay prison camp does not just remain open, it could even experience a revival under President Trump. What began on January 11, 2002, with the transfer of 20 prisoners suspected of belonging to the Taliban and al …
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There were 762 murders in Chicago in 2016. It was the deadliest year in nearly two decades. The number alone doesn’t tell the entire story of Chicago’s bloodshed. There’s another statistic that points to a disturbing trend the city is facing: a surge. There was more than a 50% increase in murders in just one …
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After issuing orders to demolish their home and rounding them up in detention centers, Israel now plans to revoke the Jerusalem residency of the relatives of the man who ran a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at a settlement near Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and injuring more than a dozen others. The …
Violence claimed the lives of at least 6,878 civilian Iraqis last year, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Iraqi government struggles to maintain security nationwide and to dislodge Daesh terrorists from areas under their control. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, known as UNAMI, said its numbers “have to be considered as the …
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A French journalist and his cameraman were attacked by security guards after trying to ask far-right candidate Marine le Pen a question over allegations her security guard was paid as a parliamentary aid. Political reporter Paul Larrouturou, who works for the popular news TV show Quotidien, was violently forced out of a Paris exhibition hall …
Amnesty International said on Wednesday hateful rhetoric by politicians has encouraged a rise in discrimination and hate crimes in Europe and the United States. “2016 was a year marked globally by hateful rhetoric and fear driven politics,” said Claire Mallinson, National Director at Amnesty International Australia. In its annual human rights report released on Wednesday, …
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An Israeli soldier who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian, who was incapacitated having already been shot, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for manslaughter. Judge Maya Heller of the military court in Tel Aviv delivered the sentencing on Tuesday in a case that has stoked passions, debate and protest. Analysts had expected …
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