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Sosyal Medya ve Maço Kültürü Kıskacında Çatışma Alanı Fotoğrafları

Sosyal Medya ve Maço Kültürü Kıskacında Çatışma Alanı Fotoğrafları

2015 senesinde Yunan sahillerine ulaşan çaresiz göçmenlerle dolu şişme botların neredeyse hepsi çok etkili birer fotoğraf oluşturuyordu: can yeleklerinin parlak renkleri, panik içindeki yüzler, aralarındaki bebek ve çocuklar…

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HRW/No More Excuses: The Need for an Inclusive Humanitarian Response

HRW/No More Excuses: The Need for an Inclusive Humanitarian Response

By Peter Bouckaert Director, HRW Emergencies Participants in this week’s [5/23-24] World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, with its lofty call to “leave no one behind,” should consider the story of Hamamatou from the Central African Republic. [su_dropcap style=”flat”]W[/su_dropcap]hen anti-balaka rebels attacked Hamamatou’s village of Guen in early 2014, the 13-year-old had no way to run. A bout…

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DISPATCH/Escape From a Nightmare

DISPATCH/Escape From a Nightmare

BY PETER BOUCKAERT

Refugees who fled from brutal violence in the CAR can look across a river border and see the men who still want them dead. Will they ever be able to return home?

[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ASTERN CAMEROON — Aboubakar Goton, 40, used to be wealthy and influential. Just over a year ago, Goton, a Muslim, was the mayor of Bossemptélé, a trading center of 22,000 residents in the Central…

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Dispatches: VIP Treatment for Warlord Sends Wrong Message in CAR

Dispatches: VIP Treatment for Warlord Sends Wrong Message in CAR

By Peter Bouckaert

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo, last week, the lesson for those accused of atrocities seems to be: rather than face criminal investigation, you can be treated as a VIP. That, at least, is what happened to Abdoulaye Miskine, also known as Martin Koumtamadji, a mercenary leader accused of involvement with many crimes during the past decade.

The…

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Tweets from Hillary Clinton: Sad News

Tweets from Hillary Clinton: Sad News

Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton  ·  Jun 27

Heartbreaking news: a vital voice for justice is silenced. http://m.hrw.org/news/2014/06/26/libya-tribute-salwa-bughaighis …

Libya: Tribute to Salwa Bughaighis Prominent Rights Activist Assassinated June 26, 2014 By Peter Bouckaert (Tripoli) – Human Rights Watch today issued the following tribute to Salwa Bughaighis, a prominent human…

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Central African Republic: Seleka Fighters Attack Village

Central African Republic: Seleka Fighters Attack Village

Divina Beamkoma, 7, was shot in the legs while fleeing heavily armed Seleka fighters and Muslim Peuhl herders attacking her village of Boawi on February 26, 2014. © 2014 Peter Bouckaert/Human Rights Watch

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(Bangui) – Heavily armed Seleka fighters joined by Muslim Peuhl cattle herders on February 26, 2014, carried out a deadly attack on the village of Bowai, northeast of…

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By Media Coulibaly BANGUI (Reuters) - An angry crowd killed and mutilated a man who fell from a truck filled with Muslims fleeing the capital of Central African Republic on Friday, witnesses said, while an international court said it would probe alleged crimes committed there. The attack was the second incident of a public, daylight lynching this week as inter-communal violence rages between the country's majority Christian population and the mostly Muslim Seleka, whose ten-month rule ended in January. One man toppled from the convoy and was killed by a crowd, with his hands and genitals cut off, Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch emergencies coordinator, told Reuters. Red Cross director Pastor Antoine Mbao Bogo said that his organisation was later called to collect the mutilated body, adding it had located three other bodies on Friday. Source: Reuters

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By Media Coulibaly BANGUI (Reuters) - A group of soldiers in Central African Republic's capital lynched a man on Wednesday whom they suspected of having been a rebel, minutes after hearing the new president promise to restore security at a ceremony to reinstate the divided country's armed forces. A Reuters witness saw about 20 uniformed soldiers accuse a member of the crowd at a training centre in the capital Bangui of having belonged to Seleka, the mostly Muslim rebel group that seized power in a coup last March. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Bangui, tweeted that the corpse of the lynched man had been burned. Ten minutes earlier, about 20 metres (yards) away, the new interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, had addressed the crowd of at least 1,000 soldiers at a ceremony meant to re-present the army to the nation after it effectively disappeared from view during Seleka's rule. Source: Reuters