#war-crimes

[catmint1]

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

—Noam Chomsky

[dd-phd]

Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Harmed Hezbollah, Civilians

Thousands of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17, 2024, resulting in at least 12 deaths, includ

[in-sightpublishing]

Zahra Nader on Zan Times and Afghan Women’s Journalism

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/06/21 Zahra Nader is a unique voice in the Canadian journalistic landscape who joined the mainstream journalism community through the Canadian Association of Journalists around the same time as me a couple of years ago. She impresses me. Here we talk about the world of Zan…

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[sherdnerdcollective]

Demolition Of Timbuktu's Cultural Sites Spurs War-Crimes Trial At The Hague

"Humanity's collective conscience was shocked by the senseless destruction of its common heritage," a prosecutor says. "Words of condemnation are not enough."

Considering the destruction of major cultural heritage sites as a war-crime could set a unique precedence in trying looters, vandals, etc.  

[jhavelikes]

"She had lost her left eye in the shelling that killed her husband, her daughter, her mother-in-law, her brother-in-law Mohammed and his two-year-old son Jamal, and two other brothers-in-law, Ibrahim, 22, and Abdullah, 23."

War-ravaged Gaza families marrying in-laws for support - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East | http://ift.tt/1sNXuOP | January 18, 2015 at 10:05AM

[jhavelikes]

"France is in sorrow today, and will be for many weeks to come. We mourn with France. We ought to. But it is also true that violence from “our” side continues unabated. By this time next month, in all likelihood, many more “young men of military age” and many others, neither young nor male, will have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere. If past strikes are anything to go by, many of these people will be innocent of wrongdoing."

Unmournable Bodies - The New Yorker | http://ift.tt/1Az1p23 | January 12, 2015 at 11:07PM

[thenextmovement]

I was stewarding at Cambridge WordFest this weekend, and although I wasn't able to attend many of the events, I was fortunate enough to hear former BBC foreign correspondent Frances Harrison discussing her most recent book, a devastating account of the suffering of Sri Lanka's Tamils during the civil war of 2009. 

With a media blackout preventing accurate reportage of the war at the time and an official UN enquiry finally set to begin, Harrison's exceptional book (based on interviews with many of those worst affected) is essential reading for all those interested in uncovering the truth of what happened in Sri Lanka. It's evident that the powers-that-be (the Sri Lankan government, the UN, the United States, China, India, Pakistan, UK and more, including the LTTE themselves) have a lot to answer for. 

In addition to the book, Frances Harrison has designed a website where many of the stories she recounts can be explored via an interactive map and timeline.

If you're looking to buy the book itself and would like to contribute to the the campaign for justice in Sri Lanka, purchase it using this Amazon link. 5% of the proceeds will go to the Sri Lanka Campaign For Peace & Justice.