Tag: violence
member name: Savo Heleta
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March 10, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia , by Savo Heleta ( AMACOM ; March 20, 2008; $22.00 Hardcover)
Prologue
The Muslim drivers looked terrified, their . . .
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May 12, 2009 02:40 AM EDT --
If a wife is spending too much money, her husband is allowed to slap her, a judge in Saudi Arabia said recently during a seminar on domestic violence.
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily . . .
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June 27, 2009 08:19 AM EDT --
Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, a very influential Iranian cleric, said in a nationally broadcast sermon at Tehran University on June 26 that "anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they . . .
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June 09, 2009 05:02 AM EDT --
This question is posed by Senator James Webb, Democrat from Virginia.
The United States, according to Webb , "with 5 percent of the world's population, houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prisoners." . . .
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February 24, 2008 07:02 PM EST --
Kosovo declared independence on February 17, 2008, after a number of talks between the Serbian and Kosovo's governments failed to bring any agreement on the status of the Serbian province.
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May 29, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
Written by Savo Heleta
Newropeans Magazine
May 29, 2008
In 1999, Western governments and media claimed that about 10,000 Albanians were killed in the Serbian province of Kosovo by the . . .
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June 23, 2009 05:29 AM EDT --
What's currently happening in Iran regarding the censorship of the international media should be a very important lesson to governments around the world.
That lesson is: Do not restrict media freedom . . .
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June 29, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
When the president of Iran denies the Holocaust, the Western world screams at him in disgust.
But when an influential American-Jewish Rabbi calls for a total destruction of Palestinians of genocidal . . .
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July 11, 2009 03:20 PM EDT --
US Attorney General, Eric Holder, may soon appoint a prosecutor "to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices," writes Newsweek.
Even though no final decision has been made . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:57 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on May 21, 2008
Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence two weeks . . .
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July 11, 2009 08:22 AM EDT --
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , has described ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang region as "a kind of genocide".
"There are atrocities there, hundreds of people have been killed and . . .
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July 23, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
A new wave of protests and violence is sweeping some South African provinces.
This comes a year after the country experienced horrific xenophobic violence which saw South African black people lynching, . . .
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February 12, 2008 04:44 AM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on February 10, 2008
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25905
The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), signed in 2006, has been a failure from . . .
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February 27, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
In 1946, the United Nations declared genocide a crime under international law. In 1948, the UN adopted Resolution 260A(III), the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , . . .
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November 27, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
First published in the Newropeans Magazine
November 27, 2008
A few decades ago, Zimbabwe was the second most industrialized nation and the most robust agricultural producer . . .
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June 25, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
The British Telegraph writes that the Iranian soccer players who wore green wristbands as a gesture of solidarity with the people who are protesting on the streets of Iran over the disputed presidential . . .
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June 30, 2009 07:50 AM EDT --
Mir-Hossein Mousavi , the leader of the major opposition party in Iran and leading challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called on his supporters to continue peaceful protests after the government . . .
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May 30, 2008 01:13 PM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published on March 29, 2008
Pambazuka News
Savo Heleta looks at the ways death tolls are manipulated for political ends and argues the same could be happening in Darfur. . . .
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July 26, 2009 07:58 AM EDT --
Despite having to fight Pakistan's security forces and facing attacks by the United States military, the Taliban are becoming more powerful in Pakistan with every passing day, writes German Spiegel . . . .
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June 22, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's careful "wait and see" policy on Iran is a correct one.
As the Economist writes , Obama's "priority is to prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring a nuclear bomb. His preferred method . . .
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