When we released this statement over Sri Lanka recently, I would never have imagined its global impact. What does it show? That a strongly-worded statement can have an effect and raise uncomfortable and necessary questions for an event that is far too keen to avoid the realities in dictatorship Sri Lanka. The latest: South African…
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So this is how Australia deals with its human rights obligations
Just how keen is the Australian government to send back hapless refugees to a rogue and illegitimate regime that can’t even maintain security in the capital? A plan to automatically deport failed Afghan asylum seekers from Australia has been condemned by a coalition of organisations and prominent experts. The Australian government reached an agreement with…
Fatah, US and Israel all conspire to kill independence
It just gets worse and worse. But really, what can be expected when one side of a conflict is funded, armed and backed by the occupier? One: British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents…
Israel’s special style of liberation on show
Amira Hass documents in Haaretz yet another atrocity committed by the IDF in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.
Blackwater helping us save the world
Look at what our world has created; mercenaries with government backing: Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there,…
London missed Palestine Papers explosion
Hello delusion, my name is Britain: Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the start of his three-day visit to the UK. They met for an hour at the Foreign Office. Afterwards the Foreign Secretary gave Foreign Minister Lieberman a tour of the Cabinet War Rooms. The Foreign Secretary stressed the…
Colombo’s love of killing
When was the last time Sri Lanka was serious about peace with its Tamil minority? Activists have accused the Sri Lankan military of manufacturing components for landmines while the government was involved in an internationally-sponsored ceasefire with Tamil rebels and receiving millions of pounds in aid for de-mining projects. The Tamil activists claim to have…
Israel’s contempt for law, any law
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s opposition leader: I was the Minister of Justice. I am a lawyer”¦But I am against law — international law in particular. … Law in general.
Goodbye jolly partition in Palestine
Strong Guardian editorial that peels back the two-state delusion constantly pushed by the political elites in the West: Gerald Kaufman once described Labour’s 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide note in history. If ever a set of documents merits this epithet, it is surely the one we publish today. Written by Palestinian officials, obtained by…