Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both the left and the right as well as the mainstream media, for calling US immigrant detention centers “concentration camps.†To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez has refused to back down, citing academic experts and blasting the Trump administration for forcibly holding undocumented migrants “where they are brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.†She also cited history. “The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II.â€
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USA: A Brief History Of US Concentration Camps
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France : Rayhanna, Rana H’ana (Rayhana, nous sommes là )
18 janvier 2010, par siawi2par Lalia Ducos
Oui, nous étions nombreux, 500 personnes d’après les journaux, à nous retrouver devant le théâtre des Métallos ce samedi 16 janvier. Oui, nous étions nombreux à montrer notre soutien à Rayana dont le courage face à cette horrible (...) -
Algérie : pour la 1ère fois islamistes contre évangélistes en Grande Kabylie
27 décembre 2009, par siawi2Tizi Ouzou
Affrontement entre islamistes et chrétiens
La wilaya de Tizi Ouzou a enregistré ce matin, le premier « affrontement » entre « évangélistes » et islamistes. En effet, ce qui était prévisible depuis quelques années, s’est réalisé à la cité (...) -
Un couvent vandalisé en Israë l
4 septembre 2012, par siawi3Des ultras de la colonisation israélienne mènent depuis des mois ce qu’ils appellent une politique du « prix à payer », qui consiste à se venger sur des villageois palestiniens, des lieux de culte musulmans et chrétiens des décisions gouvernementales qu’ils jugent hostiles à leurs intérêts.
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Bangladesh: Blood on our hands
23 April 2017, by siawi3We cry Islamophobia in foreign lands, but are perfectly happy to bully minorities in our own. To them I say: The murder of the freethinkers, innocent priests, and followers of different faith, the woes of the Santals of Gaibandha, the woes of the Hindu families of Nasirnagar – these are on you. Does that make you uncomfortable? It should. By God, it should.
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Bangladesh: Review: Year of horror for minority groups in Bangladesh
23 April 2017, by siawi3Several incidents of organised violence against ethnic and religious minorities took place in 2016. According to Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK) the reported number of incidents till November this year was 185 temples destroyed in the county and 180 homes ransacked and destroyed. The indigenous population has also been victim to communal and sexual violence this year with 24 cases of violence against indigenous women reported till June.
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Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia
27 November 2018, by siawi3The navy stopped the boat on Sunday and detained the 93 people, who said they had come from the Thae Chaung camp in the Rakhine State
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‘Purify’ or perish: the vulnerable lives of China’s Uyghur scholars
13 November 2018, by siawi3The crackdown on the “Uighurbiz†students form part an extended Chinese government strategy to root out dissenting views among Uyghur scholars, artists and intellectuals. Since the spring of 2017, the Chinese government has interned over one million Uyghurs in camps drawing condemnation from the United Nations, the United States and several human rights groups.
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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi: Amnesty strips Myanmar leader of top prize
15 November 2018, by siawi3United Nations investigators concluded that, while she was not complicit in the alleged genocide last year, she had failed to use her moral authority to help prevent the murder and rape of thousands of Rohingyas by the still-dominant army.
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IRAN. Toujours aucun homosexuel en Iran
16 May 2010, by siawi2Source : Le Monde, 5 mai 2010
http://iran.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/05/05/toujours-aucun-homosexuel-en-iran/
par Armin Arefi Tout le monde se souvient sans doute de cette mémorable phrase prononcée par Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dans l’enceinte de (...)