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Indonesia: Fundamentalism kills!
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Sri Lanka: Presidential Pardon for a Man Convicted for Mirusuvil Massacre Promotes Militarisation
31 March, by siawi3By granting the presidential pardon to Sergeant R.M. Sunil Rathnayake, power has been abused and justice has been forsaken. In a country where military perpetrators have rarely been held to account, leading ethnic distrust to fester into war, the President has granted a pardon to one of few men actually held accountable by our nation’s highest court. His pardon is a direct challenge to judicial independence and will result in the further erosion and loss of confidence in the Sri Lankan justice system among war-affected communities.
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With CAB, India Mirrors Israel
30 March, by siawi3Setting into action the Sangh Parivar vision of apartheid. India’s proximity to Israel does not only translate into trade and arms deals, but in mirroring Israel’s policies and methodologies.
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India’s citizenship bill and lessons from Nazi Germany
30 March, by siawi3The RSS ideologue puts it out in crystal clear terms: “….the foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment – not even citizen’s rights.”
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Africa: How jihadists struck gold in Africa’s Sahel
30 March, by siawi3As al Qaeda and Islamic State expand in Africa, hundreds of gold mines are bringing a billion-dollar trade within their reach.
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Afrique : Comment le djihad armé se diffuse au Sahel
30 mars, par siawi3Au plan politique, le « succès » des djihadistes tient dans leur capacité à faire percoler des griefs collectifs hétéroclites. Ils arment, littéralement, les clivages locaux existants, préalablement exprimés de manière non violente ou restés silencieux du fait d’un rapport de forces défavorable, puis les re-labellisent en tant que djihad armé. Ils utilisent souvent la coercition et l’intimidation.
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France : Laïcté, Quand, en pleine pandémie, le conseil scientifique préconise le « soin pastoral » !
30 mars, par siawi3Le terme de « représentant » des cultes est déjà insupportable dans une République laïque, qui ne connaît que leurs « responsables ».
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India: Covid-19: Cops beat up bank employee, delivery boys and even a fire fighter!
29 March, by siawi3People employed in essential services, for whom reaching their place of work was important, such as banks or other government services as also delivery persons who need to deliver essential goods to people’s homes have faced some serious hardships in their encounters with the police.
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India: Citizens from North East State ostracized and threatened
29 March, by siawi3Accused of being Chinese and spreading Coronavirus, people from North Eastern states heckled and harassed in Mumbai
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En Inde, les intellectuels muselés par les nationalistes hindous
29 mars, par siawi3Depuis son arrivée au pouvoir en 2014, le premier ministre Narendra Modi et ses partisans mènent, au nom de « l’hindouité », une guerre sans relâche contre les universitaires, écrivains, journalistes, activistes et artistes indiens.
