Violence

Articles

• Tunisie : Interview avec la veuve de Chokri Belaïd, leader de la gauche tunisienne assassiné
  4 juin 2013, par siawi3

  Le point sur l’enquête sur l’assassinat de Chokri Belaïd ; les espoirs pour la Tunisie.

• India: Protect the Right to Dissent
  6 February 2016, by siawi3

  This attack appears to have been planned and pre meditated, carried out by lumpen goons under the leadership of the BJP MLA Kanwar Lal Meena. Video footage of the attack clearly shows the BJP MLA from Aklera, inciting his compatriots while mercilessly beating activists himself, as they were engaging with the public at a popular market place. Victims include noted theatre and social activist Shankar Singh. Women were also manhandled and beaten, cameras and vehicles were reportedly smashed, and onlookers terrorized.

• Turkey: Mind numbing violence in a country where even “insulting President” is a crime
  27 February 2016, by siawi3

  The violence unleashed against political opponents and civilians, and the crackdown on every form of dissent by Turkey’s ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) in the last 18 months is thought shattering.

• Iran’s Hard-Line Press Adds to Bounty on Salman Rushdie
  24 February 2016, by siawi3

  A group of hard-line Iranian news media organizations says it has raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of the British novelist Salman Rushdie.

• USA: Across the nation, priest sexual abuse cases haunt Catholic parishes
  12 September 2017, by siawi3

  Nearly 100 lawsuits with stunning accusations against some of the most revered men on Guam – the priests -, sometimes decades after evidence of the crimes first emerged..

• Turquie : Attentats et massacres, le quotidien du pays...
  2 mars 2016, par siawi3

  Dix jours après la fin des opérations contre le PKK dans la ville de Cizre (dont près de 100 000 habitantEs – sur un total de 120 000 – ont déserté la ville en quelques mois), plus de 170 cadavres, dont plusieurs dizaines brûlés, ont été retrouvé sous les décombres. Alors que le quartier de Sur de Diyarbakir est actuellement soumis à la même sauvagerie, Erdogan explique que les forces spéciales sur le terrain mériteraient d’être nourries au caviar...

• india: When media put a citizen’s life under threat
  10 March 2016, by siawi3

  The widely respected scientist, poet and film maker Gauhar Raza is under attack by media, calling him anti-national. Singling out of individuals and creating a mass-frenzy against them using the medium of TV is a dangerous trend.

• India: ’Curfew in the City’, The novella written by a police officer that the VHP put a fatwa on
  6 March 2016, by siawi3

  The Partition of India: how does one create a piece of fiction about a reality so horrible? Most of these writings emphasised the “magnitude” of the violence – the killings, the rapes, the destruction of property, the uprooting of populations. Only a small corpus explored the truly horrific – the casual betrayals, the meanness and cruelty in seemingly ordinary acts, the human capacity to routinise inhumanity – the evil in the “banal”. We must face the fact that “the enemy is us”.

• USA: Secretary of State Says Atheists, Too, Are Victims of Religious Persecution
  19 August 2017, by siawi3

  The State Department just released its International Religious Freedom Report for 2016 and Secretary Rex Tillerson marked the occasion with a speech that mentioned atheism as a reason people are persecuted in certain nations.

• Undoing the soul of democratic-secular India: The RSS pracharak Batra way - Cleansing of educational content
  2 August 2017, by siawi3

  If we find the Hindutva rulers facilitating the cleansing of minorities on the one hand, we find its ’professors’ working overtime to turn school education into Daronacharya’s gurukul where only interests and ideas of high Castes would be served

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