Violence

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• Afghanistan: The Taliban May Pretend to Show Moderation, But the Murderous Reality is Far Different
  24 August 2021, by siawi3

  It was Mazari, the murdered Hazara Shia leader, who advocated a federal Afghanistan with the different regions of the country enjoying extensive autonomy. His fate at the time and the immediate blowing up of his statue a quarter of a century later indicates that the Taliban are no more interested now in his solution to Afghanistan’s permanent civil war than they were when they killed him.

• Afghan journalists tell of Taliban beatings after covering protests
  17 September 2021, by siawi3

  Two Afghan journalists were left with ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban enforcers for covering a protest in the Afghan capital.The pair were picked up at a demonstration on Wednesday and taken to a police station in the capital, where they say they were punched and beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips after being accused of organising the protest.
  “One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete. They kicked me in the head [...] I thought they were going to kill me.”

• USA: 50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’
  19 September 2021, by siawi3

  “With the exception of Indian massacres in the late 19^th century, the State Police assault which ended the four-day prison uprising was the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War.” What happened in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter is too painful to fully describe. Prisoners were stripped naked, beaten, made to run through gauntlets of guards and brutally tortured. Guards stormed into the yard chanting “white power.”

• Inceste en France : la plateforme lancée mardi a reçu des centaines d’appels en quelques heures
  22 septembre 2021, par siawi3

  Les travaux de la Ciivise ont commencé en mars, dans le sillage de la publication de « La familia grande », de Camille Kouchner, qui accusait son beau-père, le politologue Olivier Duhamel, de viols sur son frère jumeau. Le livre de la fille de l’ex-ministre Bernard Kouchner avait provoqué une onde de choc, entraînant des milliers de témoignages sur les réseaux sociaux sous le mot-dièse #MeTooInceste.

• WHY THE HAZARAS ARE LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
  27 September 2021, by siawi3

  The Hazaras, who now make up an estimated nine percent of Afghanistan’s population, have historically faced prejudice, mistreatment and violence in Afghanistan. But things relatively improved for them after the collapse of the Taliban rule in 2001.

• Pakistan: Hazaras’ suffering
  4 October 2021, by siawi3

  As takfiri ideology proliferated over the last decades and Balochistan became a melting pot for all manner of militant outfits, the Hazaras were subjected to barbaric violence, including suicide bombings and targeted killings. Livelihoods, educational opportunities were eviscerated as the community, in a desperate attempt at security, isolated itself within two barricaded ghettoes in Quetta — open-air prisons, stepping outside of which can still mean a death sentence.

• Pakistan: Appeasing butchers
  4 October 2021, by siawi3

  What gives the PM the right to forgive TTP? Who will guarantee peace and security to citizens once those who believe in violence to achieve their aims are allowed to roam free?

• The far right - UK far right promoting sexual violence against women, report finds
  4 October 2021, by siawi3

  The report reaffirms the far right’s support of strongly patriarchal gender norms that have long been integral to far-right politics.

• Press Freedom Groups to Convene People’s Tribunal on Murders of Journalists
  5 October 2021, by siawi3

  “Since 1992, more than 1400 journalists have been killed, and in eight out of 10 cases where a journalist is murdered, the killers go free.” “The role of the tribunal is important to seek justice for these courageous journalists, but it also gives family members and colleagues an opportunity to speak up and share their own stories and the impact of these brutal murders.”

• India: Attack on christians
  5 October 2021, by siawi3

  None of the state’s major newspapers covered the crime, and India’s East zone English and Hindi media majors did not deem it important enough. A minor crime in India’s Badlands, where targeted violence, sharpshooter gangs and paid assassins have a free hand.

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