by Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout, 5 January 2012
Former Prime Minister Rasmussen. Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr
The defense ministry in the government of former Prime Minister Rasmussen is charged with withholding its knowledge of Iraqi torture from legislators when a copy of a 2004 inspection at Al Makil prison in Basra was sent to Parliament.
Uploaded to YouTube.com by AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 9, 2012
We examine the goals of the Occupy Nigeria movement as fuel subsidy protests continue to grip the country.
27 December 2011 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine
We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions around the Arab world and never looks back. On this anniversary we demand an international liberation movement that eventually leads to just that, liberation for us Palestinians from 63 years of brutal military occupation and ethnic cleansing that pours shame on any organisation or government claiming to endorse universal human rights.
We will never forget the hurt of 3 years ago, the criminal onslaught that we lived through, the blood of over 1400 murdered men, women and hundreds of children running through the streets of Gaza, between the rubble, soaking our beds and etched on our minds. We will never forget. For they are still dead, and thousands more are still maimed.[1]
We will never forget the last 63 years during which our land, homes, olive groves, lemon trees and cherished way of life was taken away from us, while Israeli soldiers held our fathers’ faces in the sands, imprisoned them, or shot them in front of us. We will not forget the sickening cowardice of the international community that has allowed and enabled this ethnic cleansing of our people, subjecting us to Israel’s racist Zionist vision that defines us, the indigenous people of Palestine, as the undesired ‘ethnic group’ for the region.
The US continues to ‘reward’ Israel with 6 billion dollars of tax-payers money while the EU increases its trade and diplomatic relations. For the Israeli apartheid regime this translates as the green light to unleash the 4th most powerful military on us to ‘do its worst’ against our civilian population, of which over half in Gaza are children and over 2 thirds are UN registered refugees.
by Ahram Online
At press conference in doctors syndicate, physicians say military violence and attacks against them by army and police during recent clampdown on protesters was systematic; demand respect for medical mission.
Doctors held a press conference at their syndicate on Sunday narrating stories of what they described as systematic targeting of physicians and Tahrir field hospitals during clashes between the military and protesters on Qasr El-Aini in December as well as Mohamed Mahmoud Street in November.
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Doctors did not only suffer from military violence on the field but were also tracked down afterwards, according to various testimonies. Doctor Ahmed Hussein, the physician responsible for documenting the numbers of injuries and deaths resulting from the clashes, was kidnapped and tortured. Another doctor said several physicians have received phone calls threatening that their families will be targeted if they do not stop aiding demonstrators.
Click here to read “We Are Targeted by Police and Army for Treating Demonstrators: Egypt Doctors”.
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