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  • RUSSIA: Terrorists, hostages and double-speak

    Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow The number of dead and wounded in the Beslan tragedy was stunning, but so were the authorities' lies. They minimised the number of hostages and casualties. They said there were Arabs and "one black" among the terrorists.

  • East Timor after Alkatiri: nation or protectorate?

    Tim Anderson "We did not expect that the elected leader of a party with an overwhelming mandate could be forced to stand down in this way in a democracy." — Fretilin press release, June 26, 2006. Backed by a foreign army, and with his country's

  • ZIMBABWE: Army mobilised against demonstrators

    Bernie Stephens, Harare Army troops were used to retain control of streets of central Harare after demonstrators mobilised in support of a Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) day of action against poverty on November 8. Police were taken off

  • INDIA: Grassroots activists murdered, persecuted

    Eva Cheng Members and sympathisers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, who have been leading grassroots worker and peasant struggles have been under increasing attack in the states of Bihar and Assam. In the northern

  • BRITAIN: Radiation reached Britain from Iraq

    The February 19 British Sunday Times featured a new Green Audit report indicating that depleted uranium from the 2003 bombing of Iraq spread across Europe and reached Britain within nine days. Radiation detectors in Britain recorded a quadrupling of

  • SUDAN: Why Washington won't save Darfur villagers

    Norm Dixon On September 21, Salih Booker, the director of the Africa Studies Program at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations ruling-class think tank, argued in the International Herald Tribune that the US government has failed to

  • VENEZUELA: Peasants march against paramilitaries

    Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas The June 20 Diario Vea reported that more than 4000 campesinos (peasants) marched in the town of Guasdualito, in Apure state, near the border with Colombia. The protesters alleged that right-wing paramilitaries

  • PALESTINE: Marching through the horror

    Vivienne Porzoltz, a founding member of Jews Against the Occupation, and a member of the Australian Socialist Alliance, recently travelled to Palestine to take part in an international women's march for peace and justice. She spoke to Green Left

  • IRAN: Sth Korean nuke scandal stalls US sanctions push

    Doug Lorimer In his opening remarks to the meeting of the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on September 13, IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei said that Iran had made "some progress" in accounting

  • SRI LANKA: Attacks on Tamils escalate

    Chris Slee On June 17, troops from the Sri Lankan navy carried out a massacre of Tamil civilians hiding in a church in the fishing village of Pesalai. According to a report by Krishan Francis in the June 19 Melbourne Age, "Sri Lankan forces,

  • Amnesty critical of UN in Somalia

    Amnesty International has criticised UN forces in Somalia after receiving reports of killings and unjustified detentions by UN troops. AI says the reports indicate breaches of human rights. Hundreds of Somalis have been detained for short