Archive for the ‘Hate Crimes’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported.
The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining district on July 30. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters today the rebels blocked a key road during the raping and looting spree.
The eastern Congo is known as the “rape capital of the world” where savage mobs use sexual violence to subdue the population and vie for control of the “conflict minerals” used to make cell phones and laptops around the world.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
By REUTERS
Published: July 30, 2010
A South African court ordered four white former students on Friday to pay a fine of $2,720 each for a video they made humiliating black university employees. The case has prompted bitter protests that racism remains entrenched in South Africa more than a decade after the end of apartheid-era rule. The court also imposed a six-month jail term suspended on the condition of good behavior for five years. The men had pleaded guilty to charges of illegally and deliberately injuring another person’s dignity.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Matthew Kalman
JERUSALEM (July 28) — As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for incitement to genocide and the brutal repression of their own citizens.
The Responsibility to Protect Coalition, chaired by former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and supported by a who’s who of international law experts, says the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “a clear and present danger to international peace and security … and to its own people.”
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
By Guillaume Lavallee (AFP) – 4 days ago
KHARTOUM — Two German aid workers kidnapped in June when gunmen swooped on their offices in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region were freed on Tuesday and are in good health.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced their release in Berlin.
“Both men… will be brought to Khartoum in the course of the day. They are well, considering the difficult circumstances,” he said.
The men work for Technische Hilfswerk (THW), the disaster relief arm of the German interior ministry. The foreign ministry gave no details on the circumstances surrounding their release.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
July 28, 2010 (WASHINGTON) — The heads of states who attended the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala this week decided to take a more radical approach towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and adopted a final resolution that stresses non-cooperation with the Hague tribunal and also condemned the conduct of its prosecutor.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Gallery
Teens learning history’s lessons are reminded that “racism and anti-Semitism are really alive and well,” program manager Arthur Brown says.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 25, 2010 When Wendy Holland heard that a security guard was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last June, she didn’t think much of it. She saw the clip on the evening news and went back to life as a 17-year-old in Prince George’s County: advanced classes, sports practices, hanging out with friends–
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Posted in Doing the Right Thing, ETHICS, Education, Hate Crimes, Heroism, Human Rights, In Memoriam, Museums and Memorials, Student Projects, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | No Comments »
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, July 22, 2010; 9:54 AM
BEIJING — The New York-based group Human Rights Watch, in a report released Wednesday, said Chinese security forces used “disproportionate force” against peaceful, unarmed protesters and “acted with deliberate brutality” in suppressing widespread rioting in Tibet in March 2008.
The 73-page report accuses the security forces of engaging in “a pattern of deliberate brutality” against the protesters, and then systematically torturing detainees in prison while seeking evidence that exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was behind the uprising. Human Rights Watch accused China of violating international law in quelling the protests.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
The swastika now shows up so often as a generic symbol of hatred that the Anti-Defamation League, in its annual tally of hate crimes against Jews, will no longer automatically count its appearance as an act of anti-Semitism.
“The swastika has morphed into a universal symbol of hate,” said Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization. “Today it’s used as an epithet against African-Americans, Hispanics and gays, as well as Jews, because it is a symbol which frightens.”
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
(AFP) – Jul 9, 2010
OTTAWA — A Bangladeshi immigrant who called for “the slaughter of Jews” in online postings has become the first person to be charged with promoting genocide in Canada, police said Friday.
Salman Hossain, 25, who apparently left the country in May, was charged with five counts of promoting hatred and advocating or promoting genocide over postings on his website and blog, as well as on a third-party website, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said.
He “wilfully promoted hatred and advocated genocide of the Jewish community,” said a statement.
Until now, Canada has only prosecuted suspects accused of mass atrocities abroad, in countries such as Rwanda. The Canadian government has also deported war crimes suspects to be tried in foreign courts.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
By Richard Johnson / June 28, 2010
Kigali, Rwanda
Arrogance, ignorance, and indifference to African victims of genocide have long been hallmarks of Western treatment of Rwanda. The US government should take care not to perpetuate this unfortunate tradition in the run-up to Rwanda’s presidential election in August and fan ethnic tensions in Rwanda.
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Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire poses at her home, on April 7 in Kigali in Rwanda. Ingabire was arrested for collaborating with a terrorist organization and other genocide-related accusations. She is currently released on bail.
Bertrand Guay/AFP/Newscom
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton admonished the Rwandan government on June 14 for its legal prosecution of “opposition figures” and “lawyers,” which she called political actions that should be reversed. Whoever drafted and vetted the secretary’s comments did her, and Rwanda, a disservice.
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