He is the son of the departed journalist Selina Perveen. “My sorrows know no bounds but if I live to see the war criminals are tried, the killers of my mother are punished, I know the soul of my mother will rest in peace”… Shanta Sultana “The war criminals were […]
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In Mexico: “A monument to violence, not a memorial”
As the war on drugs in Mexico results in an ever greater death toll, now on top of this comes the controversy unleashed by the initiative to create a monument to the victims of the violence, on military territory.– – Lorena Liquete – At his inauguration as president in 2006, […]
Natives in Colombia don’t want the Army in their territory
Tired of asking armed combatants to keep them out of the internal conflict, the indigenous population of Cauca have decided to expel the the Army based on the Berlin Hill, as well as the guerillas that are fighting over the territory. The media have blamed the indigenous peoples, and distorted […]
Witty, rape and impunity
“Women Against Rape” reveals the case of a man who was reported on three separate occasions for raping women and it wasn’t until the fourth victim that he was finally tried. _ Brian Witty went 17 years (from 1996 until 2011) raping and sexually attacking different women without being arrested. […]
Weapons in Switzerland: where every citizen is a soldier
It last fought in an international conflict in 1815, and has since become famous for its neutrality. Today it possesses one of the highest rates of the European continent for possession of firearms, and the number of suicides via these means. Switzerland: Armed to the Teeth. Jorge Hernández Álvarez Contrary […]