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The Prawer Plan has been Cancelled

As we celebrate the Prawer Plan being scrapped, we understand that this victory is temporary.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - We've just received the welcome news from our allies on the ground that the Prawer Plan to forcibly relocate over 40,000 Israeli Bedouin from their ancestral lands is no longer under consideration by the Israeli Knesset.

The recent demonstrations on both sides of the Green Line, and throughout the world, succeeded in raising enough doubt about this plan to help take it off the table.

Israeli Knesset Member`s Blood Rejected in Govt. Drive Because She`s African

It happened after attending Mandela’s memorial...

(TEL AVIV) - The day after returning from anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa, Israel’s first Ethiopian-born Knesset member Pnina Tamano-Shata (Yesh Atid), had her blood refused in a government donation drive because she is African.

Volunteers at a Magen David Adom (Red Star of David—Israel’s Red Cross) booth set up inside of Knesset told Tamano Shata that she could not give blood because she is has “the special kind of Jewish-Ethiopian blood.”

Mra Raza Linn`s Racism Strike Again; Words Ignite Violence, Baby Dies in Fire

Rohingyas in Burma are under constant tyranny and persecution living in sub-human condition, worse than apartheid era of South Africa.

(SACRAMENTO) - Rohingya people in Burma saw another massive fire sweep through illegal Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.

It happened today at 2:00 p.m. Burma time In Ngat Choung (Keraggiri) IDP camp, Pauktaw, Arakan. A fire quickly broke out, it reportedly started in a kitchen and 42 shelters burnt into ashes, killing a small baby.

The First Rohingya Conference in the USA
`Stop Genocide and Restore Rohingyas Citizenship Rights in Myanmar`

Rohingyas are a stateless Muslim minority who are victims of systematic ethnic cleansing and state-sponsored slow burning Genocide.

(MILWAUKEE) - We are delighted to announce the First Rohingya Conference in the USA which will be held on December 14th, 2013 (12:30 pm to 7:00 pm) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

The Conference is jointly sponsored by the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) and the Rohingya Concern International (RCI). It is also co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hmong Diaspora Studies Program and Risale Center of America.

TNA Flexes Its Muscles

The Sinhalese Buddhist government of Sri Lanka committed an act of Genocide against the minority Tamil people in 2009; finally accountability may be nearing.

(MELBOURNE) - It appears the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is emerging on its own with a distinct policy. The days of appeasement are all gone. There will be no more raising of the Sinhalese flags.

Hopefully, no more keeping away from United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meetings on the behest of India. All these changes bring pleasure to the Eelam and international Tamils. 'Right or wrong, TNA is always right' logic should head for the rubbish bin.

Burma Times Editorial interview at Sahar TV2

No soul on the planet knows how many Rohingya people are disappeared and massacred in this fourth ethnic cleansing of Rohingya by state backed Burmese Buddhist radical monks and Rakhine extremists.

(FRANKFURT) - On 10th December 2013, world popular Sahar TV2 Insight hosted a show on editorial interview of Burma Times concerning the ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya ethnic minority in western Burma, Arakan, Rakhine state.

During the Insight Show of Sahar TV2, Our Chief editor of Burma Times Mr. Ibrahim Shah responded to the curious questions of the reputable Anchor of Sahar TV2 in accuracy according to what is taking place in the western part of Burma against Rohingya by Burma's genocidal regime.

SRI LANKA: Avoiding The UNSC For An International Investigation

There are several ways of avoiding the UNSC for a trial to commence against accused war criminals.

(LONDON) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) remains relatively new, formed in 2002, to address allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and serious violations of international law.

The Rome Statute remains the founding legislation of the court which expressly states the conditions required for taking up a situation for both investigations and trial. There are several ways in which this may occur and begin with the provisions detailed in Article 12 of the Rome Statute, all which require the concerned party to be a member of the court in some way.

Where is Palestine`s Mandela?

The last thing Netanyahu wants is a Palestinian leader who commands the respect of his people and will not accept crumbs from Zionism’s table.

(LONDON) - The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison.

Some months before his arrest one of Israel’s security agencies tried and failed to assassinate him. A missile was fired at his bodyguard’s car and killed the bodyguard. (If the attempt on Barghouti’s life had succeeded, his killers would not have been brought to justice because as well as bulldozing Palestinian homes and stealing Palestinian land and water, Israel kills, murders, with impunity).

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam`s (TGTE) 2nd Parliament Inaugurated

Group also elects Prime Minister and Speaker, while urging that Sri Lanka be expelled from the Commonwealth and to reject South Africa sponsored Truth & Reconciliation initiative.

(LONDON) - Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, which was formed after the mass killing of Tamils in the final months of the Sri Lanka war in 2009, completed its first Parliamentary term and inaugurated its second Parliamentary term on December 6, 2013.

The newly elected 112 TGTE Members of Parliament (MPs) met from December 6th to 8th in New Jersey in the United States to take oaths and to inaugurate the second Parliamentary term. Some MPs joined via video conference from Zurich, Switzerland.

Israel`s Isolation Grows as it Falls Out with Romania and the Netherlands

And there’s more to come. In January 2014 Israel can look forward to new EU guidelines banning the funding of projects linked to the Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank and the illegally annexed Arab East Jerusalem.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - It’s been yet another bad week for Israel. First, its loyal poodle Britain fired its first-ever warning shot, signalling that it may have just about had enough of the apartheid state’s deceptions and violations of international law.

And now, the Zionist entity has got into a diplomatic row with Romania, which has told Tel Aviv that it will not allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in the illegal, Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military radio reported on 10 December.