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MYANMAR: USDP Appears Divided as Rift Between President and Party Chairman Widens

Thein Sein and Shwe Mann are both former military regime generals and members of the military-backed USDP.

(RANGOON) - A spokesman of President Thein Sein has rejected remarks by USDP Chairman Shwe Mann, who has said that Thein Sein would not run for another term in office in Burma’s 2015 elections, local media report.

The public disagreement is the latest sign of an apparent rift within the USDP leadership.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

My aim is to create a peaceful environment in the society and to help eliminate human rights violation / persecution through my writing as I bring the plight of those brave people under the spotlight of the whole world.

(ISLAMABAD) - Doing journalism in the country like Pakistan, which is dominated by Muslim religious extremists, is not easy, especially when you write about religious minorities.

Pakistan is ranked the third most dangerous country for reporting, and also has one of the highest numbers of journalists threatened, kidnapped and killed.

Facts Do Not Cease to Exist Because They are Ignored

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche

(WASHINGTON DC) - Many have researched, conducted interviews, mapped the area and even written many reports on the assassination of former President Habyarimana of Rwanda and former President Ntaryamira of Burundi whose plane was shot down by a surface to air missile on April 6, 1994.

The French crewmembers as well as both Presidential aides were killed as the plane crashed to the ground on the very land where former President Habyarimana’s house resided. His own son watched the event happen while lounging at the pool. Body parts were scattered among the wreckage...

Sri Lankan Army Chief Unwittingly Admits Committing War Crimes

Army Commander also issues a public warning from the former war zone, that his troops would have no hesitation but to repeat such crimes if separatism rises again in the country.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - Inadvertently confirming that his troops have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the name of wiping out the Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake has said earlier this week that the entire “world has been exhibited the way in which we defeated” the 30-year long separatist armed struggle in the island nation in May 2009.

Army Commander Ratnayake’s controversial speech has come just weeks after the electoral victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the north...

One Minute to Midnight

We, the Palestinians, despite our lack of armies and resources, have been trying in vain to bring this destructive machine to a halt.

(LONDON) - The fast train that has been hurtling through our blighted land for the last hundred years is gathering momentum and reaching its final destination. Palestine. A Jewish state with no place for any Palestinian in it.

This tragic journey has continued unchecked and unhindered despite many UN resolutions over many years calling it illegal and against all known international law and conventions. Yet it thunders on.

Electoral Injustice- Minorities Waiting for Reformation

Pakistan United Christian Movement rejects the proposed electoral system for the Non-Muslims in upcoming the local government elections...

(ISLAMABAD) - Check out the biggest leftist hypocrisy in Pakistan, remarkably highlighted by Albert David Chairman Pakistan United Christian Movement.

In political terms the local governments are known as the nursery of politics where new entrants to politics get trained, gain experience and take bigger strides to play their role at the National level. However It appears that by introducing two different electoral systems for Non-Muslims in the upcoming local government elections they are being made victims of yet another political injustice.

Jerusalem the Red Line

Hamas chief calls for massive armed resistance to protect it...

(LONDON) - The other day Hamas's political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for "criminalizing armed resistance".

He claimed that, by dropping the armed resistance option, Arab States and the PA had lost the ability to deter Israel and its never-ending violations.

The Serpent and the Red Line

“Our only path to liberation is resistance, and saving Jerusalem…We need to take a clear stance, Jerusalem is a Red Line. Jerusalem is the soul of the cause” (Khaled Meshaal, Hamas political bureau chief).

(LAVERNE, CA) - The first warning we had concerning the nature of a Red Line came from the Serpent (read Satan) that leered enticingly from Yahweh’s Tree of Good and Evil as Eve sauntered near.

He knew the nature of G-d’s creatures; he knew that if he were to conquer G-d he must open Eve’s and Adam’s eyes to their true nature, the depraved nature that rules by arrogance, treachery, hubris and power.

Peace Now: Settlement Construction Surges in First Half of 2013

There was a 70% increase in construction starts (the start of new units) in settlements compared to the same period in 2013.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today the Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report documenting a surge in settlement construction during the first half of 2013.

The report contradicts the popular narrative that settlement construction in the West Bank slowed during the run-up to the re-start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. In reality, the period of January-June 2013 saw a huge increase in construction compared to the same period in 2012. The details of the report are summarized below.

Oh! Africa

Oh! Africa, how many sins
Have been committed in your name
For the sake of keeping our tyrants
Unaccountable for their evil deeds?

(UGANDA) - Now that we ceased to give recognition
To ICC that only targets “our statesmen”
Why shan’t we also do away?
With our own kangaroo courts

Notorious for their selective justice
By only targeting small time crooks
While turning a blind eye
To big time corrupts