Salem-News.com War Crimes articles Page 27

There Are No Half-Hearted Dictators

The dictatorship that predominates in the guise of the Executive Presidency is characterized by a singular inability to tolerate even the barest squeak of collective protest.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Times) - Dictators do not believe in half hearted measures. This is an essential lesson that Sri Lanka is now learning at a painful cost.

We were immeasurably too ignorant, too consumed by self interest or too stubborn to realize this until it was too late.

Tamil Militants in Prison in Sri Lanka - Are They Still Alive?

Sri Lanka's Controversial Menik Farm IDP Camp Closes- As POW's Remain Missing

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Very serious questions about captured Tamil Tiger fighters linger in the wake of the violent end of Sri Lanka's long-running civil war.

While it may never be possible to determine an accurate assessment of Tamil casualties, it may not be too late to save many who languish today in prison camps located in secured areas inaccessible to family or media.

I Dream of a Country

[Inspired by Meena Kandasamy’s ;  “I Dream Of An English”]

`In a Volte-Face, Jayalalithaa Started Supporting Tamil Eelam`

The resurfacing of the Tamil issue is due to the Eelam War which eliminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its leader Prabhakaran.

(CHENNAI, India) - The issue of discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka has recently led to strong protests against Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well as some pilgrims from the island nation.

Jewish Atonement but not for Zionism`s Crimes Against the Palestinians

In the view of this goy (me), Days of Atonement which ignore the need for Jews to be honest with themselves about Zionism’s crimes in Palestine are nothing but Jewish theatre.

(LONDON) - Yom Kippur, the Day Atonement, (25/26 September this year), is the holiest day in the Jewish year. On BBC Radio 4’s Thought for Today, Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, explained the significance of the day for Jews.

A (Former) Little Child Shall Lead Them

John Deegan and his group are something else. They're walking the walk.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FLA) - John Deegan of Dublin was abused as a child. Today, he's in the vanguard of a courageous group in Ireland who are showing the way for all of us.

For months, John has headed a group who have succeeded in holding meetings with Dermot McDiarmid, the Archbishop in Dublin and second Catholic poo-bah in Ireland after Cardinal John Brady.

A Wake-up Call - Stuart Littlewood

This is not an academic book. It’s a wake-up call, a snapshot of the situation in Palestine through ordinary westerners’ eyes.

(LONDON) - Irrepressible Palestinian children… But smiles of happiness may turn to tears of frustration when they grow up to find their dreams dashed in a country ravaged by decades of military occupation… where lands and resources have been stolen, education curtailed, freedom cancelled and travel made almost impossible.

How will they build a career or raise a thriving family?

Urgent Update from the International Common Law Court of Justice

No amount of repression can stop the wave of justice represented by the survivors of church terror who are now coming forward.

(BRUSSELS) - Hello again and welcome. This is September 17, 2012, and I'm Kevin Annett with the International Common Law Court of Justice.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office of our Court is issuing Public Summonses to thirty two officials of church and state around the world, charging them with criminal offenses and summoning them to appear in our court.

Gazan Children Suffer from Israeli Barbaric Siege: Ken O`Keefe

"I’ve met dozens and dozens and dozens of prisoners in Gaza and in the West Bank. Every single one of them has been tortured." - Ken O'Keefe

(LONDON) - The plight of the Palestinians once again calls our attention to the collective punishment, torture and post traumatic stress disorder of an innocent people under sanctioned occupation.

Press TV in its program Remember Palestine has interviewed Salem-News.com's Ken O’Keefe, former US Marine and activist for Palestine in London who is set to embark on a hunger strike himself in solidarity with the Palestinians.

The Never-Ending Horror Story - Sabra and Shatila 30 years Later

“I was carrying my one year-old baby sister and she was yelling “Mama! Mama!” then suddenly nothing. I looked at her and her brain had fallen out of her head and down my arm..."

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it.

The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago.