“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”
She said the resistance in central India was a fight against injustice and not a rebellion against the state as the government says it is. “The government is on the side of the corporates who want to take over the lands, forests, rivers, the traditional homes of the tribals. Operation Green Hunt follows the Bush doctrine of you are with us, or against us,” she said.
We have several evidence of the genocide and the war crime committed by the Sri Lankan government during the war against LTTE. In the following video, the sri Lankan government treats the dead LTTE guarders like animals and we have evidence for the usage of chemical weapons [...]
They blame the inevitable failure of capitalism on excessive borrowing and consumption. They find fault with the “have-nots” and have started drafting policies to exploit them more. Imperialism is a system that serves the powers that be. It has no connections with democracy.
Chennai, Dec. 13: Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister and Opposition UNP’s leader Ranil Wickramasinghe is in Delhi today for talks with Indian external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and other Indian political leaders.
On his way to Delhi, he told the Indian media at Chennai that if Sarath Fonseka is elected President, the Executive Presidency in Sri [...]
India puts new restrictions on air pollution levels ahead of Copenhagen climate change conference
The Indian government has newly notified National Ambient Air Quality Standards-2009 through its union ministry of environment and forests. The government’s announcement has come just ahead of the UN climate change conference to be held at Copenhagen. It remains to be seen [...]
Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his “fundamental rights have been violated” by judges who started without him.
The former Bosnian Serb leader, accused of masterminding atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, had boycotted the first three days of the trial. [...]
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms.
The case was brought to the European Court by Soile Lautsi, an Italian woman, after the courts in Italy had thrown out her case in a legal wrangle which began in 2001. Ms Lautsi originally launched the action eight years [...]
An Asian man has been cleared by a jury of racially abusing the white leader of the far-right British National party, Nick Griffin, following an incident in Burnley when he was protesting outside a police station. The jurors at Preston crown court deliberated for 45 minutes following a three-day trial, before finding Tauriq Khalid, 23, [...]
Martin, who declined to give his real name, was 10 when he was kidnapped by northern Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 1994. He escaped last month after 15 years in captivity and spoke to AlertNet about his experiences. Close to 2 million people were uprooted at the height of the conflict, one of [...]
The unfortunate death of the Vice President of the Human Resources Development Department of Pricol Ltd is regrettable indeed. Coming one year after the Graziano incident in Greater Noida in which the local head of an Italian firm had reportedly been beaten to death by sacked employees, it has evoked a lot of passionate comments [...]