Mass killings

People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL)

People for Equality and Relief in Lanka — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:33:18 -0800

PEARL was formed in 2005 after a handful of volunteers worked in Sri Lanka and was exposed firsthand to the egregious human rights violations there. PEARL is dedicated to promoting a fair and balanced perspective of the conflict in Sri Lanka, providing U.S. policymakers with the often-obscured truth of the situation there, organizing constituents to foster positive change, and inspiring political courage in the midst of human rights atrocities in Sri Lanka.

Sudan: The Challenges of Peace

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:01 -0800

While the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur continues to rage, there are more hopeful signs for peace in the South and East of the country after the signing of two landmark peace agreements.

The first of these, the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ (CPA), was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement, formally ending one of Africa’s longest and bloodiest conflicts in which more than 2 million people are estimated to have died.

Weavers for Hope

advocacyproject — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:32:14 -0800

This is a film that profiles the carpet-weavers from BOSFAM. Many lost relatives at the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. To order a copy, email dcoffice@advocacynet.org.

Freedom from Fear trailer

ecatny — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:59:38 -0700

Trailer for the upcoming feature documentary about Aung San Suu Kyi and the courageous people of Burma.

Stop Cluster Munitions

The Hub — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:40:13 -0700

Cluster munitions are weapons that include cargo containers and submunitions. The cargo containers are fired, launched or dropped by aircraft or land-based artillery. The containers open over a target area and disperse large numbers of the submunitions that are designed to explode when they hit the target. Most of these submunitions are fragmentation weapons that include a shaped charge so that they are effective against soldiers as well as armoured vehicles.

West Africa: On the Edge of Hope

The Hub — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:26:54 -0700

Over the past 16 years, spillover conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and uprooted millions of people across West Africa.

Although the fighting has eased and there is now an atmosphere of hope – particularly in newly democratic Liberia, which recently elected Africa’s first female head of state – the security situation remains fragile.

Peace and Reconciliation for Northern Uganda

The Hub — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:12:22 -0700

For two decades the people of northern Uganda have suffered the effects of a brutal war between the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army, and the Government of Uganda. The Lord’s Resistance Army has targeted civilian areas of Northern Uganda resorting to barbaric tactics of murder, mutilation, rape, mass burnings of villages and camps, sexual enslavement, and abduction of civilians – especially children – as forced combatants.

Burma Monk's Body Found Floating in the Water (photo)

ecatny — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:41:56 -0700

Text from Hit Taing

Written by: A group of Burmese blogger
Date: September 27, 2007

Today is indeed an undeniably sorrowful day for all the Burmese people in Burma as well as for those Burmese residing in various countries around the world. On this day, we have seen inhumanely unimaginable act of brutality by the junta in Burma.

Massacre in Guinea Conakry, 2007

Sameer Padania — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:49:02 -0700

The clip shows the Guinean Army firing indiscriminately on a crowd of civilians who were demonstrating their growing discontent with the increasingly autocratic ways of President Lansana Conté.

王丹六四感想Wang Dang's thoughts on 1989 massacre ( Eng subtitles)

ecatny — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:24:56 -0700

Human Rights in China