High court hears arguments over prosecution of Trudi Warner for holding sign telling activists’ trial juries of their rights Isabella Kaminski The prosecution of a woman for contempt of court for holding a sign reminding juries of their rights is not in the public interest, the high court has been told. During a hearing on […]
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from thefreeonline on 18th April 2024 by Al Jazeera|Gaza
Gazan families reoccupy destroyed Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza
Palestinians inspected damaged homes and salvaged usable items from the rubble of demolished houses. [AFP]
Palestinians have witnessed devastation as they returned to the northern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza after the Israeli army withdrew.
A Palestinian boy carries a gas cooker as he walks amid the debris of a destroyed building in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. [AFP]
Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced 85 percent of the territory’s population amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while most of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
”Polls show over 70% of frightened Israelis want NO RESPONSE to Iran’s symbolic massive drone and missile attack WITHOUT VICTIMS in response to the Israeli massacre in its Damascus Embassy. Israel’s allies refuse to back it in a revenge attack. Israel appears to have finally LOST IMPUNITY as Iran also destroyed one military base with hypersonic missiles”.
The health ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that at least 33,970 people have been killed in the territory during more than six months of Israeli blitz.
Palestinians returning to their homes were devastated by the extent of the destruction they saw. [AFP]
Emergency services continue to scour collapsed buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp for bodies after Israeli forces withdrew after a days-long incursion. [AFP
According to Gaza’s government media office, 75 people were killed, 348 were injured and 100 others went missing during the Israeli operation, in addition to the destruction of 13,000 housing units in the camp. [AFP]
The civil defence agency said heavy machinery is needed to extract bodies from the debris of destroyed buildings. [AFP]
Two-thirds of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed, said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). [AFP]
A Palestinian carries a bag as he walks amidst the debris in Nuseirat refugee camp. [AFP]
Search operations continue in the largely destroyed Nuseirat refugee camp. [AFP]
A Palestinian girl sits on a chair next to the debris of a building in Nuseirat refugee camp. [AFP]
from thefreeonline on 18 Apr, 2024 10:08 by HomeWorld News
Charities say authorities are clearing out homeless people ahead of the Games this summer. For many this is their second eviction
Migrants, Roma evicted from squats ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics,
French police have carried out a large-scale eviction at the country’s biggest squat in Paris, just 100 days before the Olympic Games are due to start in the city, local media have reported.
The squat, in an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, had been home to up to 450 people, including 20 children and 50 women, according to aid workers.
At least ten children reportedly attended local schools.
Images of the eviction on Wednesday rapidly spread across social media.
Footage showed officers forcing their way into the camp and examining locked rooms as they oversaw the removal of residents. Makeshift beds and furniture were seen on the floors and in the hallways of the building, along with abandoned personal belongings.
Evicted migrants gathered outside with packed suitcases, while others were seen boarding buses.
Activists have linked the move to the broader effort by Paris authorities to clear out migrants and others sleeping rough in the city before the summer Olympics. They claim the government has launched the campaign to make the French capital “more presentable.”
“The squat was the biggest in France. It doubled in size in one year because of the Olympics. Last year, authorities cleared out migrants from nearby the Olympic Village, and many displaced people came here,” Paul Alauzy of the NGO Medecins du Monde told the AP.
Alauzy, who is also a spokesperson for Revers de la Medaille (The Medal’s Other Side), a collective of charities and aid workers, said homeless people and squats have been steadily cleared out for the past year.
READ MORE: Migrants and homeless moved out of Paris ahead of Olympics
Aid workers have warned that the Olympics are affecting the most vulnerable homeless people in the Paris area as those evicted are not provided with longer-term housing assistance.
When asked about Wednesday’s evacuation, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said “it has nothing to do with the Olympics,” according to the AP.
Earlier, French authorities claimed that the recent relocations were the result of emergency accommodation centers reaching saturation, claiming that the measure is unrelated to the Games, which the media disputed..
from thefreeonline on by Ann Garrison at StuartBramhall.
“The genocide in Rwanda was 100% the responsibility of the Americans!” – UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
see also… America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide
The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention—as Robin Philpot explains in Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction . This book is a classic history, as important this year, the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, as it was upon its English publication in 2013.
At its opening, and in Chapter 7, “How is the Empire?,” Philpot quotes former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who said, “The genocide in Rwanda was one hundred percent the responsibility of the Americans!”
Well over a million refugees fled from Rwanda into Uganda, Tanzania, and Zaire at the end of the Rwandan Genocide.
He quotes Boutros-Ghali’s 1999 book Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga in which the former Secretary-General writes, “The US effort to prevent the effective deployment of a UN force for Rwanda succeeded with the strong support of Britain.”
The 1994 genocide took place three years after the Soviet Union collapsed and broke up into 15 independent states. The Cold War was over and the US reigned supreme economically and militarily, with veto power on the UN Security Council.
President Bill Clinton thus sent his UN Ambassador, Madeleine Albright, to systematically block any kind of UN military intervention to stop the bloodshed in Rwanda.
No intervention would be tolerated, even if the US did not participate.
Why not? Because the US wanted to see its imperial proxy, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by General Paul Kagame, seize power in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. It wanted to displace France and the French language and establish itself as the dominant power in East and Central Africa. It wanted ready access to the immense mineral wealth of Rwanda’s neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which Rwanda and Uganda would invade two years later. It wanted to destroy the strong state established by the Rwandan social revolution of 1962, which overthrew the feudal Tutsi monarchy. The RPF, who carried US interests and the English language into Kigali, were largely Tutsi aristocrats who had taken refuge in Uganda after that revolution.
The popular understanding of the genocide is that it was 100 days of bloodletting in which the country’s Hutu majority executed a plan to exterminate the country’s Tutsi minority.
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