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The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in Turkey, related by multiple victims in court hearings, reveal how the religious and ideological conviction of the Turkish regime nurtures a dangerous jihadist, xenophobic mindset in the country’s main law enforcement agency, Nordic Monitor reported.

Turkish women raise their voices against possible withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Amid the fear of Turkey’s possible withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, a Council of Europe treaty designed to prevent violence and domestic abuse against…

“I found it quite bizarre to hear the mindset that held, ‘You are prisoners of war, your possessions are our spoils, your wives, your daughters are also our wives, remove your [wedding] rings,’ because these are statements of the ISIS [Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] terrorist organization,” said Mehmet Sezgin, a 33-year-old first lieutenant who testified in court on December 12, 2017, revealing brutal torture practices at an Ankara Police Department sports hall that was turned into a makeshift detention site in the aftermath of a failed coup in 2016.

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Sezgin had worked in the intelligence section of the Gendarmerie General Command in Ankara, tracking jihadists including ISIS and al-Qaeda militants for years. Yet he was unlawfully detained with no charges, held at an unofficial site for days, tortured and subjected to the ISIS narrative of using women and girls as sex slaves in conflict. He is one of many who experienced the terrible ordeal while in police custody.

The victim statements, corroborated by rare medical reports and photographic evidence, have uncovered how the police officers who systematically tortured detainees often used the narrative employed by ISIS terrorists as justification for inflicting physical and psychological pain on their victims. The recollection of torture and abuse from dozens of victims at the site have also confirmed a growing worry that anti-Semitic and extreme nationalist views, encouraged by senior leadership, took a toll on the 300,000-strong police force in Turkey. Anti-Armenian and anti-Greek slurs were often used by the police in an attempt to vilify and demonize detainees.

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It appears the jihadist ideology, promoted by the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, helped torturers detach themselves from the reality of seeing their victims as human. In one case a senior general was exposed naked for everybody to see whether he was circumcised, while police were hurling anti-Armenian slurs. Strong anti-Semitic hate speech was directed toward the detainees, with the police often insulting them as ‘the seeds of Jews and bitches.”

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3 August 2020

In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from  five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.

At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.

I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties. I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. “I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.”??Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.

“No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin” said The New York Times front page on 13 September, 1945, a classic of planted disinformation. “General Farrell,” reported William H. Lawrence, “denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.”

Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the “press pack”.

“I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express  of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “an atomic plague”.

For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America’s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target – China.

During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.

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At least 1,200 disappearances reported across Latin American country since the start of coronavirus pandemic in March.

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Hundreds of women and girls have gone missing and are feared dead in Peru since a lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.

Peruvians strive to make a living amid lockdown (2:49)

From March 16 through June 30, a total of 915 people – 606 girls and 309 women – were reported missing, according to authorities.

Last week, Peru’s women’s ministry said 1,200 women and girls had been reported missing during the pandemic – a higher figure that included the month of July.

“The figures are really quite alarming,” Isabel Ortiz, a top women’s rights official, told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

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Almaraz nuclear risks: PAN lodges complaint against Spain to UN https://www.portugalresident.com/almaraz-nuclear-risks-pan-lodges-complaint-against-spain-to-un/ By Natasha Donn natasha.donn@algarveresident.com-30th July 2020 PAN, the party representing people, animals and nature, has formally lodged a complaint against Spain with the United Nations, following Spain’s extension on the functioning of its ageing nuclear power station at Almaraz (click here).

Portuguese party PAN lodges complaint to U.N. about Spain’s ageing Almarez nuclear power station — nuclear-news

Portuguese party PAN lodges complaint to U.N. about Spain’s ageing Almarez nuclear power station

Almaraz nuclear risks: PAN lodges complaint against Spain to UN  https://www.portugalresident.com/almaraz-nuclear-risks-pan-lodges-complaint-against-spain-to-un/  By  Natasha Donn  natasha.donn@algarveresident.com-30th July 2020  PAN, the party representing people, animals and nature, has formally lodged a complaint against Spain with the United Nations, following Spain’s extension on the functioning of its ageing nuclear power station at Almaraz (click here).

The risks associated with Almaraz have been making headlines for years (click here).

So has the perceived ‘inertia’ of the Portuguese government in tackling them (click here).

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Bolivia begins the week with a general strike against the postponement of the general elections

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On Monday morning, the indefinite general strike and the blockade of roads throughout the Bolivian territory began, at the call of the Bolivian Central Workers (COB) and the organizations that make up the Unity Pact, which require the Supreme Electoral Tribunal respect for the election date established by law for next September 6.

These pressure measures were approved in the council held last Tuesday, July 28, in the city of El Alto, to the epilogue of a massive march that converged in La Ceja, in which, together with the COB, the National Confederation of Indigenous Women of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa”, the Single Federation of Workers of La Paz “Tupac Katari” and other youth and neighborhood organizations.

The protests for democracy in Bolivia have a strength that was missing during the coup in November. This time, the national workers unions are formally mobilising their bases.

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According to reports received from different sectors of the country, several strategic points, especially in the western region of the country and in the area of ​​the valleys, have been taken over by social organizations, interrupting the circulation of motorized vehicles. It is estimated that in the course of the next few hours the blockade will be extended to most of the national territory.

The Bolivian Workers’ Center, by means of an instruction, called its affiliates and the Bolivian population to start with the blockade of highways nationwide and an indefinite general strike, starting at zero hours on Monday. The Red Ponchos of the Omasuyos province and its forty cantons announced the blocking of highways throughout its province and surrounding areas.

The Single Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB) reported that they join the mobilizations, as well as the FEJUVEs from the cities of El Alto and La Paz that asked the population to stock up on food because the blockade will be total.

The organizations of the city of El Alto announced for the first hours of this Monday, August 3, the blockade of the thousand corners, with which they intend to completely paralyze this city. Similar announcements have been made from the city of Cochabamba, where a radical compliance with the pressure measure is also expected.

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