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Chennai Event Challenges ICE Complicity in Tamil Genocide

Candlelight Vigil Event Organised by May 17 Movement

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Articulating right demands and slogans in Genocide Remembrance events is crucial at a time when the Eezham Tamils in their homeland are barred from even silently mourning their heroes.

They sacrificed their lives in the culmination of the genocidal war at Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal, one political activist from Jaffna said at the May 19 event at Marina beach in Chennai.

Is This the Best that Christianity Can Do?

The Holy Land needs advocates for the truth. “It is the truth, and only the truth, that will lead to peace and justice”

(LONDON) - When Israel launched Cast Lead, the horrific blitzkrieg against Gaza's Muslim and Christian communities in 2008, the strangest thing happened.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, joined Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in a visit to the former Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to demonstrate their joint solidarity against the extremes of hostility and genocide.

`Dictators Are Rulers Who Always Look Good Until the Last Ten Minutes`

Rwandans are very vulnerable in a country with a large number of political prisoners and the constant killings of friends and families of those who dare to question the system.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Rwandans are preparing to attend Rwanda day in London, UK.

The Rwandan high commissioner has been working around the clock in order to provide the conference hall for President Kagame to meet his vulnerable followers.

65 Years Ago: Massacre of Ein El Zeytoun

"The tragedy in Palestine is not just a local one; it is a tragedy for the world, because it is an injustice that is a menace to the world's peace" - British historian, Arnold Toynbee

(LONDON) - May 1st. Standing in front of the Foreign Office in the London sunshine I shivered at the memory of the massacre of Ein El Zeytoun 65 years ago.

Ein El Zeytoun, like Deir Yassin, and many other villages and towns in Palestine at the time, was wiped off the face off the earth.

Circumcision is a Push Towards Genocide

Why Genocides? (the psychoanalytical theory of genocide)

(PARIS) - Circumcision is a push towards genocide.

Of the thirteen genocides of modern times, twelve involved circumcised peoples on at least one side and three on both sides.

Rwanda`s Major John Sengati Assassinated in Gitarama, Rwanda

He was found with multiple gunshot wounds about the body and head. His car had been staged to appear so that it looked as if he was changing his tire

(WASHINGTON DC) - Rwandans are saddened by the death of Major John Sengati who was assassinated in Gitarama (appx 50km from Kigali) on May 10th, 2013.

John Sengati was a retired major, and ADC to Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa from 1993 to 2001.

Nakba Events in Palestine

Together we can stand up to Israel's racist and unjust policies.

(BETHLEHEM) - Fact: 7 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people and those who remain in Palestine are in shrinking "people warehouses"

You are invited to join important events held around the world for week of the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe of dispossession and ethnic cleansing).

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Gerald Caplan & the Rwanda Genocide Cranks

The ugly truth is that 'the world of genocide scholars' is much the very problem itself...

(WILLIAMSBURG, MA) - War and plunder continue to rip apart great swathes of Africa. The perpetrators are known, and many have been named and exposed.

The Pentagon, NATO countries and Israel continue to foment covert international guerrilla wars, while their proxy regimes continue to persecute and defraud their own people, even (at this writing) engaged in genocide.

Indian News Magazine Highlights Accelerated Sinhalization of Sri Lanka`sTamil North

Already 165 Sinhala families have been resettled in Kokkachchaankulam, which is to be renamed...

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Sinhalisation of the Tamil Homeland takes several shades.

One is land grabbing and changing the names of villages and roads. The next is replacing Hindu temples with Buddhist temples.

Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

"The deeds were monstrous, but the doer ... was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous." - Hannah Arendt, in a report in The New Yorker

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp in Poland—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This annual day of commemoration is to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.