Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) – In the world’s largest democracy, people are shot to death on mere suspicion. For half a century, the population of Manipur State in northeast India has suffered from [...]
PERU: Courts Move Closer to Clarifying Accomarca Massacre
August 27, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, August 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 27 (IPS) – ”They entered the village and called all the peasants together, tortured them to make them say who were terrorists, and killed them because they didn’t talk,” testified [...]
COLOMBIA: International Criminal Court Scrutinises Paramilitary Crimes
August 27, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, August 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Aug 27 (IPS) – The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor ended a three-day visit to Colombia Wednesday, where he has been investigating who is ultimately responsible for the human rights [...]
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Paramilitarism Alive and Well
April 1, 2008 By
Global Politics Online April 1, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Apr 1 (IPS) – “If their slogan was land, dignity and peace, this time it will be terror, murder and hell,” said a threat sent to human rights defenders and trade unionists who took part in [...]
Q&A: ”We Are not Subversives, and We Demand Respect”
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Judith Henríquez Acuña interviews indigenous leader DANIEL PIÑACUÉ VILLA RICA, Colombia, Oct 24 (IPS) – Colombian President Álvaro Uribe admitted that the security forces opened fire on indigenous protesters in the southwestern province of Cauca, but [...]