SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #Save_Idlib, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, bombing, bombs, ceasfire, drones, featured, Hama, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Idlib, Iran, islamic relief, israel, Nato, propaganda, putin, raed al-saleh, Russia, saraqib, save idlib, state media, Syria, syria campaign, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, terrorism, turkey, UN, united nations, white helmets.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Children and anybody with a free spirit have become terrorists in the eyes of the world.” My Syrian friend and I are discussing the current situation in Idlib. We are both exasperated that the world is standing idly by as thousands of innocent people are murdered or made homeless. Idlib, a governorate in North West Syria, is often portrayed as home exclusively to terrorists and violent Islamist extremists. My friend’s reference to “a free spirit” is his description of the people who participated in the Syrian revolution: those who dared to demand a free and peaceful life including the right to participate in democratic elections and to exercise freedom of speech and assembly without fear of being arbitrarily detained, tortured, executed or otherwise disappeared into the Syrian regime’s nightmarish prison system.Continue Reading

ALEPPO: A TRAGEDY WE WON’T LEARN FROM

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Aleppo, Amnesty International, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CIA, cold war, Darfur, democracy, ethnic cleansing, human rights, Iran, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, media, media bias, Mujahideen, nationalism, obama, rebels, Russia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Syria, UN, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions genocide, conflict, death.

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Aleppo draws its last few timid breaths, the global community sits back and watches as four years of war, suppression and ignorance engulf an ancient city, certain to go down, alongside the likes of Srebrenica, Rwanda and Darfur, as an abject failure of Western governments to fight the oppression of human rights and democracy that they have so carefully and vocally pronounced their desire to protect. Continue Reading

COLD WAR MARK II: UNNECESSARY, AVOIDABLE, AND A CHALLENGE TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aleppo, arms, baltic states, barack obama, cold war, cold war mark 2, Crimea, defence, Eastern Europe, ideology, international relations, leninism, liberal capitalism, marxism, middle east, military, national interest, Nato, nuclear weapons, obama, power, putin, relations, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, US, USA, Vladimir Putin, West, western powers.

by Oliver Steward

Today in international relations we are witnessing a return to a new Cold War between Russia and the West. However, this Cold War Mark II is avoidable, and has only been institutionalised by the actions of both the West and Russia to antagonise one another, and rejuvenate the old Cold War which ceased since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now in the second decade of the 21st Century it is here once again. This new Cold War is characterised by increased tensions between the West and Russia, with rhetoric particularly from the latter becoming increasingly aggressive, and the use of economic measures such as sanctions against Russia by Western powers.

The recent Russian bombardment of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo has done nothing to ameliorate the current diplomatic tensions, only deepened it. However two important qualifications need to be made about this new Cold War that makes it different to the Cold War of the 20th Century.Continue Reading

365 DAYS WITHOUT CHANGE — HOW THE ARTS AFFECT OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH CONFLICT.

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Aleppo, arts, aylan kurdi, conflict, desensitised, empathy, engagement, Greece, ISIS, media, Omran Daqneesh, photography, refuge, refugee, refugee crisis, Syria, syrian conflict, visual arts, war photography.

by Jess Howard

Content warning: this article contains upsetting images.

In 2015 I wrote an article on an image of a Syrian child’s lifeless body being lifted out of the sea on a beach close to a Turkish resort. The photograph shocked people around the world at the time. It demonstrated the severity of the Syrian conflict, as the child in the photograph, and his family along with him, had been attempting to travel to Greece to seek refuge. September sees the anniversary of the photograph being taken, but how have our attitudes to photography and conflict changed in the past year?Continue Reading

AN ORDINARY DAY

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #prayersforbrussels, #readwomen, Aleppo, Alessandra Racca, ambivalence, an ordinary day, Ankara, bomb, bombings, brussel attacks, Brussels, death, family, grand bassam, headlines, Hilla, italian, italian women, italian women in translation, life, loss, Maiduguri, media, people, peshawar, poem, poetry, prayers for brussels, suicide attacks, terror, terrorism, translation, women, women writers, write, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Alessandra Racca (1979-), ‘Un giorno qualunque’

In the match
between what we call good
and we despise as evil
today a bomb will make noise
smoke will assault the eyes
scattering shards on screens
and people
a woman’s tears
will stand stillContinue Reading

EAGLES OF DEATH

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged #DontBombSyria, #SyriaVote, Aleppo, army, Bataclan, bomb, bombings, creative writing, daesh, Damascus, david cameron, family, jeremy corbyn, poem, poetry, response, soldiers, Stevenage, Syria, terror, war.

by Chris Jarvis

The skies over Damascus are silent tonight
as the Eagles of Death whistle through the air
and the Bataclan looks on, betrayed and manipulated.
A weeping cloud dampens the scarred earth with tears
and little splatterings of embers dance amongst the rubble.Continue Reading

Aleppo

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

ALEPPO: A TRAGEDY WE WON’T LEARN FROM

COLD WAR MARK II: UNNECESSARY, AVOIDABLE, AND A CHALLENGE TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

365 DAYS WITHOUT CHANGE — HOW THE ARTS AFFECT OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH CONFLICT.

AN ORDINARY DAY

EAGLES OF DEATH

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