MYANMAR SUBMITS FIRST ICJ REPORT AMIDST NEW ALLEGATIONS OF WAR CRIMES

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, conflict, ethnic cleansing, featured, genocide, human rights, humanitarian law, ICJ, international court, international law, justice, military impunity, Myanmar, refugees, Rohingya, war crimes.

by Lotty Clare

CW: article mentions ethnic cleansing, violence, genocide, torture.

“For decades, its tactics have intentionally maximized civilian suffering; we all know what they did to the Rohingya in 2017. They are now targeting all civilians in the conflict area, with people from Rakhine, Rohingya, Mro, Daignet and Chin communities being killed in recent months. Their alleged crimes must be investigated in accordance with international standards, with perpetrators being held accountable”

These scathing remarks about the Myanmar military are part of Yanghee Lee’s last statement of her tenure in the role as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

CHINA STRENGTHENS TIES WITH MYANMAR AS HUMAN RIGHTS FALL BY THE WAYSIDE

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Belt and Road Initiative, china, development, economy, featured, genocide, human rights, Human Rights Watch, ICJ, Myanmar, Rohingya, Uyghur, war crimes, Xi Jinping.

by Yali Banton-Heath

Chinese head of state Xi Jinping made his first official visit to Myanmar (Burma) on Friday, where he met with State Councillor and de facto leader of the country Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, and the Burmese military’s infamous commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Although it was Jinping’s first visit since assuming office, the occasion marked 70 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries and signifies a continued mutual desire to unite their economic and strategic interests. A total of 33 agreements were signed to speed up China-backed development projects in Myanmar and bolster the China-Myanmar-Economic-Corridor; a vital component of the wider Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. Both countries have track records of serious state-sponsored human rights abuses, and share an increasing disdain for, and distancing from the West. With the tantalising promise of economic prosperity, has China got Myanmar under its thumb, and will development come at the expense of human rights.Continue Reading

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arms trade, assad, complicity, conflict, daesh, democracy, ecology, ecosocialism, Erdogan, EU, featured, feminism, genocide, ISIS, Kurds, liberation, media, migration, MSM, PKK, radical, refugee, refugees, revolution, Rojava, Syria, turkey, USA Military, war crimes, YPG, YPJ.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Since Turkey’s aggressive offensive against Rojava, an area of North Eastern Syria, began early in October 2019, at least 160,000 Syrians have fled their homes. A BBC report from the 17th October states that airstrikes and ground attacks have killed civilians on both sides of the Turkey / Syria border and quotes a UNICEF estimate that 70,000 children have already been displaced. This is a tragedy for the Kurdish citizens of Rojava, as well as the broader Middle East, given what the Rojava political project represented. Continue Reading

ROJAVA: A REVOLUTIONARY VISION UNDER FIRE

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged arms trade, assad, conflict, democracy, ecology, ecosocialism, Erdogan, featured, feminism, genocide, ISIS, Kurds, liberation, PKK, radical, refugees, revolution, Rojava, Syria, turkey, USA Military, war crimes, YPG, YPJ.

by Yali Banton-Heath

It’s been over a week since Turkey launched a fresh military offensive targeting Kurdish forces in northeast Syria. The death toll in Rojava is rising, and an exodus of civilians from the area has already reached a mass scale. Conflict in Syria thus deepens, becoming ever more complex, with the Syrian regime armed forces now reported to have moved into Kurdish controlled Manbij in order to counter the Turkish invasion. But what has sparked this new wave of insurgency? What role does the US have? What are the Kurds fighting for? And what significance does this have for the wider global justice movement?

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged arrest, Bashar al-Assad, BDS, Diyarbakir, featured, Gaza, human rights, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, israel, Kurd, Kurdistan, occupation, Omar al Bashir, palestine, PKK, racism, refugee, RSF, Saudi Arabia, state terror, state violence, terrorism, Trump, turkey, UAE, war crimes.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

In April of this year, President Trump further demonstrated his ineptitude as world leader, and cemented his status as an intellectually defective moron, by designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Yes. Trump has designated a sovereign country’s state forces “terrorists” despite his single-handed destruction of the Iranian Nuclear Deal, wholehearted support for Israeli aggression and murder of unarmed Palestinians, and the fact that U.S state forces have unjustifiably slaughtered millions. The pot is definitely calling the kettle black. Continue Reading

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged compassion, Egypt, ethnocentrism, Europe, featured, France, iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, marie rose, nationalism, refugees, Syria, turkey, vigilantes, war crimes, xenophobia.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2012, over three million civilians have fled the country. The vast majority are currently living in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Libya. Afghanistan has been subjected to war for four decades resulting in Afghans comprising the second highest refugee population in the world, yet the vast majority of Afghan refugees live in Iran and Pakistan. This resettlement of Syrian and Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries is no anomaly: the majority of refugees around the world reside in countries neighbouring their own. These countries often have poor economies and fragility of peace and governance, yet they often accommodate millions of refugees.

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged air force, airstrikes, army, British army, CND, cold war, drones, ethics, Europe, F-15E, France, Goldsboro, Lakenheath, Liberty Wing, military, military presence, Nato, norwich, nuclear bombs, nuclear weapons, Nukemap, Pakistan, Palomares, RAF, Russia, Strike Eagle, Syria, uk, United States Air Force, US, USA, USAF, war, war crimes, Women of Greenham Common, Yemen.

by Zoe Harding

In my last piece, while blithering about the US Presidential Race, I mentioned that one of the reasons for my interest in the politics of another country was the continued presence of their nuclear-capable aircraft in the skies over my head. This week I think I should clarify that, and take a look at what the world’s largest and most ludicrously overfunded military is up to in our neck of the woods.Continue Reading

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MYANMAR SUBMITS FIRST ICJ REPORT AMIDST NEW ALLEGATIONS OF WAR CRIMES

CHINA STRENGTHENS TIES WITH MYANMAR AS HUMAN RIGHTS FALL BY THE WAYSIDE

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

ROJAVA: A REVOLUTIONARY VISION UNDER FIRE

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

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