"They arrest us if we use the mobile phone"
Guardian video documents Assad's crackdown
Human rights activist Ameera (not her true name) talked to the journalists of the British daily. "The struggle will take long, police killed many men, the relatives of the jailed people are scared of speaking, but protest doesn't calm down".
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Mass graves in Daraa
the town of Syrian revolts
Possible finding of 40 corpses, including the ones of women and children, in a mass grave in Daraa. So reported Radwan Ziadeh, activist of the Centre for human rights in Damascus. The Syrian government, who denies the existence of this collective tomb, seized the witnesses' mobile ohones and prevented journalists from travelling in the Country.
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Argentina's voice passed away
writer Ernesto Sabato died at 99
Writer Ernesto Sabato passed away at his Buenos Aires home at age 99.
During the Alfonsìn government he founded and presided the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas dealing with the inquiry and reports about the missing people.
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Obama: "We killed bin Laden"
US President announces death of Osama bin Laden
We report the full speech by which US Head of State announces the assassination of Al Qaeda leader.
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Trial to Andrei Sannikov opens
the Belarusian dissident risks up to 15 years
Start of the trial against Andrei Sannikov one of the candidates who challenged Lukashenko at the presidential ballots in past December. The regime of Lukashenko, who's on power since 1994, follows the footprints of the former USSR. In fact the Country's secret police is still called KGB and tries to prevent dissidents even from keeping closest family ties.
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Turkey demolishing Armenia statue
dedicated to the ties between the two Countries
Turkey started to dismantle a monument dedicated to the friendship between Yerevan and Ankara situated in the town of Kars, at the Turkish-Armenian border. This comes after a dispute started by Turkish prime minister Erdogan who had called it "an obscenity" placed besides the tomb of a Muslim scholar.
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Chernobyl victims honoured
25 years on
Russian and Ukrainan authorities commemorated the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Among the victims there were the liquidators who offered to clean up the area and a bunch of other brave men including Yuri Bandachevski and Vasily Nesterenko.
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Syria strategical for Lebanon and Palestine
world media analysis
Analysis and opinions by journalists, bloggers and dissidents about the Syrian situation which according to the BBC might "make Lybia appear peripheral". In fact linked to Damascus, where over 200 are missing, is an alliance "between Iranian regime, radical Palestinian groups and Lebanon's hizbollahs".
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The voice from Tunis
Lina Ben Mhenni, blogger of the Jasmine Revolution
Lina writes in her blog A Tunisian Girl by bearing witness to the protests and clashes in her Country and saying: "When you see the corpses of youths of your age you forget about everything and you don't think about your safety anylonger, but you only wish you could do everything in your power to stop the massacre".
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Eichmann trial footage online
so Yad Vashem commemorates the anniversary
50 years after the trial the Holocaust Memorial of Jerusalem features the broadcasting of the court hearings where the "banality of evil" was judged. The trial to Adolf Eichmann is also on stage in Jerusalem and shown in a Paris exhibition lasting until 28 September.
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"I don't fear death but only defeat"
farewell to Mo, voice of dissent in Lybia
Mohammad Nabous nicknamed Mo, founded the Bengasi-based Web-tv Lybia Alhurra. He was killed during broadcasting for trying to denounce Gaddafi's regime.
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On the head of the snakes
the difficult balance of Yemen, Syria and Bahrein
Out of the sight of the international community, some regimes are repressing opponents. It's the case of three Arab Countries where regimes keep on "dancing on the head of the snakes", as Yemen's leader Saleh is used to describing his increasingly awkward policy of ruling by dividing the tribes from each other In these political intricacies we witnessed actions such as the detenton of 15 children in Syria, while Bahrein is intimidating whoever dares talk to the foreign media.
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"I can't come back home"
Fukushima liquidators' e-mails
Director general of the International Atomic Agency Yukiyo Amano defined th situation as "serious and worrysome" and raised the alert level from 4 to 5. In the meanwhile 120 people are working to cool the reactors, aware that they will lose their lives for this.
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General Romeo Dallaire
at the Garden of the Righteous Worldwide
7 April 2011, 11.00 a.m.
Ceremony at the Giardino dei Giusti di tutto il mondo - Milan
piazza Santa Maria Nascente
(MM QT8)
Journalist and Solidarity exponent Konstanty Gebert presents the figure of the Blue Helmets General who tried everything possible to stop the Rwandan genocide.
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The 50 martyrs who try to save Japan
near Fukushima reactors
Fifty people are probably bound to die. They are the technicians who are working on the Fukushima reactors trying to bring them into safety. These workers are the only people remained near the plant and are exposed to an enormous dose of radiations.
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Fiddling while Lybia burns
editorial in the International Herald Tribune
Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, analyzes some common Western objections to paying a price to oppose Gaddafi's crimes against humanity: "It's not in our interest", "It will be counterproductive", "It won't work", "We don't know what we will get", and "Let's arm the rebels instead" and finds clever wayouts. Article inside.
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Virtual museum of the GULag created
pictures, videos and survivors's testimony online
Inauguration of a Website collecting 160 pieces of testimony, pictures and videos. It has been created thanks to the cooperation of Russian and Caucasian world's Research Center and Radio France International.
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Mgr. Oddo Stocco named a Righteous
with his parishioners he rescued 50 Jews
Between 1943 and 1945 Mgr. Oddo Stocco was the priest of the Italian parish of San Zenone degli Ezzelini (near Treviso) and he rescued about 50 Jews, by saving them from deportation.
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Chechnya, barehead women harassed
report by Human Rights Watch
Women not respecting the "Islamic dresscode" are targeted with aggression, assaults and threats. So warns Human Rights Watch, which demands the Russian Government to overtly condemn these deeds.
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
at the Garden of the Righteous Worldwide
7 April 2011, 11 a.m.
Giardino dei Giusti di tutto il mondo - Milan
piazza Santa Maria Nascente
(MM QT8)
We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will not leave you in peace!
Sophie Scholl was a university student who had the courage to distance herself from the Hitlerian regime, first ideologically and then concretely, through the White Rose association. She paid for her courage with her life, murdered following the report of a university porter.
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Six Gulag escapees
new movie by Peter Weir
Release of the movie The Way Back by Australian director Peter Weir. It tells about the dramatic runaway from Gulag of a Polish soldier with six captivity inmates.
The film draws inspiration from the selfbiography of Slamowir Rawicz entitled as The Long Walk.
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2011 Dusko Kondor Prizes assigned
in memory of the witness killed by the nationalists
Honours were bestowed on the figures of civil courage in the former Yugoslavia. IThe Prize commemorated the Gariwo coworker who was murdered in 2007 to prevent him from testifying in court about a massacre of Muslims. Inside you will find the motivations of the awards given to Josip Reilh Kir, Zlatko Hrvic, Sekul Stanic and Zoran Mandlbaum. Honoured was also Esad Kocan, journalist from Montenegro who sacrificed his career and family tranquillity to oppose ethnic cleansing.
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Feminism's global challenge
speaking with one voice
Guardian editorialist Mariella Frostrup took a fierce stance on International Women's Day: in the West "our struggle for emancipation and equality has been surreptitiously rewritten as a harpy bra-burning contest", but elsewhere in the world women must still achieve their basic rights. Press review inside.
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Divjak freed on bail
announcement from Austria
Update 9 March
The former general has been set free after payment of a 500,000-euro bail. The detention, a measure taken for the purpose of extradition, was revoked, but extradition itself is a matter of judgement for the Korneuburg tribunal, instead.
8 March
Austria refuses to hand over Divjak
extradition? "Unconceivable"
Le Monde discloses Vienna's refusal to extradite Jovan Divjak to Serbia. According to the chief of Austrian diplomacy Michael Spindelleger the Bosnian general's extradition would be "unconceivable".
3 March
Jovan Divjak arrested in Vienna
on “politically biased” Serbian warrant
Jovan Divjak, a former General of the Bosnian Army and an exemplary figure in the war in the ex Jugoslavia, was arrested last night in Vienna on a warrant issued by Belgrade and concerning alleged crimes committed in 1992.
As leader of NGO Gariwo Sarajevo, Svetlana Broz, pointed out in a phone interview, on that occasion he issued the "extraordinary" order not to shoot at a column of Yugoslavian soldiers, and is thus surely innocent.
Gabriele Nissim expressed his disdain for an arrest which is "unbelievable, hitting a man of extraordinary vision and humanity".
200 people demonstrated in Austria for his release.
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Pakistani Minister of Minorities killed
ha defended Asia Bibi, sentenced to death for blasphemy
After the murder of the Punjabi governor, tragic end also for Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Catholic government leader, a convinced advocate of interreligious dialogue who became a target of the fundamentalists in past December for opposing hanging of Asia Bibi.
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Echoes of 1989 in the Arab revolts
but Vaclav Havel outlines differences and risks
In an interview to Associated Press the former leader of the Velvet Revolution commented upon the upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa by recalling the collapse of the Berlin Wall. "Time is a key factor", said Havel pointing to the danger of "regimes worse than Mubarak's one".
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Armenians and Azeris
a difficult path to peace
On 28 February the world commemorated the Sumgait pogrom, a massacre of Armenians which marked the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijian back in 1988. While many observers fear a resumption of war, Armenia's Honorary Consul to Italy Pietro Kuciukian steps in to underline the importance of peace between the two peoples.
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"Rwanda wants to live on"
Gabriele Nissim interviews Yolande Mukagasana
The survivor to the Rwandan genocide tells about the building of a peaceful Rwanda 17 years after the worst atrocities. In the writer's opinion the Rwandan Righteous, including those who saved the persecuted and those who witnessed the truth against genocide denial, should be honoured in a Garden in Kigali. Video and Editorial inside.
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What's on in the Mid-east?
analysis and features in the foreign press
Revolutions and reforms, in the events which could mark a new 1989. The struggle for democracy and its difficulty to gain ground. Maghreb between Iranian danger and Turkish model. Women's rights. All Gadafi's and the denounciation of the Lybian Ambassador to the UN. Only bread or also freedom?
Article from the international press inside.
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Tales of Righteous people
the rescue of a 11-year old Jewish girl
The Kokotek family was arrested during the massive Nazi roundup in Paris in 1942. Only 11 years old Rachel stays alive, as she is hospitalized. Her daughter Fernande, who is only 4 years old, spends two weeks alone in a Nazi detention campo before being headed as well to the gas chambers. Rachel is taken care by Ms. Registel and the Voinot family.
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Ali Yahia Abdennour, a life of struggle
leader of the Algerian revolution
Ali Yahia Abdennour is 90 years old, he is a lawyer and he devoted his life to opposing injustice. He even managed to gather a wide opposition againt President Bouteflika.
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Dallaire, the unheeded witness
presented by journalist Luciano Scalettari
Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the blue helmets in Rwanda, tried many times to denounce the genocide without succeeding in stopping it.
According to Mr. Scalettari Dallaire is "a valuable witness of what happened in Rwanda and how it was prepared, planned, and scientifically carried out. And a key figure in the denounciation - which he is carrying on - of the events occurred in the course of the genocide and against all genocides".
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Mid-East protest on Twitter
interactive map
The Guardian features a map on which you can follow the latest Tweets on the revolutions in the Arab world.
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Biggest Shoah portal ever created
a Yad Vashem - Google cooperation
The national institute for Holocaust remembrance of Israel and Google will publish online the material hosted by the Jerusalem Museum. It is already possible to access more than 130.000 Yad Vashem photographs directly from the Google search page.
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19-year old blogger sentenced to 5 years
charged with spying by the Syrian government
Update 12 February
Tal al-Mallouhi, 19-year old Syrian blogger, was sentenced to 5 years jail for 'collaboration with a foreign Country', i.e. the United States, by the Supreme Security Court of Damascus.
30 December 2011
Syria, 19-year old blogger in jail
she talked about democracy and freedom
19-year old Tal al-Mallouhi has been detained since last December for publishing a poem against the lack of freedom of expression in her Country. Amnesty International launches a call for her release.
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Middle East, an eventful day
protest in the various Countries
While the Egyptian army gradually restores order and takes control of the situation, the other Arab and Muslim Countries witness new developments. Besides Iran there are upheavals in Yemen, Bahrain and Lybia. Main news with the videos of the clashes inside.
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"Let's hang Moussavi and Karroubi"
threat from the Iranian deputies
Update 16 February
The exponents of the majority in the Parliament defined the opposition leaders as "tools of the White house and the Zionist regime". Clashes go on in the square after the funeral of the young boy killed during the Monday protestsì.
14 February
Egypt reaches over to Teheran
chaos and clashes in the opposition rally
Thousands people are demonstrating in the streets of Tehran in the non-authorised rally of the Green Wave, which takes to the streets again in sign of solidarity with Egypt and Tunisia.
Opposition leader Moussavi is under house arrest.
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"Khodorkovsky verdict a farce"
says a court clerk
Update 15 February
Natalya Vasilyeva, spokeswoman of the tribubal and assistant of the judge working on the case, Viktor Danilkin, said in an interview that the magistrate never wrote the verdict and read it against his will.
27 December
Khodorkovsky found guilty again
protests outside the Court
Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have been found again guilty of fraud at their second trial. While the judge read the verdict hundreds people expressed their solidarity.
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"The blasphemous man deserves death"
Churches burnt in Indonesia
More than thousand Muslims have set alight two churches and assaulted an orphanage and a Christian medical unit. The rage of the crowd was unleashed by a verdict against a Christian, which was deemed to be too lenient.
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Foibe killings Remembrance Day
for the people thrown into the karstic sinkholes
The Foibe are karstic sinkholes where, from 1943 to 1947, nearly ten thousands Italians were thrown both dead and alive. The symbol of this tragedy is the Foiba of Basovizza, now a national monument.
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng beaten up
author of a shocking video about his detention
Chen Guangcheng is a blind lawyer who is serving a term for criticizing the violence of Beijing's birth control policies. Under house arrest, he shot a video about his situation. His case was dealt with also by Hillary Clinton after her past State visit to China. Following release of the video the agents surveilling his house have beaten him up and denied him healthcare.
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Hiding, sheltering and borrowing identities
a meeting in Jerusalem
From 19 to 21 December 2010 Yad Vashem held a conference discussing the issue of rescue in the Holocaust. A considerable effort was made to explore and redefine acquired knowledge about the Righteous among the Nations. Other topics include the moral mindset of rescuers and the fate of the saviours who faced punishment for their deeds. Abstracts available with original pictures of Jews and rescuers.
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Egypt, ElBaradei: "Let's kick Mubarak out"
demonstrators raise their shoes
According to an inquiry of the Guardian, the militaries would have flung themselves against protesters with arrests, torture and persecutions hitting hundreds people. The Army though also tries to show a human face and vows to call off state of emergency as soon as the protests will have calmed down. Demonstrators follow the opposition leader who promised to oust the President by the use of force.
is the Muslim Brotherhood a danger?
Debate inside.
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Sudan, secession wins with 98,83%
but worries about Darfur remain in place
Official referendum results have been published. Nearly 99% of the inhabitants opted for independence. The government in Khartoum reveals it approves of the decision, but there are some significant problems: violence, border quarrels, the oil issue and above all the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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The courage to oppose evil
G. Nissim and U. Radice at the Regency of San Marino
Gabriele Nissim, historian and Chairman of Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee, presented his new book La Bontà insensata. Il segreto degli uomini giusti (publ. Mondadori).
Ulianova Radice, director of the We For European Project, dealt with the topic WeFor Project. European identity and conscience on the Web. Teaching resources.
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If a novel's Jew scares the Arab world
article by Valentina Colombo
Last year the Yemeni writer Ali al-Muqri published his new novel with one of the most important publishers in the Arab world, the Lebanese Dar al-Saqi. Al-Muqri is known in the Arab world for his elegant style and civil commitment, but it seems that with his last novel he did something wrong: he put a handsome Jew center stage.
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Egypt, it's "Friday of departure"
waiting for Mubarak to leave power
Update 4 February
New demonstrations after the prayer. Mubarak is expected to leave. Crackdown goes on. Reporters are entrenched in Hotel Hilton. According to Le Monde the population is desperately looking for primary goods.
2 February
Bloody night in Cairo
ten left dead in the protest
Nearly ten people slain and over 1000 wounded among demonstrators gathered in Cairo's Tahir Square. Nobel laureate El Baradei asks the world not to support "a government murdering its own citizens".
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Comment on what happened
Egypt analysis by Tarek Heggy
The Egyptian writer compares his Country and Tunisia pointing out several similarities and wonders what is going to happen after the current street revolts.
For the translation we thank professor Valentina Colombo, editor and translator of the collection of Heggy's essays The Prisons of the Arab Mind.
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Crackdown in Belarus
testimony born before the US Senate
Freedom House Executive Director David J. Kramer testified yesterday before the Senate Subcommittee on European Affairs. Following the election, which was marred by irregularities according to observers from the OSCE and the U.S. Embassy, security forces arrested hundreds of activists, including seven opposition candidates.
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Egypt on chaos
Parliamentary activity suspended
Update 2 February
After the "million people march" judicial decision is expected on the legislative elections of November, challenged by the opposition. The army invites demonstrators to go back home and Internet connections were partially restored.
1 February
Egypt, one million people on the square
the army sides with demonstrators
Omar Suleiman appointed to tackle emergency, but the protest doesn't subside. Opponents claim "a true democracy with limited presidential mandates, against the Mubarak presidency and its corruption". On the Web the umbrella-organization of Nobel laureate El-Baradei, who now leads the whole opposition, the 6 April Movement and the movement "for change".
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Uganda, murder of David Kato Kisule
gay rights activist
The man was hammered to death after his name had appeared in a chilling list of the local magazine Rolling Stone pointing to the names and faces of a hundred Ugandan homosexuals with the incitation to hang them.
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After Tunisia Egypt
Arab peoples' quest for freedom
Humiliated by corrupt and violent power, young people rebel from Tunis to Cairo. They say no to the old regimes, but also to fundamentalist options. Politologist and Islam expert Mahmoud Hussein analyzes this movement for freedom in the pages of Le Monde.
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Anne Frank looking out of the window
the only video on earth showing the Dutch girl
For Holocaust Remembrance Day we propose a moving piece of footage, the only one on earth where you can see Anne Frank. Inside.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
world events not to forget the Shoah
Poem by Holocaust survivor A. Sinkova
I will take off and go alone
Where other people are, better people,
To an unknown place
Where nobody kills each other
Maybe many of us
a thousand, will reach the goal
Pretty soon.
Some of the initiatives to be held in the world for Holocaust Remembrance Day, established to remember the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.
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The Righteous saved the honour of Italy
message from the President of the Italian Republic
The Head of the Italian State has written to the President of the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee and announced that he will remember the participation of the Italian Jews in the "Risorgimento" in the Ceremony to be held at the "Quirinale".
We thank Marc Fermont for the translation.
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4th yearly report on Hrant Dink murder
published by the lawyer of the journalist's family
4 years ago journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead for advocating reconciliation between Armenians and Turks. In his inquiry, Attorney Fetyheh Cetin points to "the existence of a powerful apparatus and a mentality that only legitimizes the murder but makes impunity something ordinary". 2011 Hrant Dink Prize awarded to Prof. Marco Impagliazzo. Op-ed by politologist Zafer Yörük inside.
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Paying the ultimate price
the Ukrainan peasant who was killed by nationalists
Vasiuta Wegrzynowska was a poor widow who lived in the small village of Zahajpol in Ukraine. In the Thirties she worked as a hired hand for the Jewish Helper family. Maks and Henya Helper treated their workers very well, thus in 1943, when they desperately sought for a shelter, she helped them by hiding them in her home. At the end of 1944 she was murdered with her childen by a gang of nationalists.
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If Bouazizi reminds us of Jan Palach
revolts in Maghreb and the memory of Communism
Last December Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight in the capital of Tunisia unleashing the Jasmin Revolution. It is impossible, writes Antonio Ferrari in the Corriere della Sera, "not to see the similarities between Bouazizi and another hero, Czechoslovakian Jan Palach”. But "The democratic force of globalization" has yet to ensure a lasting freedom.
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Islam and the "Righteous among the Muslims"
article by Valentina Colombo
In Italian magazine L'Occidentale (The Westerner) the journalist states that, after the murder of Salman Taseer, the Pakistani governor who advocated the repeal of the blasphemy law, it may be right "to broaden the definition of Righteous among the nations to include all those people who risk their lives to help others regardless of their religious creed".
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Moshe Bejski, the judge of the Righteous
memories by Marc Fermont and Carmela Rubin
For Holocaust Remembrance Day Gariwo presents Il Memorioso, the show dedicated to Moshe Bejski, with two unpublished portraits of the founder of the Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem.
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Sudan, one Country or two?
60% turnout reached
Elections in Southern Sudan over secession from the rest of the Country. The vote, valid with a 60% turnout that was attained, was a condition of a 2005 deal to end the two-decade North-South conflict which witnessed gross violations of human rights especially in Darfur.
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Lebanese government collapses
the Country is facing instability
Update 13 January
Sh'iites and Hezbollahs toppled the leadership of Saad Hariri, the son of the Prime Minister killed in 2005, following the indictments of the International Court set up to investigate that murder. While verdict is awaited, there is growing fear of a renewal of civil war.
26 November 2010
Hariri case nearer the truth
masterminds' names to be revealed
On 10 December the Tribunal for Lebanon will make known the names of those who planned the former MP's assassination. From then on the Country's political crisis could turn into civil war.
23 November
Lebanon on the brink of a coup
after revelations about the Hariri case
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Mexico, poet Susana Chavez killed
she was a women's rights activist
The artist had coined the expression "Not One More Death" to tru and stop the killings of women who has going on for years in Ciudad Juarez. Amnesty International called for an investigation on her murder.
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Belarus, 25 people will be tried
for electoral protests in Minsk
Update 22 January
Also some former presidential candidates are among the defendants for the demonstrations. Andrei Sannikov and his wife, journalist Irina Khalip, as reported by The New York Times run the risk of being stripped off the right of custody of their 3 years old son. Journalist Barjs Haretzki was sentenced to 14 days in jail for participating in the demonstrations.
20 December 2010
Elections in Belarus, scores under arrest
protesters handcuffed
Reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, defined as "Europe's last dictator". OECD observers called these ballots "not free". Seven out of nine opposition candidates have been held.
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Names are shamefully online
Neonazi site publishes list of Italian Jews
Dozens names and surnames of journalists, enterpreneurs and artists deemed to be "influential" on the Italian scene have been revealed for the purpose of tarnishing the alleged monopolistic position of the so called "Jewish lobby".
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"Il Memorioso" show in Milan
for Holocaust Remembrance Day we recall the Righteous
Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee
presents for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011
Wednesday January, 26 2011 at 9.30 a.m
Milan - Auditorium San Fedele
via Hoepli, 3/b (MM DUOMO)
IL MEMORIOSO
Short guide to the memory of the Good
Theatrical show inspired from Gabriele Nissim's books Il Tribunale del Bene and La Bontà Insensata. Wright by Paola Bigatto, with Massimiliano Speziani.
Followed by debate with Massimiliano Speziani, Gabriele Nissim, Liliana Picciotto, Pietro Kuciukian.
Free admission upon booking subject to seat availability: phone n. +39 0236707648 segreteria@gariwo.net.
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Nasrin Soutoudeh's husband was jailed, too
punished for trying to defend her
Update 17 January
Reza Khandan, the husband of Shirin Ebadi's lawyer and a human rights advocate as well, was led to Evin prison. Authorities set a 50,000 dollar bail.
10 January
11-year jail term to Nasrin Soutoudeh
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's lawyer
The woman has been detained since September, and will not be allowed to practice her profession nor expatriate for 20 years. The Iranian bench found her guilt of "actions against national security and antiregime propaganda, besides belonging to the Centre of Human Rights Defenders", the group of lawyers founded by the Nobel laureate.
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"Free the opponents"
protests in front of Moscow City Hall
After Khodorkovskij's second conviction, the Cremlin continues crushing dissidents. Moscow City Hall has been piqueted by solitary protesters in the past few days: For a demonstration to be considered unlawful there need be no more than two people together.
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Editorial
by Gariwo
Reflections on negationism:
the case of Armenia
written by Pietro Kuciukian, Armenia's Honorary Consul in Italy
The debate about a possible anti-denialist law continues following Yves Ternon's remarks
EU says no to crime of denial regarding Stalinist crimes
Would you like to join the debate?
We will publish the most significant passages.
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Punjab governor murdered
he opposed blasphemy law
The Pakistani leader Salman Taseer was murdered by one of his bodyguards in Islamabad. The killer said he murdered him because he was against the blasphemy law by which Asia Bibi is risking her life. The crime might hamper the Country's effort to maintain stability facing the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
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The Italians as victims of Red Terror
joint work of Gariwo and the Centre for Recovered Names
Centre for Recovered Names in St. Petersburg and Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee will reconstruct the stories of the Italian citizens who lost their lives in Russian prisons and GULags.
Lecture by Journalist Francesco Bigazzi
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The story of Kira Obolenskaja
by Anatoly Razumov
The chairman of the Centre for Recovered Names in St. Petersburg presents the figure of Kira Obolenskaja, a library clerk who was shot by the Stalinists.
During questioning the woman had the courage to say: "I don’t belong to the kind of people who subscribe to the program of the Soviet power".
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