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Sri Lankan Government Coaching Burmese Junta?

By Richard Sollom on September 11, 2009

Remember the calamitous end to Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war back in May? Some 16,700 non-combatants were wounded and several thousand more were killed during the final onslaught. Fighting between the 150,000-strong Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the 7,000-strong Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) armed forces resulted in 300,000 displaced minority Tamils.
Although both sides [...]

Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Torture, Video | Tagged bilateral agreement, Burma, child soldiers, china, Chris Beyrer, commission of inquiry, EJE, execution, Kokang, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa, murder, Myanmar, POW, rape, Richard Sollom, sla, slavery, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Tamils, Than Shwe, Torture, United Nations Security Council, washington post, Yunnan Province | Leave a comment

Urge the US and UK to Take Action for Human Rights in Burma

By Ben Greenberg on September 2, 2009

In the past few weeks, 30,000 refugees have fled across Burma’s northern border into China’s Yunnan province.
Take action today to urge the US and UK to address this health and human rights crisis.
As rotating President of the UN Security Council in August and September, respectively, the US and the UK have an unparalleled opportunity to [...]

Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Take Action, Women | Tagged Burma, china, john sawyers, refugees, susan rice, thailand, un security council, united kingdom, united states, us campaign for burma, yunnan provenance | Leave a comment

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

By Ben Greenberg on May 1, 2009

ABC News reports that psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1000/day to design and implement the US torture program.
According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.
Bruce Jessen [...]

Posted in Custody, Torture, Video | Tagged abc news, abu zubaydah, air force, al qaeda, bruce jessen, central intelligence agency, china, cia, james mitchell, mitchell jessen associates, sere, soviet union, steven kleinman, survival evasion resistance escape, waterboarding | 4 Comments

Three International Medical Workers Kidnapped in Darfur

By Karen Hirschfeld on March 12, 2009

First the Sudanese Government expelled 13 aid groups by edict overnight; now the remaining groups are being terrorized.
Now, three internationals — a Canadian nurse, an Italian doctor and a French coordinator — have been kidnapped by armed gunmen in a government-controlled area of north Darfur. While the identities of the gunmen are unknown, the effect is chilling: MSF-Belgium, the [...]

Posted in Conflict, Darfur | Tagged african union, aid groups, belgium, canada, china, dallas, france, humanitarian assistance, international criminal court, italy, kidnapping, médcins sans frontières, msf, omar al-bashir, peacekeepers, russia, sudan, texas, united nations | Leave a comment

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Sri Lankan Government Coaching Burmese Junta?

Urge the US and UK to Take Action for Human Rights in Burma

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

Three International Medical Workers Kidnapped in Darfur

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Sri Lankan Government Coaching Burmese Junta?

Urge the US and UK to Take Action for Human Rights in Burma

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

Three International Medical Workers Kidnapped in Darfur

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