Mainstream WeeklyHASSAKE, Syria, Mar 27 2024 (IPS) - Rozena, a 31-year-old woman from Guyana, says she travelled to Turkey in 2015 to join an NGO which helped Syrian refugees. That’s all she’ll reveal when asked how and why she ended up living in the so-called Islamic State for four years.
IPS spoke to her inside the small tent where she has spent the last five years with her two children at Roj camp. At 780 km northeast of Damascus, it holds around 3,000 individuals with alleged links to the Islamic State (…)
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The Kids of the Islamic State: A Childhood Stolen | Jewan Abdi
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29 March 2024, by S N Sahu1st April is celebrated as the Odisha Day. It was on that day in 1936 the British province of Orissa (now Odisha) was created on the basis of Odia language by uniting together the Odia speaking areas some of which were part of other provinces such as Bengal, Madras, Bihar and Central Province. The birth of Odisha as a separate province on account of its linguistic identity was truly historic as it represented the vision of our leadership during freedom struggle to reorganise States on the (…)
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Diplomatic Lapses of US and Russia! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
29 March 2024, by Nilofar SuhrawardyWashington’s decision to abstain from United Security Council (UNSC)’s resolution for a two-week ceasefire in Gaza, on March 25 is hardly suggestive of any major change in United States’ relations with Israel. Undeniably, spontaneous reaction viewed this “abstention” as suggestive of a “diplomatic” rift between United States and Israel, further supported by cancellation of an Israeli delegation’s visit to US. Nevertheless, what cannot be ignored is US administration official’s clarification (…)
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Rwanda Revisited: A Critical Introspection on Rwanda’s Resurrection from the Scars and Trauma left by the Genocide | Jos Chathukulam, Gireesan K, Manasi Joseph and Clement Kayitakire
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April 7, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsis. The first author of this paper during his visit to Rwanda got the opportunity to interact with the survivors of the Genocide and the present-day administrators in the country. During the visit to Rwanda, the author came to know about the facts that led to the Genocide and got a first-hand experience and knowledge of Rwanda’s resurrection from the tragedy. The authors share the strategies and methods used (…) -
Soviet History: Anton Vlasov’s 1920 letter to the Central Committee
29 March 2024[marron]This letter was sent by Anton Vlasov, a Red Army officer, to the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (RCP) in September 1920. A copy was retained in the archive of Nikolai Bukharin, in 1920 editor of the party newspaper, Pravda, and published in 1998 by historians who found it there. While some stories of leading party members’ luxurious circumstances may be exaggerated, the letter expresses sentiments that were widespread among rank-and-file communists at the time. I (…)
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Review of Tripathi and Arun’s edited Volume on Democracy in Trouble | Bharat Dogra
29 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
These are difficult times for democracy and this book on democracy in Hindi has thus been published at just the right time. Although it is mainly centered on India, it also ventures from time to time to comment on the situation in other parts of the world too.
Edited by Arun Kumar Tripathi and A.K. Arun, two names very familiar to Hindi readers, this book titled ‘Jantantra ki Jarein’ (‘Roots of Democracy’) has essays by several writers known (…) -
Audio: Nadine Gordimer Reads from “The Ultimate Safari” | 2007 PEN World Voices Festival
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Music: Swedish womens rights song about forgotten women through history [Eng subs]
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Video Reportage: Has India’s Media Been Captured? | India Report
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Photo: Protest of Mothers of Disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires (1977) |
29 March 2024Hebe de Bonafini at a protest of Mothers of the Disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, in May 1977 [Photo source: Archivo Clarín]. She was one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo that was created in 1979 by mothers whose children has disappeared under the then military junta in Argentina.
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