By Jimmy Johnson /The Electronic Intifada Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way.

Categories: Kashmir  India  Israel  Occupation  Protests  Brutality  

Added: August 20, 2010

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By Laila El-Haddad / The Gaurdian Prisoners are guilty of a crime, yet they are guaranteed access to certain things - electricity and water, even education - where Gazans are not.

Categories: Gaza  Israel  Human Rights  Hamas  Brutality  

Added: August 06, 2010

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By ERIC MARGOLIS / QMI Agency Trying to make Pakistan into a satellite state will result in that vastly important, nuclear-armed nation one day exploding with anti-American hatred, as was the case in Iran in 1979.

Categories: Afghanistan  Taliban  The CIA  Brutality  Nato  Pakistan  

Added: August 03, 2010

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By Naveed Qazi / Countercurrents.org About nineteen natives have been killed since the past month. It included young children and youth. It also included women and men, who were the lynchpins of their family. For us, life would move on, but for their sorrowing families, the struggle has just started. Kashmiri mornings are full of causerie, but think about their mornings, will they be peaceful? It would start with a suffocating silence which wouldn't end till the night.

Categories: Kashmir  Occupation  Military Force  India  Human Rights  Brutality  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By Mark Magnier/ Los Angeles Times Residents of the violence-plagued region have had to cope with work stoppages for decades. That can mean no shopping, no schooling, sometimes even no text messaging, for days on end

Categories: Kashmir  Occupation  India  Brutality  

Added: July 22, 2010

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By KAREEM FAHIM / NY Times Energized by that concession, opposition figures and human rights workers are suggesting that Mr. Said's case could be a turning point in their long and previously fruitless campaign to root out what they call a culture of brutality and abuse.

Categories: Egypt  Brutality  Human Rights  Hosni Mubarak  Prisoner's Abuse  Protests  

Added: July 19, 2010

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By Akbar Ahmed / The Washington Post If you were a Swati and lived in that idyllic land and were suddenly forced to leave your home to seek shelter outside the district ,and then saw the destruction of your beloved home first by the violence of the Taliban and then the violence of the Pakistan army in their attempt to defeat the Taliban, you would be either dismayed or angry.

Categories: Swat  Taliban  Pakistan Army  Islam  Brutality  Compassion  

Added: July 14, 2010

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By By Alex Rodriguez /Los Angeles Times, Reporting from Faisalabad No Pakistani minority is as victimized as the country's 4 million Ahmadis, who believe in Islam but are viewed by the rest of the country as heretics.

Categories: Minorities  Discrimination  Brutality  Faith  Pakistan  

Added: July 08, 2010

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By Noam Chomsky /"In These Times" Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats between Cyprus and Lebanon and killing or kidnapping passengers, sometimes holding them hostage in Israeli prisons.

Categories: Israel  Piracy  Brutality  Gaza  The US  

Added: June 10, 2010

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By M Shamsur Rabb Khan / Countercurrents.org A probe report by Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police that has accused an army Major and his team of entering a criminal conspiracy to abduct three Kashmiri youths, who were later killed in an alleged fake encounter, is a chilling reminder of the criminal intimidation of Muslims in the name of terrorism.

Categories: Terrorism  Kashmir  Brutality  Muslims in India  Persecution  Occupation  

Added: June 03, 2010

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