December, 2009

• 25 December

  springs of hope drying up, By Ameen Izzadeen

  The New Year is just a week away and it promises little hope for a better tomorrow or a world without conflicts, a world where the common good will prevail over self-interest. This is no attempt to paint a bleak picture of the future, but only an analysis of the year that is bidding farewell and would go into history …

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• 24 December

  Ten Unsolved Mysteries in the “War on Terror”, By Jane Mayer

  Where in the world is Osama bin Laden The first year of the Obama Administration is almost over, yet many mysteries surrounding the so-called “dark side” of the “war on terror” remain unsolved. Here are ten: Did former Vice-President Cheney know the full, clinical details of the Bush Administration’s interrogation and detention program for terror suspects? Did he have a …

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• 23 December

  ZIONIST – CHILD KILLERS – ORGAN THIEF.

  Israel admits to organ thefts Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families. The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel’s forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart …

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• 23 December

  Net around Israeli war crimes suspects tightens Adri Nieuwhof and Ziyaad Lunat, The Electronic Intifada

  Efforts by human rights organizations, lawyers and activists in Palestine and Europe to hold Israeli war crimes suspects to account have gained momentum over the past few years. Last week, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni cancelled a visit to the UK over threats of a lawsuit under the country’s universal jurisdiction laws. The Goldstone report on the UN Fact …

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• 22 December

  UK Muslim association denounces Swiss Islamophobic vote

  The Islamic Counselling Association based in London has denounced the recent Swiss referendum on the ban on minarets — a decision leading to the spread of Islamophobia and more Muslim hatred of the West. Fathi Abdul, director of the Muslim association, told IRNA that the decision by the Swiss government to hold a referendum on a basic right of humans …

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• 21 December

  Malay Minority of Sri Lanka: Defending Their Identity

  

  Suwarn Vajracharya We might stand up for our community, but it cannot be said that we have stood against the interest of the country as a whole. I have always said, and I repeat it today, that I consider the interest of the country as a whole, to be paramount. (Dr. T. B. Jayah1) , 1937) 1. Introduction The Malays2) …

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• 21 December

  Plight Of The Stranded Pakistanis In Bangladesh, By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

  December 16 marks the 38th anniversary of the breakup of Pakistan when the Eastern wing of the country emerged as Bangladesh after an India-backed secessionist movement. The occasion calls for highlighting the plight of about 250,000 so-called Biharis or stranded Pakistanis still languishing in unsanitary camps in Bangladesh. Who are the so-called Biharis or stranded Pakistanis? In pre-independence India, the …

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