Sunday 23 May will go down in the history books of international civil aviation. Belarus forced a Ryanair flight to land against its will in Minsk. On the plane was the Belarusian journalist Roman Pratasevich, who is critical of President Alexander Lukashenko. Like most other central figures in Belarus, Roman Pratasevich is accused of…
According to the UN General Assembly’s resolution of 2010, every person on earth has the right to clean water and good sanitary conditions. Water scarcity is one of the biggest problems of our time and the seed of conflicts. For those of us who live in Norway, water is something we don’t think about…
There are reports of large movements of Russian troops to the border with Ukraine. The countries have in reality been at war since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and occupied parts of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. The movements of Russian troops are so great that the US has put its forces in Europe…
The military coup in Myanmar on 1 February has become a bloody takeover by the military who rule the country with an iron fist. Over 500 civilians have been killed by the military’s brutality, children are shot in the open and the violence does not seem to be abating. The question is, how can…
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaja is accused of planning terror in Belarus. The demonstrations in Minsk and other cities in the country have been going on every weekend since the election last autumn, in which President Aleksandr Lukashenko allegedly received 80% of the vote. The opposition has claimed throughout the election that it was…
On Christmas Day 1989, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were sentenced to death in a trial that lasted a few hours and can hardly be called anything other than a pro forma trial. The death penalty they received was given in advance. Soon after the trial, they were taken to a brick wall to…