Documents leaked from China reveal the systematic brainwashing, use of torture and brainwashing of the Muslim population in China. This is suppression of human rights. It is the website ICIJ (International Network of Investigative Journalism) that writes this. The abuse is against China’s Uighurs. The Uighurs live mainly in East Turkistan in the northwestern…
In Ukraine, Stepan Bandera is controversial, some hate him while others love him. Some believe he was a fascist, others a nationalist. In Russia he is hated. Whatever we may think of Bandera, he is hardly a unifying figure in Ukraine. Some facts about Stepan Bandera Stepan Bandera was born in western Ukraine on…
Uganda looks set to raise the penalty for homosexuals from life imprisonment to the death penalty. Adding a new country to the highly dubious list of nations with the death penalty for homosexuals is a farce from an era that belongs to the past in our part of the world. The death penalty for…
In 1994, the 3 nuclear powers, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom, signed an agreement with Ukraine. The agreement obliged them to defend Ukraine’s borders. 20 years later, Ukraine was attacked by Russia, fighting is still going on in the country. Who took over Ukraine’s nuclear weapons? Yes, Russia. At this time,…
On September 11, 1973, what is perhaps the most publicized military coup in history took place. It is also one of the bloodiest. 3000 killed, even more tortured. Concentration camps emerged in the wake of the coup. Chile’s democratically elected president was killed and all parties were banned. This happened in Chile, a country…
During World War I, something happened that you may have heard or read a little about. I then think of the genocide of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The genocide is referred to as the Armenian Genocide. Armenians in present-day Turkey were made scapegoats for a failed attack on Russian forces.. The…