Warten auf den verschwundenen Imam Der 1978 verschollene schiitische Geistliche Mussa al Sadr soll noch am Leben sein – in einem libyschen Gefängnis. Die Hizbullah verehrt ihn als „Führer“ und „Vater“. Wegen seines Verschwindens wird in Beirut gegen Muammar al Gaddafi verhandelt. Von Markus Bickel 22. März 2011 2011-03-22 13:26:47 Die Tochter ist voller Hoffnung, ihren […]
Adds child killed, more protests, reaction) By Khaled Yacoub Oweis DAMASCUS, March 21 (Reuters) – Unrest spread in southern Syria on Monday with hundreds of people demonstrating against the government in three towns near the main city of Deraa, but authorities did not use force to quell the latest protests. Security forces killed four civilians […]
Following up in Libya: Taking ‘ceasefire’ seriously means not firing at demonstrators in Tripoli You don’t see death coming. With modern technology, the firepower at the behest of US and allied forces is such that the strikes that Qaddafi forces have received in the last two days of bombing may be sufficient to forever deter […]
How does one reconcile nonviolence, the hallmark of the Middle East Revolution on the march, with how to deal with Libya? This has been a burning moral quandary facing all those who defend the effectiveness of nonviolence as the key philosophical guide for our action against dictatorships in the Middle East. Nowhere is the test […]
Renowned Chinese dissident Dr. YANG Jianli, founder of Initiatives for China and member of RN’s international advisory board, in a presentation to the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, connected regional struggles for human rights with those across the globe. “The uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East remind us that the desire and the need for […]
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis SANAA | Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:30am EST (Reuters) – The bullet hit 28-year old Yemeni protester Abdullah Hameed Ali in the face and shattered his brain. But his Hamdan tribe, who last year stormed and occupied a university where a soldier had killed one of their own, said this time they would […]
