Monthly Archives: March 2012
Posted on March 18, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Peace and Democracy (BDP) Istanbul executives have stated that BDP Arnavutköy District chair Hacı Zengin lost his life after being hit on head by a tear gas can thrown by police. Zengin who was among the people joining Newroz in …
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Turkey |
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Posted on March 18, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Dozens have been injured after Police tried to prevent Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakir, and elsewhere in Istanbul one Kurdish MP was injured. Riot police used pepper spray and tear-gas on Kurdish civilians who were on their way to celebrate Newroz. …
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Turkey |
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Posted on March 17, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Newroz celebrations in Istanbul and Diyarbakir have been cancelled for March 18 after the provincial governorships banned its celebration prior to 21, March. The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said in a brief statement that the …
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Turkey |
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Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Kurds staged protests in the four districts of Al-Hasakah district today, alongside other ethnic minorities calling for the toppling of Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Baath regime is responsible for the killing of more than 10,000 protesters, including hundreds of children, …
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Syria |
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Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Alliance For Kurdish Rights has been using social networking tools to raise awareness for Halabja genocide, which took place on March 16, 1988. We have written about what happened in the massacre here, why it is important to remember it …
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Campaigns,
Genocide,
Iraq |
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Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Halabja is a Kurdish town in Southern Kurdistan, and Northern Iraq. It is nearly 150 miles north-east of Baghdad, and has a rich history. It is home to Adela Khanum, an iconic feminist Kurdish figure, who was honoured with the …
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Genocide,
Iraq |
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Posted on March 15, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Diyarbakir’s High Criminal court has banned Newroz celebration pamphlets, the court used Article 6 of Anti-terror law (TMK) to confiscate all posters with slogans reading ‘Either Freedom or Freedom’. It has been claimed that the slogan resembles those of PKK, …
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Activism,
Turkey |
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Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Social networking sites are filled with stories, videos and articles on the Halabja genocide, which took place on 16 of March 1988, resulting in the brutal killing of thousands of civilians through chemical bombing. Ahead of the 24th anniversary of …
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Iraq |
Comments Off on Online campaign to raise awareness about Ba’ath brutality
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