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20 October 2009 EIGHT YEARS after US president George Bush - aided and abetted by his 'loyal lieutenant', UK prime minister Tony Blair - launched an invasion of Afghanistan, their 'war on terror' shows no sign of abating. Tamil demonstration in London, photo D. Carr 20 October 2009 DISGUST AT the inhuman treatment of hundreds of thousands of Tamils held under armed guard in open prison camps in Sri Lanka brought tens of thousands on to the streets of London on 17 October, writes Manny Thain. 17 October 2009 Free all Tamils from the prison camps in Sri lanka: Young people protest against war and terrorism in Manchester 2006, photo Manchester Socialist Party 13 October 2009 LAST WEEK'S announcement that US president Obama has been awarded the Nobel peace prize is astonishing considering his intentions to continue the war in Afghanistan, writes Steve Score. Demonstration against the Sri Lankan government, photo Paul Mattsson 13 October 2009 The Sri Lankan government's war on Tamil people's basic rights continues. Around 300,000 men, women and children remain incarcerated in camps under the most horrific conditions, months after the official... International Socialist Resistance on the 15 March 2008 anti-war demo, photo Paul Mattsson 7 October 2009 October 2009 marks the eighth anniversary of troops being sent to Afghanistan. It is clearer than ever that the invasion has resulted in a nightmare for the people of Afghanistan and the region and those sent to fight. 7 October 2009 Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI 30 September 2009
NEPAL HAS been rocked by almost constant protests since May against the ousting of the Maoist former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as Prachanda, meaning 'fierce one'), the biggest being a huge rally in Kathmandu on 11 September, writes Paul Callanan. 23 September 2009
Review: Reading Arundhati Roy's collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the 'feral howl' she herself is tempted to resort to... 22 September 2009
THE US and NATO's top military chief in Afghanistan has told his political bosses that western forces will fail there unless there is a change in policy... 31 - 40 of 245 records < Back | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next > Search entire database: | |||||||||||||
