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South Africa Disappoints

Thursday, August 4, 2005

I fully expected South Africa to give Zimbabwe the loan it is asking for, so the news that the South African cabinet agrees with the loan "in principle" is not really news, as far as I am concerned. Earlier I wrote about my hopes that South Africa would use this opportunity in ensure that Zimbabwe [...]

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Mugabe Rebuffed

Monday, August 1, 2005

Last week, reporters at all of the major newspapers wrote articles about Zimbabwe's close relationship with China. These articles were prompted by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's visit to China (although it is useful to note that the Christian Science Monitor was writing about this at the beginning of July). Luckily, there is some good news [...]

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Chechen Government: 52 Mass Graves

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, a member of the Chechen government led by Alu Alkhanov, claims that human rights violations were committed by Russian soldiers during the two conflicts in the region:
Many of the accusations levelled against the Russian authorities by human rights groups - namely the deliberate targeting of civilians by the Russian military - have angered [...]

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Solving the Problem of Sovereignty

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

This International Herald Tribune article lambasts Musharraf and the Pakistani government, claiming that Pakistani liberals face a "mullah-military alliance" intent on restricting civil liberties and freedom of expression:
Democracy, human rights and meaningful civil liberties are anathema to a hypermilitarized state. Pakistan's voters consistently vote overwhelmingly for moderate, secular-oriented parties and reject religious extremists, so the [...]

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