The head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, Abune Mathias, recently condemned the ongoing armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the suffer
BY MAX PARRY
Eighty years ago last month, the Axis powers invaded the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War. A new Serbian film,
Dara of Jasenovac, depicts the systematic extermination of Serbs which followed under the Nazi-puppet government of the Independent State of Croatia. Despite consultation with reputable historians during production and a screenplay based upon witness testimony, its release has generated controversy among international film critics. An examination of the English-speaking reception to the Serbian entry for the 93rd Academy Awards shows a boilerplate negative response and pseudo-journalistic pile-on that is part of an anti-Serb bias in Western media ever since the NATO war on Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Despite recent attempts at closer relations with the West, Serbophobia remains a fixture in corporate media on account of Belgrade’s strong historical ties with Moscow amid the New Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.
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BY DR. DIKRAN M. KALIGIAN
Last September Turkey’s autocratic ruler, Recep Erdogan, joined Azerbaijan in an unprovoked invasion of one of the few democratic states of the former Soviet Union. Rather than condemn this bloody attack on the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh by an ostensible NATO ally, the Trump Administration turned a blind eye to a war that included Turkey dropping cluster bombs on Armenian civilians, torturing POWs, and importing jihadi mercenaries from Syria, all violations of international law.
The Biden Administration has the opportunity to regain the moral high ground now by taking a simple step that will undo decades of kowtowing to Turkey’s blackmail while showing that violations of human rights and international law carry consequences: recognize the Armenian Genocide in his April 24
Why India s COVID-19 Catastrophe Is Indeed a Crime Against Humanity
The impact that this second wave of the COVID virus has had, is having and will continue to have on India will, in many ways, mirror the impact of any event of mass death that would fit the legal definition of a crime against humanity.
Family member wearing PPE performs last rites of a COVID-19 victim at Nigambodh Ghat crematorium, in New Delhi, Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo: PTI
The Wire on April 29, 2021, Arundhati Roy used the term âcrime against humanityâ to describe immeasurable grief and human suffering India is seeing through the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.