The Dawn News | - Part 256

Saudi Arabia. Al Mayadeen, against media manipulation

Source: ResumenMedioOriente.org / The Dawn / November 11, 2015.- For several weeks, the tv station Al Mayadeen has been a victim of heavy censorship attempts. Its satellite provider, Arabsat, is looking to take the news channel down, arguing that they have expressed criticism against the monarchy of Saudi Arabia. In […]

SYRIA. A Million Displaced Have Returned Home Since the Start of Russian Operations

Source: actualidad.RT.com / The Dawn / November 18, 2015-. A million displaced Syrians have returned to their homes in the areas liberated of terrorist bombings by Russia, said Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Bashar Jaafari. On Monday, at a meeting of the Security Council of the UN, Bashar Jaafari […]

Analysis Interview Kurdistan Palestine Syria Turkey

Melike Yasar: “There is a war in Turkey”

Solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks. The horror unleashed by Erdogan in Turkey. The courage of the Kurdish resistance and the plural, inclusive future they envision.Yasar Melike, representative of the Women’s Movement of Kurdistan in Latin America, speaks on all these topics and more. What is the current […]

Mexico News

French designer patents Oaxacan embroidery patterns. Indigenous peoples can no longer create their clothes.

By Elisa Rodriguez / Source: oaxacacapital.com / The dawn / November 19, 2015. Oaxaca State authorities reported this morning that the French company Antiquité Vatic filed a lawsuit demanding copyright on the typical clothes that have been worn in this region for over 300 years. Just last June it was […]

Analysis Peru

Peru. Truth and Justice: It is Estimated that More than 200,000 Women were Sterilized Against their Will in Fujimori Times

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / MapuExpress / The Dawn / November 19, 2015-. Figures could exceed 270,000, according to Human Rights organization. Most of the registered cases were of indigenous women. After months of waiting, a decree was promulgated that allows the registration of victims, an act that was applauded by […]

*FILE PHOTO* Email sent from: "Colbourn, Glen" gcolbourn@thestar.ca Subject: Emailing: TURKEY_GENOCIDE Date: 9 April, 2015 4:18:51 PM EDT *FILE PHOTO*(NYT22) KHARPERT, Armenia -- March 8, 2009 -- TURKEY-GENOCIDE -- Ottoman Armenians are marched to a prison in Kharpert, Armenia by armed Turkish soldiers in April 1915. About 972,000 Armenians disappeared from population records in 1915 and 1916. For Turkey, the number should have been a bombshell. According to a long-hidden record that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1917. In Turkey, any discussion of what happened to the Ottoman Armenians can bring a storm of public outrage. But since its publication in a book in January, the number -- and its Ottoman source -- has gone virtually unmentioned. "Nothing," said Murat Bardakci, the book's author. The silence can mean only one thing, he said. "My numbers are too high for ordinary people. Maybe people aren't ready to talk about it yet." (Project Save via The New York Times)*EDITORIAL USE ONLY* *FILE PHOTO*(NYT22) KHARPERT, Armenia -- March 8, 2009 -- TURKEY-GENOCIDE -- Ottoman Armenians are marched to a prison in Kharpert, Armenia by armed Turkish soldiers in April 1915. About 972,000 Armenians disappeared from population records in 1915 and 1916. For Turkey, the number should have been a bombshell. According to a long-hidden record that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1917. In Turkey, any discussion of what happened to the Ottoman Armenians can bring a storm of public outrage. But since its publication in a book in January, the number -- and its Ottoman source -- has gone virtually unmentioned. "Nothing," said Murat Bardakci, the book's author. The silence can mean only one thing, he said. "My numbers are too high for ordinary people. Maybe peop

Analysis Armenia News Paraguay

Paraguay has Acknowledged the Armenian Genocide

Source: Agencia de Noticias Prensa Armenia (Armenian Press News Agency) / The Dawn / October 30, 2015.- The Senate of the Republic of Paraguay unanimously approved today an official recognition of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish State a century ago. ‘The Chamber of Senators of Paraguay recognizes the […]

Analysis Mapuche Nation

Mapuche Nation. The Criminalization of the Mapuche People: a Strategy Replicated in Chile and Argentina

By: Javier Pineda and Luis Guerrero, Members of the 4th of August Corporation / Source: Marcha.org / The Dawn / November 9, 2015 The judicial case against Relmu Ñamku in Argentina and the persecution against the struggle of the Mapuche people is not new. In Chile, the State and the […]

Analysis Latin America

A day to make Child Abuse increasingly visible

By Andrea Nathalie Mila / Source: Marcha.org / The Dawn / November 16, 2015 On Thursday November 19, the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse is commemorated. It is a date that has been used by various civic groups to make sexual abuse in childhood, more visible. It took […]

Analysis Colombia

Colombian political regime, a shame

By Colombia Communist Party / Source: Rebelion.org / The Dawn / November 13, 2015 Since Monday November 9, 2015, thousands of political prisoners held in thirteen different jails began a collective action of civil resistance and hunger strikes of indefinite duration against the policy of President Juan Manuel Santos. On […]

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