When an American Town Massacred Its #Chinese #Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, #Wyoming. A hundred & forty years later, the story of the #atrocity is still being unearthed
#racism #RacialViolence #massacre https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants
It's such a fascinating part of the controlled narrative that has "officials say", "according to Hamas", etc, used as a standard maybe, whereas the IDF's statements are taken as being direct from the Bible
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9yjj54v3xo #Gaza #Atrocity #Genocide #Israel
US Signals it No Longer Cares About Human Rights
https://thepreamble.com/p/us-signals-it-no-longer-cares-about
"The loss of our work is another win for those who want to obscure the truth and who want to prevent accountability“…
Think Israel Is Bad? Wait Until You See Its Society!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1h5kshVfAM
Israeli society isn’t just celebrating the genocide in Gaza—they’re actively participating in it…
One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.
The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.
#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.
When the Malayan #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.
The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.
Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.
Khalil #AlHaaya claim that the 6 dead prisoners that #IDF found are to be blamed on #Israel
I have a message to #hamas and it's supporters, it's your responsibility to keep the prisoners alive, #murder them and it's blood is on your hands, there is no way to wash that blood away, no matter what your opponent may have done, as you committed #atrocity
"Hamas is perhaps the first regime in recorded history to fight a war designed to maximize casualties among their own population."
#history
#civilwar
@palestine
@israel
The Strategy of #Atrocity in the #Gaza #war :
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20495/hamas-strategy-atrocity-gaza-war
“I always wondered about the leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin, & those aristocratic sympathizers & peace activists who excused Hitler. Today’s #Hamas #apologists & #atrocity-deniers, w/their robotic denunciations of ‘settler-colonialism,’ belong to the same tradition but worse: They have abundant evidence of the slaughter of old people, teenagers, & children, but unlike those fools of the 1930s, who slowly came around to the truth, they have not changed their views an iota.
A horrendous massacre in Tamil Nadu, 1968
Massacre of 44 dalit people in 1968 in Tamil Nadu illustrated the workings of oppression involving both caste and class. Landless worker victims were dalit, and poorest of the poor. Land owners could resist increases in wages, through structural advantage within the property system and their coercive power (their ability to call upon armed thugs to carry out violence against dalit protests). Attackers went free.
https://undsoc.org/2023/09/04/a-horrendous-massacre-in-tamil-nadu-1968/
Life and memory in Lviv
Reflections on the sufferings of Ukraine on the occasion of the death of Victoria Amelina in Kramatorsk, Ukraine on June 27. If you have favorite pieces of Amelina's journalism, consider reposting them.
Iavor Rangelov & Ruti Teitel
The justice archive: transitional justice and digital memory
London Review of International Law
Looking at the implication of different trajectories of TJ archives in ExYu and Latin America in an era of difitisation and memory activism
https://academic.oup.com/lril/advance-article/doi/10.1093/lril/lrad001/7070693?login=true
“It’s #axiomatic that any system preying upon the #vulnerabilities of the many, to profit the few, is both a #moral and #ethical #atrocity. #Capitalism embodies such a #system.”
My new #post is up over at Ian Welsh’s incredible #blog. I’m #grateful he lets me post my ramblings there. Let me know what you think!
Here is the New York Times video report on the unit responsible for the bulk of atrocities in Bucha ... An important document to view ...
Pinpointing responsibility for Russian atrocities in Bucha
Some weeks ago I wrote a blog post asking the question, "what organization and what commanders have directed the campaign of atrocity, rape, and murder in Ukraine?". Thanks to great forensic reporting by the New York Times we now have part of the answer: the 234th Airborne Regiment. The Times team has produced a great volume of evidence for war crime investigations to pursue ...
https://undsoc.org/2022/12/28/pinpointing-responsibility-for-russian-atrocities-in-bucha/
Here is some good background on press coverage of the Holodomor ninety years ago. #atrocity #stalinism
The Bulwark: The Holodomor, 90 Years Later.
https://www.thebulwark.com/the-holodomor-90-years-later/
Arthur Koestler's observations of the Holodomor and Soviet totalitarianism ... In 1932 Koestler traveled through the Soviet Union as a journalist. What he witnessed during these months of travel led to an honest recognition of the crimes committed by the Soviet state, including especially Stalin's war of starvation against the people of Ukraine, the Holodomor. His experiences are recorded in The Invisible Writing.... #atrocity
https://undsoc.org/2022/11/27/koestlers-observations-of-soviet-totalitarianism/
