Keywords: Crimes Against Humanity
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 January 2009
2 Comments
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence. (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2008
1 Comment
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Fraser
- 14 October 2008
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'Supernatural' rebel leader Alice Lakwena told her fighters that bullets would bounce off them and stones would become
grenades when pitched at the enemy. For many Ugandans,
religion was ballast against violence. For
others it was an instrument of war.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 July 2008
One of the vices of nationalism is the symptom of long memory.
Punishing accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic will do little to convince those who are set
in their positions — Bosnia's Muslims will feel vindicated, but Bosnian
Serbs are simply weary.
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AUSTRALIA
The Burmese Government continues to hinder efforts by foreign aid agencies to assist the thousands of people at risk following Cyclone Nargis. Diplomatic intervention is required to stem further humanitarian crises in the region.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 April 2008
3 Comments
Norma Khouri's fraudulent account of a friend's honour killing became a bestseller before her lie was exposed. Forbidden Lies also considers the way media
spin facts into versions of the truth, and how artists use licence to carry their cause.
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AUSTRALIA
Migration hurdles
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
Malaysia's colourful former Prime Minister is setting up a war crimes tribunal, to "assuage the pain that has been suffered by so many people in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere". Mahathir, it seems, hopes to reinvent the wheel, and a rickety one at that.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 10 July 2006
9 Comments
Howard’s legal positivist stance limits individual rights to the confines of a particular legal system. In the ‘war against terrorism’, there is no safeguard against executive excesses or the seizure by the state of absolute power, no basis to defend the dignity of human persons.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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INTERNATIONAL
‘Let us be absolutely clear about this: Australia treats asylum seekers abominably—we imprison them indefinitely, we torment them, we are willing to return them to torture or death’
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