Archive for March, 2002
Try Sharon for War Crimes!
(Link to Source -Media Monitors)
Why Sharon is a War Criminal
An eye-witness report of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre: by Dr. Ben Alofs. I am a Dutch doctor, currently living in North-Wales. In the summer of 1982 I was working as a nurse in West-Beirut, which at the time was being besieged by the Israeli [...]
Charm and the West Keep Karzai in Power, for Now
(Source - NYTimes)
Turmoil that could ultimately threaten his government, from ethnic strife to battles among warlords, percolates nearly everywhere outside the capital. … Indeed, outside Kabul there seems little evidence of a central government at all.
Afghan quake ‘kills 1,500′
(Link to Source - BBC)
More than 1,500 people are feared dead and thousands have been left homeless after a series of earthquakes struck Afghanistan’s remote northern province of Baghlan.
India debates anti-terror law
(Link to Source - BBC)
India’s parliament has begun a rare joint session as the government attempts to pass a controversial anti-terrorism bill.
China and Iran threaten test ban treaty
(Link to Source - Guardian)
China and Iran have withdrawn their contribution to monitoring nuclear tests, apparently in protest at Washington’s hostility towards the comprehensive test ban treaty, raising the fear that the treaty may collapse before it has come into operation.
King to be in Kabul by April–
(Link to Source — Afgha.com)
Zahir Shah, the former king of Afghanistan, vowed yesterday to be “in Kabul by April,” shrugging off concerns over his security that led to a last-minute delay in his return after 29 years in exile.
“Who is that man?” An article on Saudi Ruler.
(Link to Source - Guardian UK)
It is curious that the man who controls a quarter of the world’s oil reserves, and whose Middle East peace initiative will take centre stage at the Arab summit this week, gets only a seven-line mention in the International Who’s Who.
Nigeria - Universities on strike
(Source::AFROL) Nigerian universities experience a wave of strikes as lecturers from one university after another demonstrate their solidarity with 60 colleagues, which were sacked from the University of Ilorin last year. The one-week strike declared by trade unions is gaining momentum.
Taiwanese Officials Confiscate Copies of Magazine in Raid
[NYTimes] Taiwan’s government has stunned its freewheeling news media by seeking to ban a weekly magazine that was about to publish an article potentially damaging to the island’s president, Chen Shui-bian. … The magazine’s report describes how former President Lee supposedly authorized the National Security Bureau to set up two secret funds to finance diplomatic [...]
(Yahoo) UN Worries about Water Use
U.N. Urges ‘More Crop Per Drop’ as Water Dwindles
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“Water scarcity and quality will be one of the major problems of the 21st century,” Godwin Obasi, secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization (news - web sites) (WMO), told a ceremony in Rome to mark World Water Day.
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
