NAME IT
Tilda Swinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2CMrfxdKI
“State-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world”
Recent searches
Search options
#atrocity
0 posts0 participants0 posts today
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.
"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
Gatestone Institute · The Strategy of Atrocity in the Gaza WarHamas is perhaps the first regime in recorded history to fight a war designed to maximize casualties among their own population. Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas's backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts
#Claims of #Mass #Rape by #Hamas #Unravel Upon #Investigation
#PHRI director of #ethics and #policy #HadasZiv admitted #credibility #problems with #sources and that she did not #review all available #evidence. She was “#unaware” numerous #sources had #fabricated #atrocity #stories about #Oct7.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MiddleEast #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Propaganda #Disinformation #Misinformation #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/claims-of-mass-rape-by-hamas-unravel-upon-investigation/
CounterPunch.org · Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon InvestigationFollowing Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks that resulted in at least 1,163 deaths, rumors began circulating that Israeli women were experiencing horrific mass rape and sexual violence. Months later, a position paper by Physicians for Human Rights Israel and a New York Times investigation convinced many observers that Hamas used rape as a weapon of war. But an investigation by YES! examining both reports, other media investigations, hundreds of news articles, interviews with Israeli sources, and photo and video evidence reveals a shocking conclusion: There is no evidence mass rape occurred.
Replied in thread
“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.
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
OUP Academicjustice archive: transitional justice and digital memoryAbstract. This article introduces the justice archive as a concept and set of practices emerging from recent developments in transitional justice, memory, and d
“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!
www.ianwelsh.netCapitalism as Mental Illness, by Eric Anderson – Ian Welsh