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Ambassador of conscience

By Cover September 25, 2009

Interview with Craig Murray, former British diplomat who blew the whistle on torture and rendition.

Caught between a crocodile and a snake

By Frontline September 25, 2009
Rohingya refugee child in Teknaf, Bangladesh: Photo by Tin Soe, Kaladan Press Network.

Originating from the Rakhine State in western Myanmar, most of the Rohingya refugees have been denied official refugee status by the government of Bangladesh. Out of the estimated 250,000 Rohingyas who fled Myanmar, only a paltry 28,000 men, women and children are officially recognised as refugees and eligible for basic support from UNHCR.

The last colony

By Frontline September 25, 2009
Flag march, Sahrawi Popular Army of Liberation: Photo by SADR.

In the occupied zones of Western Sahara, Morocco confines thousands of Sahrawi people in an open prison where they can just helplessly watch their country being plundered. Peaceful demonstrations against the occupation are ruthlessly suppressed with arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment, torture and indefinite imprisonment without any trial.

Closing bases

By Frontline September 25, 2009
Activist demanding the closure of Manta: Photo by No-Bases.

This July, US military planes lifted off from the Eloy Alfaro Airbase, for the last time. After ten years of maintaining a base in Manta, the US was asked to end its military presence on Ecuadorian soil… As the US military was kicked out of Ecuador, the joy was shared by around 450 No-Bases campaign chapters worldwide.

Against militarism

By Frontline September 25, 2009
Campaigning against Nato in Norrbotten, Sweden: Photo by Ofog.

While the global military-industrial-complex propagates that the path to security and peace lies with military solutions, Ofog strives for a world based on democracy, human rights and justice, where real security of the people will be achieved through ending poverty and discrimination.

Qaddafi’s media repression

By Frontline September 25, 2009
Muammar Qaddafi: Photo by US Navy.

Al-Ghazal’s assassination was perpetrated after Libya started its return to the international scene and inaugurated its costly public relations campaign to improve its stained image in Western capitals following nearly two decades of ostracism spurred by United Nations Security Council sanctions. Yet media remain tightly muzzled.

Blood cotton

By Print/Scribd September 25, 2009
Child labour in Uzbek cotton fields: Photo by EJF.

Forced child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields: “Each September, as the cotton harvesting season begins in Uzbekistan, the government shuts down most of the schools and forces the school children out to the cotton fields to pick cotton.”

Sketches with secret ink

By Print/Scribd September 25, 2009
Faraj Bayrakdar: Private photo.

Prison testimony of Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar. Translated book excerpt: Khiyanat al-lujha was samt (The treasons of the language and silence).

Phoenix from the ashes

By Print/Scribd September 25, 2009
Shahnameh: The Persian national epic.

A tale of the book in Iran: “Throughout Iranian history, Iranians have seen their culture attacked by one invading or despotic regime after another… But, after each defeat, like the mythical bird arising from the ashes, Iranian culture regathers its strength and revives its creativity.”

The God who hates women

By Print/Scribd September 25, 2009
Eve after the fall: By Alexandre Cabanel.

Oppression of women under religious regimes: “Religion dresses up power in robes and mitres, it disguises force majeure as the will of a male God. Men are doing what God wants them to do, and so are women.”

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