Berlin Witnesses 1970s Style Leftist Violence

Berlin Fears Resurgence of Radical Leftist Violence Berlin has witnessed a spate of arson attacks targeting exclusive cars including Mercedes-Benz, Porsches and BMW’s. The German police have warned that these attacks could signify a potential return to leftist and anarchist violence which ravaged the country during the 1970’s. Berlin have prompted police to warn of a resurgence of the leftist and anarchist violence that terrorised Germany in the 1970s. Head of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, compared the arson attacks to; "a renaissance of the leftist terror of the 1970s, borne by hatred of the state and its system, directed against...

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Human Rights Watch White Flag Report

When A White Flag Becomes A Target! "The Israeli military is stonewalling in the face of evidence that its soldiers killed civilians waving white flags in areas it controlled and where there were no Palestinian fighters. These cases need thorough, independent investigations." ~Joe Stork (Deputy Director) Human Rights Watch (Middle East)~ Human Rights Watch has released the latest in serious damning reports on human rights violations during the 22 Day war in Gaza. Each report has scrutinised various accusations of IDF troops flouting international human rights interventions including White Phosphorous use, Israeli drone attacks, indiscriminate...

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Sinn Féin's Political Dilemma

Sinn Féin's Ideological Cross Roads I am penning this post in response to a recent article addressing the lack of progression on Irish Unity by Sinn Fein’s Declan Kearney in An Phoblacht. The article was a timely rallying cry to the remaining Sinn Fein activists prior to yesterday’s Ard Comhairle, in Navan, Co. Meath. Given Mr Kearney’s esteem within the party hierarchy I thought that his views on Sinn Fein’s political agenda might make interesting reading. Alas, after the first paragraph my hopes of gaining a new political insight were severely dashed! Although eloquently written, it fails miserably to mask the fundamental problem and...

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Indian Police Read Riot Act

Human Rights Watch Read Riot Act To Indian Police Indian Police Service (IPS) has been read the riot act by a freshly published report by Human Rights Watch. The 118 page inculpating report by the human rights watchdog entitled ‘"Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police," catalogues a host of human rights violations committed by the IPS. Highlighted human rights infringements include the deployment of illegal procedures such as arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and extrajudicial killings.  Successive Indian governments have publicly recognised institutional failings within the Indian Police Service but...

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ETA: 50 Years of Struggle

ETA: 50 Years of Struggle The ‘Basque Country’ straddles the western end of the Pyrenees and comprises of some 20,000 sq km spanning the geo-political boundaries of France and Spain. Basque society contains a rich vein of genetic and ethnic-cultural constitution, boasting one of Europe’s oldest pre Indo-European unique tongues still spoken today, Euskara. Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna, ETA, (Basque Homeland and Freedom) have been waging a war of parity of esteem against their Spanish colonists since the 1960’s. Their over-riding goal has been the formation of a separate Basque sovereign state. ETA was founded in 1953 as a student discussion...

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