Sun 27 March 2022: Increasingly isolated on the world stage, Myanmar’s deepening Russia ties will be on display at annual Armed Forces Day event. Myanmar’s military usually marks Armed Forces Day with a grand parade in the country’s capital as commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing – in full regalia – inspects his troops from […]
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Fri 25 March 2022: Chechen forces deployed in Ukraine appear to be more of a ‘PR initiative’ than military utility, analysts say. Just two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched, Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Russia’s Chechen Republic, announced his forces were deployed to the battlefield. Since then, Chechnya’s leader has posted on […]
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Wed 23 March 2022: The virulent hate campaign by Hindutva forces promoted by the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and subsequent rise in public and institutional Islamophobia, have combined to create panic among India’s 204 million Muslims, the country’s largest minority community. The mood was encapsulated by India’s opposition, […]
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Mon 21 March 2022: Facebook’s decision to allow hate speech against Russians due to the war in Ukraine breaks its own rules on incitement, and shows a “double standard” that could hurt users caught in other conflicts, digital rights experts and activists said. Facebook owner, Meta Platforms, will temporarily allow Facebook and Instagram users in […]
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Said Ismagilov, centre, poses with fellow members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces (Facebook) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 17 March 2022: Said Ismagilov says there is ‘Quranic justification’ for Muslims to battle Vladimir Putin’s forces Said Ismagilov, mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine and one of the country’s top Islamic leaders, has traded in his traditional robes […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: On 5 March 1992, Aida woke up to bombing and shooting as the Serbian army opened fire from the iconic Holiday Inn Hotel and killed two women protesting on the Vrbanja Bridge. In order to continue her medical studies, she had to escape from her beloved city Sarajevo to Germany as […]
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Amjad al-Malah, holding his daughter, survived years of siege in Madaya with little food and medicine [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 16 March 2022: Over the past decade, Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war has been littered with grave human rights violations that rights groups say could amount to war crimes. Amjad al-Malah, 32, and his family […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: A film based on the sorrow and migration of Kashmiri Pandits has instead managed to become a propaganda tool, inflaming anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri sentiments in the country, adding to the existing climate of anti-minority hatred that has permeated society for the past eight years or so. The Kashmir Files is supposed […]
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Wed 09 March 2022: The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super rich oligarchs – is already being impacted by economic measures imposed by the international community in response to the invasion of Ukraine. As a scholar of Russia’s political economy, I was surprised by the speed and severity of the […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: Tehran, Iran – Iran has said it will not allow foreign powers to force its hand and was awaiting clarification from Moscow after a new Russian demand about sanctions linked with Ukraine clouded the prospects of restoring a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. “While standing firm in maintaining our red lines, […]
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