Tag: Geneva Conventions
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Whipping, cutting fingers and worse: What Russians and Ukrainians do to their own people
Wars are usually narrated horizontally. Russians kill Ukrainians, Ukrainians kill Russians, missiles cross borders, armies capture territory, and prisoners fall into enemy hands. Yet violence also moves in another direction: downward, inside the armies and societies fighting the war. Russian commanders have allegedly beaten, tortured and even killed their own soldiers. Ukrainian authorities have investigated…
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Screw Geneva Conventions, kill anyone you want
The title sounds extreme—and intentionally so. But it captures a disturbing reality: in the modern Western war machine, the Geneva Conventions have become ceremonial ink. Soldiers execute captives. Civilians die in secret prisons. Detainees suffer, not as combatants, but as objects of convenience. And when the moment comes to apply the law, Western judges shield…
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Make Palestinian cause visible without violence
Palestinians face a dire and heartbreaking reality under occupation. As many famous politicians have stated, they live in the biggest open-air prison in the world. Their lives are marked by economic depravity, lack of educational opportunities, unemployment, absence of investment, relentless checkpoints, and random violence from Israeli settlers and security forces. They face restrictions on…