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Investigating Turkish atrocities against their Kurdish population
When I was growing up, everything I heard from Diyarbakir involved death and tragedy. Turkish media has covered the conflict extensively through the years, but generally only from the Turkish military’s point of view. Visuals of crying mothers of dead soldiers, coffins and military funerals on the evening news often accompanied our family dinners. But I don’t remember ever seeing a crying Kurdish mother or anything about the other side of the story on the news. For many of us, Kurds were the enemy, the “Other” that existed to destroy the Turkish people and the nation
The story of William Huang, Falun Gong and human rights activist, imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese Communist dictatorship
Hoi Yan Lam talks to William Huang in the US and tells his tragic story of imprisonment, torture and brainwashing at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, all for practicing his chosen religion, Falun Gong, and speaking out for human rights.
Hillary Clinton’s spineless toadying to the Chinese dictatorship
Hillary Clinton was feted as a human rights advocate, but she’s shown this was all a lie.