Rendition South Africa styleSenior officials in the Hawks and SA Police Service are conducting illegal ‘renditions’ of Zimbabweans, who are deported from South Africa, handed to Zimbabwean security forces and then murdered. Rendition is the illegal kidnapping and...
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The political dynamic in Gaza: interview with Raji Sourani
Amandla! (A!): You have said that the Palestinian bid for UN membership has brought together the divided Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah. What is the state of their relations following the unity agreement?Raji Sourani (RS): I think the Israeli government...
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Findings
Israel subjecting Palestinian people to apartheid, as defined under international law Cape Town Session: Summary of findings, 7 November 2011"May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence" - Bertrand Russell, London, 13 November 1966The Russell Tribunal on Palestine...
Russell Tribunal painful reminder of our own suffering | by Phindile Kunene COSATU
COSATU Welcomes the Findings Russell Tribunal on PalestineThe Congress of South African Trade Unions notes and welcomes the findings of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. The Tribunal found that Israel's rule over the Palestinian people living in Israel and the...
Rwandan genocide survivors still waiting for reparation | by Juergen Schurr
The survivors of one of the worst genocides in modern history are fast losing hope that they will ever be compensated. ALMOST two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, in which up to 1 million people died, hundreds of thousands of survivors are still waiting for...
Answering Judge Goldstone’s defense and denial of Israeli apartheid | by Ali Abunimah
What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times? It’s a classic case of the judge doth protest too much: One...
Answering Judge Goldstone’s defense and denial of Israeli apartheid | by Ali Abunimah
What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times? It’s a classic case of the judge doth protest too much: One...
The Spectre of South Africa | by John Reynolds
Next week, the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in Cape Town’s famous District Six. In the 1970s, 60,000 residents of District Six were forcibly removed following its designation as a White Area by the apartheid regime. Based on...
Not judges, but witnesses: the third Russell Tribunal on Palestine begins | by Frank Barat
“We will not be free until Palestine is free.” (Ryan Rodrick Beiler) “We do not represent any state power, nor can we compel the policy-makers responsible for crimes against the people of Vietnam to stand accused before us. We have no force majeure. The procedures of...




