Sri Lankan protesters include Tamil victims in war memorial
Colombo, Sri Lanka AP Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands – including ethnic Tamil civilians – killed in the final stages of the country’s decades-long civil war, in the first-ever event where mostly majority ethnic Sinhalese openly memorialised the minority group. Protesters gathered outside the President’s office floated flowers in […]
Terrible toll: Children are being killed and maimed by discarded explosives in Ethiopia
GIULIA PARAVICINI, of Reuters, reports on the damage discarded explosives are causing among children during the country’s civil war…
Postcards: Fearing civil war amnesia, activists fight to preserve Beirut port silos
TIMOUR AZHARI, of Reuters, reports from Lebanon on efforts to keep what some believe would be a powerful acknowledgement of suffering in a nation still struggling to come to terms with years of war and strife…
“Life was completely erased”: Syria gas attack victims, awaiting justice, say impunity fuels war crimes
KHALIL ASHAWI and TOM PERRY, of Reuters, report on the long wait for justice for Syrians whose families were killed in poison gas attacks during the country’s long-running war…
“We are lost”: Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger. Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father’s car repair […]
UN raises less than a third of $US4.27 billion sought for Yemen to avoid starvation
Reuters The United Nations on Wednesday received only $US1.3 billion in pledges towards a $US4.27 billion aid plan for war-torn Yemen where the humanitarian drive had seen funding dry up even before global attention turned to the conflict in Ukraine. “We hoped for more and it is a disappointment that we weren’t able as yet […]
Salvadoran court orders arrest of ex-president Cristiani over civil war atrocity
San Salvador, El SalvadorReuters A court in El Salvador on Friday ordered the provisional arrest of former President Alfredo Cristiani for alleged involvement in covering up the murder of six Jesuit priests and two of their staff during the country’s civil war in the 1980s. Prosecutors accuse the former president, who governed the Central American […]
Wow!: COVID and war push Yemen’s businesswomen to smash taboos
AMAL MAMOON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Taiz in Yemen on how women are defying conservative notions about gender roles to open new ventures…
Two priests, two lay people beatified in El Salvador
San Salvador, El Salvador AP The Roman Catholic Church beatified two priests and two lay people Saturday, all victims of right-wing death squads during El Salvador’s civil war. Rev Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest killed alongside friends Manuel Solorzano and teenager Nelson Lemus on 12th March, 1977, was known for his ministry to the poor […]
Around 20 killed in deadliest coalition strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa since 2019
Aden, Yemen Reuters Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi group on the capital Sanaa killed at least 20 people overnight, including civilians, Houthi media and residents said, in one of its deadliest attacks since 2019. Around 14 people were killed when coalition planes struck the home of a high-ranking Houthi military official, […]