Last night, Russia was kicked out of the World Cup. When the Croatian player Ivan Rakitić scored the winning penalty, the public here in Senegal uttered a joyful cry of satisfaction. I was watching the match in front of a large screen located in the Dakar’s Sacré Cœur district. I could not expect that reaction.…
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The last weeks have been very painful for many activists and human rights defenders. Watching the indiscriminate terror carried out against Syrians in Ghouta while the International Community was distracted or cautious in raising their voice has been another shocking punch in the face for whom he still believes that international human rights law…
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Da un compound superprotetto, circondato da lastroni di cemento incastrati in modo identico a quello del Muro di segregazione israeliano, e serrato da cancelli di ferro e sbarre pesanti quanto un fuoristrada, a Kabul, questa mattina, ascoltavo l’intervento del presidente Trump sull’attacco all’aeroporto militare siriano. In Italia, iniziava la giornata. Provavo strane impressioni: si trattava…
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Cher Paolo, cher frère dans la foi en Jésus-Christ, tu nous manques. Il y a bien longtemps que je voulais t’écrire. Les images désormais quotidiennes d’une Alep dévastée par des bombardements assassins m’ont finalement poussé à prendre plume et encre. Tu nous manques car nous sommes vidés de tout espoir, nous avons baissé les bras…
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Mon cinquantième anniversaire est arrivé. J’ai entendu dire que certains dans un jour pareil ferment la porte de leur maison à clef et ne sortent pas. D’autres, par contre, organisent de grands banquets qui resteront dans les annales. Personnellement, j’ai pensé de vous écrire une lettre. J’ai réfléchi sur quelle langue utiliser, et j’ai pensé…
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Fuck Humanity. [Signed] Aleppo, April 28, 2016. This is what someone wrote on a wall of Aleppo while the recent bombing campaign of al-Asad’s regime was going on without hesitations, with the backing of Russia, after having buried the ceasefire and started doing what they have always wished to do: annihilate people to win territory.…
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L’Italia che incontro attorno alle presentazioni di «Riscatto mediterraneo». A La Spezia arrivo con Ahmed Saʿd al-dīn, agronomo, ma soprattutto attivista politico siriano, membro del Partito della Repubblica, partito siriano indipendente nato in esilio nel 2014. Sarà la Siria oggetto principale degli incontri, in particolare nella severa Sala Dante, insieme alle classi invitate dalla Consulta…
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Je suis d’accord avec le Président de la République française: les attaques terroristes de Paris du 13 novembre dernier sont un acte de guerre. Nous sommes tous profondément bouleversés et attristés. L’État islamique, dans le communiqué diffusé en son nom le lendemain, mentionne la Syrie, reliant ainsi l’opération du commando parisien à l’intervention de l’aviation…
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Sono d’accordo con il presidente della Repubblica francese: gli attacchi terroristici del 13 novembre scorso a Parigi sono un atto di guerra. Siamo tutti spaventati e profondamente addolorati. Lo Stato Islamico, nel comunicato diffuso a suo nome il giorno seguente, cita la Siria, collegando dunque l’operazione del commando parigino all’intervento dell’aviazione francese in Siria. In…
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Un lancinant point de douleur sur le côté de l’âme, voilà ce que j’ai ressenti le 21 août dernier lorsque j’ai lu par hasard sur al-Jazeera News la nouvelle de la démolition par les combatants de l’Etat Islamique du monastère de Mār Elyān al-Cheikh, situé à proximité de la petite ville de al-Qaryatain, en Syrie.…
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The Treaty of the European Union says: «The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance,…
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It is difficult to add other things on what happens in Gaza these days, which has already raised the frustration and the disgust of thousands of squares around the world. The same movie is screened: Israeli massive military intervention against Palestinian rocket rainfall on the one hand, and large-scale destruction with numerous casualties in the…
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(This article was originally published on Mashallah News, and on BabelMed in French) His nickname is “Black Eyes.” He is 21 years old and joined the Free Syrian Army after months of demonstrating, after the authorities had lost their patience with those young people demanding the fall of the regime. He walks around the al-Mashhad…
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