“It is impossible to want the liberation of of one nation without wanting the liberty of others”

Such is the principle I was reminded of on reading an article on the website of the newly formed Breizhistance – Socialist Party of Brittany. Of course they go much further and add that national self-determination is nothing without a democratic control of the national economy by the people for the people, but lets just rest on the first principle for the moment.

The sentiment expressed in this sentence is, to my mind, one of the fundamental qualifiers for all progressive movements for self-determination. How could one want recognition and home-rule for ones own nation and not that of another? How can Cornish autonomists not be moved by the struggles in Brittany, Tibet or the Basque Country.

Self-determination does not equal independence.

Lets not forget that when talking of Cornwall only a minority want independence from the UK, and those that do, more often then not, want some form of European (me) or Celtic federal arrangement. Many more simply want recognition as not being part of England.

It’s still startling to hear people equate Cornish separation from England as being the same as full independence from the UK (and EU?). It seems for many recognising that Cornwall is not England is tantamount to dynamiting the small stretch of land that attaches Kernow to the rest of Britain leaving Cornwall sail of in some form of Celtic autarky. Ironic when you consider in the 19th century it was the Duchy of Cornwall that actually proved that Cornwall was not, in a constitutional sense, part of England. Recognising that Cornwall is not part of England would not suddenly mean an end to all commerce and exchange with England, the rest of the UK or Europe, that needs to be hammered home!

Finally, many more in the wider Cornish movement are content to campaign for a greater degree of decision making ability to be given to Kernow inside or outside of England. Self-determination does not always equal independence but rather a more adapted political settlement to any one national question.

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation offers this definition:

Essentially, the right to self-determination is the right of a people to determine its own destiny. In particular, the principle allows a people to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development. Exercise of this right can result in a variety of different outcomes ranging from political independence through to full integration within a state. The importance lies in the right of choice, so that the outcome of a people’s choice should not affect the existence of the right to make a choice. In practice, however, the possible outcome of an exercise of self-determination will often determine the attitude of governments towards the actual claim by a people or nation. Thus, while claims to cultural autonomy may be more readily recognized by states, claims to independence are more likely to be rejected by them. Nevertheless, the right to self-determination is recognized in international law as a right of process (not of outcome) belonging to peoples and not to states or governments.

What of England

Does England have the same right to self-determination? It should be noted that the a large majority of English nationalists fall short of the qualifier described above due to their stance on the Cornish question. Interrogate many of them and equally you’ll soon notice that they don’t give a pigs ear about the plight of any other stateless nations either. A nationalist movement that truly is insular, xenophobic and turned in on itself, English nationalism, as manifested by the EDP, EFP and others, is far from internationalist.

There are some notable exceptions to this English nationalist refusal of the Cornish question. One such individual offers us this in his blog article: The national dimension to constitutional reform

1. Formal recognition of the fundamental human right of national communities to determine their own form of government (popular sovereignty), and to decide whether they wish to constitute a national community or not


2. On this basis, a formal process to determine which actually are the national communities of the United Kingdom, including, for instance, a referendum in Cornwall to decide whether Cornwall should be considered as a nation or not; and an even more contentious process for the Northern Irish to decide whether they regard the Province as a nation in its own right. If the people of Ulster chose not to become a nation, the Province could probably be considered as a self-governing British region, which would not be very different in practical terms from being a self-governing British nation

Anyway the Cornish Democrat would like to wish the very best of luck to PSB-Breizhistance and here is hoping to see them making links in Kernow.

Det råder en stor brist på informationskällor till det som händer i östra Kurdistan/ och i övriga delar av Iran. Till och från får jag information om de kränkningar som folket i regionen utsätts för men det räcker inte riktigt och det är anledningen till de hackiga uppdateringarna kring situationen, men nu har jag kommit över färsk och trovärdig information från Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO).

En tre månaders summering från årets mitt visar även att  56 civila människor dödats i östra Kurdistan av regeringens paramilitärer och säkerhetsstyrkor.
Det vidrigaste är att det även förekommer utomrättsliga avrättningar, det vill alltså säga att de dödas på plats.

(Bild: Islamiska republikens paramilitärer gets the job done)

Iranska Kurdistan har flest antal dödsdömda politiska fångar i landet. Enligt människorättsorganisationen KHRO i Iran (Kurdistan Human Rights Organization) och Kurdistanpress.org så dödades under 2009 minst 40 människor dödades av säkerhetsstyrkorna och mer än 30 skadades.
Den kurdiska regionen i Iran är lika litet som Lappland så föreställ er all skit som verkligen förekommer där.

Här är en färskare lista på kurdiska fångar som i dagsläget väntar på sina dödsstraff:

1 Abdi Hana

2 Abdi Raouf

3 Abdi Faryad

4 Abdollah pour Seyed Tahir

5 Abdollah Zadeh Aref

6 Abdollah Zadeh Abdollah

7 Abdollahi Mohammad Said

8 Abdollahpour Rasoul

9 Afraz Ali

10 Aghemiri Reza

11 Ahadzadeh Kawe

12 Ahmadi Jafar

13 Ahmadi Madeh

14 Ahmadi Taha

15 Ahmadi Kemal

16 Ahmadi Taha

17 Alizadeh Javad

18 Amani Mahmoud

19 Amini Reza

20 Amiri Nowzad

21 Amiri Asad

22 Amoi Milan Soleiman

23 Aslani Anbar

24 Aslani Nebez

25 Ayub pour Osman

26 Ayub pour Farhad

27 Ayubzadeh Star

28 Azar Nioush Serwat

29 Babakri Amir

30 Babayi Sasan

31 Baghi Shak

32 Balahe Mehdi

33 Bayerzadeh Ali

34 Bayerzadeh Ebrahim

35 Benafshi Saed

36 Bostanchi Ghader

37 Boutimar Hiwa

38 Chabokzadeh Amir Ali

39 Changali Abdolrahman

40 Dargahi Mokhtar

41 Dargahi Jahanshah

42 Davani Haroon

43 Defai Davood

44 Droudi Valid

45 Ebrahimi Hasan

46 Ebrahimi Reihan

47 Emami Ali

48 Emami Omar

49 Faghih pour Omar

50 Faghih pour Homan

51 Faghihi Mansour

52 Fallah Hasan

53 Fallahi Hasan

54 Fatahian Ehsan (AVRÄTTAD)

55 Fatehi Khalil

56 Fathi Yazdan

57 Fathi Ataollah

58 Fathi Majid

59 Fridooni Khaled

60 Ghaderi Karim

61 Ghaderi Reza

62 Ghaderi Hejar

63 Ghaderi Mahmoud

64 Ghasemi Khalid

65 Gholami Mekail

66 Ghordoi Milan Esmail

67 Golami Mekail

68 Goli Yaser

69 Gültekin Erkan

70 Hadjipour Ali

71 Hajipour Javad

72 Hamzepour Mohammad

73 Hamzeshoja Hossein

74 Hasanpanahi Anvar

75 Hasanpour Adnan

76 Heidariyan Ali

77 Heikali Rasoul

78 Heyrani Fateh

79 Hossein Azar Helmet

80 Hossein Panahi Masoud

81 Hosseini Shaho

82 Hosseini Hassan

83 Hosseini Abdollah

84 Hosseini Seyed Reza

85 Hosseini Mollah Seyfollah

86 Hosseini Mollah Hossein

87 Ibrahimi Mohammad Raouf

88 Ibrahimi Fahim

89 Ismail Sohrab

90 Jafi Hasan

91 Jalali Sohrab

92 Jalalian Zeynab

93 Javanmard Kave

94 Joudat Ardashir

95 Joula Ghader

96 Kaboodvand Mohammad Sedigh

97 Kakememi Yousef

98 Kamangar Farzad

99 Karim Zarei Mohammad

100 Karimeh Mokhtar

101 Karimi Hossein

102 Karimpour Vafa

103 Khan Abdoli Golam Hossein

104 Khandani Siyawash

105 Khatam panah Amin

106 Khatami Yousef

107 Khezer Dashti Delshad

108 Khezri Shirko

109 Khorandi Ibrahim

110 Khosravi Jebrail

111 Kurdi Kave

112 Kurdpour Masoud

113 Latifi Habibollah

114 Leilani Mad

115 Madani Ahmad

116 Mahdi Khani Shorish

117 Mahmoudi Hasan

118 Majidfar Kaveh

119 Makoui Shahla

120 Mamadi Saber

121 Mazouji Asad

122 Mehri Loghman

123 Minapak Soleiman

124 Mirzayi Jafar

125 Mohammadi Jahandar

126 Mohammadi Fardin

127 Mohammadi Reza

128 Mohammadi Abdollah

129 Mohammadi Farzane

130 Mohammadi Behzad

131 Mohammadjani Aziz

132 Mohammadsaleh Amesh

133 Mohebbi Masoud

134 Mojaver Hossein

135 Moradi Fardin

136 Moradi Tofigh

137 Moradi Mohammad

138 Moradi Mahdi

139 Moradi Neimat

140 Morovati Wirya

141 Mostafapour Osman

142 Mostavi Zaher

143 Naderi Habibollah

144 Naghsh Enbari Ayat

145 Naseri Mohammad

146 Nasradini Mozafar

147 Nawgan zadeh Sadeg

148 Nazari Mohammad

149 Neimati Salah

150 Nojavan Tofigh

151 Oliyayi Arsalan

152 Omarpour Mohammad

153 Osmani Saleh

154 Ostad Ghazi Khaled

155 Ouramani Nejad Rahmat

156 Palesh Mohamad

157 Parvini Kamal

158 Parvizi Kawe

159 Parvizi Yaser

160 Parvizi Jamshid

161 Parvizi Mahmoud

162 Piravi Salahaddin

163 Por Jamal

164 Prooshan Mohammad Amin

165 Rahmani Mahmoud

166 Rahmani Yousef

167 Rahmani Hossein

168 Rahmani Ebrahim

169 Ramazani Amir

170 Rashi Loghman

171 Rashidi Ali

172 Rasoul Rasoul

173 Ravand Farzad

174 Romouzi Rebin

175 Roonak Ronahi

176 Rostami Mohamad Ali

177 Rostami Marbout

178 Rostami Anvar

179 Saadat Mohammad

180 Sadeghi Azad

181 Sadeghi Aziz

182 Sadigh Fazli Mohammad

183 Safazadeh Ronak

184 Saidi Ramazan

185 Saidi Borhan

186 Saidi Borhan

187 Salami Kave

188 Salavati Kavian

189 Salehi Ali

190 Salimi Mostafa

191 Satouri Naser

192 Sedghi Naser

193 Seifi Khosro

194 Shabaki fard Fouad

195 Shabaki fard Fouad

196 Shaban Hamid

197 Shaban Matlab

198 Shafii Arsalan

199 Shafii Arsalan

200 Shakeri Ali

201 Sharafat Latif

202 Sharafat Latif

203 Sharif Omar Karim

204 Sharif Omar Karim

205 Sharifi Kamal

206 Sharifi Abdollah

207 Sheikhi Behzad

208 Shirvani Farhad

209 Shirvani Farhad

210 Soleiman Ahmad

211 Sour Souri Amir

212 Tahmasobi Shorish

213 Teimoui Ahmad

214 Totoonchi Bahman

215 Urmiyeyi Shilan

216 Waismoradi Ali

217 Vakili Farhad

218 Veisi Majid

219 Yarahmadi Mohammad

220 Yousefi Golam Ali

221 Yousefi Hamzeh

222 Yousefi Mohammad

223 Yousefi Ahmad

224 Zaliye Mehdi

225 Zaliye Mohammad Ali

226 Zarei Jamal

227 Zoolghadr Rafigh

Källa: UNPO

I samma veva så anfaller iranska militära styrkor till och från byarna vid Iran-Irak gränsområdet i Kurdistan. Många livegna jordbrukare i östra Kurdistan har efter bombningarna fått stora skador på sin mark och sin boskap.

Forced evictions, labour rights, judiciary issues, the role of the EU in Cambodia, as well as political and institutional factors impacting on human rights were among the list of issues discussed during a hearing on Cambodia facilitated by Human Rights Without Frontiers at the European Parliament on 17 November 2009. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) was invited to speak.

The Hearing was chaired by Niccolò Rinaldi (Vice President of ALDE group) and moderated by Edward McMillan-Scott (VP European Parliament) alongside Willy Fautre (Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers). The panels were composed of representatives from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (Ms Maggie Murphy, Program Coordinator), Cambodian Government (H.E. Ambassador Mr. Rudi Veestraeten), the United Nations (Prof. Surya P. Subedi, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia), the European Commission (Mr. Seamus Gillespie, Head of Unit), the Center for Development Research and Cooperation (Dr. Prof. Tazeen Murshid), Amnesty International (Susi Dennison, Executive Director), International Trade Union Confederation (June Sorensen), The Cambodian Association for Human Rights (Mr. Thun Saray, President and former political prisoner) and Human Rights Watch (Brad Adams, Asia Director).

Forced evictions, labor rights, judiciary issues, the role of the EU in Cambodia, as well as political and institutional factors impacting on human rights in Cambodia were among the list of issues discussed during the hearing. Panelists shared valuable information on several topics to describe the current status of human rights in Cambodia.

Susi Dennison, Executive Officer of Amnesty International explained how the ongoing violence against women subsequently leading to forced evictions can be traced back to their lack of civil and political rights.

On the other hand, Mr Thun Saray, former political prisoner and President of the Cambodian Association for Human Rights raised deep concerns about the failure of Cambodia’s justice system to provide a political environment that would safeguard fundamental human rights of both Cambodians and its defenders in the country.

The international community is aware of Cambodia’s ratification of 7 out of 8 labour rights laws. However, June Sorensen of the International Trade Union Confederation stressed that the majority of Cambodia’s workforce remains completely unaware of labour rights making it difficult for trade unions to operate in Cambodia.

Mr. Seamus Gillespie, Head of Unit of the European Commission recognized that Cambodia has entered the process of recovery. However whilst the country has achieved some level of stability, as the elections in 2008 showcased, international standards on electoral processes have not been followed. Furthermore, not all violations against human rights in Cambodia are accurately reported especially those committed during the dictatorship. Mr Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, stressed this issue saying that crimes committed in the past should not be forgotten by simply concentrating on the recent ones.

Maggie Murphy, Program Coordinator of UNPO, spoke on four major issues of great concern to the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom and the Montagnards: land rights claims and subsequent forced relocation, religious persecution, violence and torture and forced repatriation.

Ms Murphy reiterated that these issues should be primarily addressed by acknowledging the indigenous status of both the Khmer Kampuchea Krom people and the Montagnards. The unfortunate fact is that Cambodia can sign and ratify all international declarations and agreements pertaining to indigenous peoples but unless the people of Khmer Krom and the Montagnards are acknowledged as such, every declaration is meaningless. Thus, the first step in effecting significant changes to the lives of the marginalized peoples of Khmer Krom and Montagnards is to give them the status of indigenous peoples and then ensure that constant international pressure is applied to Cambodian authorities to ensure that they abide by these international agreements.

UNPO suggests a more active role for EU in Cambodia

There are significant political and institutional factors that impede the forceful repatriation of Khmer and Montagnard refugees from Cambodia to Vietnam. UNPO hopes that the EU will put pressure on Cambodia to sign and ratify the ILO Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, with the aim of respecting the traditions of indigenous peoples in relation to the use of their ancestral lands.

Lack of Political Will

In contrast to the presentations by the majority of panelists, the Ambassador of Cambodia strongly affirmed that the concept of “freedom of expression in Cambodia is very strange” and further elaborated that “freedom of expression is in place”. He contended that this is especially true in the areas of civil and political rights. However, whilst sufficient mechanisms are in place to adequately guarantee the rights of minorities and indigenous groups, the implementation has been severely lacking. Issues addressed in the hearing can only be tackled if the Cambodian government demonstrates a strong sense of political will to ensure that the human rights of the aforementioned groups are safeguarded.

Ms Murphy concluded by explaining that many similar recommendations were made by states and NGOs as Vietnam recently underwent examination under the UPR process. On 24 September the review ended with Vietnam rejecting 45 of the Human Rights Council’s recommendations, which demonstrated a lack of commitment to securing fundamental human rights. UNPO hopes that Cambodia will be more receptive to the UPR process, and that they will facilitate it, rather than obstruct it through rejections and rebuttals. Political will is fundamental to guaranteeing the improvement of the human rights situation in Cambodia.

UNPO Condena Execuções em Lhasa, Tibete

Secretário Geral da UNPO, Marino Busdachin, declara que execuções foram feitas “na melhor tradição do autoritarismo”

23 de Outubro de 2009*

Praga, 23 de Outubro de 2009 – Ao que notícias de que quatro tibetanos foram executados na terça-feira, 20 de outubro de 2009, alcançam o mundo, a Organização de Nações e Povos Não-representados (Unrepresented Nations and Peoploes Organization – UNPO) condena sem ressalvas a falta de processo judicial próprio durante esses julgamentos e o uso contínuo da penalidade de morte por Pequim.

O Secretário Geral da UNPO, Marino Busdachin, declarou que as execuções são “o resultado de um processo opaco e intencionalmente defeituoso que é apenas o último exemplo trágico da completa falta de apreço de Pequim por processos judiciais justos e livres – um processo que foi, nesse caso, feito na melhor tradição do autoritarismo – com sentenças pré-determinadas, advogados de defesa intimidados, e carrasco o esperando.”

As execuções vêem em um momento no qual a atenção internacional vem sido abrandada desde a agitação que varreu Tibete em março de 2008, deixando muitos mortos, a região em isolamento da mídia, e a política de Pequim em desenvolver suas assim-chamadas “regiões autônomas” com descrédito.

As últimas execuções são um sinal inequívoco que, no sexagésimo aniversário de seu estabelecimento, a República Popular da China não irá considerar, ou deixar alguém barrar, as políticas de genocídio cultural que estão devastando áreas como Tibete e Turquistão Oridental.

*Tradução própria

Ver texto original em <http://www.unpo.org/images/unpo_statement_tibetoct2009.pdf>

UNPO Condemns Chinese Death Sentences without Fair Trial

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) strongly condemns the decision of the Chinese court to sentence six Uyghur men to death without fair trial.

The men were not permitted any form of legal aid and suffered as a result of discriminatory decisions and a complete lack of transparency throughout the process. The death sentences are further proof of China’s unwillingness to abide by the United Nations Global Moratorium on the Death Penalty, adopted in 2007, which establishes a suspension on executions with the view to abolish the death penalty.

“This goes against all international standards of human rights, most notably the universal right to equality before the law”, Marino Busdachin, Secretary General of UNPO, stated in immediate response to the Chinese decision.

Dolkun Isa, Secretary General of the World Uyghur Congress and prominent human rights activist, expressed the need for the international community to respond. “An independent investigation must be carried out, to impartially determine what has truly taken place”, he said. “These men were neither granted their right to a lawyer, nor to a fair legal process, thereby violating both international law and the Chinese constitution.” He continued by stating that “[t]his was not a legal, but merely a political decision”.

Immediate involvement of the international community and an independent investigation are urgently needed. “If no response comes”, Mr. Isa said, “the Chinese government has no reason to stop the discriminatory sentencing of the Uyghurs still up for trial.”

http://www.unpo.org/content/view/10191/236/

There is more to the Xinjiang riots. Its not only the Uighur Muslims vs. Han Chinese but the pipelines which (will) bring crude from oil rich Eurasian lands to China. Since these oil lines pass through Xinjiang, a destabilization of the region is a convenient course for US Neocons to rock the boat of Chinese economy.

by F. William Engdahl

Note for WoP Readers: Most probably you have completed reading Matthew’s sarcastic remarks on Muslims’ reaction towards Xinjiang riots. I wished to further dilate upon this subject point by point, but then I saw article by William Engdahl at Global Research site. Global Research is a Non Profit Organization headed by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky (from where sometimes I reproduce for you, dear readers, articles of topical interest).

I saw Engdahl’s post and found that whatever (rather more than I could) I wished to say in response to Matthew’s post, has already been covered by Bill Engdahl, who has done an excellent job by elucidating all those points, particularly exposing Washington’s machinations in pushing up propaganda against the PRC which is squarely aimed to emotionalize the Muslim world in a way that Xinjaing riots could form the focal point in destabilizing China – a possibility which could hit right at China’s energy supplies thus crippling its economy – an Action Replay of the Soviet demise through Afghan proxies, to be only replaced this time by the Uighurs of Xinjiang. Engdahl’s informative, well articulated and thoroughly investigative post now follows….

After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China.The reasons for Washington’s intervention into Xinjiang affairs seems to have little to do with concerns over alleged human rights abuses by Beijing authorities against Uyghur people. It seems rather to have very much to do with the strategic geopolitical location of Xinjiang on the Eurasian landmass and its strategic importance for China’s future economic and energy cooperation with Russia, Kazakhastan and other Central Asia states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Liu Huiling, a Han Chinese patient, who was injured during ethnic clashes recuperates at People’s Hospital in Urumqi, western China’s Xinjiang province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Ethnic clashes have paralyzed Urumqi over the past several days, with minority Uighur and Han Chinese mobs roaming the streets and attacking each other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The major organization internationally calling for protests in front of Chinese embassies around the world is the Washington, D.C.-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC).

The WUC manages to finance a staff, a very fancy website in English, and has a very close relation to the US Congress-funded NED. According to published reports by the NED itself, the World Uyghur Congress receives $215,000.00 annually from the National Endowment for Democracy for “human rights research and advocacy projects.” The president of the WUC is an exile Uyghur who describes herself as a “laundress turned millionaire,” Rebiya Kadeer, who also serves as president of the Washington D.C.-based Uyghur American Association, another Uyghur human rights organization which receives significant funding from the US Government via the National Endowment for Democracy.

The NED was intimately involved in financial support to various organizations behind the Lhasa ”Crimson Revolution“ in March 2008, as well as the Saffron Revolution in Burma/Myanmar and virtually every regime change destabilization in eastern Europe over the past years from Serbia to Georgia to Ukraine to Kyrgystan to Teheran in the aftermath of the recent elections.

Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, was quite candid when he said in a published interview in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

A boy runs next to an overturned car just outside the Uighurs neighbourhood in Urumqi on July 8, 2009. (REUTERS/ Nir Elias) # #

The NED is supposedly a private, non-government, non-profit foundation, but it receives a yearly appropriation for its international work from the US Congress. The NED money is channelled through four “core foundations”. These are the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, linked to Obama’s Democratic Party; the International Republican Institute tied to the Republican Party; the American Center for International Labor Solidarity linked to the AFL-CIO US labor federation as well as the US State Department; and the Center for International Private Enterprise linked to the US Chamber of Commerce.

The salient question is what has the NED been actively doing that might have encouraged the unrest in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and what is the Obama Administration policy in terms of supporting or denouncing such NED-financed intervention into sovereign politics of states which Washington deems a target for pressure? The answers must be found soon, but one major step to help clarify Washington policy under the new Obama Administration would be for a full disclosure by the NED, the US State Department and NGO’s linked to the US Government, of their involvement, if at all, in encouraging Uyghur separatism or unrest. Is it mere coincidence that the Uyghur riots take place only days following the historic meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

Uyghur exile organizations, China and Geopolitics

On May 18 this year, the US-government’s in-house “private” NGO, the NED, according to the official WUC website, hosted a seminal human rights conference entitled East Turkestan: 60 Years under Communist Chinese Rule, along with a curious NGO with the name, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO).

The Honorary President and founder of the UNPO is one Erkin Alptekin, an exile Uyghur who founded UNPO while working for the US Information Agency’s official propaganda organization, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as Director of their Uygur Division and Assistant Director of the Nationalities Services.

Will it be another war, this time, by the Uighur Muslims against Chinese Infidels; strategized, trained and financed by the Pentagon?

Alptekin also founded the World Uyghur Congress at the same time, in 1991, while he was with the US Information Agency. The official mission of the USIA when Alptekin founded the World Uyghur Congress in 1991 was “to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics in promotion of the [USA] national interest…” Alptekin was the first president of WUC, and, according to the official WUC website, is a “close friend of the Dalai Lama.”

Closer examination reveals that UNPO is in turn to be an American geopolitical strategist’s dream organization. It was formed, as noted, in 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing and most of the land area of Eurasia was in political and economic chaos. Since 2002 its Director General has been Archduke Karl von Habsburg of Austria who lists his (unrecognized by Austria or Hungary) title as “Prince Imperial of Austria and Royal Prince of Hungary.”

Among the UNPO principles, is the right to ‘self-determination’ for the 57 diverse population groups who, by some opaque process not made public, have been admitted as official UNPO members with their own distinct flags, with a total population of some 150 million peoples and headquarters in the Hague, Netherlands.

UNPO members range from Kosovo which “joined” when it was fully part of then Yugoslavia in 1991. It includes the “Aboriginals of Australia” who were listed as founding members along with Kosovo. It includes the Buffalo River Dene Nation Indians of northern Canada.

The select UNPO members also include Tibet which is listed as a founding member. It also includes other explosive geopolitical areas as the Crimean Tartars, the Greek Minority in Romania, the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (in Russia), the Democratic Movement of Burma, and the gulf enclave adjacent to Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and which just happens to hold rights to some of the world’s largest offshore oil fields leased to Condi Rice’s old firm, Chevron Oil. Further geopolitical hotspots which have been granted elite recognition by the UNPO membership include the large section of northern Iran which designates itself as Southern Azerbaijan, as well as something that calls itself Iranian Kurdistan.

In April 2008 according to the website of the UNPO, the US Congress’ NED sponsored a “leadership training” seminar for the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. Over 50 Uyghurs from around the world together with prominent academics, government representatives and members of the civil society gathered in Berlin Germany to discuss “Self-Determination under International Law.” What they discussed privately is not known. Rebiya Kadeer gave the keynote address.

The suspicious timing of the Xinjiang riots

The current outbreak of riots and unrest in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang in the northwest part of China, exploded on July 5 local time.

According to the website of the World Uyghur Congress, the “trigger” for the riots was an alleged violent attack on June 26 in China’s southern Guangdong Province at a toy factory where the WUC alleges that Han Chinese workers attacked and beat to death two Uyghur workers for allegedly raping or sexually molesting two Han Chinese women workers in the factory. On July 1, the Munich arm of the WUC issued a worldwide call for protest demonstrations against Chinese embassies and consulates for the alleged Guangdong attack, despite the fact they admitted the details of the incident were unsubstantiated and filled with allegations and dubious reports.

According to a press release they issued, it was that June 26 alleged attack that gave the WUC the grounds to issue their worldwide call to action.

On July 5, a Sunday in Xinjiang but still the USA Independence Day, July 4, in Washington, the WUC in Washington claimed that Han Chinese armed soldiers seized any Uyghur they found on the streets and according to official Chinese news reports, widespread riots and burning of cars along the streets of Urumqi broke out resulting over the following three days in over 140 deaths.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said that protesters from the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority group began attacking ethnic Han pedestrians, burning vehicles and attacking buses with batons and rocks. “They took to the street…carrying knives, wooden batons, bricks and stones,” they cited an eyewitness as saying. The French AFP news agency quoted Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uighur American Association in Washington, that according to his information, police had begun shooting “indiscriminately” at protesting crowds.

A woman looks through a damaged window following Sunday’s riot in Urumqi on July 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Nir Elias) #

Two different versions of the same events: The Chinese government and pictures of the riots indicate it was Uyghur riot and attacks on Han Chinese residents that resulted in deaths and destruction. French official reports put the blame on Chinese police “shooting indiscriminately.” Significantly, the French AFP report relies on the NED-funded Uyghur American Association of Rebiya Kadeer for its information. The reader should judge if the AFP account might be motivated by a US geopolitical agenda, a deeper game from the Obama Administration towards China’s economic future.

Is it merely coincidence that the riots in Xinjiang by Uyghur organizations broke out only days after the meeting took place in Yakaterinburg, Russia of the member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as well as Iran as official observer guest, represented by President Ahmadinejad?

Over the past few years, in the face of what is seen as an increasingly hostile and incalculable United States foreign policy, the major nations of Eurasia—China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan have increasingly sought ways of direct and more effective cooperation in economic as well as security areas. In addition, formal Observer status within SCO has been given to Iran, Pakistan, India and Mongolia. The SCO defense ministers are in regular and growing consultation on mutual defense needs, as NATO and the US military command continue provocatively to expand across the region wherever it can.

The Strategic Importance of Xinjiang for Eurasian Energy Infrastructure

There is another reason for the nations of the SCO, a vital national security element, to having peace and stability in China’s Xinjiang region. Some of China’s most important oil and gas pipeline routes pass directly through Xinjiang province. Energy relations between Kazkhastan and China are of enormous strategic importance for both countries, and allow China to become less dependent on oil supply sources that can be cut off by possible US interdiction should relations deteriorate to such a point.

Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid a State visit in April 2009 to Beijing. The talks concerned deepening economic cooperation, above all in the energy area, where Kazkhastan holds huge reserves of oil and likely as well of natural gas. After the talks in Beijing, Chinese media carried articles with such titles as “”Kazakhstani oil to fill in the Great Chinese pipe.”

The Atasu-Alashankou pipeline to be completed in 2009 will provide transportation of transit gas to China via Xinjiang. As well Chinese energy companies are involved in construction of a Zhanazholskiy gas processing plant, Pavlodar electrolyze plant and Moynakskaya hydro electric station in Kazakhastan.

According to the US Government’s Energy Information Administration, Kazakhastan’s Kashagan field is the largest oil field outside the Middle East and the fifth largest in the world in terms of reserves, located off the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, near the city of Atyrau. China has built a 613-mile-long pipeline from Atasu, in northwestern Kazakhstan, to Alashankou at the border of China’s Xinjiang region which is exporting Caspian oil to China. PetroChina’s ChinaOil is the exclusive buyer of the crude oil on the Chinese side. The pipeline is a joint venture of CNPC and Kaztransoil of Kazakhastan. Some 85,000 bbl/d of Kazakh crude oil flowed through the pipeline during 2007. China’s CNPC is also involved in other major energy projects with Kazakhastan. They all traverse China’s Xinjiang region.

In 2007 CNPC signed an agreement to invest more than $2 billion to construct a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China. That pipeline would start at Gedaim on the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and extend 1,100 miles through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Khorgos in China’s Xinjiang region. Turkmenistan and China have signed a 30-year supply agreement for the gas that would fill the pipeline. CNPC has set up two entities to oversee the Turkmen upstream project and the development of a second pipeline that will cross China from the Xinjiang region to southeast China at a cost of some $7 billion.

As well, Russia and China are discussing major natural gas pipelines from eastern Siberia through Xinjiang into China. Eastern Siberia contains around 135 Trillion cubic feet of proven plus probable natural gas reserves. The Kovykta natural gas field could give China with natural gas in the next decade via a proposed pipeline.

During the current global economic crisis, Kazakhstan received a major credit from China of $10 billion, half of which is for oil and gas sector. The oil pipeline Atasu-Alashankou and the gas pipeline China-Central Asia, are an instrument of strategic ‘linkage’ of central Asian countries to the economy of China. That Eurasian cohesion from Russia to China across Central Asian countries is the geopolitical cohesion Washington most fears. While they would never say so, growing instability in Xinjiang would be an ideal way for Washington to weaken that growing cohesion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization nations.

William Engdahl is the author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.

 This video by CCTV, tells us the Chinese version of events as they took place in Urumqi, the Xinjiang’s capital city.

Source:

Still Photos Nos. 2 to 5: Courtesy: BostonGlobe

Aparentemente começou, de maneira oficial, a temporada de perseguições a grupos e indivíduos nacionalistas pelo mundo.

Não que seja fato novo mas desde pelo menos as Olimpíadas de Pequim que a coisa desandou. Começou com os Uigures sendo perseguidos de maneira mais feroz, sendo isolados completamente do mundo pela polícia Chinesa. bombas explodiram na China e os ataques foram atribuídos a obscuros grupos supostamente “radicais muçulmanos” ligados à minoria (não tão minoria assim para qualquer padrão) Uigur.

Ao mesmo tempo vimos a violência crescente e opressão contra Tibetanos, novamente coisa de Chineses “Comunistas”. A China desde sempre oprime não só seu próprio povo em um regime ditatorial – mas aceito universalmente, nem os EUA, arautos da liberdade e que impuseram sua visão de democracia ao mundo (vide Iraque, Afeganistão, Granada, América Central, América Latina, Vietnã, Coréia, ad nauseam) reclamam da China e de seu regime opressor – mas também as minorias que tiveram a infelicidade de serem conquistadas por Pequim.

Saindo da China e indo até o Sri Lanka, podemos observar a situação do poro Tâmil, que luta ha mais de 30 anos por independência e tem nos Tigres Tâmil sua arma de ataque e defesa.

Claro que ninguém pode considerar os Tigres Tâmil (LTTE) bonzinhos ou inocentes. Não são.

Foram eles quem iniciaram os ataques suicidas – e não os islâmicos, como muitos gostam de pensar e anunciar de boca cheia – e de fato usam civis como escudos humanos mas, ainda assim, são representantes do povo tâmil e detém o apoio deste até hoje.

Este site tme uma lista completa com descrição de todos os ataques suicidas e artigos sobre o LTTE, possui imagens fortes mas é incrível.

Exemplo do apoio foi a marcha de mais de 100 mil Tamil pelas ruas de Londres semana passada em apoio ao grupo e contra o Sri Lanka.

A LTTE chegou a dominar a maior parte do que epara a criação de um Estado Independente, o Tamil Eelan e hoje se vê reduzido a uma porção ínfima do território e lutam para não serem totalmente destruídos.

Passando para a Europa temos o caso dos Bascos, que já relatei várias vezes aqui no blog, temos o caso das minorias Ossetas e Abkházias na Geórgia que finalmente conseguiram sua independência da Geórgia depois de tentativas de limpeza étnica, temos o caso da Chechênia que continua a ser massacrada pelos Russos e por seu presidente genocida, Ramzan Kadyrov, temos a Córsega onde os militantes dos diversos partidos e grupos pró-independência assim como membros dos grupos guerrilheiros Corsos e etc…

É possível fazer uma lista quase interminável de grupos e indivíduos nacionalistas, representantes de minorias pelo mundo que são constantemente acossados, presos e torturados.

A notícia mais recente, porém nos leva ao Curdistão turco onde o PKK (Partido dos Trabalhadores do Curdistão), do líder enjaulado desde 1999 sob condições desumanas Abdullah Öcalan, é ilegal mas ainda assim é uma guerrilha forte.

Nesta semana diversos membros (entre 50 e 70) do DTP (Partido da Sociedade Democrática), partido Curdo legalizado na turquia, foram presos pela polícia acusadas de serem membros do PKK no que, todos sabem, foi uma vingança do governo turco pelo crescimento deste partido na região de maioria curda do leste do país.

Once again Ankara is trying to use police to achieve the goals that could not be secured through the ballot box. Only two weeks after DTP’s (Democratic Society Party) overwhelming victory in local elections, the Turkish police have arrested dozens of Kurds all across Turkey, mainly DTP members and officials, accused of belonging to the PKK, the Kurdish pro-independence guerrilla.

Dentre os presos se encontram 3 vice-presidentes, o primeiro acessor do prefeito de Diyarbakir, o advogado de defesa de Öcalan e o editor chefe da Gün TV. Os demais presos são membros e militantes do partido.

Seracettin Irmak, a lawyer for the PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan, is also among the detained. Some of the key DTP members in custody include Deputy Chairman Kamuran Yüksek, Deputy Chairman Bayram Altun, Deputy Chairwoman Selma Irmak, Bartın Mayor’s Office Public Works Director Heval Erdemli, Tunceli Deputy Mayor Halil Ünlü and Diyarbakır Mayor Osman Baydemir’s prime aide, Ahmet Zirek.

Resumindo: Não é de hoje a perseguição contra minorias mas, aparentemente, os Estados resolveram agir de uma vez e ilegalizar, proibir, matar, torturar e prender a todos que reivindicar um direito básico, o de autodeterminação.

Dentre os povos oprimidos poderiam ainda ser citados, com destaque:

Bascos, Curdos, Catalães, Corsos, Tibetanos, Uigures, Chechenos, Tâmil, Ossetas, Provençais (Occitanos), Bretões, Ingushes, Daguestanis (diversos grupos na Rep. autônoma do Daguestão), Tártaros, Indígenas na América Latina, Agorígenas na Austrália, Aborígenes de Bouganville, Tahitianos, povo de Cabinda, e diversos outros.

Um organismo de representação destas minorias é a UNPO, cujo site merece ser acessado.

Report by: Information Secretary Ali Memon
March 29th , 2009
Press release- Interfaith international with the collaboration of UNPO, Baloch Human Rights Council, World Sindhi Congress, Sindhi Baloch Forum and Balochistan Rights Movement held a peaceful protest rally on Friday 20 March 2009 from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm in front of the United Nations office in Geneva Switzerland. The slogans on the placards high lighted various aspects of human right violation.
A conference on Human Rights situation in Balochistan was also held in the UN conference room at 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm ,chaired by interfaith international president Mr. Charles Graves.
Senator Sana Baloch presented a detailed graphic accounts of injustices, atrocities, human rights violations, political, social deprivations, abduction & extra judicial killing of Baloch civilians including women & children, Target killing of Baloch leaders and Baloch intellectuals by the State.

Mehran Baloch of Balochistan Human Rights Movement stated that 61 years of slavery .. has given Baloch no other option but to demand and gets its Freedom. A free & sovereign Balochistan is the demand of Baloch nation, United Nations and international community should support the genuine Baloch demand for freedom of Balochistan.

Noordin Mengal spoke of Pakistani state terrorism and target killing of Baloch leadership and abduction of Baloch civilian by state agencies. He warned that the Baloch had suffered a lot in the hands of .. states and time has come for the Baloch to get their .. Balochistan. He said he has trust and faith on international community who will appreciate and support the legitimate right of the Baloch nation for freedom.

Munir Mengal spoke of his ordeal in .. torture cell. He said he was abducted by the .. secret agencies. He said his only crime was that he had publicly announced that he wanted to launch a Balochi TV. He gave a graphic detailed of tortures that he has faced during his solitary confinement including the ordeal of MS. Zarrina Marri.

The president of United Nations Human Rights Commission for .. desk spoke to the conference and clearly confirmed that there are gross human rights violations happening in Balochistan by .. security agencies. He read a lengthy account of .. state terrorism in Balochistan and assured the conference and Baloch people that United Nations is serious and pressurizing .. and would use its office to stop these atrocities and human rights violations happening in Balochistan

Dr. Lakhu Luhana of World Sindhi Congress expressed his nation’s solidarity with Baloch people and said it is Sindh and Balochistan’s resources which are generating money to economy. He drew the international community’s attention to .. against humanity in both Balochistan and in Sindh and warned that the same enemy has also knocked the doors of international community. .. are not only a danger for Baloch & Sindhis but also a threat for the peace & security of the region and as well as for the international community. It is time that international community should commit itself in supporting the genuine & legitimate rights of Sindh and Balochistan for self determination according UN charter.

The representative of UNPO, the representatives of European Union South Asian Group, minister from the Canadian government, Peace and Nationality representative of Austria, United Nations High commissioner for Refugees and many other members of The United Nations Human Rights Council and NGOs from Europe expressed their opinion and shared their sympathies with the Baloch nation and pledged their support for their demand of self determination according UN charters .

It is worth noting that for the first time the delegates of different Baloch Organizations from Europe , Scandinavia and other parts of the world attended the Geneva protest and Baloch conference. Members of Baloch Human Rights Council were among the participants. Others who participated were Mr. Nasser Mohtashami, Rahim Baloch, Abdulla Baloch, Iqbal Baloch, Mir Ghulam Hussain Baloch, Jamshed Amiri, Saeed Baloch, Sadiech Baloch, Dur Mohd Baloch, Abdulla Hossainbor and Samad Baloch were among the Baloch participants. The Main organizers of the protest rally and the conference in Geneva were the interfaith international, representative of UNPO and Mr. Noordin Mengal.

A memorandum to the president of United Nations Human Rights Council is handed over on behalf of of the interfaith international, UNPO, Baloch Human Rights Council, World Sindhi Congress, Sindhi Baloch forum. A copy of the memorandum is attached with.

At the end of the conference an appeal was launched on behalf of the participants of the conference, and the Baloch representatives for the safe release of UNHCR representative Mr. John Solicky.

Issued by:
Samad Baloch
Secretary General
Baloch Human Rights Council, London
Dated: 23-03-09
info_bhrc@yahoo.co.uk

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The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international, nonviolent, and democratic membership organisation. Its members are indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognised or occupied territories who have joined together to protect and promote their human and cultural rights, to preserve their environments, and to find nonviolent solutions to conflicts which affect them.

Although the aspirations of UNPO Members differ greatly, they are all united by one shared condition – they are not adequately represented at major international fora, such as the United Nations. As a consequence, their opportunity to participate on the international stage is significantly limited, as is their ability to access and draw upon the support of the global bodies mandated to defend their rights, protect their environments, and mitigate the effects of conflict.

In today’s world where over 90 percent of conflicts are intra-state, UNPO has been established to fill this gap, providing an international forum through which its Members can become effective participants and contributors to the international community. In an increasingly interdependent world it is ever more important that those who continue to be denied their rights or remain excluded be given an opportunity to present their case. UNPO works therefore to address the consequences of marginalisation, working with its Members to promote their democratic causes, to provide information, and to articulate creative and nonviolent strategies for progress, above all however, UNPO works to ensure their voices are heard.

Founded in 1991 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, UNPO is unique as an international organisation in that it is built entirely by its Members. Through this strong connection to those suffering the consequences of the exclusion the organisation seeks to address, UNPO has since grown into a prominent and respected international forum.

UNPO’s membership has also grown steadily from its original fifteen founders, representing now almost 60 Members worldwide. Although the work of UNPO adapts continually to meet the challenges of its Members and the nature of the international political climate, each Member remains committed to respecting the five principles enshrined in the UNPO Covenant: nonviolence, human rights, democracy and self-determination, environmental protection, and tolerance.

UNPO remains committed to offering an increasing number of nations and peoples an entry point into the international community, enabling its Members also to learn from one another; lending their support where there are setbacks and sharing their experiences in success.

Tydens die 9^de UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) se algemene vergadering wat wat op 16 & 17 Mei in Brussel plaas gevind het, het die “Afrikaner” die volgende griewe voorgehou:

We (the “Afrikaner”):

Reject the centralization of power which ignores the realities of minority groups in any country;

Expresses its concern about the 2000 farm murders in South Africa, in addition to the non-compliance of the constitutional provisions for language, culture, education and other Afrikaner rights;

Endorses its solidarity with minority groups worldwide experiencing violations of their rights of whatever kind;

Endorses the pursuance of self-determination which encompasses political, economic, cultural and other possible forms of self-determination and self expression by minority groups by means of regional, community and other forms of autonomy; and

Supports efforts to internationalize and expose violations of minority and groups rights by nation states.

(Bron: http://www.unpo.org/content/view/8187/81/)

UNPO het heelhartig die sogenaamde “Afrikaner” as ‘n lid van op hul algemene vergadering (16, 17 Mei) aanvaar.  Die Vryheidsfront Plus het by wyse van dr. Pieter Mulder lidmaatskap namens die “Afrikaner” aanvaar.

Dit maak my angswekkend bang dat ‘n beweging soos die VF⁺ namens die sogenaamde “Afrikaner” kan optree en / of verteenwoordig.  Die verwardheid en warboel waarin die Afrikaans sprekende hom huidiglik bevind laat weinig ruimte vir ‘n sinvolle klassifisering.

Ek moet mooi dink voordat ek myself as “Afrikaner” wil / sal vereenselwig, veral as ‘n enkele organisaie soos die VF my verteenwoordig.  Die “minority” het vir jare lank in Suid-Afrika die “majority” ge-”reject” en onderdruk terwyl ons wit boeties ‘n koue skouer en blinde oog daarvoor gegooi het.  Nou kom maak hulle magtige statements met ‘n onrusbarende 15% van die totale “Afrikaner” wat hulle ondersteun!  Nou wie op gods akker verteenwoordig dan die ander 85%?

Die VF moet ophou om namens die 85% te praat.  As die VF namens die “Afrikaner” gaan praat, dan is dit beter om myself as sogenaamde “Afriakener” te onteien.  Net so min as wat Robert Mugabe vir Zimbabwe moet verteenwoordig, net so min moet Pieter Mulder die Afrikaner verteenwoordig – alhoewel hy dink dat hy die spreekbuis van die bastion is!

Dr. Mulder, u “moun” met ‘n wit brood onder die arm!

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Concerned about the following human rights violations in Ethiopia, which include mass killing, kidnapping, imprisonment and torture, and which are being inflicted upon the Oromos and other nations and nationalities both in Ethiopia and in neighbouring countries where they have taken refuge, have heightened our concern about the safety of those peoples:

Extra-Judicial Killing: Abdi Abrahim age 30 from Dirre Xiyara , East Hararge was shot with three bullets and killed on October 30, 2007 by the Ethiopian Government soldiers. Abdi Abrahim was shot dead near Ethiopian Military Camp, found in a place called Didibo in Eastern Hararge.

Mass Attack Against Oromo Refugees in Neighbouring Country: 65 Oromo refugees from Ethiopia were killed and more than 100 others were seriously injured when two grenades were thrown at two different hotels owned by two Oromo refugees, Melaku and Jamal Arsii, in the port town of Bossaso in Puntland, Somalia. The victims were watching a video game produced in Oromo Language at the time the attack took place on the 5th of February, 2008.

Kidnappings and Tortures: Two Oromo refugees are in a critical condition after they were kidnapped and tortured by Ethiopian soldiers operating in Somaliland.

To read the whole resolution, click here.

Don’t open any E-Mail attached PDF-Documents! Especially, if they appear to be sent to you by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). Most propably that’s not the real orgin! As reported by F-secure, the PDF document drops a file called winkey.exe to C:\Program Files\Update\ and later executes it. Despite the fact, that it is placed under “Updates”, it is not something you would want to have on your PC for it is a keylogger. Well…that’s nothing new – thousends of infected mails drop by at every mail provider – this one though is a specielity:It is directly aimed at Pro-Tibetian Groups and Organisations! The PDF-document is a statement of solidarity to the Tibetian:

“UNPO condemms the draconian Chinese response that has led to substantial loss of life and countless detentions and beatings, and calls upon the Chinese authorities at all levels to enter into a constructive dialoque designed to end the violence and promote a return to peace within Tibet as soon as possible”

And since every Keylogger needs a Server, guess where the Server is located! Damm right: In China!!! xsz.8800.org, this server is allready quite known by internet security specalists: “8800.org is a Chinese DNS-bouncer system that, while not rogue by itself, has been used over and over again in various targeted attacks.“(F-Secure)

And that’s not it! There many more of these attacks going on right now! All of them have in common that the sender adress is spoofed to look like a trusted party and that they all have an infected file attached to it that has something to do with Pro-Tibeteriasm.

I do not know, if this is the doing of (recently growing) chinese intelligence services, some other politically/economically driven party or rouge black hat hackers (the later seems quite unlikely though). I guess, the chinese government wouldn’t hinder anyone doing just this kind of stuff. The fact, that this is acutally happening should be enough, to cause an international outcry!

There is another thing, that really concerns me: The Russian Business Network (RBN), one of the worst areas in the Internet in terms of cybercrime recently shut down it’s servers/lost connection to the rest of the internet. While there have been reports suggesting, the RBN re-opened it’s doors, there are RBN-like structures arising on chinese ground – perhaps even financed by the RBN. At the same time, Chinese government recently decided to form a military cyber-unit and international govermental agencies see themselves confronted with acts of chinese reconnaissance and sometimes even attacks. Of course, they are not directly traceable to the chinese government, still…Many security specialists believe, that china is kinda seeking worldwide cyber-dominance. All this suggests, that China does have the ressources to stop those RBN-derivates but nothing seems to happen! What does this mean? Propably China even likes the RBN to gain a foothold in China so they can pretend to be rouge hackers while attacking…let’s say the german Reichstag (as allready happend if I’m not mistaken). Of course, this is all a hypothesis, nothing real! But feel yourself warned: Secure your Computer! Hard times are to come!

Whoever it is, they are trying to spy on Pro-Tibetian groups and individuals. So if you get an unrequested mail by any party with any kind of attachement: double check, if the file is clean via antivirus-software and by sending (do not use the reply function but any known mail addy) a mail asking, if this mail really originates from the specified sender! Furthermore: Inform other Pro-tibetian Individuals/Groups of this new threat.

Source & courtesy: UNPO UPR
Successive military regimes in Pakistan have undermined the provincial autonomy once enjoyed by the Sindh province since it elected to enter a federal Pakistan in 1940. Decades later, and with those promises long broken, Sindh has found its religious freedoms, its freedom to assembly, the rights of its women, and even its environment all violated. UNPO went on to highlight these abuses at the Universal Periodic Review of United Nation’s Human Rights Council.

Following is the source of above statement;

http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7608

Editorial

Destino e futuro.

Pensamento socioculturalista

O Quinto Mundo e o Novo Micronacionalismo – Carlos Góes.

Expediente

Editor – Carlos Góes

Redação – Carlos Góes, Filipe Sales, Rodrigo Mariano e Fernando Henrique Cardozo.