Arab states’ crimes against Palestinians: For years, they’ve kept the people dispossessed :: Judith Miller

Posted by Matt in October 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Arab States, Crimes, Economic Rights, Fault Lines, International Crisis Group, Judith Miller, Lebanon, Marginalized, palestinian, Palestinians, People, Political Leadership, Prospects, Refugee Population, Refugees, Time Bomb

The fact that the divided Palestinian political leadership is silent about the mistreatment of these refugees by Arab states does not make such behavior any less reprehensible – or less dangerous.
“Marginalized, deprived of basic political and economic rights, trapped in the camps, bereft of realistic prospects, heavily armed and standing atop multiple fault lines,” a [...]

Thousands of Myanmar refugees stream into China — latimes.com

Posted by Matt in August 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Asia, beijing, Cross Border, Groups, Headache, Latimes, Northern Myanmar, Rebels, Refugees, Southern China, Uneasy Calm, United Nations

An uneasy calm settled over northern Myanmar on Sunday as rebels and refugees continued to cross the border into southern China after an assault by Myanmar’s military.
United Nations and overseas Myanmar groups say more than 10,000 ethnic Kokang refugees, including hundreds of militiamen, are now in southern China, presenting a logistical headache for Beijing.
Thousands [...]

Are Saudi Arabia and Iran at war in Yemen?

Posted by Matt in August 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Air Strikes, Artillery, Cold-War, Economist, Foreign Policy, Iran, Katyusha, Katyusha Rockets, Los Angeles Times, Middle East, Northwestern, Proxy War, Rebel Positions, Rebels, Refugees, Saudi-Arabia, tanks, Uprising, Volleys, Yemen

Has a proxy war broken out in Yemen? The Los Angeles Times has reported that 100 Shiite rebels are dead and 100,000 refugees are on the move in the Saada region of northwestern Yemen after the Sunni-dominated government attacked rebel positions with tanks, artillery, and air strikes. According to The Economist, the rebels retaliated with [...]

Pentagon War Games Predict Future Threats

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Armed Conflict, Army Corps, Array, Big Thinkers, Grim Place, invasion, Multinational Corporations, Nation States, National Security Threats, North-Korea, Pentagon, Private Security Forces, Refugees, Scarce Natural Resources, War Games

The military’s big thinkers plan for future needs by predicting potential security threats
By the Pentagon’s reckoning, the world in 2018 will be a grim place, with a considerable array of tricky national security threats facing the U.S. military. Multinational corporations, employing increasingly thuggish private security forces, begin to undermine the traditional power of nation-states. Countries [...]

China’s Growing Sands

Posted by Matt in May 31st, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Water, China At The Crossroads, China Crisis, China Rail, China Today, Desertification In China, Environmental Issue, Gansu, guardian, Inner Mongolia, Kilometers, Ningxia, Northern Provinces, Phenomenon, Refugees, Severity, Train, Trains, Water Crisis

Winding my way along China’s network of rail lines through the northern provinces of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang, I have travelled over 4000 kilometers over the past 6 weeks, witnessing first hand the severity of desertification in China, just from my carriage window. The route I have followed, although made up of a [...]

Sri Lanka’s war

Posted by Matt in May 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Asia, War, Army, Atrocity, Bloodbath, Civilian Slaughter, Colombo, Doctors, Eastern Sri Lanka, Makeshift Hospital, Refugees, Spokesman, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger Rebels, Tamil Tigers, Testimony, Tiger, War Zone

IT IS too late to warn of a civilian slaughter in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The “bloodbath [predicted] has become a reality,” said the UN’s spokesman in Colombo on May 11th, as news of the latest atrocity emerged from the crowded beach where the army and Tamil Tiger rebels are fighting their last battle. On May [...]

Search for the Afghan Girl

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Asia, Afghan Girls, Afghan Woman, Afghanistan, Detective Work, Dirt Trails, Eastern Afghanistan, Facial Recognition, Fbi, Gaze, Girl, Little Luck, Missing And Exploited Children, Missing Person, Nangarhar, National Center For Missing And Exploited Children, National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Magazine, Photograph, Plastic Sandals, Plight, Recognition Techniques, Refugee Camp, Refugees, Rugged Mountains, Search For The Afghan Girl, Sigourney Weaver, Six Schools, Steve Mccurry, War In Afghanistan

The search for the mysterious “Afghan Girl,” whose haunting, green-eyed gaze captivated the world in a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine cover photograph, takes EXPLORER on a world-wide journey in an attempt to solve the case of a missing person. In January 2002, photographer Steve McCurry, who took the 1984 photograph and has been searching for the [...]

Escape from North Korea

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Brother And Sister, Brother Sister, Checkpoints, China, Chinese Border, Chopping Board, Collapse, Darkness, Desperate Choices, Exclusive Report, Execution, Exodus, Immigrants, Informants, Journey, Korea Government, Kwan, North Face, North Koreans, North-Korea, Obstacle Course, Perilous Journey, Refugees, Safe House, South-Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Tors, Tumen River, Underground Railroad, Wall Border

So many people have defected from North Korea that the government is now building a wall along the Chinese border. This exclusive report follows one family’s dangerous exodus.
At a safe house in China, a brother and sister collapse into each other arms. For months, ‘Uncle Jung’ has been trying to smuggle his sister and her [...]

UN and Google to Map Global Conflict Regions

Posted by Matt in April 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Google Earth, Burmese Refugees, Conflict Regions, Global Conflict, Google Earth, Refugee Agency, Refugees, Somalia

A new partnership between the UN refugee agency and Google allows users of the powerful Google Earth search tool to track refugees in global conflict regions. By Patrick McGroarty more…

Baghdad’s Refugees: Trapped in the Green Zone
UN Representative in Somalia: ‘They Are Dying in Our Arms’
Exploiting Thailand’s Burmese Refugees: The Children of the Mae Sot Dump