The number of arrivals peaked this month on the small island of Lampedusa off Italy’s southern coast, with 4,800 people arriving on a single day, the agency noted.
It is possible to hate Russia for what their leaders are doing to Ukraine and still have empathy for those being brutalised by the same Russian leadership within Russia.
They were oppressed for ever since the ussr fell. They lived and agreed to live in a shell of a country whose only goal was making oligarchs rich.
At this point any thinking person who has not left russia is complicit in the atrocities of their country and I couldn’t care less for their well being.
Disagree, the russian (and all other people who were part of it) people were oppressed during the USSR (pick up any book by Solzhenitsyn) and by the Czars before them. This did not start in 1991.
agreed to live
That is where I disagree. The vast majority of people do not have the ability to leave.
At this point any thinking person who has not left russia is complicit in the atrocities of their country and I couldn’t care less for their well being.
And the same can be said about the US invasion of Iraq. Any person there is complicit in the war crimes. (which I do not agree with)
Sorry but this is massively reductionist and jingoistic.
@tallwookie maybe. The war in Tigray has many genocidal elements, including a man-made famine caused by destruction of crops, equipment, and water infrastructure.
So if the UN doesn't do something, Abiy might be able to accomplish genocide in a shorter timeframe than that.
Deliberately killing 10% of the Tigrayan population from Nov 2020 to Nov 2022, by: systematically executing males of teenage age and above, massive systematic sexual violence, looting of most food/agricultural/industrial resources and holding a very tight siege is argued by several researchers as showing intent [1][2]. Clearly that was the #TigrayGenocide .
The report itself ([3], point 72) finds #CrimesAgainstHumanity (by ENDF + EDF + Amhara/Afar Special Forces + 'fano'), not #Genocide. Tigrayan forces committed #WarCrimes (not crimes against humanity) (point 71).
@tallwookie No, a "UN invasion" would solve nothing. The question for rich-country outsiders is which local/regional/continental groups/institutions should be supported. African civil society has plenty of ideas and is very active.
@boud Thanks for pointing out that distinction about the report. From what I have seen over the last few years from credible NGO reports, eyewitness testimony, video footage etc I am pretty sure it is a genocide.
I also agree with you that this is something I'd like to see tackled by AU or similar as a first option.
I find the diaspora conflicts irritating. Most of them fan killings back in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan then create such a bitter environment in the communities hosting them (like Calgary or Sweden or Germany). Tell these people to go and fight in the Ethiopian fronts and they coil back. But they want the kids of poor farmers to go and die for their abstract ideas (sometimes genuine, but mostly misdirected at the wrong people).
@Armen12 Abiy folded most of the opposition political parties into a "new" party so it is effectively a one party state these days. The big challenges to that came out of Tigray and Amhara.
If you are talking about American politics 🙄 then yes your Biden administration has been placing sanctions on the Ethiopian government because of the human rights situation there.
However it recently lifted the food sanctions. By all means write to your representatives about this.
Merci pour l'article, je vais le faire tourner.
Et je m'abstiendrai de m'épancher davantage pour ne pas vous pourrir votre journée. Bisous à tout le monde <3
Merci,, on va y arriver :) Et puis dans 50 ans au plus tout ça n'aura plus aucune importance pour moi, ce sera à celles et ceux qui resteront de faire au mieux.
My concern is more the possibility of defining disinformation in some politically conveniemt manner.
Its already happening. In fact, looking at it from a wider perspective than nowadays teenagers are often able to, the modern "fight against disinformation" is just fighting propaganda with one's own propaganda. And if you read the Hittite and Egyptian descriptions of Battle of Khadesh, it isn't really a new thing either.
Its always happening, but the tools available evolve and the level of support fluctuates. We have a lot of new tools right now and what seems like a disturbing level of support.
I hate these kind of discussions. UNESCO released a report of over 400 pages full of research, recommendations, possible outcomes, etc. but here we are discussing just what people think when they hear “ban smartphones”
Just a question: Are the tech managers in Silicon Valley also idiots? I posted the article already, but here’s it again as the thread has become long: theguardian.com/…/schools-that-ban-tablets-tradit…
“Those students who use tablets and computers very often tend to do worse than those who use them moderately,” he adds.
This is from your article and I could have saved them the money of doing this research. Also this is tablets not phones. They are allowed phones. You know why? because even they understand not everyone can see their house from the classroom window and need to use the phone to communicate.
Limiting the use during class is all I am in for. Banning it from school is just idiotic.
Also yes. I do think tech managers in Silicon valley are idiots. The biggest proof of that is we are talki g on lemmy and not reddit.
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