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The Associated PressNew York Times - 4 hours agoMr. Means, an Oglala Sioux, staged guerrilla-tactic protests that called attention to the nation's history of injustices against its indigenous ...The Associated Press - 3 hours ago BBC News - Last of the Mohicans actor Russell Means dies
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-2003359615 hours ago – Russell Means, who played a leading role in The Last of the Mohicans,dies at the age of 72.Longtime Indian activist Russell Means dies at 72 - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com/longtime-indian-activist-russell-... - United States45 minutes ago – From Yahoo! News: Russell Means was a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land ...Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72 - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com/russell-means-indian-activist-act... - United States14 hours ago – From Yahoo! News: Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, ...Former American Indian Movement activist Russell Means dies at 72 ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Former-American-Indian-Movement-...10 hours ago – Means, who helped bring grievances of Native Americans to global attention in the 1970s before becoming a Hollywood actor, died at his ranch ...Russell Means, Indian activist and actor, dies at 72 - U.S. News
usnews.nbcnews.com/_.../14620980-russell-means-indian-acti...12 hours ago – Russell Means, the American Indian activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee and who later became a Hollywood actor, ...Russell Means - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_MeansJump to Final years and death: In August 2011, Means was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He told the Associated Press that he was rejecting ...Images for Russell Means Dies
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www.washingtonpost.com/.../russell-means-dies.../df6bb0ee-1...7 hours ago – Mr. Means was a self-styled modern warrior who forced attention on the plight of Native Americans.Indian activist Russell Means dies at 72 - Video on NBCNews.com
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Video on NBCNews.com: Russell Means, an American Indian activist who led the 1973 uprising at Wounded ...Russell Means
www.russellmeans.com/Russell Means has lived a life like few others in this century - revered for his selfless accomplishments and remarkable bravery. He was born into a society and ...Indian Activist, Actor Russel Means Dies : NPR
www.npr.org/2012/10/.../indian-activist-actor-russel-means-di...8 hours ago – Native American actor and Activist Russell Means has died of cancer at the age of 72. Means, an Oglala Lakota, was among the early members ...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
COFIWN: INDIAN PATRIOT RUSSELL MEANS RIP - AN EXAMPLE TO ALL PATRIOTS ENGAGED IN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AGAINST OPPRESSION, EXPLOITATION AND EXPROPRIATION OF LAND AND RESOURCES.
Sunday, 14 October 2012
ASSYRIAN INDEPENDENCE MISSION STATEMENT
Mission Statement
"Through events out of the Assyrians’ control, our numbers have decreased dramatically and as a result, our identity and physical presence in our ancestral homeland is forcibly being removed. A key catalyst to the reduction of our numbers is the absence of a land to call home. Ultimately, we need land within which to reside so we are able to rebuild our nation and live free of persecution. We aim to preserve the Assyrian identity through the formation of an independent Assyrian country.
This is a campaign working for Assyria. We are Assyrians, a unique nation separate from the rest of the world. We are not Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian or any other Middle Eastern nation. Assyrians are the indigenous people of occupied Assyria, a land that is known today as Iraq, and we seek to reclaim our rights to the land through the declaration of the United Nations for indigenous people.
We endeavor to be recognised by the United Nations as an Assyrian nation, and for the United Nations to acknowledge that Assyria is being illegally occupied by surrounding nations including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
We aim to unite all Assyrians under one Assyrian name with the freedom of religion. Our goals have no correlation with religion. This is a campaign to preserve an ancient nation that is fighting to defy extinction, a nation that continues to practice its ancestral traditions, maintain its culture and retain its national identity despite the current state of Diaspora."
How did we lose Assyria?
"The Assyrians’ misfortune began in 627 BC when the death of Ashurbanipal sparked civil war within the Assyrian homeland. This was due to numerous claimants to the throne. Nabopolassar of Babylon revolted against Assyria while it was weakened by internal strife and ineffectual rule. He seized the city of Babylon and was proclaimed king of the city. Forming an alliance with the Medes, they successfully sacked Assyria in 612 BC after an unrelenting siege. Thus the Assyrian empire fell. An Assyrian-Egyptian alliance was formed in 608 BC but was defeated by the Babylonians and Medes, after which Assyria ceased to exist as an independent nation.
Over the next two thousand years, the Assyrian people sustained unfathomable hardships. They continued to exist as a unique cultural entity, still inhabiting the Fertile Crescent. During WWI. The Ottoman Empire’s ethnic cleansing resulted in the massacre of 750,000 Assyrians (1915-1918). Because Hakkari was in Ottoman territory and contained a high population of Assyrians, they were driven out of Hakkari and into Nineveh (Mosul Vilayet – Ottoman Empire Village Council). Nineveh was then given to Iraq in 1924. The League of Nations Authorised the Mosul Vilayet to be surrendered to the British and that Hakkari was to remain in Ottoman territory. The Assyrian homeland was thus split in two.
In 1927, copious amounts of oil were found in the Assyrian homeland. Prospectors from around the world would come to invest in this new discovery. Great Britain determined that the oil rich Bet-Nahrain was too precious to be given to the Assyrians and sought to silence political activists. The British were then to give control of Iraq to the Arabs, not the Indigenous minority. Iraq was given independence in 1932. This was followed by the SImele Massacre in 1933 committed by the armed forces of Iraq, while the Assyrians were still emerging from one of the darkest periods of their history. It was a systematic targeting of the Assyrians, leading to the destruction of 63 villages and deaths of 3000 Assyrians.
Severe mistreatment, broken promises and a complete lack of political and moral obligation to fulfil clauses established in several treaties made in the early 20th Century has led to two unrecognized genocides and a continuing struggle of survival for the Assyrian people in Iraq. Furthermore, the events which took place since the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003 have resulted in the destruction of Assyrian cultural heritage, the looting of the Baghdad Museum where thousands of Assyrian artifacts were destroyed and stolen, and a slow genocide, which continues today and has caused a mass exodus of Assyrian people to neighbouring countries where further atrocities are being committed against Assyrian refugees. Indigenous and cultural heritage laws, policies and declarations are not enforced and as such, the Assyrian people have been made to suffer the consequences. Down to less than half their population in their native homeland, Assyrians all over the world are seeking justice and the right to live free of persecution, in a place they can call their homeland."
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
KACHIN INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE.
BBC News - Kachin refugees in Burma struggle for independence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-1755181629 Mar 2012 – As Burma gets ready for its historic by-election in April, thousands of refugees living in camps in the so-called Kachin State are still struggling to ...Kachin in Burma struggle for independence(BBC report) - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v...M30 Mar 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by malizupra
Ethnic Kachin people in Burma have been struggling forindependence and the right to their own language ...Kachin in Burma struggle for independence - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v...5 Apr 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by KachinMedia
Kachin in Burma struggle for independence ( BBC report )Myanmar: The Kachin Struggle For Freedom | Pulitzer Center
pulitzercenter.org/projects/.../myanmar-kachin-struggle-freedo...7 Dec 2008 – Starting in 1962, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) waged ...for photographs on the Kachin struggle for independence in Myanmar.Kachin Independence Army | Democratic Voice of Burma
www.dvb.no/tag/kachin-independence-army13 hours ago – After fleeing from the violence at the frontlines of Kachin state's civil war, local ... Kachin state, while local relief groups are struggling to continue to ... Intense fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army ...Kachin Independence Army - Al Jazeera English - News
www.aljazeera.com/category/.../kachin-independence-armyFighting rages between Myanmar troops and Kachin Independence Army after a ...where the Kachin people are fighting a life-or-death struggle for autonomy.Images for Kachin Independence Struggle
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www.allvoices.com/.../91728748-kachin-in-burm... - United StatesKachin in Burma struggle for independence ( BBC report ) - 91728748; TIME: On the front lines with the Kachin Independence Army – Joe Jackson.Kachin in Burma struggle for independence(BBC report) - AllVoices
www.allvoices.com/.../91728746-kachin-in-burm... - United StatesEthnic Kachin people in Burma have been struggling for independence and the right to their own language and religion for more - 91728746; TIME: On the frontKachin Independence Army | Asia Pacific Briefing
asiapacificbriefing.com/tag/kachin-independence-army/19 Jun 2011 – Posts about Kachin Independence Army written by Asia Pacific Briefing.... the political wing of the Kachin independence movement, met withThe CLP » Reforms Slow to Arrive in Northern Burma
clpmag.org/article.php?article=Burmese-Democracy...to...Share11 Apr 2012 – Photojournalist Ryan Libre has spent several months in the Kachin Autonomous Region in northern Burma documenting the struggle. ... A Kachin Independence Army solider shows off a captured Burmese weapon.
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