Sydney University’s Jake Lynch, a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause, writes in his weekly column about Sri Lanka and the need to continue pressure over its appalling treatment of the Tamils: The news that the Government of Sri Lanka is to close the internment camps where thousands of Tamils were illegally detained, following the…
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The Havana blues aren’t fun these days
Yoani Sanchez is one of Cuba’s most famous bloggers. She faces constant harassment for simply writing and being critical. Here’s the latest example of Castro’s goons attacking Sanchez and her friends.
Life in Aceh, Indonesia
My following article is published in the Huffington Post: In a collection of just released work by Acehnese writer Azhari, Nutmeg Woman, we are brought into a world before the devastating 2004 tsunami that killed over 220,000 Indonesians. Civil war wracked the province. Indonesian occupation was brutal and fought against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).…
Who is the real Fidel?
The legacy of Cuban President Fidel Castro is mixed; a revolutionary, dictator, human rights abuser, inspiration to millions and mystery.
Castro can’t stand in the way
50 years after the Cuban Revolution, repression remains rife on the island. A growing number of bloggers are fighting back, however, and daring to speak out.
The truth is never that simple
Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez and Venezuela and the American painting of a “dictator”: More here.
How America started seeing Cuba
Al-Jazeera English on the changing face of Cuban Americans in Florida. Simply put, a hard line against the Castro brothers has been an abject failure; time for a change:
The fading power of Castro
How the internet is changing Cuba into a more open society, despite the best efforts of the regime to arrest this progress.