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[Link] Australian energy giant Woodside withdraws from Myanmar almost one year after military coup
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Australian energy giant Woodside has announced it is withdrawing from Myanmar, almost one year after the military seized power in an illegal coup.
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[Link] Disabled Man and Teenagers Among 11 Shot and Burned in Horrific Massacre
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Warning: This article contains graphic images. News outlet Myanmar Now reported locals as saying that some of the victims’ hands were tied when their bodies were found. Cries for help were reportedly heard during the fire, leading some to believe that they were burned alive.
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[Link] Australia’s Future Fund invested in weapons manufacturers that have sold arms to Myanmar military
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar military, which is accused of crimes against humanity.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.
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[Link] Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article
Read: 26/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Chile’s main conservative daily newspaper has been accused of publishing “an apology for Nazism” after running an illustrated article commemorating the life of the German war criminal Hermann Göring.
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[Link] Brazil's Bolsonaro May Face ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charge Over COVID
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
A panel of Brazilian lawmakers recommended Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” due to his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has been one of the world’s most hard hit countries with over 600,000 dead since the pandemic began.
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[Link] Former Nazi camp secretary formally charged with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Prosecutors accuse her of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof camp function during World War II more than 75 years ago.
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