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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 734: IGNORED GENOCIDES: HUTUS, IGBOS AND PALESTINIANS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka #PambazukaNews Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Jobs /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features UK GOVERNMENT WAS RIGHT IN ARRESTING RWANDAN SPY CHIEF Theogene Rudasingwa President Paul Kagame threw a mighty tantrum following the arrest in the UK of his spy chief, Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake. But the exiled opposition party Rwanda National Congress has welcomed the arrest, applauding the new efforts by some Western nations to demand accountability from the brutal tyranny in Kigali. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95136 ****** WHAT THE UNITED NATIONS KNOWS ABOUT RWANDA’S POWERFUL SPY CHIEF Judi Rever If the 1994 genocide against Tutsis stands out as the most depraved and tragic chapter in Rwanda’s history, its corollary is certainly the three years that followed in which a slower, largely hidden campaign of abject cruelty was meted out against Hutus in Rwanda and the DRC. Rwanda's spy chief Emmanuel Karake, arrested on 20 June in the UK, was the mastermind of this unacknowledged genocide against Hutus. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95134 ****** HOPES OF INDEPENDENT PRESS IN RWANDA FADE AS HEAD OF MEDIA BODY FLEES Sue Valentine A government minister accused the chairman of the independent Rwanda Media Commission of working for foreign forces. And then the government embarked on moves to weaken the commission. When the RMC head was tipped off about plans to kill him, he fled the country in May. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95143 ****** THREE ZEROS FOR THE BRICS’ NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK Muhammad Yunus Government delegations from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa convened this week at the annual BRICS Summit in Ufa, Russia, to formalise the creation of the world’s newest multilateral development bank, the New Development Bank. The NDB should aim to achieve three zeros by 2050: zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emission. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95142 ****** FOUR PRINCIPLES TO MAKE THE NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK TRULY NEW Civil society organizations state that the new BRICS bank should support inclusive, accessible, participative development that is driven by communities, addresses poverty and inequality, removes barriers to access and opportunity, and respects human rights, local cultures, and the environment. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95146 ****** IS INDIA BENDING TOWARDS ISRAEL? Vijay Prashad Joining Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay and Macedonia — all lobbied by Israel over the course of the year - India abstained from a crucial vote that would have allowed the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes. The decision sends signals of India’s disturbingly different stance towards Palestine. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95135 ****** ARIPO SELLS OUT AFRICAN FARMERS, SEALS SECRET DEAL ON PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION Statement issued by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) As was widely feared, the contentious protocol on seed was adopted at the regional meeting in Arusha, Tanzania. The protocol’s underlying imperatives are to increase corporate seed imports, reduce breeding activity at the national level, and facilitate the monopoly by foreign companies of local seed systems and the disruption of traditional farming systems. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95144 ****** ‘WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY’ MEETS SOUTH AFRICA’S MANY MARXISMS Patrick Bond More than 150 Marxists met in Johannesburg to ponder some 70 papers at the World Association for Political Economy forum, where 82-year-old Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin was named winner of WAPE’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Despite the diversity of viewpoints, there seemed to be concurrence that a convincing, unifying intellectual critique of both local and world-scale capital is needed. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95139 ****** SIX LESSONS #BLACKLIVESMATTER CAN LEARN FROM CABRAL Benjamin Woods As a new generation of Pan-African activists, such as the #BlackLivesMatter movement, steps up, it is important to revisit the lessons taught by previous trailblazers, like Amilcar Cabral, leader of the liberation struggle against the Portuguese in West Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95138 ****** NO ‘JE SUIS CHARLESTON’? THE DE-POLITICIZATION OF BLACK OPPRESSION Ajamu Baraka President Obama sang “Amazing Grace” and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices that should have demanded answers as to why the Charleston attack was not considered a terrorist attack, even though it fits the definition. Because of this depraved indifference to black life by the U.S. government, African Americans critically need international solidarity. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95141 ****** WEST AFRICA: THE NEW STAGE FOR GLOBAL DRUG POLICY REFORM Eleanor Thompson Colombian drug traffickers financed the re-election campaign of President João Bernardo Vieira in Guinea-Bissau in 2005. But the growing narcotics problem in West Africa - with an estimated 2.5 million consumers - has not received adequate attention globally. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95140 ****** THE IGBO GENOCIDE, BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES (PT.1) Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe The Igbo genocide was primarily about the protection of strategic British interests in Nigeria. The departing colonialists had secured the collaboration of the northern region, which was vehemently opposed to African independence. Thus Fulani-Hausa elites played a key role in the perpetration of the genocide. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95145 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: MASTER’S DEGREE (LLM/MPHIL) IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATISATION IN AFRICA APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 JULY 2015 Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria ( http://www.chr.up.ac.za/index.php/academic/llm-human-rights.html ) This prestigous degree is presented by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in partnership with 13 leading African universities. APPLY ONLINE: http://www.chr.up.ac.za/index.php/llm-mphil-online-application-2015.html http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/announce/95077 ****** PAN-AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRD–Net) has opened a call for nominations for the 2nd Edition of human rights defenders awards. The awards will honor exceptional individuals who peacefully promote and protect universally recognized rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/announce/95137 ****** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: PAN-AFRICAN COLLOQUIUM IN BARBADOS UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES/BARBADOS, JANUARY 12-15, 2016 Pan-African Colloquium The Departments of History and Philosophy; Government, Sociology and Social Work, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados and PANAFSTRAG are pleased to issue a second call for papers for this inaugural international Pan African Colloquium to be held at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados over the period January 12-15, 2016. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/announce/95128 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis BRIEF REPORT ON POLICE AND GOVERNMENT VIOLATIONS IN MATHARE, NAIROBI Extra-judicial killings, disappearances and politically motivated detentions are being used by the Jubilee regime in Kenya to instil fear and frustrate human rights defenders and social justice activists. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/95148 ****** SOUTH AFRICA: THE COST OF LIVING AT GLEBELANDS Three more women violently evicted from their rooms Venessa Burger Glebelands with its neatly constructed family units is one of the very few hostels that the government proudly parades as proof of its commitment to the eradication of apartheid’s social engineering. It is therefore shameful that this same government has permitted the persistent and excessive violence which has left over 30 people dead. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/95149 ****** DO NOT FIGHT TERRORISM WITH TERRORIST MEANS Yash Pal Ghai State authorities and their allies all over the world are conspiring to suppress the freedoms and rights of citizens and communities, achieved after struggles of centuries. Because almost all states are implicated in acts of brutality in the name of fighting terrorism, no state is criticised by another, or by UN agencies, much less brought to answer charges. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/95153 ****** I AM ASHAMED Henning Melber Hundreds of people signed an online petition demanding an apology from the organisers of the popular Kuska Karnival that was held in Swakopmund, a city on the western coast of Namibia, saying the event stirred up racism and was insensitive to the feeelings of black people, after pictures of people dressed as Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members and some painted as black labourers appeared in the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/95152 ****** MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS REVEAL MIXED RESULTS Abayomi Azikiwe While some improvements spelled out in the UN’s Millennium Development Goals have been reached, the majority of humanity in developing countries will not benefit from goals set within the global capitalist system. They remain prone to widening economic inequality, declining oil and commodity prices, and imperialist wars for resource extraction. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/95147 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns KENYA TASKFORCE ON NGOS LAW PUBLISHES ITS REPORT The report of the taskforce on Kenya's Public Benefits Organizations Act 2013 has been released and can be found in the NGO Coordination Board website on this link ( http://www.ngobureau.or.ke/?wpdmpro=final-task-force-2014-15-report-on-the-pbos-act-2013 ) . ****** PALM OIL GIANT WILMAR RESORTS TO DIRTY TRICKS World’s largest palm oil trading company, Wilmar International Ltd., under scrutiny as communities in Borneo, Sumatra, Uganda and Nigeria ( http://contacts.forestpeoples.org/sites/contacts.forestpeoples.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18436&qid=757517 ) accuse its suppliers of harassment, deception and rights abuses. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/95151 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Books & arts SOUAD MASSI: THE TRUE FACE OF ISLAM Mounira Chaeb At a time when ISIS militants have been burning musical instruments because they claim they are against Sharia Law, Massi’s latest songs pay homage to centuries-old Arab culture, and to a tolerant humanism now under siege. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/95150 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 Jobs CAMPAIGNER - NIGERIA Location:Nigeria, Various Type:Permanent Working Hours:35 Salary:Competitive A I Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI) is establishing an office in Nigeria. We are seeking a proven expert on Nigeria, to lead on the development and implementation of campaigning strategies, and to manage and coordinate action on human rights concerns that ensures a lasting impact. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/95019 ****** FINANCE AND OFFICE MANAGER - DAKAR Terms: Permanent £43,200 per annum A I Amnesty International For over 50 years, we’ve been campaigning for human rights wherever justice, freedom and truth are denied. We’ve reshaped policies, challenged governments and taken corporations to task. In doing so, we’ve changed thousands of lives for the better. Join Amnesty at our new regional office in Dakar and you will too. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/95127 ****** FINANCE AND OFFICE MANAGER – NIGERIA Location:Various, Nigeria Type:Permanent Working Hours:35 Salary:Competitive A I Amnesty International Are you a fantastic accountant or office manager with a love of social justice? Then we want to hear from you! We are looking or talented individuals who share our passion for human rights and our desire to see positive change in Nigeria, to help grow our new office in Abuja. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/95018 ****** POSITION: GRANTS AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER Location: Dakar, with regular international travel Deadline: 11 July 2015 TA Trust Africa The goal of the Grants and Compliance Manager is to ensure smooth running of TrustAfrica’s grants administration and other compliance processes. S/he will maintain up to date grant records, ensure adherence to established industry standards and TrustAfrica’s policies and procedures; provide periodic analysis of TrustAfrica grants for internal and external audiences and technical assistance to grantees on all TrustAfrica grants related policies and procedures. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/94937 ****** PRESS OFFICER - EAST AFRICA Location:Nairobi Type:Permanent Working Hours:35 Salary:$68,699 A I Amnesty International This is a new post based in Nairobi that will take strategic ownership of Amnesty International’s media strategy across East Africa, creating awareness of human rights as well as bolstering support for Amnesty International and shaping a better future for those in need. You will drive media coverage across national, regional and international media in order to promote Amnesty International’s campaigning, research, advocacy and growth objectives. You will provide communications that help to develop the human rights agenda and raise awareness of Amnesty International’s work in this important region. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/95028 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Trust Limited. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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