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Unknown assailants detonated a bomb outside a Christian school in Gaza City before dawn Friday, causing no injuries. The explosion was heard in surrounding neighborhoods at around 4 a.m. Damage was visible at the entrance to the Zahwa Rosary School, which is run by Catholic nuns but caters mainly to Muslim students. Two nuns were in their convent adjacent to the school when the bomb went off, a school official said, and were shaken but unharmed. The official declined to be named, saying she was frightened by the incident and concerned for her safety. The incident appeared to be the...

04 April 2006, 14:41 Serbs should have access to Kosovo places of worship - Alexy II Moscow, April 4, Interfax - Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia said that the Serbian exodus from Kosovo is a tragedy and highlights the fact that Serbs should have access to their shrines in Kosovo. "Why is no attention paid to the destruction of Orthodox churches in the heart of Europe?" the patriarch said at a briefing in Moscow on Tuesday. "The fact that Serbs have to leave Kosovo is a tragedy for the people, because one should understand that the land...

No security or safety for young Christian girls in Egypt! Thanks to terrorist groups in Saudi Arabia and a complacent Egyptian government. The Canadian Coptic Association has previously appealed to Egyptian journalists and writers for help regarding the recent escalating phenomena of the kidnapping and sexual assault of minor Christian girls by known organized Muslim extremist groups. The young victims are subject to continuous terror, threat and rape to force them to convert to Islam and live with a member of the group. Unfortunately, our previous complaints have fallen on deaf ears which give us the impression that Christian children...

The genocidal ethnic cleansing in Sudan is one of the great under-reported stories of the last 10 years. The fanatical Muslim Arabs who dominate the government in Khartoum – monsters akin to Afghanistan's Taliban – are responsible for the deaths of at least 1 million Sudanese. The government encourages armed Arab militias to ride into black villages, on horseback or camelback, terrorizing unarmed civilians, kidnapping children, enslaving those they can carry away and raping young girls before leaving them for dead. One 13-year-old victim survived to tell her horror story of the "rape camps" set up purely to terrorize the...

Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Achiyah, east of Shilo, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists last night on his way to give a ride home to a fellow resident. A member of the town's secretariat, he heard that a friend - Tamir Dar, 25, a reserve soldier - needed a ride back to the community, and he volunteered to make the short trip. Gideon took along his 6-year-old daughter Moriah, as his wife was not home at the time. Along the way, terrorists waiting behind one of the bends in the road opened fire and seriously wounded both Gideon and his daughter....

Friday prayers at the mosque: A Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head video Transcript: I advise you, oh America, Britain, and those whom Allah said about you: Allah's wrath upon you, the Jews, oh the sons of apes and pigs - there is no strife on the face of the earth that you have not sparked - Whenever they start the fire of strife, Allah extinguished it. May Allah extinguish your light and your fires. But we, we are the men whom Allah has chosen, and wanted, and made us strong, so as to pluck...

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Worldwide Day of Prayer for the Assyrian Christians of Iraq, Sunday, May 16, 2004 A Worldwide Day of Prayer for the 2.5 Million Assyrian Christians of Iraq has been set. Christians worldwide are asked to pray for the long persecuted Assyrian Christian Community in Iraq. As the original people of Iraq and the first nation to accept Christianity following the death of Christ and the greatest missionary sending nation in history having brought the gospel to China, Japan and Asia. Prayer is being asked for the following: 1. Delay of the proposed June 30 handover in Iraq until a secular...

KANO, Nigeria - Tens of thousands of hungry, frightened Nigerians sought safety in police stations and military barracks Friday after two weeks of sectarian violence left hundreds dead. Some 30,000 people, many of them Ibo-speaking Christians, huddled in six security force installations in this heavily Muslim northern city — site of deadly attacks on Christians this week — said Mohammed Balarabe, a state emergency agency official. At Kano's central Bompai police compound, Mama Aisha, a 40-year-old mother of six children, carried a seventh on her back — a baby whose mother was hospitalized after being severely wounded by a machete-wielding...

Christians say nearly 600 slain by Muslims in riots By Tume Ahemba, Reuters | May 14, 2004 KANO, Nigeria -- Christian leaders said 500 to 600 people were killed by Muslims in the northern Nigerian city of Kano in two days of rioting this week to avenge the slaying of hundreds of Muslims. Rev. Andrew Ubah, general secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kano, said yesterday he had records of almost 600 killed in three days of riots, many times more than the official police toll of 30. ''Almost 600 people have been killed and 12 churches burned,"...

Burining of the Serbian village Svinjare, March 17Kosovo Albanian mob rushed towards the Serbian village of Svinjare south of Mitrovica. KFOR apparently was not willing to defend the village and only evacuated Serb civilians to the North side of the River Ibar. Albanians made their way to the village, looted all homes and burnde 150 houses. Photos down show all KFOR vehicles in the nearby KFOR base parked and not engaged to stop the looters and arson attacks. A Kosovo Albanian boy posed in front of cameras in front of one looted and burned Serbian home with a flag....

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Since the Krue Se Mosque siege, Chien Kullatham, a 77-year-old Buddhist, has become apprehensive about what may be in store for her and other members of the minority Thai-Buddhist community in the three southernmost provinces. They live in fear. Grandma Chien says that in all her 77 years she had never witnessed violence the likes of what occurred on April 28, when 106 young Muslim militants were killed, 32 of them in the famed mosque of Pattani. Since the beginning of this year, the escalating violence has greatly affected the daily lives of Buddhists in her village. ``We fear being...

Islam and other Peoples' holy sites By Doron Kescher July 6, 2003 After Israeli bulldozers destroyed the foundations for a proposed mosque on a Christian holy site in Nazareth, (Muslim) Deputy Mayor Salman Abu Ahmad and local head of the Islamic Movement said, "I haven't heard of any synagogues being destroyed, but they destroyed a mosque." The arrogance, insensitivity and stupidity of this statement is breath-taking. Would the deputy mayor like to know why no one is demolishing synagogues (except the Arabs, who demolished 19 on the day they sacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem in 1948), churches or Hindu...

Today CNN's Brian Todd released a report of the situation in Sudan, where a cease-fire between the Muslim government in the north and southern Christian rebels is taking hold after 21 years and more than two million lives lost. Todd says, "Now in the Darfur region, three provinces in western Sudan, so many disasters are converging at once: starvation, refugee crisis, intense combat and charges of mass murder, mass graves, systematic rape and ethnic cleansing." Andre Natsois, a U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator, describes it as "the worst humanitarian disaster in the world right now." Jerry Fowler of the...

LAHORE The Commission for Peace and Human Development (CPHD) on Sunday expressed serious concern over the murder of a Christian youth in the name of religion. Javed Anjum, 19, of 291GB Village in Toba Tek Singh district, allegedly died after five days of torture by the administration of a seminary in 323GB of Trindi village. Waseem Anthony, executive director of the CPHD, said Javed’s crime was that he drank water from a tap near the seminary. His relatives said the torturers had tried to force Javed to convert to Islam as well. Mr Anthony said that the administration allegedly asked...

Pregnant mother and four daughters killed in Gaza terror attack By israelinsider staff May 2, 2004 An Israeli woman in her eighth month of pregnancy and her four daughters were killed this afternoon when two terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers shot the terrorists dead, but only after an explosive device at the scene detonated, wounding three soldiers, two of them with moderate-to-serious injuries. The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2). Tali's husband...

'New Sharia law' in Nigeria state The northern Nigerian state of Zamfara has introduced a new package of Islamic, or Sharia, laws. All businesses in the state will have to shut down during the five daily Muslim prayers. The state government also says that all "unauthorised" places of worship will be shut down under "Sharia phase two". Zamfara was the first Nigerian state to introduce strict Sharia laws in 2000 and thousands turned out to welcome the new measures on Wednesday. Death sentences The BBC's Yusuf Sarki Muhammad in the state capital, Gusau, says it is not clear whether...

Bishop Artemije visiting ruins of Prizren, March 25During the recent visit of Bishop Artemije to Prizren he had an opportunity to go through the ruins of his residence, the cathedral of St. George, the small church of St. George (Runjevac), the Seminary and the Holy Archangels Monastery. He could not enter the Holy Virgin of Ljevish cathedral because the entrance was blocked by barbed wire by KFOR for security reasons. LJeviska church St. George Runjevac St. George Residence Residence Bishop's study Study computer entrance hall Bishop's room reception lounge St. George, 14 c Residence, north side St. George Death...

Burning of St. Sava's church, March 17Burning of St. Sava church in South Mitrovica. Kosovo Albanian mob arrives, KFOR soldiers don't manage to prevent their entrance to the churchyard. The mob breaks in the church and sets it on fire, then they turn towards the parish home and set it on fire too. KFOR soldiers, with their armored vehicles remain helpless. 01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG 09.JPG 10.JPG 11.JPG 12.JPG 13.JPG 14.JPG 15.JPG 16.JPG

Muslim militants in eastern Indonesia burned down several hundred homes in an overnight attack on a mainly Christian area where 26 people were killed in three days of fighting. The attacks on Christians in Maluku province, once known as the Spice Islands, continues with no end in sight, according to the Washington, D.C.-based human rights group International Christian Concern. Laskar Jihad warriors On Monday, several hundred homes of Christians were burned down in the Tanah Lapang Kecil and Batugantung neighborhoods of Ambon, the provincial capital. The attack began at about 3 a.m. and continued into the afternoon hours until all...

Destruction of Serbian Orthodox church in Podujevo(17-19 March 2004)The following photos show the burned church of St. Andreas in Podujevo which was looted in 1999. However the church structure remained intact and the church remained under protection of KFOR. During the March pogrom Albanianmob led by their extremists burned the church and blew up by explosives thesanctuary on the eastern part of the church. After the attack Kosovo Albaniansattacked the nearby Serbian cemetery and destroyed it completely. An article on this terrible vandalism was published in Praha News:  01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG Czechs hold line...

Ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Pristina, March 17-18 The first three photos in the upper row show the damaged block of apartments known as YU building in which some 100 Serbs lived since 1999. Once a city of 40.000 Serbs Pristina is now ethnically cleansed city. Kosovo Albanian mob rampaged through the Serb flats looting them and setting them on fire. Many Serb cars were destroyed too. The building was unprotected. The lower row photos show the burned church of St. Nicholas in Pristina. The church was built in the 19th century and possessed a valuable Altar screen with...

ACCORDING TO THE United Nations, one of the world's worst humanitarian crises now afflicts a Muslim people who face a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing driven by massacre, rape and looting. These horrors are unfolding not, as Arab governments and satellite channels might have it, in Iraq or the Palestinian territories, but in Sudan, a member of the Arab League. Maybe because there are no Westerners or Israelis to be blamed, the crisis in Darfur, in northwestern Sudan, has commanded hardly any international attention. Though it has been going on for 14 months, the U.N. Security Council acted on it...

ERP KIM Info Service January 21, 2004, Gracanica (21:15) Brother Bojan Dejanovic of the Monastery of Holy Archangels near Prizren confirmed for the ERP KIM today that two minibuses with KFOR military markings and one German military transporter (APC) were attacked by a group of some 30 young Kosovo Albanians throwing snowballs and iceballs while a television crew from ARD German state television was filming the ruins of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in the center of Djakovica. According to Dejanovic , who was in one of the military minibuses with monk Prochorus, the vehicle was first...

Destruction of Serb churches and homes in Prizren, March 17-18 - Part 1 Photos 01.jpg 02.jpg shows the burned church of Christ the Savior (14th c) Photos 32.jpg 35.jpg 16.jpg 33.jpg 34.jpg show the burned monastery of the Holy Archangels near Prizren. German flag still flutters over the monastery although German soldiers did not move a finger to protect this holy site. Photo 31.jpg shows the church of St. George (Runovich church, 14th century) Photos 03.jpg and 04.jpg show the burned Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Photos 10.jpg 09.jpg 13.jpg 14.jpg 15.jpg show the burned Serbian homes in...

Destruction of Devic Monastery 17-18 March These photos are showing the ruins of the Devic Monastery near Srbica. After the attack of nearly 5000 local Albanians French KFOR evacuated the nuns and vandals entered the monastery and set it on fire. The tomb of the famous Devic saint St. Joanikije (15 th) century was opened and the relics were burned (photos 8, 9, 10) The holy table in the sanctuary was cut into two peaces (12.jpg). At the end Kosovo Albanian mob desecrated the tombs at the nuns' cemetery 01.jpg 02.jpg 03.jpg 04.jpg 05.jpg 06.jpg 07.jpg 08.jpg 09.jpg 10.jpg...

Submitted by admin on Wed, 24/03/2004 - 06:56. Photo stories What happens in Kosovo now?This latest mass-orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing against Serbs in Kosovo, which started decades ago is persuasive evidence that Kosovo Albanians have an extremist and xenophobic leadership that is incapable of respecting minorities like Serbs, Gorans, Turks, Slavic Muslims and Gypsies. Kosovo Albanians cannot expect any kind of self-governance if they do not purge their leadership of xenophobia and extremism. The West asks this of Serbs, it must also demand the same from Kosovo Albanians. If the West fails to do this, Kosovo will only get...

AMBON, Indonesia (Reuters) - Snipers killed one policeman and wounded two in Indonesia's strife-torn Ambon on Tuesday as police and soldiers patrolled the streets to restore order, officials and witnesses said. The death toll from clashes between Christian and Muslim residents rose to 30, police said, but most of the deaths were from fighting on Sunday, and there were signs the violence in the capital of the eastern Moluccas islands was easing. But in comments that could stoke tension, defunct militant Muslim organisation Laskar Jihad threatened to regroup and send fighters. Laskar Jihad sent several thousand fighters to the Moluccas...

A criminal court in southeast Turkey has for the second time pressed charges against Pastor Ahmet Guvener of the Diyarbakir Evangelical Church, this time accusing him of “opening an illegal church.” Guvener will stand trial for alleged violation of Turkish penal code 261/1. State prosecutor Mehmet Isbitiren charged Guvener in February with “using a building registered as a home to open a Protestant church and conducting religious worship together with music for the people attending.” The pastor could be jailed for up to two years if convicted. The Diyarbakir Evangelical Church has functioned openly in the city’s traditionally Christian neighborhood...

On Sunday April 25, 2004 violence erupted in Ambon when Christians were attacked by Muslims, and thus far at least 14 people are dead. At least 120 people have been injured, and several churches and other buildings were set on fire. According to one report, two hundred elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police have arrived to restore order and ensure the clashes did not escalate into another bout of long-term bloodletting. However, although police are now claiming that everything is under control, Christians in the area are reporting that this is untrue. According to a Catholic priest in the region, a...

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org, has become aware of an attack against Christians in the Ambon region (Muluku Islands) of Indonesia. The two million residents of the Muluku Islands are evenly split between Muslims and Christians, but Ambon has a Christian majority which is currently being attacked by Muslim extremists. On Sunday, members of the Christian separatist movement, The Moluccas Sovereignty Front (FKM), were participating in an anniversary march when violence erupted that has resulted in over 20 deaths and hundreds wounded, and the number of casualties is continuing to climb. According to an...

AMBON, Indonesia (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and a church and U.N. office torched Sunday as Muslim and Christian residents of the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon fought pitched street battles, witnesses and police said. Nearly 90 people were hurt as groups rampaged through the provincial capital of the Moluccas province in the worst day of violence since factions signed a peace deal in February 2002. Gunfire and explosions were heard in the city and thick black smoke billowed into the air. It was not clear who was firing as the mobs were mostly using stones and...

On Saturday, April 24, the Serbian Orthodox church of St. Catherine in Bresje near Kosovo Polje, located across from the burned ruins of the Serb hospital was broken into and looted. Kosovo Polje parish priest Dragisa Jerenic informed the Diocese of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija that on Saturday the door of the church of St. Catherine was broken down and the thieves took 10 icons, some money and various church vessels. The Diocese of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija concludes with regret that following the pogrom of March 17 and a series of sharp warnings by the international community to Kosovo Albanians to...

Mar 11, 2004 Cyprus takes legal action to recover stolen treasures By Staff Reporter CYPRUS has filed a civil suit in a German court to retrieve antiquities stolen after the Turkish invasion and retrieved by the Bavarian authorities, which have withheld them since, the Legal Service said yesterday. Following the occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops, looters stripped the region’s churches, removing an estimated 15, 000 to 20,000 icons, several dozen major frescoes and mosaics dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century as well as thousands of chalices, wooden carvings, crucifixes and Bibles. Effort to retrieve the stolen...

Ambon violence sends Christians fleeing for lives By Matthew Moore, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta April 27, 2004 More than 200 Indonesian paramilitary police and two extra army battalions went to Maluku province in the country's east to stop rioting and attacks in which about 20 people have died and more than 100 injured, many with machetes. As the worst outbreak of religious violence in for more than two years continued into yesterday, parts of the Christian University of Maluku in Ambon, the regional capital, were burnt, as were about 200 houses as residents packed quickly and fled. The wounded were...

Apr. 26, 2004 10:21 Indonesia: 14 killed as Muslims, Christians clash By ASSOCIATED PRESS AMBON, Indonesia Gangs of Muslims and Christians clashed as mobs set fire to houses and a church Monday in violence that has left at least 14 people dead in two days in Indonesia's eastern Maluku islands, hospital officials and witnesses said. Police rushed reinforcements to the provincial capital Ambon, where at least 10 people were killed Sunday and up to 100 injured. On Monday, four of the injured died and additional 20 were wounded, hospital officials said. The new fighting comes as politicians campaign for presidential...

AMBON, Indonesia (AP) - Muslim and Christian gangs fought running battles in Indonesia's Maluku islands on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people dead - two of them youths hacked to death by sword-wielding men. At least 100 people were wounded in the clashes in the provincial capital Ambon, police said. At least three buildings were set ablaze, including a church and an office housing U.N. agencies working in the region. There were no reports of U.N. staffers being hurt. More than 9,000 people were killed in the Malukus in a decade of fighting between Muslims and Christians that attracted Islamic...

Berlin - Violence by Moslem youths against Jews is on the rise in Germany, according to a published report Saturday. A total 35 violent attacks on Jewish individuals were reported in Germany last year, up from 28 in 2002, according to the report in Der Tagesspiegel newspaper. The Berlin paper based its report on preliminary federal statistics on anti-Semitism in Germany. Berlin was the location of more attacks than any other city in Germany, with 12 reported cases of violence against Jews. The report said half of all such cases involved attacks by non-German youths. Turkish nationals account for 20...

Peace Talks Fall Apart as Violence Continues Violence in Kaduna has claimed 1000 Christian lives and destroyed 63 churches just this year; it must stop says the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN). For three years, CAN has engaged in government-backed peace talks in the state of Kaduna with its Muslim counterpart, Jamutu'ul Nasir Islam (JNI). However, after the recent spate of attacks in which Islamic militants burnt down nine churches in Makarfi, CAN leaders say the peace process has been undermined. As a result of the ongoing violence against Christians, CAN withdrew from the talks 9 April saying, "If we continue...

12 Muslim Extremists Could Face Death Penalty for Torching Christian Village At least 12 Indonesian Muslims could face the death penalty if convicted under an anti-terror law of a bloody revenge attack on a Christian village, a prosecutor said today. Five others could face long jail terms over the attack on Beteleme village in Central Sulawesi province last Oct 10, in which three people died and 35 houses were torched. State prosecutor Edi Dikdaya said the trial of nine defendants started on Monday in the provincial capital Palu. Prosecutors read charges against the defendants yesterday. "They are all accused of...

Pakistani Christian Murdered in His Home George Masih was recently gunned down by two assailants while asleep in his home. Masih, 35, was married with three children. Investigators from the Center for Legal Aid, Assistance, and Settlement (CLAAS) believe that George's murder was in connection with the weekly prayer meetings held in his house. Details are still uncertain, but apparently Masih had an argument with a local lawyer the day of his murder. That lawyer was later detained by the police, and the family suspects that he knows the assailants. The police, however, are less than convinced.

Islamic Extremist Group Vows to Kill All Somalian Christians The Mogadishu based Somali fundamentalist group, Kulanka Culimada, accused Christian aid workers in Somalia of spreading Christianity in the coastal city of Merca. Reuters reported on April 21 that the militant group said if the Christianization in Somalia does not stop, “the Somalia people have a right to jihad…the politically influential group based in the capital Mogadishu said in a statement issued on Tuesday.” A widely read Somali website, Hiiraan, posted April 20 a press release from the militant group signed by Sheikh Nur Barud, the vice chairman of the Kulanka...

Michigan Armenians mark genocide by Turks The Associated Press 4/22/2004, 8:47 a.m. ET DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Armenian Americans are preparing to mark the 89th anniversary of a mass murder that helped mark the 1900s as the century of genocide. Before the Nazi slaughtered 6 million Jews, before the Khmer Rouge killed 1.7 million of their fellow Cambodians, before Rwandan Hutus killed 800,000 ethnic Tutsis, the Armenians of Turkey endured mass slaughter at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Armenians say they lost 1.5 million people in 1915-23, during and after World War I, as Turkish authorities forced them out...

Mrs. Alice Mahon (Halifax) (Lab): I, too, will try to cut my speech down and keep it brief. We had to deploy an extra 750 troops to Kosovo last week. The entire violent episode exposed the character of the Albanian separatists, some with terrorist and criminal links, who are now in leading positions of power in that province. The Kosovo Liberation Army never disbanded. It simply became the Kosovo Protection Corps. Agim Ceku—I name him again—the man who ethnically cleansed the Krajina, is in charge of the Kosovo Protection Corps. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford,...

Amid a major crackdown, eleven Protestants in Nukus were questioned at the public prosecutor's office and pressured to convert to Islam. They were also threatened with being shot, though the city prosecutor, M. Arzymbetov, subsequently denied this to Forum 18 News Service. The prosecutor also tried to have a Protestant, Iklas Aldungarov, expelled from his university medical course, but the university rector, Oral Ataniyazova, has resisted the pressure. "How and what Aldungarov believes is his own personal business, and we do not have the right to interfere with it," she told Forum 18. She added that a very large number...

Muslim extremists recently shot their way into a home and executed 2 children because the family is Christian. Christians fear an Easter massacre/attack on them in their churches. Pressure has been increasing on them. "Neighbors are now receiving threatening letters. Some of the threats are from unknown groups," "They say, 'You have to be a Muslim, or else we will kill you.'" Late last month, the family of the two murdered children received a note warning that they would be killed and "doomed to hell." The next day, the gunman came and killed the two children, each with an AK-47...

The Church property around the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Pristina turned into a squatting ground for Roma emigrants from Albania. The interior of the church is used as a public toilet. Pristina Municipal authorities (Albanians) and UNMIK keep tolerating the sacrilege despite warning of Bishop Artemije in January 2004 to protect the church and the church property. These horrific scenes of extreme lack of culture and savagery in the center of Pristina. In a statement for the ERP KIM Info Service, the Bishop added: "In addition to all the horrors and the destruction and desecration of over 140 churches...

Dear Colleague: A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Sudan and Congress must speak out. I have introduced H. Con. Res. 403 condemning the Government of the Republic of Sudan for its involvemnt in attacks against innocent civilians in the impoverished Darfur region of western Sudan. Raphael Lemkin in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe coined the word "genocide." Greek word "genos" (race), Latin word "cide" (killing). Genocide means "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group." It has been said the way we behave is really an indicator of what we truly believe, and belief...

The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum has, over fifteen years of tyrannical rule, assembled an unsurpassed record of bad faith, unspeakable cruelty, and massive human destruction. Presently this regime is denying two essential UN investigative teams access to the Darfur region. This ominous delay can only be for the purposes of better obscuring evidence for what Egeland himself has described as "ethnic cleansing" and "scorched-earth warfare" directed against the African civilian population---countenanced, indeed orchestrated by Khartoum. The Khartoum regime also continues to deny access to a four-person UN human rights investigating team that has been languishing on the Chad/Darfur...