In the shadow cast by Israel’s modern Holocaust in Gaza, Palestinian’s in the West Bank are subject to a daily pogrom carried out by both the government and its “settlers”. Hundreds are dead, and thousands disappeared through so-called ‘administrative detention’ measures; denied charge, trial dates, and held incommunicado. All this while suffering sadistic abuse.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society says as of April 17th’s Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, a date coinciding with an “...escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, and implementing of more systematic violations and crimes...” nearly 8,000 from the West Bank and Jerusalem are currently held captive, including women and children; all subject to “physical and sexual abuse [as] cited by Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Council.”
Salam Hamdan is a Palestinian political activist and Social-Feminist from Ramallah in Occupied Palestine’s West Bank. She’s currently in Canada.
Salam Hamdan in the first half.
And; across Africa, and far beyond too, Burkina Faso is in the news. Now the Sahel region nation is part of the greatest liberation struggle against Western imperialism the continent has seen in five centuries. Led by interim leader, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina and neighbouring Mali and Niger broke from ECOWAS to form the AES, or Alliance of Sahel States, a devoutly Pan-African bloc determined to wrest military and economic control of the so-called “Coup Belt” countries from foreign domination.
But, is Traoré the second coming of revolutionary Thomas Sankara – and his allies the true harbingers of the long-awaited African renaissance his supporters contend – or just another iteration of power-hungry pretenders, as their critics charge?
Claude Gatebuke is Executive Director and co-Founder of the African Great Lakes Action Network, or AGLAN. Claude is a survivor of the prelude to and aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide of the early 1990’s and is co-author of the book ‘Survivors Uncensored 100+ testimonies from survivors of the Rwandan Genocide’.
Claude Gatebuke and the next stage of Africa’s liberation in the second half.
But first, Salam Hamdan and Palestine’s darkest days.
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