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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: rp Date: November 20, 2023, 9:56 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=33.msg23667#msg23667
date=1699823790]
I agree with calling the IDF terrorists, but why ask only
Islamic governments to do so? This makes it appear as though
Iran does not expect other governments to perceive the IDF as
terrorists, when IDF terrorism should be obvious to all
governments of former victims of the Western colonial powers.
[/quote]
To be fair, he was speaking at the OIC (Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation). There should be a similar organization for former
victims of Western colonial powers. NAM comes to mind, but it is
practically irrelevant today.
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Re: Gaza
By: gaza Date: November 21, 2023, 9:17 pm
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HTML https://www.africanews.com/2023/11/21/south-africa-calls-on-icc-to-arrest-netanyahu/
South Africa calls on ICC to arrest Netanyahu
[quote]
The South African government on Monday called on the
International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by mid-December.
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said it would
signal a "total failure" of global governance if the ICC does
not do so.
"The world cannot simply stand by and watch. The global
community needs to rise to stop this genocide now," said
Ntshavheni.
Alongside four other countries, South Africa last week submitted
a referral to the ICC to investigate whether war crimes and
crimes against humanity have been committed in Gaza.
A longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause, South Africa
recalled its ambassador and diplomatic staff from Israel on
November 6.
Following South Africa's move on Monday, Israel recalled its own
envoy in Pretoria.
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: canada Date: December 9, 2023, 3:51 am
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HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-cindy-woodhouse-to-become-new-national-chief-of-assembly-of-first/
AFN’s new National Chief Cindy Woodhouse vows to hold government
accountable
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: rp Date: December 9, 2023, 5:47 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cOh7E-tl0
Comments:
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@amankumar-nz1yq
8 days ago
Mughal were the dirty mixture of Mongols & [s]Turkish[/s] Turkic
- rp people...not Afghanistan.... Afghanistan has always been a
colony of one or other country...and 2500 years back it was a
part of maurya empire...read history... don't spread propoganda
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: rp Date: February 6, 2024, 7:31 pm
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HTML https://x.com/ANI/status/1754846371939602809?s=20
[quote]
ANI
@ANI
Iran announces that visa for citizens of India will be abolished
starting from 4th February2024 subject to the following
conditions:
1. Individuals holding ordinary passports will be allowed to
enter the country without a visa once every six months, with a
maximum stay of 15 days. It is important to note that the 15-day
period cannot be extended.
2. The visa abolition only applies to individuals entering the
territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran for tourism purposes.
3. If Indian nationals wish to stay for a longer period or make
multiple entries within a six-month period or require other
types of visas, they must obtain the necessary visas through the
respective representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in
India.
4. The visa abolition outlined in this approval specifically
applies to Indian nationals who enter the country just through
the air border.[/quote]
EDIT: Wrong thread. Please move
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 12, 2024, 5:05 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6v5SsQAQEc
:)
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: rp Date: February 18, 2024, 10:07 am
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HTML https://twitter.com/CastePatroller/status/1758354690172157978?t=W7M06-rVtUIhLdo3aZ46BQ&s=19
[Quote]
[Img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGbuQ-bW0AAf1sL?format=jpg&name=small[/img]
I don’t think so any other nation state does this level of
monkey balancing —
> conferred ‘Grand Collar of the State of Palestine’
> sends financial and medical aid to Gaza
> sells drones to Israel in ongoing war
> acquires the Haifa Port of Israel
> votes against Israel in UN0
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This is the Western approach of "realpolitik". The non-Western
approach involves uniting based on a single common enemy
(Western civilization).
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: antihellenistic Date: April 7, 2024, 5:08 am
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United States Diplomatically Becomes more "American"
[quote]Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations
for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities
dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, with the
United States backing a U.N. panel at the heart of the effort.
A tribunal, modelled on other ad-hoc courts such as the
Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals after World War Two, was
proposed last year. It has now gained traction within a broader
slavery reparations movement, Reuters reporting based on
interviews with a dozen people reveals.
Formally recommended in June by the U.N. Permanent Forum on
People of African Descent, the idea of a special tribunal has
been explored further at African and Caribbean regional bodies,
said Eric Phillips, a vice-chair of the slavery reparations
commission for the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, which groups 15
member states.
The scope of any tribunal has not been determined but the U.N.
Forum recommended in a preliminary report that it should address
reparations for enslavement, apartheid, genocide, and
colonialism.
Advocates, including within CARICOM and the African Union (AU),
which groups 55 nations across the continent, are working to
build wider backing for the idea among U.N. members, Phillips
said.
A special U.N. tribunal would help establish legal norms for
complex international and historical reparations claims, its
supporters say. Opponents of reparations argue, among other
things, that contemporary states and institutions should not be
held responsible for historical slavery.
Even its supporters recognise that establishing an international
tribunal for slavery will not be easy.
There are “huge obstacles,” said Martin Okumu-Masiga,
Secretary-General of the Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF),
which is providing reparations-related advice to the AU.
Hurdles include obtaining the cooperation of nations that were
involved in the trade of enslaved people and the legal
complexities of finding responsible parties and determining
remedies.
“These things happened many years ago and historical records and
evidence can be challenging to access and even verify,”
Okumo-Masiga said.
Unlike the Nuremberg trials, nobody directly involved in
transatlantic slavery is alive.
Asked about the idea of a tribunal, a spokesperson for the
British Foreign Office acknowledged the country’s role in
transatlantic slavery, but said it had no plan to pay
reparations. Instead, past wrongs should be tackled by learning
lessons from history and tackling “today’s challenges,” the
spokesperson said.
However, advocates for reparations say Western countries and
institutions that continue to benefit from the wealth slavery
generated should be held accountable, particularly given ongoing
legacies of racial discrimination.
A tribunal would help establish an “official record of history,”
said Brian Kagoro, a Zimbabwean lawyer who has been advocating
for reparations for over two decades.
{snip}
Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is in favour of the push
for a tribunal, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told Reuters in
February, saying the country would support the idea “until it
becomes a reality.”
{snip}
Phillips said the work to establish a tribunal would have to
take place through the United Nations system and include
conversations with countries, including Portugal, Britain,
France, Spain, Netherlands and Denmark, that were involved in
trading enslaved people to the Caribbean and other regions.
{snip}
The United States, which has financed the U.N forum, “will make
a decision on the tribunal when it has been developed and
established,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson said.
“However, the United States strongly supports” the forum’s work,
the spokesperson added.
Regarding reparations, “the complexity of the issue, legal
challenges, and differing perspectives among Caribbean nations
present significant challenges,” the spokesperson said.
The U.N. leadership has now come out in support for reparations,
which have been used in other circumstances to offset large
moral and economic debts, such as to Japanese Americans interned
by the United States during World War Two and to families of
Holocaust survivors.
{snip}
The Netherlands apologised for its role in transatlantic slavery
last year and announced a roughly $200 million fund to address
that past. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry said it was
not aware of the discussions around a tribunal and could not
respond to questions.
{snip}
Ghana led efforts to get African support for formally pursuing
reparations, with Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa also taking
up the cause, said Kamara.
Most discussion has focused on transatlantic trafficking,
Hansford and Phillips said, rather than the older trans-Saharan
trade to the Islamic world, estimated to have transported
several million enslaved Africans.
What reparations would consist of in practice is debated. Some,
including in the United States, have pushed for individual
payments to descendants of enslaved people. CARICOM, in a 2014
plan, called for debt cancellation and support from European
nations to tackle public health and economic crises.
The AU decision to join CARICOM has given new heft to the
campaign, said Jasmine Mickens, a U.S.- based strategist for
social movements who specialises in reparations.
The AU is now developing Africa’s own white paper on what
reparations might look like, said Okumu-Masiga.[/quote]
Source :
Africa, Caribbean Unite on Reparations Catarina Demony, Reuters,
April 4, 2024
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2024/04/africa-caribbean-unite-on-reparations/
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: rp Date: April 12, 2024, 12:00 pm
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Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!:
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 8, 2024, 3:15 am
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HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/island-nation-of-sao-tome-and-principe-to-ask-portugal-for-colonial-reparations/ar-AA1o30QJ?
[quote]LISBON (Reuters) - The government of the African island
nation of Sao Tome and Principe will ask Portugal to repair the
moral damages caused by colonialism, the country's education and
cultural minister said on Thursday.
Speaking to Portugal's Lusa news agency, minister Isabel Abreu
said the Sao Tome and Principe government would draw up a plan
to negotiate reparations with Portugal, adding the process would
take time.
...
For over four centuries, nearly 6 million Africans were
kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by
Portuguese vessels and sold into slavery, primarily in Brazil.
Portugal's colonial era saw countries such as Angola,
Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, East
Timor and some territories in Asia subject to Portuguese
rule.[/quote]
My advice remains the same: reparations should not be in the
form of the former Western colonial power sending money to its
former colony, but should be in the form of demographically
replacing the colonizer gene pool with the colonized gene pool
inside the current territory of former Western colonial power
itself.
See also:
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