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lester_bangs@pod.mttv.it
virgil

Abtrünnige #Moldau-Provinz #Transnistrien plant angeblich #Referendum über #Anschluss an #Russland
Der #Kreml übt seit Jahren Druck auf das kleine #Moldau aus, nun könnte die abtrünnige Region Transnistrien den Anschluss an Russland suchen. Ein Termin für die Abstimmung steht laut Sicherheitsexperten schon fest.

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/transnistrien-plant-angeblich-referendum-ueber-anschluss-an-russland-a-2b1d79a3-8721-4ec6-b43b-81fd360df230

jemand Interesse an einer zweiten Front in der #Ukraine ?

Transnistrien plant angeblich Referendum über Anschluss an Russland

Der Kreml übt seit Jahren Druck auf das kleine Moldau aus, nun könnte die abtrünnige Region Transnistrien den Anschluss an Russland suchen. Ein Termin für die Abstimmung steht laut Sicherheitsexperten schon fest.

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magdoz@diaspora.psyco.fr
magdoz

Les #droites au #pouvoir en #France.... #Souvenirs souvenirs
Recette : On reprend les mêmes ou presque, et on est bon.
Ah... Tout doucement, vu la #droitisation ambiante, le fameux #extrême-centre #bourgeois s'affirme de plus en plus comme ce qu'il est, entre la #droite #autoritaire et l' #extrême-droite...
Et pour le reste, le #peuple et son #impuissance : tout pareil !
Le #QuaranteNeufTrois, les #grèves écrasées, les referendums bidons, tout y est.
(Pas étonnant que les droites veuillent en plus faire un #referendum sur le sujet de l' #immigration,; vu qu'ils font ce qu'ils veulent d'une telle consultation (à commencer par biaiser la question ! ^^ ))

Et paraît que les mêmes au pouvoir, appellent cela la ... #démocratie.
Hommage à la défunte #CoralieDelaume au passage.
On progresse, sans déc on progresse.

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Clarice Bouvier

SMH article (headline omitted as it's a little too gleeful about Senator Thorpe being "isolated" - she isnt)

Key opponents of the Indigenous Voice have switched sides in the final weeks of the referendum to back the Yes case after rising fears that a No victory would align them with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton or One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.

The moves reveal the concerns among “progressive No” activists who initially rejected the Voice in favour of stronger action – such as a treaty first – but have moved away from the hardline stance taken by Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe.

But Thorpe said the Blak Sovereignty movement, which she leads, was “growing exponentially” and would continue to oppose the Voice, saying she would not switch sides despite calls from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for her support.

With early voting opening on Monday, the Yes campaign is trying to win back voters who have been swayed by conservative critics who say the Voice goes too far and “progressive No” leaders such as Thorpe who see the Voice as a retreat on sovereignty and treaty.

Thorpe’s case has lost ground, however, among some Indigenous people who have shifted to the Yes side as polling day draws closer.

Melbourne activist Tarneen Onus Browne said they were a “hard No” and actively campaigned against the Voice until changing their mind when they saw the risk of a No victory.

“It is dangerous to those of us in Indigenous communities because of the racism and discrimination it amps up, and I hope to never see another community group be put in danger of right-wing conservatives in a national vote,” they said.

“The racist No campaign is dangerous in so many ways and it has made it OK for neo-Nazis to go out onto the streets of Melbourne – and it’s important for this country to send a message to them by writing Yes in the upcoming referendum.”

Onus Browne is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and made headlines five years ago for telling an Invasion Day rally they hoped Australia would “burn to the ground” – a remark they said was about the need for total change to the political system.

“I agree with much of what the progressive No represents, not the racist No – they are two very different campaigns,” they said.

Anti-Voice campaigners such as Nyunggai Warren Mundine have rejected claims their campaign appeals to racism in the community after Yes leader Marcia Langton said earlier this month the No case used racist tactics. Meriki Onus, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and an organiser for the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, said a key factor for her was the way the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria showed how a federal body could work.

“I agree with much of what the No position is, however, I’m leaning towards voting Yes,” she said. “We’ve seen an example in Australia where a body similar to the Voice to parliament already functions, and I think that they do really good work and there’s amazing opportunity there. So I would be leaning towards a Yes.” The Victorian assembly has 32 members who are elected by Indigenous people to represent their communities, with voters choosing representatives from five regions across the state. Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney joined the assembly members in Melbourne on Thursday morning to back the Voice. Onus, who is Thorpe’s younger sister, said she agreed with many of the Victorian senator’s views but had her own personal views about the “yes or no” choice at the referendum. She said she was not concerned at the claim that setting up the Voice would mean ceding sovereignty and her view was not based on any concerns about Dutton or Hanson. “I don’t think I’ll ever be put in the same camp as those two – my politics are very different,” she said.

Yes campaigners saw Victoria as a stronghold for their cause until a slide in the opinion polls showed the state was slipping toward the No side, making every vote count and increasing the importance of voters once swayed by Thorpe’s arguments against the change. In Darwin, chief executive of Uprising of the People, Mililma May said she changed her mind to become an “active educator” on the Yes side of the Voice debate because she was concerned about the way a No victory would be seen in the community.

“The idea of a No vote in the Northern Territory scared me in that it could mean a majority of Australians do not care about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices. And that fundamentally felt wrong to me,” she said. May, whose Darwin-based group acts for Indigenous young people in detention, said she had taken a No position at first.

“I was scared that my sovereignty would be impacted. And I was wary of trusting the government after Australia’s history,” she said. “Moving beyond those fears, I realised that sovereignty can’t be impacted by voting Yes. And I think it’s healthy to have a level of mistrust of the government, but in a way that can make the government accountable.” While the comments are at odds with Thorpe’s call to Indigenous Australians to reject the Voice, May made no criticism of the Victorian senator. “I think that Lidia and I have different understandings of what is going to work for our people, and I think that’s valid,” she said.

Thorpe said the Blak Sovereignty movement had grown on social media and she was not changing her position on the Voice. “I’m not going Yes, I’m not betraying the movement,” she said.
#referendum #Australia

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Bert Ernste

‘The kids had all been tortured’: Indonesian military accused of targeting children in West Papua

The Guardian

Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military — including the torture and murder of civilians — in West Papua. (...)

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Transported by helicopter to the regional military headquarters 100km away, the group were beaten and burnt so badly by their captors that they no longer looked human.

Kogeya says Wity died a painful death in custody. The other five were only released after human rights advocates tipped off the local media.

“The kids had all been tortured and they’d been tied up and then burned,” says Kogeya, who saw the surviving boys’ injuries first-hand on the day of their release.

“[The military] had heated up machetes and knives and pressed it against their skin … They didn’t even look like humans. They were burnt from head to toe. They were in a really bad way.” (...)

Last year UN human rights experts called for urgent and unrestricted humanitarian access to the region over serious concerns about “shocking abuses against Indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people.” (...)

The day before the boys’ detention, in the same region of Nduga, soldiers opened fire on a group of women and children returning with string bags filled with food from shopping in a neighbouring village, locals say. (...)

“The military could tell that [the group of women and children] were not combatants,” Kogoya says. “And they still shot them.”

“They know we’re carrying vegetables not guns – so why are they shooting at us and why are they arresting us?” (...)

The former Dutch colony is just 250km from mainland Australia. It’s a short boat ride from the northern islands of the Torres Strait. But most Australians know little about the war that is raging there.

The lack of knowledge is partly by design: very little about West Papua reaches the outside world because Indonesia tightly controls access for foreign journalists and human rights monitors. (...)

When the Netherlands began preparing for withdrawal in the 1950s, West Papuans pushed strongly for independence. As Melanesians, they see themselves as part of the Pacific, not south-east Asia. But their powerful neighbour had other ideas. (...)

A ceasefire was brokered by the United Nations, and a UN-backed ballot was held in 1969, ostensibly to allow West Papuans to have their say on integration with Indonesia.

But advocates say the “Act of Free Choice” was rigged from the start. Just 1,022 West Papuan leaders were handpicked by Indonesian officials to represent the entire population, and they were coerced and threatened at gunpoint to reject independence.

In this environment, support for integration was unanimous. The result was rubber-stamped by the UN.

Indigenous West Papuans continue to demand a real vote on self-determination, mostly through acts of civil disobedience such as raising the banned ‘Morning Star’ flag. They pay a heavy price in police and military brutality, as well as long jail sentences, for their activism. (...)

“We can’t do anything here,” says Nopinanus Kogoya. “People are even dying of hunger in the street because they can’t farm, they can’t go anywhere. We’re just completely, completely under the control of this fierce military occupation.” (...)

Locals say the brutality escalated in February this year, when Phillip Mehrtens, a New Zealand pilot working for Indonesian airline Susi Air, was taken hostage and his plane burned by the rebel army at Nduga airport. (...)

Now, Australia is seeking to forge closer military ties in negotiations on a “defence cooperation agreement” – a “treaty-level instrument” that will be legally enforceable before an international court, says Rothwell. (...)

Australia also provides weapons and other tools of war to Indonesia, including a recent shipment of 15 Bushmaster armoured vehicles, intended for use by Indonesian special forces during peacekeeping missions. (...)

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