Azam Bakeer-Markar

Fighting hypocrisy, starting with me. Views are my own. retweets ≠ endorsements #SDGs

[Azam Bakeer-Markar @azambm]

Tomorrow is Adhil @Bakeer_Markar 's birthday. His loss hurts and guides us everyday. Here's an article about him in Silumina weekend newspaper. #Adhil #lka

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Adidas has featured Israeli soldier Shaliv Biton, who took part in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, to promote its Single Shoe service which allows customers who need only one shoe to purchase it for half the price of a pair.

🔴 More on https://t.co/MbrRGkFd1I

[Sanjee #GoodGovernance🇱🇰🇪🇸🇧🇪🇪🇷🇿🇼🇳🇦🇫🇮 @nomadic_sanjee]

See how divisions are created in 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka by 🇮🇱Israeli pages. This one is operating from 🇫🇮Finland.
The post in Sinhala is asking what people think about the uniform pretending to be supporting a constructive discourse so they don't get reported.
Sri Lanka should be alert!

[Andrew Fidel Fernando @afidelf]

Yesterday, the ICC issued a press release claiming "Fernando moved his head towards Jaiswal. In response, Jaiswal leant in, resulting in their heads making contact."

This is just factually incorrect. Check the vid.

An instance of the game's governing body outright lying to fans

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Today the UN flag is lowered globally in solidarity with over 1,000 aid workers killed in past three years.

We lower our flags. We remember our friends and colleagues. We demand accountability for those who killed them.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

British academic Anas Altikriti told MEE he expected “far better” from the UK government after an ITV investigation revealed that a UAE-funded mercenary had covertly surveilled him in 2016, recording details of his home, car and workplace.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

In 1945 Justice Jackson opened Nuremberg on a promise: the law binds ally and enemy alike,or it binds no one. Today his country targets the very institution delivering that mission- to spare a fugitive from trial.
Empire it was, empire it is. Where evil sits makes all difference.

[ITV News @itvnews]

EXCLUSIVE: UAE-funded mercenary 'ran covert operation' against British activist in London https://t.co/iyQ0V78bwI

[Rohit Kachroo @RohitKachrooITV]

EXCLUSIVE:
Military veterans funded by the UAE travelled to the UK to put an activist under surveillance.
A mercenary chief and an ex US Navy SEAL discussed ways to locate, track and potentially kill their target - a campaigner the UAE viewed as a threat. https://t.co/Qrf8ONVELh

[Rohit Kachroo @RohitKachrooITV]

NEW:

Mercenaries flew to London to run a secret surveillance operation against a British man - on British soil.

They were being paid by a British ally.

Our investigation, out tonight, raises questions about the men behind the mission - and the country that paid them.

[Azam Bakeer-Markar @azambm]

Sri Lanka needs to unlock greater financing for development. Here's how!

[UN in Sri Lanka @UNSriLanka]

The world is $4 trillion short on financing sustainable development — every year.

For Sri Lanka, the opportunities lie in:
🎯Spending smarter
💸Unlocking private investments
🔀Rethinking debt
🌏and using its voice on the global stage.

[UN in Sri Lanka @UNSriLanka]

Public servants play a key role in building trust between communities & the govt.

On #PublicServiceDay public officials & communities came together to share stories of how social dialogue & empathy can strengthen understanding, respect & social cohesion: https://t.co/KJXDGhiIZ4

[Azam Bakeer-Markar @azambm]

Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, began a pastoral visit to Gaza
https://t.co/yNQknm0kdC

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

The explosion of billionaire wealth has been one of the defining features of our time.

Globally, billionaires used to own wealth equivalent to 3% of world GDP in the 1980s.

Today: 17% of world GDP.

And the upsurge is accelerating.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

In the 1980s, the 0.001% wealthiest families living in the UK — roughly 200 families — owned wealth equivalent to 5% of UK GDP.

Today: 20% of GDP.

If they spent all their wealth, these 200 families could buy ~1/5 of all the goods & services produced in a given year in the UK.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Israeli settlers have attacked the historic Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting fields on fire and targeting Palestinian homes.

Local sources reported that the settlers opened fire on houses and threw Molotov cocktails

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli soldiers shot a 7 month old baby dead.

They then lied about it.

This is what the Israeli state does.

They commit war crimes, lie about it, commit more war crimes, lie about it, in an endless cycle of murderous horror.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Video after video shows Israeli settlers violently harassing and attacking Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, seizing their livestock, bulldozing their schools, setting fire to their property and even killing Palestinians as part of a brutal campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand control over the land – with full political and financial backing from the highest authorities of the Israeli state.

This is what a policy of state-led ethnic cleansing looks like.

Watch. Share. Demand action.

[Bloomberg @business]

The crackdown on scam compounds in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to beach resorts and office buildings in Sri Lanka, in what may be the next phase of one of the world’s fastest-growing criminal industries. Read more: https://t.co/adcz5wVlvN

📷️: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a UN inquiry said https://t.co/mtUK0nycep