Sri Lanka: To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, @amnesty joined events in northern #SriLanka in Kilinochchi and Jaffna.
Regional Director Smriti Singh urged Sri Lankan authorities to breakaway from past practices and ensure that truth, justice and reparations are ensured by the current administration, including by making sure the Office on Missing Persons is reformed and is fit for purpose. The current government has spoken repeatedly about reconciliation. She noted how so far, there remains a significant gap between the government’s rhetoric and concrete action.
#stillnoanswers #enforceddisappearances
Happening Now..
Smriti Singh, Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International, is addressing the “Long Road to Justice” – International Conference in Jaffna today, on the International Day of the Disappeared.
Her address comes as families of the forcibly disappeared continue their decades-long struggle for truth, justice and accountability.
#InternationalDayOfTheDisappeared #LongRoadToJustice #AmnestyInternational #EnforcedDisappearances #Jaffna #SriLanka
The @Sydney_Uni is facing an alumni revolt over Israel.
More than 450 graduates and staff, including a deputy vice-chancellor and Australian AM and OAM recipients, signed a letter demanding a rare Convocation meeting (the first in over three decades) to discuss the university's ties to Israel and free speech on campus.
The signatories accuse the university of a "profound moral failure" over Gaza and a "suppression of dissent" on campus.
https://t.co/Nhdgxg8hzS
Chokwe Lumumba on the necessity of coupling Theory with Practice and Practice with Theory. It’s not enough to simply read about our plight as a colonized people and a colonized nation.
Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.
this “anti-racism activism” plague is the liberal costume stitched together by the NGO–academic–nonprofit machine, a graveyard ritual which has nothing to do with Assata’s liberation warpath and lineage as a Black female revolutionary against imperialism. as history testifies, the aftermath of her passing will summon the ideological sanitation crews of liberalism.
"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
thank you for your steadfastness and clarity, Assata. may you rest in power ✊🏾💔
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.
I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.
O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.
Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025
This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.
Dennis Walker, Gary Foley speaking at an event
(From "Tribune" negatives. Acknowledgement goes to Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH foundation)
Here is a copy of the full ABC interview with APAN President Nasser Mashni which is now missing from the @abcnews website.
Israel is “not a democracy—it’s a rogue apartheid genocidal state, headed up by a war criminal. It’s time for Australia to do more than just talk.”
Have no words to express. It's like I grab ur property then offer you a Dansala on my religious festival from the very same property. Adding insult 2 injury. If anyone understood th Damma of th lord Buddha they will realize the real Dansala is to return peoples land.
To all friends
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.
In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world:
• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:
https://t.co/dlwb6Rf77I
https://t.co/XaqRKmNnhE
https://t.co/nXaMQf8mOJ
• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:
https://t.co/Izb5iQc1Rg
• "Empty Seat" documentary:
https://t.co/g5qQ76dFsL
• "Resistance Pilot" documentary:
https://t.co/r7gHsZgbh7
• "Jenin" documentary:
https://t.co/w7MHEtT1rx
• "The Olive Tree" documentary:
https://t.co/UGc281sB8g
• "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973:
https://t.co/FJhBrXqV6G
• Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom":
https://t.co/FP9plLDRnH
• Documentary "Arna's Children":
https://t.co/nMARn6hK3x
• Short Film "Strawberry":
https://t.co/3vDtJfBl9S
• Short Film "The Place":
https://t.co/4YnMgKjDxM
• Documentary "The Mayor":
https://t.co/OrZ5t0o418
• Documentary "The Creation and the Nakba 1948":
https://t.co/dopya7lonp
• Documentary "Occupation" 101":
https://t.co/aMOLKoRJ8L
• "The Shadow of Absence" Documentary:
https://t.co/lpJDZiLCyW
• "The Don't Exist" Documentary:
https://t.co/8amenIgDUt
• "As The Poet Said" Documentary:
https://t.co/1V5UrOWuxW
• "Five Broken Cameras" Documentary:
https://t.co/z9spDWinbx
• "Paradise Now" Feature Film:
https://t.co/tfVXiCC0PI
• "Abnadam" Short Film:
https://t.co/EFj1zuGtVV
• "Wedding of Galilee":
https://t.co/wcWMYkN3Ix
• The feature film "Keffiyeh":
https://t.co/kPco6N7nCv
• The documentary film "Slingshot Hip Hop":
https://t.co/B3hX8o80nk
• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV
• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV
• The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance":
https://t.co/dGZaXBVkqK
• The documentary film "Swings":
https://t.co/pW6DpGxU3x
• The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision:
https://t.co/mztq6n0A5C
• "The Upper Gate" Documentary:
https://t.co/nwHl803u1B
• "In Search of Palestine" Documentary:
https://t.co/36ADmq3yuj
• "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film:
https://t.co/4agkw8suWK
• "Speak, Bird" Documentary:
https://t.co/6iA9FDYvIQ
• "The Palestinian Exodus" Series:
https://t.co/TzKlaXXloB
• "I Am Jerusalem" Series:
https://t.co/jvyieEoCrs
maybe read the Batalanda report available here in English: https://t.co/PtVBrcuG9f and Sinhala https://t.co/OEnORlGb3i instead of this delulu sycophantic drivel.
Nice one, @uniaus. Your antisemitism definition has been slammed by Amnesty as 'dangerous' and a 'betrayal' of the function of higher education. Not that you know or care about that.
https://t.co/7SEHNFA6uA