'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Cox’s Bazar, 13 March 2018 (IOM)* – When a poor, rural farming community finds itself in the middle of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world – doubling its population in just a few months – it’s not just the new arrivals who need support as food prices soar and infrastructure is overloaded.
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Farmer Ayesha Begum tries out a mechanical power tiller near Cox’s Bazar ©IOM/Fiona MacGregor
Myanmar’s Rakhine State is being militarized at an alarming pace, as authorities are building security force bases and bulldozing land where Rohingya villages were burned to the ground just months ago, Amnesty International on said in a new briefing.
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Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanising apartheid regime © Amnesty International
12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — When robbers are caught, the accepted practice is to arrest them and bring them to trial, to send them to jail in accordance with the severity of their crime, and to require them to pay compensation to their victims. But this is not the case in Israel when the robbers are the settlers who steal Palestinian land and build their homes or grow their crops on it.
Amos Gvirtz
They receive special treatment, and if the state is forced to act according to the law, then it is the settlers who receive compensation!
Unfortunately, this scandalous situation is a substantial element in the corruption of Israeli society caused by the occupation.
The land grabbing started when the State of Israel chose to begin its process of territorial expansion after the Six Day War in 1967.
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