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• Date: 05/02/2010

  Peoples and nations today: Tibet

  

  DOSSIER. Tibet is the oppressed nation par excellence and has drawn worldwide attention and solidarity. And yet the 'Free Tibet' campaigns launched in the last years by a Tibetan diaspora made up of more than 200,000 people have not been able to stop the repressive policies of the Chinese government, which is carrying out assimilation policies and promoting Han supremacy.

• Date: 21/01/2010

  Balochistan shaken by the killing of 2 students by the Pakistani military

  Members of the Frontiers Corps opened fire against the Baloch Students Organisation · Several senators left the Pakistani Parliament in protest against the killings · Baloch parties claim for full provincial autonomy · Human Rights Watch warns against violation of human rights committed to Baloch nationalists.

• Date: 14/01/2010

  Election year in Burma but little prospect of change for minorities

  

  FEATURE. Historic vote due to take place in Burma in 2010 risks being a show election legitimizing the military Junta · Fresh clashes expected between the Burmese military and the separatist Karen rebels, harshly repressed by the Government · The Junta rejects federalism or autonomy for minorities.

• Date: 07/01/2010

  Mass protests in Egypt against Copt killings

  

  Police clashed in Nag Hammadi with thousands of demonstrators protesting against the killing of 7 Coptic Christians, who were shot down on the Orthodox Christmas Eve when coming out of mass · It is the severest attack in recent years · Members of the Coptic Church say they had received death threats.

• Date: 04/01/2010

  Morocco announces autonomy plan for Western Sahara

  

  The move has been announced by king Mohammed VI in the context of a general descentralisation plan for Morocco · Sahrawi top leader says Morocco’s measure is only an “escape forward” and does not concern Western Sahara.

• Date: 23/12/2009

  Pro-Kurdish deputies of banned DTP to stay in Turkish Parliament as BDP members

  

  The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), set up last May, will be the parliamentary group of the Kurdish deputies as long as independent deputy Ufuk Uras joins it · Kurds threatened to leave the parliament after the Turkish Constitutional Court shut down the DTP party and banned 37 of its members from politics.

• Date: 04/12/2009

  Peoples and nations today: Western Sahara

  

  DOSSIER. The Sahrawi nation is made up only of a few hundred thousand people, 160,000 of which still live in the Tindouf refugee camps of South-West Algeria for the last 30 years, making it one of the nations in the world with the highest number of refugees. The Western Sahara conflict is still in a deadlock, and in the last years has witnessed a declining interest by the international community and Morocco’s unwillingness to reach a peaceful solution.

• Date: 19/11/2009

  Prominent Sahrawi activist trapped between Morocco and Spain

  

  Aminatou Haidar, president of Sahrawi Defenders of Human Rights, was expelled from Morocco while trying to enter the country and is now on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport · Amnesty International condemns Rabat’s attitude and calls for Madrid to intercede on her behalf.

• Date: 11/11/2009

  China executes nine over riots in East Turkistan

  Eight Uighurs and one Han have been punished by the death penalty under charges of participating in Urumqi’s riots · Amnesty International says executions are the result of an unfair trial, and warns against “perpetuating some of the very injustices that helped trigger the outburst of violence in the first place”.

• Date: 28/10/2009

  UNICEF urges the Chilean government to protect Mapuche children

  Several Mapuche minors were injured by police raid in the Araucania region · Conflict between indigenous communities and the government continues in a region where land encroachment by Mapuches has sparked off violent clashes with police.