Thousands of people have joined the march worldwide to protest the continued killings of many innocent lives in Darfur, Sudan. News reports culled from the Internet and the wires said the protests came as a means to pressure the world to dip its hands into the Darfur problems, which have now brought serious chaos within and […]
Picking the wrong leader in Iraq
If there is anyone to blame for the worsening sectarian violence in Iraq, it should be Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who appointed Nouri Jawad Al-Maliki as the country’s Prime Minister after Saddam Hussein was toppled a few years back. It comes as a surprise that the Iraqi Parliament has picked someone from Kurdistan Province, […]
Iraq FM denies Saudi king rejects Maliki’s visit to kingdom
A high ranking government official of Iraq today denied reports that the Saudi government has rejected the planned visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Jawad Al-Maliki to the Saudi kingdom. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari confirmed this in the international media as issues affecting the scheduled conference on Iraq’s security situation is being ironed out […]
Saudi monarch rejects Maliki’s visit
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud had rejected the scheduled visit of Iraq leader to the kingdom after expressing his concern that the Iraqi government is not properly addressing the daily sectarian violence that claimed countless innocent lives in Iraq, reports said today. In a CNN report, it said that the Saudi king […]
Innocent people as human shields
It is sad to note that people are being used as human shields to protect Israel troops from enemy attacks. In a CNN report today, young palestinians have been rounded up to act as fronts, doing house-to-house search in some parts of Palestinian occupied areas. I’m not in favor of this type of skirmishes between […]
Japan offers apology vs comfort women
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged before U.S. Congress that the Japanese imperial forces set up brothels for its troops during the war. Mr. Abe even went beyond offering his deep apology for Japan’s misdeeds at that time when countless number of comfort women were forced as sex slaves. Historians claimed that an estimated 200,000 […]