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Related to my last post, La Nacion, an Argentinean newspaper, has just published a piece on Abu Bakker Qassim, one of the five Uyghur men sent to Albania in 2006. You can read the translated version here. It’s an interesting, brief article on conditions in Guantanamo and the Uyghurs’ views on Obama.
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Seven years after the Uyghurs, an oppressed Muslim minority group in the west of China, were detained, they are still in Guantánamo prison. They should have never been there in the first place. Although it was apparent in 2001 that the Uyghurs only enemy was the Chinese government, they were considered suspected...
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During the 15 Years War, known in Japan as the period from 1931-1945, nearly 200,000 women from throughout the Japanese Empire fell victim to Japan’s state-sponsored brothel system. Mostly Asian virgins, with the exception of the Dutch women in Indonesia, these women were often forced or tricked into becoming the...
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