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AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity, lack of aid prompt IDPs to leave camp |
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Written by IRIN Team
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
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Photo: Sarwar Amani/IRIN  |
| IDPs abandon Zherai Dasht Camp in Kandahar Province because of insecurity and lack of aid |
KANDAHAR, 21 June 2009 (IRIN) - Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas in the north and northwest of the country because of worsening insecurity and lack of aid at the camp.
Zherai Dasht camp, about 25km west of Kandahar city, was home to hundreds of thousands of IDPs in 2002-2005. Most have returned home over the past four years but some 3,000 families still live in the camp, according to the provincial department of refugees.
Mohammad Azam Nawabi, director of the refugees’ department in Kandahar, told IRIN 1,087 families had formally expressed their desire to return.
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NEW MEDIA: Online Propaganda War Heats Up |
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Written by Lynette Lee Corporal
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
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BANGKOK, Jun 17 (AMF) - For the past several years, extremist groups such as the Taliban, have been arming themselves with a different kind of weapon — new media. The news is they are getting highly creative at it.
"For some odd reason, I'm becoming famous," quipped the animated character Dickie in a robotic voice tinged with a slight American accent.
Dickie is the fictional news anchor of YouTube channel 'Resistance Media' who presents news alerts about clashes in Afghanistan that "Nato and coalition forces so desperately (want to) hide from the corporate media”.
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A Valley of Tears in Pakistan |
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Written by Ivanka Custodio
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Monday, 22 June 2009 |
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“As for women, they always suffer the most.”
These were the words of Shumaila Jabeen of Pakistan's Network of Women's Rights, confirming what is already expected in any war.
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How Social Movements Can Change Iran |
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Written by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
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Monday, 22 June 2009 |
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On the eve of the presidential election, a leading Iranian activist urged the country's social movements to unite now, while the world is watching.
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Gunmen kill 11 at mosque in South |
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Written by BangkokPost.com and AFP
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 |
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 Suspected militants sprayed worshippers with bullets at a mosque in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south Monday, killing 11 people and wounding another 12, officials said.
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