May 2012
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“The main problem is loneliness. Society doesn’t accept you or your...”
– READ: Eurovision Glitz Is Assured, But For Azerbaijan’s Gays, It’s Same Old Song
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RFE/RL Regions Mark International Day Against...
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, and in parts of RFE/RL’s broadcast regions, activities were marked with conflict. # Despite Georgia’s recent positive ranking in gay rights by the Brussels-based NGO ILGA Europe, gay rights activists in Tbilisi scuffled with counterprotesters associated with the Union of Orthodox Christian Parents. (Watch Radio Tavisupleba’s...
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WatchVideo: Moose Run Loose In Belarus
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's...Astana Man?
Every Metropolis needs its Superman, every Gotham its Batman. And now, it seems, officials in the Kazakh capital, Astana, want their own superhero to get in on the act…[READ MORE]
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WatchCzechs Rock Out To Support Russian Punk Protesters
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Pakistani Pilots Die in Midair Crash
Officials in Pakistan say two Pakistani air force planes have collided in mid-air, killing all four pilots on board the aircraft and leaving several people on the ground injured. [READ MORE]
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Gay Protests Not Allowed In Minsk
MINSK— Authorities in the Belarusian capital Minsk have prevented gay activists from holding protests to mark the International Day Against Homophobia on May 17. The owner of an online portal focusing on gays in Belarus, Syarhey Androsenka, told RFE/RL that city authorities had rejected a request from the activists to hold three separate demonstrations — in Peoples’ Friendship park,...
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Two training aircrafts collided and crashed in Rashakai town of Nowshera district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday morning. The area where the crash took place is located close to Risalpur, which is a training academy for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
“The two aircraft collided and crashed in Rashakai in Nowshera District. One plane hit the house of Shoaib, who is a...
ICTY prosecutor Peter McCloskey speaking today (May 17) at the trial of Ratko Mladic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
“This was not an army out of control or controlled by someone else. Only an army strictly controlled at the top could have managed to murder over 7000 people in four days.”
“The evidence proving Mladic was...
RFE/RL’s Mashaal Radio reports:
Two training aircrafts collided and crashed in Rashakai town of Nowshera district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday morning. The area where the crash took place is located close to Risalpur, which is a training academy for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). District coordination officer Ayaz Mandokhail confirmed the news to Radio...
WatchDogfighting Under Scrutiny In Afghanistan
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Mothers of Srebrenica victims speak with @RSE_Balkan in Srebrenica today as Mladic’s trial begins.
“He has better [treatment] at the Hague Tribunal than I can have in the Serb Republic. They do not let us watch it [on live TV] when we want, like it’s not civilization. He cannot get the proper punishment. The mothers [of Srebrenica] should have been his judges – like he was a...
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.@RSE_Balkan interviews Natasa Kandic in Belgrade about the start of Mladic’s trial The Hague.
“When all of the former political leadership was arrested and transferred to the Hague and later convicted, that provoked no discomfort in Serbia, nor did it lead to a debate inside state institutions or the public.”
“Was genocide carried out only in Srebrenica or in other...
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Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial begins today at the Hague. These are people’s impressions:
Ljubo Mandic from Kralinovik, Ratko Mladic’s hometown, speaking Tuesday to Reuters in Kralinovik.
“He’s never done anything bad in his life. He was just a career [military] man. But he never killed, he never slaughtered anyone.”
Fadila Efendic, who lost her husband...
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ICTY prosecutor, Dermot Groome at Mladic trial opening:
“Two decades ago this past month, Bosnian leaders commenced an attack on their fellow citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Civilians who were targeted for no other reason than they were an ethnicity other than Serb. Their land, their lives, their dignity attacked in a coordinated and carefully planned manner. In some locations, this...
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Wahid Mujda tells @RadioAzadi: [Arsala] Rahmani was the head of prisoners’ commission on the Afghan High Peace Council. And he was working on the issue of who should be released from prison. The suggestion had been made by Rahmani that five [Afghan detainees] at Guantanamo should be released [as part of a confidence building process], and the High Peace Council also had raised the issue several...
