Author: ZilSu

Iraq descends into clericalism and barbarism

9 June 2007 Iraqi human rights activist, Ali Hili, reveals that for most ordinary Iraqis, life is now worse than under Saddam Hussein’s brutal misrule. Saddam was a tyrant. It is good that he is gone. But since the American and British-led invasion in 2003, a once prosperous nation has been reduced to chaos, impoverishment […]

Goodbye To Royalty

Monarchy is incompatible with democracy. It is time we elected our head of state.

Russia’s war against Chechnya – self-determination denied

27 May 2007 Ivar Amundsen, Director of the Chechnya Peace Forum, and Shamil Zakayev, Coordinator of the Chechen diaspora in the UK, discuss with Peter Tatchell the on-going war and human rights abuses in Russian-occupied Chechnya . In 1999, President Putin launched the second war in Chechnya. Since then, 100,000 people have been killed and […]