Posts Tagged ‘reprisals’

Kyiv, Moscow Trade Accusations of War Crimes and Reprisals in Newly Recaptured Kherson

Following last week’s Russian withdrawal from the city of Kherson, Kyiv has accused Moscow’s forces and their local allies of having committed numerous “war crimes” before their departure. Pro-Russian officials, for their part, claim that Ukrainian forces, which entered Kherson over the weekend, were committing “extrajudicial reprisals” against pro-Russian residents of the city. On Nov. […]

Killing of Afghan comic by Taliban raises fears of reprisals

The killing of an Afghan comic by Taliban militants this week has raised fears of revenge killings, as the Taliban take control of the country. Nazar Mohammad, better known as Khasha Zwan, was a popular comedian in the country’s south. A video of two men slapping and abusing him spread widely on social media, and […]

Israel’s ever-more sadistic reprisals help shore up a sense of victimhood

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth When Israel passed a new counter-terrorism law last year, Ayman Odeh, a leader of the country’s large minority of Palestinian citizens, described its draconian measures as colonialism’s “last gasp”. He said: “I see… the panic of the French at the end of the occupation of Algeria.” The panic and cruelty […]