By Paul Goble
Vienna, March 5 – On the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s decision to execute more than 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other places, the Memorial human rights group has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to denounce that action as a crime against humanity and to ensure that those involved in that crime can be publically held responsible.
By Paul Goble
Vienna, March 5 – On the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s decision to execute more than 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other places, the Memorial human rights group has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to denounce that action as a crime against humanity and to ensure that those involved in that crime can be publically held responsible.
From The Washington Post:
Editor's note: When a group led by former Czech president Vaclev Havel went to the Chinese Embassy in Prague this week to deliver an open letter in support of the recently sentenced human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, officials would not open the door. The text of the letter is found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR201001...
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.
MORE HERE:
http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
From the Washington Post:
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il moved early this month to wipe out much of the wealth earned in the past decade in his country's private markets. More here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR200912...
By Paul Goble via http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/
Vienna, December 21 - The theft of the sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei," which hung over the entrance to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz has not only sparked international outrage but also called attention to the place where those words first hung at a place of detention of the innocent in the 20th century - the Solovetsky Camps of Special
Assignment in the USSR.
"Whereas everyone recognizes Ché -or his famous image on a t-shirt- his victims are mostly unknown."
Dear friends and colleagues,
As you may know, Cuba Archive is documenting the cost in lives of the Cuban Revolution. We have long been receiving inquiries on Ché Guevara, which we have addressed on a case-by-case basis. In order to attend to the topic more thoroughly, the attached report provides an examination of how Ché Guevara approached fundamental rights including the right to life and focuses attention on some of his victims. Some of this material has never been published.
NEW YORK (November 10, 2009) – Cuban bloggers Yoani Sánchez and Orlando Luís Pardo were abducted and battered by plainclothes state security agents on Friday, November 6. At the time, they were en route to an anti-violence march in downtown Havana with fellow blogger Claudia Cadelo and a female friend. Cadelo and their friend were taken to a police station while Sánchez and Pardo were forced into a different car and beaten.
The Germany exhibit of the Global Museum on Communism is now online, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989.
The exhibit can be found here:
http://germany.globalmuseumoncommunism.org/
View a photo gallery of Berlin during the Cold War:
http://www.globalmuseumoncommunism.org/photo-galleries/cold-war:-berlin
Ukrainian artist Nikolai Getman spent nearly eight years in a Soviet prison camp after dutifully serving his country during World War II. He was arrested in 1945 for an anti-government "crime" when an informer reported that one of his friends had drawn a caricature of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Getman didn't put away his memories after his release; instead, he spent the next four decades secretly recording his experiences in oils on canvas.
