livus

livus, 1 month ago

Now that's a genre I can do without.

livus, 1 month ago

This is why the IPA is useful.

livus, 1 month ago

The Idiocracy timeline.

livus, 1 month ago

There's a reservoir in their wild population, see CDC

livus, 1 month ago

Pretty sure this publication is funded by Mohammed bin Salman aka Mr Bone Saw.

livus, 1 month ago

Good. Advocates have been sounding the warning for a long time now.

With or without the alleged "human bones" that stuff is a scourge.

livus, 1 month ago

From the article:

Early in the morning of January 29, Fano forces attacked a contingent of Ethiopian soldiers in Merawi, about 30 kilometers south of the Amhara regional capital, Bahir Dar. The Fano fighters then withdrew, leaving the town to the Ethiopian federal forces. During a six-hour period, Ethiopian soldiers shot civilians on the streets and during house-to-house searches. Scores were killed, mostly men, but also women. The soldiers also pillaged and destroyed civilian property.

On February 24, Ethiopian armed forces summarily executed up to eight civilians in Merawi following another attack by Fano fighters in the town.

Between February 9 and March 14, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 people by phone, including victims, their family members, and witnesses. Human Rights Watch also analyzed and verified two videos posted to social media in the aftermath of the January 29 attack, and examined satellite imagery that corroborated witness accounts. On March 5, Human Rights Watch provided a summary of its preliminary findings to the Ethiopian government, but received no response.

On January 29, a 26-year-old woman was at home in Merawi with her husband and infant son when the fighting broke out. Once the battle ended, they peered out their door to see what was going on. “Three soldiers and two police officers came out of nowhere,” she said. “My husband was carrying our 2-month-old child. They told him to let our child go, and after he did, they shot him right outside the house. After they shot him, they did the same thing to the neighbor.”

Residents said soldiers looted homes, hotels, and businesses, and burned at least 12 Bajaj motorized three-wheel vehicles.

Human Rights Watch was unable to determine the total number of civilian deaths in Merawi. Community leaders shared two lists of victims with a total of forty names of people who were identified and buried in Merawi. Three residents estimated that over eighty people were killed, including some buried elsewhere.

Human Rights Watch verified and analyzed a video recorded on January 30 showing at least 22 bodies lining the main road in Merawi. Ethiopian forces refused to allow the community to collect the dead until later that morning.

The nongovernmental organization, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, found that 89 civilians had been killed in Merawi. Initial findings by the national Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, a federal state body, concluded that Ethiopian forces killed 45 residents.

Under international humanitarian law applicable to the armed conflict in Amhara, the deliberate killing or mistreatment of civilians, and looting and pillage of civilian property are prohibited and may be prosecuted as war crimes....

livus, 1 month ago

There is a lot of survivor testimony in this article. An excerpt:

My son and a neighbor’s kid wanted to go to the field outside our home. I warned him not to go, because of what happened last [month]. But he said the shooting was done and [he] needed some air. It was just 10 meters away, so I thought to let him go. Shortly after, I heard gunshots, and a neighbor told me he’d been shot. I didn’t know what to do, so I called his phone. A man picked up.… I think it was the soldier that killed him. He said hello, hello, twice and hung up. My son wasn’t armed, he was wearing flip flops. They could tell my son wasn’t involved in this, but he was shot. He was 23, he was leaving for university the next day. I wish I didn’t let him go to the field so he would live another day.

livus, 1 month ago

Relevant report and survivor testimonies here on HRW website.

livus, 1 month ago

From the article:

“It is good to see devolution finally coming. It is already quite late in happening and it’s more than time for it to finally kick-in.” Inuit have worked hard for Nunavut and to bring their vision to the world, according to Kaludjak....

“The Nunavut Act states that the working language will be Inuktitut for our territory, but, unfortunately, that’s not really happening in the workplaces.

“Just about everywhere seems to be lagging behind in that regard, including the federal government and not just ours. The regional organizations and NTI need to become stronger on that issue.”

Kaludjak said if he could write the script moving forward from here, there would be a strong focus on improving communication and co-operation among all levels of government.

He said the housing crisis in Nunavut has been going on for the past 30 years and absolutely has to be addressed.

“Inuit need to be better engaged with both the territorial and federal governments to solve that issue.

“I have been encouraged with the number of Inuit youth going on for post-secondary education during the past decade or so. It’s still an area that has to be maximized, but we are seeing improvement,” he said.

“There are so many opportunities in education right now and that has to be taken advantage of by the Inuit youth of today. We need to have more thrust behind our education programs, pushing the opportunities even more to our youth.

“Our trade centre in Rankin Inlet has definitely helped and it runs excellent programs from what I’ve been told. I’ve seen nothing but positives with the programs that have been run by Nunavut Arctic College’s training centres. We are on the right path.”

livus, 1 month ago

She seems to only write one piece a day, it references other pieces. She's obviously not an investigative journalist but seems like a human to me.

livus, 1 month ago

I agree with you, but I was thinking in terms of aggression and physicality, particularly in Alien 2 and 4. Similarly someone like Clarice Starling is smart and determined but physical prowess and aggresive assertiveness are a core part of her success.

I think Final Girls are probably what OP has in mind when they say determination in movies = physical strength.

livus, 1 month ago

I agree. They definitely shouldn't be working in medicine, either.

livus, 1 month ago

You're right there would be even greater scrutiny, but I think it would mostly mean "embedded" journalists spouting propaganda.

livus, 1 month ago

Okay I went and had a look at it, you're still not posting any articles. You need to contribute more content on Ukraine if you want people to talk about that content.

The threads part of the fediverse is small, it doesn't get the paid political astroturfer shills and bots that reddit gets. Most people on here are real people holding real opinions.

You're not going to win more attention for Ukraine by telling people like me that we are somehow pro-Russian just for caring about a genocide.

livus, 1 month ago

Did u know that the civilian solder death ration in Palestine is almost identical to all city based warfare.

I know for a fact that's completely false. The civilian death toll in Gaza is much higher than in comparable conflicts. You're clearly regurgitating fake facts from Israelis or something.

In fact the Gaza death toll in 5 months was 1.5% of the population (hald of whom are children). For comparison in 2 years the Bosnian Genocide death toll was 3% of the population.

Look I was sympathetic to you wanting people to talk more about Ukraine but trying to derail other conversations and denying a genocide is not cool.

I'm interested in human rights of all kinds and I'm going to talk about all of them as much as I want.

livus, 1 month ago

New Zealand here, I've only had it once in the last 5 years and it was awesome, they turned out to be from a doomsday cult that believes God is a living Korean woman or something like that.

livus, 1 month ago

The ?p=1 workaround works with that too for me
https://kbin.social/sub/newest?p=1