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Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
THOUSANDS of people have fled renewed violence in the north of Myanmar as tensions escalate on the country’s volatile border with China.
The United Nations said that more than 4,000 people have been displaced in the last three weeks after fighting between government forces and separatist insurgents intensified.
Mark Cutts, head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said: “We have received reports from local organisations saying that there are still many civilians who remain trapped in conflict-affected areas.
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
