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mariacallous · 2 years ago

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LIMA, Peru—When Dina Boluarte was abruptly sworn in on Dec. 7, 2022, the fact that she was the first female president in Peru’s 201-year history was widely noted, yet barely explored by Peruvian media. Journalists had other things on their minds: Boluarte’s inauguration took place just hours after her predecessor Pedro Castillo was impeached for attempting to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, bringing down the curtain on a 17-month administration that had tipped the Andean republic into unremitting political instability and chaos.

Boluarte’s professional credentials as a lawyer felt like a qualitative leap forward for the presidency—regardless of the fact that she, like her predecessor, had never held public office before becoming vice president for the self-declared Marxist-Leninist Free Peru party in the June 2021 elections.

The youngest of 14 children from a working-class family in the remote Andean market town of Chalhuanca, nearly 10,000 feet above sea level, Boluarte said in her maiden presidential speech that her priority would be to fight for “the nobodies, the excluded, the others, to have the opportunity and access that has historically been denied to them.”

“More than a politician, I am a Peruvian citizen and mother who fully understands the high responsibility that history has put on my shoulders,” she declared. “Responding to that high responsibility is [a show of] my respect for the millions of Peruvian mothers who day after day provide sustenance for their families.”

Now, three months since Boluarte’s swearing in, her presidency has descended into a dark mess of severe human rights violations, its legitimacy decimated by allegations of principle-free political opportunism, brutal authoritarianism, and racism. It looks increasingly inevitable that Peru’s first ever female president will face a similar fate to Castillo, the country’s first ever campesino president (in Peru, the term means someone of indigenous ancestry who works the land), with a post-presidency dogged by legal problems and a potentially lengthy jail sentence.

At the time of writing, 48 Peruvians had been killed by security forces, some while protesting violently; some while demonstrating peacefully; and some who were just bystanders, including a medical intern treating an injured protester. Another dozen people died after protestors’ road blockades prevented them from receiving emergency medical treatment, and one police officer was found dead in a burnt-out patrol car.

In a searing report released in February, Amnesty International warned that Boluarte had presided over an out-of-control police and armed forces that, motivated by “systemic racism ingrained in Peruvian society,” had repeatedly violated international human rights standards by using “lethal ammunition to control demonstrations.” Many Peruvians view Boluarte as having blood on her hands. Three-quarters want her to resign.

“We are not celebrating her presidency,” Indigenous feminist activist Tarcila Rivera Zea said. “For us, it has meant pain and sadness, with so many deaths. More than anything else, it is a feeling of frustration and disappointment.

Boluarte, 60, who is bilingual in Spanish and the indigenous Quechua language, started her presidency relatively well. Indeed, in her inaugural address, she distanced herself from Castillo, referencing her “revulsion” at his flagrant alleged graft and condemning his “attempted coup.” Having been expelled from the Free Peru party nearly a year earlier after openly disagreeing with the party’s more extreme politics—and after managing to stay clear of her predecessor’s endless corruption scandals—she had some credibility in the matter.

But her legacy, to the extent she has one, will remain inseparable from that of her predecessor. This is not only a matter of the authoritarian excesses of her leadership over security forces, but also her emphasis on social conservatism, which has been one of the few areas of common ground between Free Peru’s presidential administrations and the hard-right congressional majority. Free Peru’s campaign manifesto has even been accused of advocating “machismo Leninism” for accusing the state of “subcontracting” its obligation to provide for the children of separated parents to absent fathers by requiring them to pay child support.

“It’s also a lesson learned,” Rivera Zea added. “What her presidency shows is that it is not enough to be a woman or speak Quechua if you don’t have that sensibility or identification with the historically excluded. She could have been a president who showed strength, wisdom, justice, and respect for human rights. Instead, she has aligned herself with the worst in Peruvian politics.”

Far from being carried on the back of a feminist wave, Boluarte’s rise to power came at a particularly challenging time for gender rights in Peru, even as some other Latin American nations have been relaxing restrictions on abortion and increasingly tackling gender violence. Peru was already one of the most socially conservative societies in Latin America, with what are thought to be some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the region, and where abortion is only allowed in cases where the mother’s health is at risk.

It is unclear whether Boluarte has ever identified with the feminist movement, although she has shown an appreciation of gender issues. “[Boluarte’s] not a feminist in the sense of a feminist activist,” Alexandra Ames, a political scientist at Lima’s University of the Pacific, said. “But she’s definitely a woman who feels that she has got ahead by working hard, harder than men would normally have to, and seems to have that awareness.”

While she was vice president, Boluarte also served as minister for development and social inclusion, a role that would normally have a strong gender component. During that time, gender rights came under a sustained assault from lawmakers, one that might have been met with effective resistance from a different executive.

Members of Congress sought to further restrict already highly limited abortion rights with a blanket ban, and change the name of the Ministry of Women to the Ministry for the Family—a switch that in Peru’s machista society could have potentially life-and-death policy consequences for, for example, women facing abusive partners.

But the most damaging counter reform has been a new law allowing parents to block classes with a gender focus—or, as Peruvian conservatives call it, gender ideology.

First introduced to the national curriculum in 2004, gender focus concepts, which include sex education, were aimed at raising awareness among boys and girls of the harms caused by Peru’s patriarchal culture—everything from wage disparities to femicide. Conservatives, often fundamentalist evangelical Christians, caricature gender focus as “cultural Marxism” that encourages premature sexual activity and pressures children into homosexuality and transgenderism.

“Getting rid of gender focus will do enormous damage,” warned Gloria Montenegro, former minister of women. “You’re getting rid of sex education, of a girl’s right to understand herself, to make informed choices, or have good self-esteem. What is so lamentable is that in Peru, we already have so many cases of physical and sexual abuse, of women being raped, often in their own homes, and this is going to make all of that worse.”

Throughout the debate over the curriculum, Boluarte was notable for her silence. She did, at different points during her work as a minister, show protocolary support for gendered development policies, including to empower indigenous women. But she failed to provide any substantive leadership, much less confront the attack on gender focus.

Boluarte did restore gender parity in her government after Castillo’s notorious cabinet appointments, which were not just overwhelmingly male but frequently involved ministers with a track record of misogynistic statements and even domestic abuse—including, briefly, one prime minister.

Ironically, however, that parity was just a return to the status quo ante in a country which, despite its entrenched patriarchy, had previously had some half dozen female prime ministers. Indeed, at one point, just before Castillo’s surprise election victory, almost all the major roles of state barring the presidency had been occupied by women, including the prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister, speaker of Congress, chief prosecutor, head of the judiciary, and chair of the constitutional court.

Boluarte’s term is scheduled to end in 2026, although the deadly repression of anti-government protests means she faces huge and potentially irresistible pressure to resign. Either way, her story as Peru’s first female president seems unlikely to end happily.

Montenegro said Boluarte’s mistake was not realizing she didn’t need to cross the political aisle to build a base of power. “She abandoned the Free Peru program, which, as a party of the left, had a strong social agenda, especially for rural Peru,” she said. “She’s an Andean woman; she should have understood. Where’s the political skill, the ability to broker political compromise and then sell that to the population?”

Protesters are now demanding a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution capable of addressing stark economic injustices. However, a new constitution could also entrench gender inequality. Although there have been no polls on the issue of gender rights in a new constitution, surveys show that most voters want a conservative Magna Carta when it comes to social issues, including prohibiting same-sex marriage and reinstating both compulsory military service and the death penalty.

As for Boluarte personally, the moment she loses her presidential immunity she faces criminal exposure as a head of government who presided over heavily armed police and soldiers gunning down anti-government protesters.

“She’s going to have very serious problems with the justice system,” Montenegro said. “She doesn’t seem to understand that there is no statute of limitations for human rights violations.”

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brookstonalmanac · 10 months ago

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Events 4.14 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later. 1941 – World War II: German and Italian forces attack Tobruk, Libya. 1944 – Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued at 20 million pounds. 1945 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroys the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes. 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours. 1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years. 1978 – Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. 1979 – The Progressive Alliance of Liberia stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting in over 70 deaths and over 500 injuries. 1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. 1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, each weighing 1 kilogram (2.2 lb), fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. 1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. 1994 – In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people. 1997 – Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder. 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed. 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history. 2002 – Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military. 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%. 2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985. 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County. 2006 – Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi injure 13 people. 2014 – Two bombs detonate at a bus station in Nyanya, Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. Boko Haram claims responsibility. 2014 – Boko Haram abducts 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria. 2016 – The foreshock of a major earthquake occurs in Kumamoto, Japan. 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Russian warship Moskva sinks. 2023 – The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency.

#Events

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grumpydevilfellow · 3 years ago

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Love how we’re still living in a timeline where police just train animals to maul and mangle people and it’s just treated as the norm by a majority of you.

Call me insane, but I don’t think animals should be trained to attack people actually. I think that’s an extremely abusive situation for the person and animal involved especially when the animal is trained specifically to attack POC. Which is something both cops and rednecks have done purposely and accidentally.

Dogs are brainless animals so when they see master react badly only to POC...they react badly to only POC...

And yes this OP is very pro-destruction of police dogs. Idgaf you’re gettin put down fido. And I know yall are gonna ignore this post because you value animals over POC specifically Black lives, but I will say I also love how you guys never question the police using animals as weapons like that doesn’t abuse the animal in any form or fasion or put them in constant danger for something that should have no part in being a mindless animal.

I always see yall say shit like “that poor animal those protestors shouldn’t have hurt it! It didn’t know any better” and it’ll be a horse some pig cop was galloping into groups of people trying to get the animal to injure them or it’ll be a dog just literally tearing someone apart.

#anti-k9 #police dog #police dogs #racism #acab #animal abuse #cruel and unusual punishment #all cops are bastards especially whatever dumb bastard cop you're related to

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youthincare · 5 years ago

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~IRAQ~

[ I.D. is photograph of miner or worker in rolled up jeans and white shirt, bare feet, yellow hard hat, and covered in what looks like smoke debris. He is sitting in a throne. There is an Iraq flag to the left of him. The text above him says, “Such a powerful picture. Iraqi protestors take over government buildings and sit on the chairs of the elected officials that failed them. This is one such example.” ]

PLEASE READ BELOW

“I'll try to tell you in short. In the beginning of the past month, a small group of Iraqi female students went protesting for a better education system and shit. In Basra of course. The police handled it greatly and professionally, by fucking assaulting the students The tribal leaders basically went out and said that they won't let any sly dog touch "our sisters and daughters in Basra" (btw nasiriyans are known to be extremely jealous)

But then they were met with water cannons. Before the tribal leaders in Nasiriya threat the government with their weapons (yes, tribes are heavily armed) the tribal leaders in Najaf also started protesting So then it became a large protest, then Amara, Basra, Koot/Wassut, and other big and small cities and whole provinces started protesting Soon Teenagers and Millennials led the protests for 2 weeks.

Because if they let the Tribal leaders lead the protests, it would be a blood bath since the tribes are heavily armed and they hate the government, Iran, Kuwait, America, and almost every neighboring country. (They'll cause a civil war in the whole region) So the internet was cut for 2 weeks. Hundreds of protesters died and thousands injured.

Then at the next Friday, a big Multi Million protest was organized across the country After that Friday, the dead body count restarted. To this day, it reached 200 people. And 8000 injured.

There is no article on earth documenting this. But in the last few days something...really phenomenal happened Almost 20 million people in Iraq have participated and are participating in the protests...But that's not it The Iraqi men and women from all the ages, religions, sects, races, have participated in the protests, Standing side by side, after 16 years of division

Even Kurds, started traveling to Baghdad and Babylon to participate in the protests with their broken Arabic.

Students escaped schools to participate in the protests.

Doctors left their desks to go and heal the protesters.

Unfortunately, Heavy machine guns always fire at the protesters, tear gas canisters and bombs are always aimed at the heads and chests of the protesters. At night rockets fly above the protesters heads and Irani snipers are always scattered around on Buildings.

Unknown masked men wearing black chase and follow the protesters that return home.

One incident was when an activist was seen at a protest, when she return to her home a squad killed her, her husband and her 2 children. Although every Iraqi house has an Assault rifle in it,..

Also, in the heart of Baghdad, the area of Tahrir there are millions of protesters over there, many Areas in Iraq had also overthrew the government. Almost all the politicians and corrupt religious men have fled the country.

Also, the province of Babylon was known in the past years as "the Chicken of Iraq" because of how people fear for themselves. During these protests however Babylon stood out from the other provinces being the most violent towards the government and militia.

Few days ago, a group of Irani militia known as "Saraya-lkhurasani" was raiding homes and killing everyone in the street and kidnapping children. Now, Babylon is known as the black rooster Because every building that belongs to Irani militia and government have been burned. The government is just threatening with execution at this point since many branches of the Army, Police and Kurdish Iraqi army have joined the people and overthrown the government in many areas. The separatist puppet Kurdish government is also scared that the Kurds will join the protests. Especially scared of the Province of Suleymaniya Currently many governments in the region are concerned about Iraq. Especially Turkey and Iran.

Sulaymaniyah is known to have fearsome warriors that never liked or wanted the Kurdish government. Even Sulaymaniyah had protests going for years but they just get killed and executioner the same way with no coverage Kurdish Tribal leaders got to the point of asking protesters in Baghdad if they should also start a protest.

And funny things: Protesters made a new magazine called "the Tuktuk" documenting everything regarding Iraq, they also made a few interesting things like using small satellites as shields or make some, make new structures like nets that are supported by iron rods with a net between them catching tear gas bombs and canisters, on bridges in Baghdad they made bunker and castle like structures able to withstand rockets fired by militias, talking about castles and medieval shields, the protesters even made catapults and giant angry birds like slings.

And a new accessory for women that's shaped as a tuktuk.

Edit: it reached 17,000 injured and almost 500 killed, yesterday, 50 people in Nasiriya got murdered and a massacre occurred both in Basra and in Najaf.

Your news channels are so funny.

Edit 2: don't make your self look stupid by assuming that Iraq is nothing but a chunk of Arab people. Iraq is more than that, there's a diverse culture here with a lot of traditions and different languages”

#iraq

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incrediblysincere · 5 years ago

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Like those folks on twitter obviously know fuckall about police dogs, starting off with they only use male dogs. They’re already being abused to act that aggressively towards folks. And that human lives are more important than the life of a dog. To say otherwise is so fucked up. IF A POLICE DOG IS ATTACKING YOU- YOU SHOULD DEFEND YOURSELF.

the replies to that tweet were all so stupid like SUPPOSEDLY op was referring to “protestors throwing bricks at police horses without being provoked” but like

a) even if that was true, injuring police horses in such a way that they cannot be used to LITERALLY TRAMPLE protestors is a good thing. i don’t care about the horse in this situation

b) it’s literally used as propaganda to frame protestors as evil and violent. the cops know that people no matter their political leaning usually object to animal abuse and harm.

but all the replies were just like POLICE DOGGOS ARE GOOD BOYS THEY ARE JUST DOING WHAT THEY’RE TRAINED TO DO UWU which is laughably close to the “just doing their job” argument. like k9s are trained to be violent, racist, aggressive, and relentless. It is absolutely okay to hurt them, they are going to hurt you probably far worse.

#Anonymous

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novatheinternet · 5 years ago

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Cw- police, right wing groups

I saw this and felt the need to share. Portland friends, have courage, you do not walk alone

Very Important Portland Info for tomorrow

TLDR:

Police and Mayor have promised to use any means necessary against protestors

There have been real and credible threats from right wing attendants, with a high chance some will be armed

Police don't need a legal reason to arrest/attack you, Don't talk to police no matter what

NLG are on the ground and have their defense line up at 503-902-5340

Don't go Alone! Stay alert stay vigilant

Heads up, Portland! Tomorrow, again, the far right—ranging from Portland locals, to the heavily armed white dude who waited outside an El Paso immigrant detention center, to Florida residents—will descend on and assemble in the downtown area, and lots of leftists are showing up to oppose. Given the current political context, we need to do a lot of work to keep each other safe. Here are some things to keep in mind:

-Mayor/Police Commissioner, Ted Wheeler, has “empowered and directed the Portland Police Bureau to use whatever means necessary and amass whatever resources necessary to uphold the law.” That’s a direct quote. Be prepared for police escalation against leftists, and maybe a couple of dog and pony show arrests of the far right (like what’s been happening this week) -- Don’t get sucked into the false narrative that the state’s form of “justice” is any sort of liberatory justice! Please don’t cooperate with the state, even if it’s to testify at a grand jury that’s allegedly seeking to file charges against civilian fascists. The state will come down many times harder on the left than it will on the right, and any cooperation only bolsters this process

-The police do not need a legal reason to arrest you, or a hundred of your friends. Remember, they are the ones with the power of the state—they can incarcerate, injure, or kill with impunity. The potential that they’ll get sued later is never a deterrent to violence in the moment (they’re indemnified anyway, so they don’t have to pay for losing a civil rights lawsuit)

-Rose City Antifa has documented numerous threats of violence toward leftists that fascists have been making on social media, so expect them to be carrying weapons that will not be confiscated by the police -- Please know basic gun safety! If you see a gun, assume it’s loaded. Be aware of your surroundings at all times, and always know how you and others can quickly evacuate the area

-The National Lawyers Guild's (NLG) Portland Mass Defense team will be staffing the jail support hotline: 503-902-5340. Please write this on your body in sharpie! This is a number to call if you are arrested, witnessing an arrest (of a leftist), or if you've witnessed or experienced police violence (against someone on the left). Please do not call us to simply describe the brawls between Antifa and Patriot Prayer/Proud Boys, as our role is to support leftists subject to state violence (including policing and incarceration)

-The NLG will have legal observers on the ground, wearing bright green hats, who are there to monitor police conduct, help track arrests (of leftists), write the jail support hotline number on you if you forgot it, etc. Please note that some fash wear bright green hats to these demos, so check to make sure the folks you think are LO's have hats that read, "National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer"

-We have seen the police actively coordinating with the far-right, and are aware that they target leftists with their "less-lethal" weapons and for arrest, including after witnessing violence initiated by the far-right

-Expect random police searches and checkpoints intended to confiscate weapons (including flagpoles and banners) from leftists, that are not enforced against civilian fascists

-DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE! Even if you think you're good at it / think you can get them to quit their jobs / think the conversation is innocuous! They are trained to seek information, and they can legally lie to you! Under NO circumstances are you legally required to talk to any law enforcement agent. This includes when you're on the street, in jail, or if police or district attorneys or their investigators call you after the fact. You don't have to speak with them or call them back! If this happens, call a lawyer (the NLG does field this)! --> If you do get arrested or detained, repeat to the police, "I am going to remain silent. I want a lawyer." If they ask to search your belongings, or start searching, state, "I do NOT consent to this search (or any searches)." At no time during any street interaction with law enforcement (or in jail) in Oregon do you legally have to produce a phone number or ID

-DO NOT go alone! And make sure you have an exit strategy/off-site meeting location for you and your crew. As we keep witnessing, things can get very violent very quickly. Check in with yourself around what you can actually withstand. Leaving early (with a buddy) is ok! Stay alert and stay vigilant!”

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indonesia2019-blog · 5 years ago

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Indonesia Abuse of Power during 21st and 22nd May 2019 - a wrong presidential Election

The presidential elections of 2019 Indonesia marked the end of the power and reign of Joko Widodo, but the announcement of this result was followed by two dark days in the history of Indonesia. The two days, 21st and 22nd May 2019 are still remembered as the saddest days for the whole of Indonesia and in particular, for Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

The protests commenced on the day of announcement after the defeated President did not accept his defeat and passed statements challenging General Elections Commissions (KPU). Not surprisingly, the other candidate, Prabowo Subitian had called for peaceful protests throughout the country, but the protests were accompanied by riots and violence. Throughout Jakarta, vehicles were put on fire, and tires were burnt. Till the night of 21st May, eight casualties were reported with hundreds of citizens injured by tear gasses and chaos. The police took hundreds of protestors into custody including children and peaceful protestors. Water cannons were brutally used by the police to back off the protestors and regain peace- but all for nothing! Instead things had gone from bad to worst. A mob of protestors attacked on police officers with fireworks and stones. This deteriorated the situation even more leading to the unrest in almost the entire city of Jakarta comprising mainly central and western parts of the capital.

On 22nd May, the events had become so tensed that sharing videos and pictures on social media platforms regarding government were restricted. However, some of the protestors reported police having hollow-point bullets in their vehicles, although the claim was completely denied by the police and the officials but it was a serious blow to the police and the government.

To disperse protesters, rubber pellet grenades and crowd control guns were also heavily used by the military personnel’s and police. According to reports, there was a time when noise of gunshots and firecrackers could be heard from different parts of Jakarta. The air was filled with smoke, ash and smell of fire crackers. Military men and protestors could be seen negotiating and running to save their lives. The scattered stones and burning vehicles such as private cars and trucks also had their part in the scene. It was an evening like no other. Aggression and fear could be sensed in the streets of Jakarta.

According to the officials and local news channels, the President Joko Widodo was held a sole responsible for the riots and demonstrations which disturbed the peace, and law and order of the city greatly. Joko was not at all prepared to accept defeat. It was reported that he had cheated and his supporters had casted false votes. Joko’s supporters had declared the presidential elections ‘free and fair’ in order to give their leader, one more chance of ruling on Indonesia, which was absolutely unjustified by Prabowo and his supporters.

Within these forty-eight hours, news channels were continuously broadcasting tragedies that were taking place. A man was shot-dead in the chest by the police on the night of 22nd May, he was taken to the hospital in emergency but could not cope up with the wound and died. Hospitals reported all incoming injured patients that night had serious bullet wounds which needed an immediate surgery.

In a mass shooting many innocents were also killed. Among all those unfortunate souls, one was M. Harun. A little young boy who was shot dead by the police. He belonged to a decent and middle-class family. He was a lively boy, a kid with huge dreams. The dreams which never cam true and were cruelly shattered by the bullets.

Only imagining how his family, specially his younger sister would have received his body shivers the soul of everyone who have even a grain of humanity and sympathy in his heart. The police and specifically the president did not leave any opportunity of showing hatred and greed of power by ordering police to perform such heinous and inhumane acts.

Harun was undoubtedly a cheerful boy, a boy full of life, as reflected by his pictures and videos which are circulating on the internet since the horrible tragedy occurred. There were many other cases similar to that of Harun.

Among them was also Ibunda Faisal Amir, who was slain by the shooting of police. The video in which his mother is asking for the justice of his son with his picture in her hands is enough to wake up the authorities who are responsible for his death.

In short, police were totally and badly failed in guarding the rights of citizens. A common man was treated in a way no one would even treat a stray dog. They were badly beaten with woods and metal rods, pulled on the streets with their shirts ripped off and ultimately were shot by the police if they wanted to do so. Physical abuse, and mental torture had crossed all its parameters of tolerance. The videos circulating and going viral on the internet are the real proof, showcasing the attitude police had when the condition had got out of hands. The basic human rights do not allow any such action which Indonesian police did in those two days in hope of regaining power and throne of president Joko Widodo.

In those two days, the defeated president Joko conveyed one message and principle regarding his character and personality very well. That, to what extent a self-centeredness of a man, who is egoistically obsessed with his power can go.

Indonesia2019.com

#Indonesia Presidential Election 2019

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antifaintl · 6 years ago

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2017: A (Partial) Timeline Of Bigoted Violence

In 2018, we began trying to monitor news reports concerning significantly-violent hate crimes. Here is a chronological list of the 100+ violent hate crimes we documented in 2017 (the dates link to the news source of each incident): January 2017: Over 40 Jewish centers in the U.S. receive bomb threats. January 1, 2017: 19-year-old Nathan Richardson encounters 67-year-old jogger Wenqing Xu and beats him to death in an unprovoked, random attack. After committing the murder, Richardson texted his friends that he “fucked sum chink up. Bodied him. I think pure crime scene – his head’s gone,”

January 5, 2017: Neo-nazis bomb a refugee centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, seriously injuring an immigration officer working there. January 20, 2017: A right-wing extremist shoots a protestor at a Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of Washington.

January 25, 2017: An arsonist destroys the only mosque in Victoria, Texas. January 25, 2017: Neo-nazis in Gothenburg, Sweden plant a bomb at a refugee centre. It fails to detonate.

January 28, 2017: a First Nations woman walking with her sister is struck by a trailer hitch hurled from a passing vehicle. After struggling in hospital for several months, she succumbs to her injuries. January 29, 2017: Alexandre Bissonnette walks into a mosque in Canada during evening prayers and opens fire, shooting 17 people and killing six of them.

January/February 2017: four men used Grindr to target gay men for assaults and robberies. Pretending to also be gay, they would arrange to come to their victims’ homes, where they would hold their victims at gunpoint while they beat them, bound them, verbally abused them with with homophobic slurs, and stole property and vehicles. February 2, 2017: 27-year-old active white supremacist William Christopher Gibbs arrives in a Georgia hospital claiming to have accidentally poisoned himself with ricin. The extremely deadly illegal compound, most popular with terrorist groups, has been used in attempts to assassinate U.S. elected officials in the past. Gibbs’ hands and his vehicle tested positive for the presence of ricin. Gibbs was later charged with possession of ricin. February 16, 2017: Inspired by Dylann Roof’s mass shooting of black church-goers, 28-year-old neo-nazi and convicted felon Benjamin McDowell goes online seeking someone to furnish him with firearms so he can commit his own mass murder. Authorities, who had been monitoring McDowell after he threatened a synagogue, arrest McDowell after he buys a pistol from an undercover FBI agent. In 2018 McDowell pled guilty and received a ten-year prison sentence.

February 19, 2017: less than a month after a white supremacist shot seventeen people in a mosque, killing six of them, 35-year-old Florida resident Gerald Sloane Wallace calls several mosques, leaving threats to come and shoot their members.

February 21, 2017: a 24-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Chicago, IL.

February 22, 2017: Adam Purinton tells two men from India to “get out of my country” then shoots both plus a bystander, killing one.

February 26, 2017: a transgender woman is shot and killed in New Orleans, LA. February 28, 2017: a mosque in Toronto is set on fire by arsonists.

March 1, 2017: a transgender woman is stabbed to death in New Orleans, LA.

March 3, 2017: A Sikh man is shot and injured in front of his Seattle house by a white man wearing a mask, who yells at him to “go back to your country!”

March 7, 2017: After repeatedly harrassing his Hmong neighbours, 81-year-old Wisconsin man Henry Kaminiski steps out of his home and fires a pistol at neighbor Mai Houa Moua as she worked in her garden. Kaminski then fired twice more at Moua from inside his home, then fired at a deputy responding to the resulting 911 call. During his arrest, Kaminiski made several racist remarks concerning the Hmong and his belief they were “taking over.” Police also found child pornography on Kaminski’s computer.

March 12, 2017: a mosque in Ypsilanti, MI. is set on fire by arsonists. March 20, 2017: James Jackson arrives in Manhattan with a sword and stabs the first black man he sees to death. He later tells authorities he “intended to kill as many black men as he could.”

March 22, 2017: a 38-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Baltimore, MD.

March 23, 2017: Two Liverpool sisters chase a Muslim man down the street, calling him a “fucking Paki” and demanding that he go back to his country, before knocking him to the ground, kicking him in the head, and biting him in the leg so hard that he was left with permanent scarring. March 24, 2017: Yelling “I hate Muslims!” a man in Minneapolis stabbed a Somali man in an attempt to kill him. March 26, 2017: A racist mob attacks a 15-year-old Polish boy in Gloucestershire and, when a local Asian shopkeeper tries to intervene, attack him as well with crowbars and baseball bats, then attempt to run him over with a car.

March 26, 2017: Seven or more members of the Jewish Defence League assault a 54-year-old Palestinian-American college professor. The authorities lay hate crime charges against the assailants. March 31, 2017: A 17-year-old Iranian/Kurdish boy is nearly beaten to death by a mob of eight people in Croydon after he revealed to them that he was a refugee.

April, 1, 2017: Members of an extremist Hindu nationalist group physically assault people in Alwar, India who had purchased cows. One of the victims - a 55-year-old Muslim farmer - died of his injuries two days later.

April 4, 2017: a 27-year-old man breaks into the home of 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, beating her to death while calling her “Satan,” and then throwing her body out of a third-floor window. April 6, 2017: A Charlotte store is set on fire by an arsonist who leaves a warning message for the shop owner that he “did not want any refugee business owners and that they would torture the owner if they did not leave and go back to where they came from,” according to police. It was signed “White America.”

April 7, 2017: 24-year-old Scottish resident Connor Ward is arrested on terrorism charges after police accuse him of preparing a bombing campaign against mosques and Muslim centres in Scotland. Police are forced to evacuate his neighbourhood when a search of his home uncovers explosives, bomb-making materials, a cache of illegal weapons, as well as neo-nazi flags and other materials. A year later, Ward is convicted on all charges and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for six years. April 11, 2017: A 55-year-old Palestinian-American college instructor is hospitalized after being brutally assaulted while attending a Washington, D.C. protest against Israeli apartheid by a group of five Jewish Defence League members. 32-year-old Canadian Jewish Defence League member Yosef Steynovitz and 23-year-old Canadian “Proud Boy” Brandon David William Vaughan are charged with assault with significant bodily injury while armed, among other charges.

April 21, 2017: a 28-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Miami, FL.

April 30, 2017: A white man storms a pool party in San Diego and shoots four black women, two black men, and one Latino man while allowing white attendees to leave. One victim dies while the other six sustain critical injuries.

May 5, 2017: A man walking his dog on South Beach in Miami is confronted by two men who call him a “fucking faggot,” then attack him, beating him unconscious. At one point in the attack, one of the attackers shouts “all faggots need to die and we’re going to make sure they do!” May 14, 2017: Vandals spray-paint hate graffiti on the home of a black family in upstate New York before attempting to set the house on fire while the family slept. Although the family escaped unscathed, their garage burnt to the ground and their house suffered some damage. May 14, 2017: 24-year-old lesbian Lerato Moloi is found raped, beaten, and stoned to death, her body dumped in a field and burned beyond recognition. Two men are arrested. May 17, 2017: A homophobic mob break into the home of a gay couple and shoot and stab both men to death. May 17, 2017: a 34-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Fresno, CA. May 20, 2017: University of Maryland student and member of the “alt-Reich” facebook group Sean Urbanski walks up to 22-year-old Richard Collins III, who is black and who Urbanski does not know, and stabs him to death in an unprovoked attack. Urbanski is later charged with a hate crime.

May 20, 2017: A man begins screaming homophobic slurs at a lesbian couple riding the subway before attacking them both, beating one woman unconscious.

May 24, 2017: A barrage of doxxing, rape threats, and death threats received by trans comic book artist Sophie Labelle forces her to cancel an appearance and event at a Halifax book store, which also received bomb threats and threats of attacking the event. Labelle is forced into hiding.

May 25, 2017: A black woman riding the train home is subjected to extreme verbal harassment by Jeremy Christian, who admits to being a neo-nazi and tell her he will kill her. As she leaves the train, Christian hits her with a bottle, cutting her eye open. When police arrive, they refuse to arrest Christian. The next day Christian would stab three people, killing two of them. May 26, 2017: Three men intervene on a MAX train in Portland when they witness another man verbally abusing two Muslim women with an Islamophobic tirade. The Islamophobe responds by pulling out a knife and stabs the three interveners, killing two of them.

May 26, 2017: Two Muslim butchers are beaten by members of an extremist HIndu nationalist group in Malegaon, India after being accused of trading in beef.

May 27, 2017: A white man drives his pickup truck through a campsite, targeting the Native Americans camping there while yelling racial slurs at them. He intentionally drives over two Native American men, killing one and injuring the other.

May 27, 2017: A 34-year-old Anthony Hammond lets loose with a flurry of racial slurs directed at a black man in a parking lot, then pulls out a machete and stabs the man before barricading himself in his apartment for several hours, until finally surrendering to police.

May 28, 2017: Two teenagers attack a Jewish couple and their five daughters at a beach.

June 3, 2017: 38-year-old white supremacist Phillip Wade racially abuses a 57-year-old black man on an Oakley, CA. bus, then pulls a knife and stabs the man to death while the man is walking away from the confrontation. The victim is the third racialized person Wade has stabbed in the past six years and the second person he’s murdered.

June 6, 2017: A 15-year-old black boy cutting through a park on his way to see his girlfriend is hit from behind and beaten unconscious by a group of men yelling “Nigger!” and “Go back to Africa!” at him as they punched and kicked him.

June 7, 2017: a 23-year-old white man in a Chicago Starbucks spits at a black man, telling him his children are “disposable vermin” and calling a second black man a slave, then punches a black passerby, knocking him unconscious. He’s charged with a hate crime three months later.

June 10, 2017: A mob screaming transphobic insults attacks three trangender women, stabbing one and sending two to the hospital.

June 18, 2017: two men armed with baseball bats attack a group of Muslim teenagers, kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, who they beat to death, dumping her body in a pond.

June 1, 2017: A Princeton professor and racialized woman is forced to cancel a three-city lecture tour to promote her book about the Black Lives Matter movement after receiving over 50 death threats. June 19, 2017: Shouting “I’m going to kill all Muslims!” 47-year-old Darren Osborne drives a courier van through a crowd of Muslims leaving a Finsbury mosque, killing one person and injuring ten others.

June 21, 2017: an Islamophobe approaches a Muslim man and woman sitting in a car stopped at a traffic light and knocks on the window. When the driver rolls down the window, the Islamophobe sprays the driver and passenger with acid, severely burning both.

June 22, 2017: Three Muslim teenaged brothers on a train out of Delhi, India are attacked by other passengers who accuse them of not being Indian nationalists, abuse them with Islamphobic slurs, and then assault them, stabbing 17-year-old Hafiz Junaid Khan to death and injuring both of his brothers. June 23, 2017: After assaulting his wife, a drunken Britain First supporter and neo-nazi Marek Zakrocki drives off in his work van after declaring he would “kill a Muslim” “for Britain.” Shortly thereafter, he tries to run down restaurant owner Kamal Ahmed outside of his establishment. Failing to kill Mr. Ahmed, Zakorcki does drive his van into the restaurant, shattering its windows. June 24, 2017: 20-year-old neo-nazi Ethan Stables is arrested near the New Empire public house in Cumbria. Having learned that the pub was hosting an LGBT event, Evans - who was known to refer to LGBT people as “degenerates” and to deny the Holocaust - had purchased a machete and researched bomb-making - told acquaintances he was planning to murder attendees and was arrested during his final reconnaissance of the pub. Stables is convicted of terrorism early in 2018.

June 27, 2017: A huge mob attacks a dairy farmer and his family in Jharkhand, India after a dead cow was rumoured to be found outside of their house. The mob tries to burn down the family’s home with them inside and beat the entire family so badly that they all require hospitalization. The father of the family is in a coma for eight days and spends two months in the hospital recovering from head injuries and various broken bones.

June 29, 2017: A 40-year-old butcher is pulled out of his car by an angry mob in Jharkhand, India and beaten to death upon suspicion that he was transporting beef.

July 2017: A 39-year-old passenger in a Lyft car begins insulting the driver’s race and religion before pulling the driver’s hair, punching him, and choking him. July 2, 2017: a 28-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Lynchburg, VA.

July 9, 2017: Britain First leader Paul Golding viciously attacks someone he befriended and had attended a “self-defence” training with earlier in the day in what the sentencing judge described as “a really nasty and vicious assault.”

July 14, 2017: Lane Davis, a 33-year-old “alt-right” racist activist and former unpaid intern for Milo Yiannopoulos, starts a fight with his own parents. After accusing both of being “leftists,” Davis grabs a kitchen knife and stabs his father to death.

July 16, 2017: A man attempts to pull the hijab off of a Muslim woman waiting for the tube in London, then hits her when she resists. He then pins her friend to the wall and spits in her face before leaving. July 16, 2017: Arsonists set a mosque in Manchester ablaze. July 18, 2017: A NASA researcher of South Asian descent has her car windshield shattered by a rock thrown through it by an assailant screaming “go back to your country!” She’s injured in the attack. July 19, 2017: Two men exit a car and attack a racialized pedestrian with their fists and an iron bar.

August 2017: a gay man has his jaw broken by a man shouting homophobic slurs and a group of people outside of a fast food outlet. August 2017: After enduring eight different racist attacks, including having the front window of their home smashed in and their car set on fire, a Pakistani family is forced to flee their Dublin home of the past ten years.

August 2, 2017: Two men chase down and beat up a 29-year-old transgender women while yelling transphobic insults at her.

August 2, 2017: Five white men attack a black couple at a KFC drive-through, using racial slurs as they assaulted them and pointing a gun at them. August 5, 2017: A mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota is firebombed, narrowly missing killing & injuring dozens of members there for morning prayers. Police arrest three white Three Percent militia members who admit to the attack, stating that they wanted to “scare Muslims out of the country.”

August 6, 2017: someone lights the car of the president of a Québec City mosque on fire. His mosque is the same one where Alexandre Bissonnette had shot 17 worshippers in January. August 8, 2017: A well-known Chicago neo-nazi starts an altercation at a concert, then pulls out a smuggled knife and stabs a man and a woman at the show. August 12, 2017: A white supremacist in Charlottesville, VA. drives his car at high speed directly into a crowd of anti-racist protestors, killing one woman and seriously injuring 19 other people.

August 12, 2017: A self-identifed member of the white supremacist “three percenter” movement is arrested by the FBI after unsuccessfuly trying to blow up a bank in Oklahoma City with a car bombed modeled after the one used by Timothy McVeigh.

August 14, 2017: A man boards a train in New York when he notices another man glaring at him. Feeling uncomfortable, he moves to another car only to be followed by the glaring man, who kicks him in the face while screaming “death to all faggots!” before exiting the train and getting away.

August 20, 2017: A racialized man standing outside his own home is attacked by a motorist who, without any provocation, jumped out of his car and ran at him, shouting racial slurs, before physically assaulting him. The victim is seriously injured in the attack.

August 20, 2017: While waiting in line at a food truck, a 22-year-old man is subjected to homophobic abuse and demands that he “go back to your country!” before 24-year-old Gregory Brzoza beat him unconscious. The victim loses several teeth and has a broken jaw. August 23, 2017: A 37-year-old man and a 47-year-old man start a fight with a black high school student on a city bus, yelling racial epithets at him as they beat him.

August 26, 2017: Four white men attack a black couple at a recreation center in Rustenberg, South Africa, yelling racial slurs at them as they beat them. One of the accused was evading charges for a racially-motivated attack against three petrol pump attendants in 2014 when he was arrested for this assault.

August 27, 2017: yelling “ this should clean away the AIDS!” a 56-year-old man throws boiling hot water over a 21-year-old gay man before hitting him about 16 times with a metal bar.

August 28, 2017: Several white teenagers begin shouting racial epithets at a 8-year-old black boy playing in an adjacent yard before wrapping a rope around his neck and hanging him. The boy survives but has to be airlifted to medical care for the injuries he sustains.

September 2017: an extremist Islamphobe group claims responsibility for a series of hammer attacks by masked men on hijab-wearing women and racialized people in Burgundy, France that left three people injured.

September 3, 2017: Ally Steinfeld, a transgender teenager, is beaten, stabbed repeatedly, tortured, and mutilated before being murdered by a gang of assailants. Police arrest three people, with more arrests forthcoming. September 7, 2017: A swastika-adorned neo-nazi assaults a Filipino-Turkish man in a Fullerton, CA. parking lot while yelling racial slurs at him.

September 12 and 14, 2017: 23-year-old white supremacist Kenneth Gleason drove through Baton Rouge, shooting black men he passed in his vehicle before jumping out and shooting his victims again at close range. Bruce Cofield and Donald Smart are murdered. A speech made by Adolf Hitler is among items recovered by police from the racist murderer’s home. September 14, 2017: A 40-year-old man begins spitting and repeatedly punching a 37-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman on the subway in New York. When her 57-year-old mother tries to intervene, the man punches her, pulls her hair, and spits on her as well, yelling “dirty Muslims” as he escapes from the train car. September 15, 2017: A black Cornell University student returns to his residence to find five members of a white fraternity shoving and harassing his roommates. When he asks them to leave, they attack and beat him while shouting racial slurs. Two months later, one of the attackers is charged with a hate crime. September 15, 2017: A 29-year-old white supremacist covered in racist tattoos repeatedly enters a hookah lounge in Lake Forest, CA., threatening to kill the Iranian staff and patrons. September 18, 2017: two men jump out of a taxi to racially abuse a teenage boy walking with his friends. One of the men pulls out a knife and threatens to stab the teenager.

September 20, 2017: A man is charged with a hate crime after attempting to murder a Muslim woman and 12-year-old girl by deliberately driving his car into them in two separate incidents on the same day. The woman is severely injured, with broken limbs, extensive cuts and other injuries requiring skin grafts. September 24, 2017: A 58-year-old surgeon on his way to his mosque is confronted by two men who begin shouting Islamophobic insults at him and then stab him in the neck.

September 27, 2017: Police arrest six members of neo-nazi terrorist group National Action for plotting to murder a Labour MP.

October 2017: a gay teenager and her two friends are harassed and then beaten by a mob of 20-30 high school aged boys. October 2017: Two teenaged sisters - both hijab-wearing Muslims are approached by 32-year-old Christopher Beckham as they get off of their school bus. Beckham yells “Allah Akbar” and “go back to your country!” at them. When their father comes to their aid, Beckham produces a knife and tries to stab him and punch him, all while yelling Islamophobic slurs at the family.

October 6, 2017: A stranger starts an argument with a Syrian refugee outside the refugee’s home, making disparaging remarks about Muslims and refugees and then attempting to break into the home when the refugee flees inside for safety. A few hours later, a mysterious fire is started in the refugee’s family’s backyard. The fire quickly engulfs the home, completely destroying it. Although the Syrian refugee family are able to flee, they lose everything but the clothing they were wearing when they fled. October 8, 2017: A 66-year-old black man is held at gunpoint in his own garage while two white assailants shout racist epithets and beat him. The two leave only to return minutes later to shoot up the victim’s home.

October 17, 2017: 64-year-old Gerard Medvec is arrested after telling police of his plans to firebomb the home of his neighbours, who he erroneously believes are Muslim.

October 18, 2017: Three neo-nazis pull up to a Gainesville bus stop after the aborted Richard Spencer appearance at a local campus and proceed to taunt people waiting for the bus with pro-Hitler and racist verbal abuse. After someone throws something at the car, one of the neo-nazis gets out, points a handgun at the crowd, yells “I’m going to fucking kill you!” and fires at the crowd, happily missing. All three are charged with attempted homicide; one is charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon. October 18, 2017: A white couple in a pickup trucks begin shouting racial slurs at a black woman in another car as well as black pedestrians. At one point, the man claims that he “we kill niggers!” Moments later, he reverses the truck at high speed, ramming the black woman’s car and totaling it before speeding away.

October 21, 2017: Two men board a train in London where they verbally abuse a gay teenager before strangling him and punching and pushing his female friend to the ground. October 22, 2017: 26-year-old white supremacist and card-carrying National Socialist Movement member Taylor Michael Wilson attempts to derail an Amtrak train and is arrested on terrorism charges after the train crew tackles him and holds him until the police arrive.

October 22, 2017: A 60-year-old black man standing outside his neice’s home is attacked by two white men who yell racial slurs at him as they beat and stab him multiple times, puncturing his lung and lacerating his kidney.

October 22, 2017: After a string of attacks by vandals, an interracial couple and their young son are forced to leave Belfast when their car is firebombed and completely destroyed in a racist attack.

October 28, 2017: Hours after a “white lives matter” rally 50 miles away, 20 white supremacists enter a Tennessee restaurant and immediately begin arguing with an interracial couple eating dinner. When the white woman in the couple argues back, one of the men in the white supremacist group punches her in the face, splitting open her forehead.

October 29, 2017: A 26-year-old lesbian is confronting in a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant by a mob of at least five people, who begin taunting her and her girlfriend and homophobic slurs before assaulting her. The attack leaves her with broken teeth and a permanent injury to her left eye. November 1, 2017: 47-year-old Scott Ostrem, best known by his neighbors for his frequent racist tirades, shoots two Latino men and a Latina woman to death in an unprovoked mass shooting in a Colorado Wal-Mart.

November 1, 2017: an immigrant family’s restaurant is completely gutted in an arson attack a few weeks after the restaurant was hit by vandals. The arsonist spray-painted the words “GO BACK” on the restaurant before burning it down. November 2, 2017: a 52-year-old man murders his 14-year-old son after a lengthy, loud, and heated argument about the son being gay.

November 6, 2017: A black woman driving out of a parking lot is accosted by a man on the street. When she exits her vehicle to find out why he’s trying to get her attention, he calls her “a black bitch” and punches her repeatedly in the face, dropping her to the ground and breaking her nose. November 6, 2017: Two adult women in a London KFC begin throwing food at a 15-year-old girl eating in the restaurant with her friends. As she stood up to turn around and face her attackers, they throw a hot drink in her face, pull her to the ground by her hair, and begin kicking and punching her while yelling anti-Asian racial slurs at her. The two women break the girl’s arm before fleeing.

November 7, 2017: A mob of youths kick down the door of a racialized family and later that night attack another racialized family’s home with a barrage of bricks. November 11, 2017: A group of men confront a man walking home and ask him if he’s gay. When he confirms that he is, they beat him to the ground.

November 12, 2017: A Liverpool-area home is firebombed at 4AM while the Syrian refugee family of two parents and three toddlers slept. No one is injured, but the family is forced to find a new home because of the extensive damage. November 13, 2017: A white man on public transit in San Francisco repeatedly tells a fellow passenger that he hates him, calls him a “Chinese nigger,” and punches him several times.

December 1, 2017: FBI arrest Bernandino Bolatete for possession of an unregistered silencer after several weeks of investigation during which Bolatete described in great detail his plans to commit a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida.

December 2, 2017: A 41-year-old man enters a Jewish seniors’ residence where he hits an 84-year-old Jewish man with a fire extinguisher while yelling anti-semitic slurs, threatening to kill him before robbing him.

December 3, 2017: after an altercation in a parking lot, 38-year-old Jeffrey Peters follows an African American driver home. Once at the man’s home, Peters pulls out a loaded handgun, yells racial epithets, and threatens to shoot him.

December 3, 2017: A gay man standing outside a London nightclub is attacked by two men yelling homophobic slurs, injuring him so severely that he requires reconstructive surgery afterwards. December 3, 2017: A gay married couple & their friend are drinking in a Provincetown, MA. bar when 49-year-old Scott Rego walks up to the group, smashing one of them in the head with a beer bottle, then kicking him on the floor and assaulting the two other men while yelling homophobic slurs at them. A civil complaint is filed against Rego four months later for attacking the victims because of their sexual orientation.

December 4, 2017: An 18-year-old Muslim woman on a train is approached by a man that tells her he is going to kill her and all Muslims before he begins slapping her and trying to force her head to his crotch. At the time, the man was awaiting trial after assaulting a 10-year-old Filipina girl on a train seven months previously.

December 6, 2017: A 50-year-old Muslim man Rajasthan, India is lured to a remote location by 37-year-old Islamophobe Shambulal Regar. While Regar’s 14-year-old Regar nephew filmed, Regar severely beat his victim, then poured kerosene on him and burnt him to death. Regar had previously posted videos condemning romantic relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women. December 7, 2017: A Colombian immigrant is hospitalized after stepping between his 13-year-old son and a baseball-bat wielding attacker. The victim, his son, his wife, and a family friend were walking across a parking lot while shopping when a man jumped out of a white BMW with the baseball bat, screaming about how the frightened family were “ISIS” and “terrorists” before swinging at the 13-year-old boy and repeatedly striking the father with it instead. December 7, 2017: A 48-year-old Muslim man is hacked and burned to death in a murder recorded by the perpetrator and posted on YouTube as a warning to Muslim men against marrying HIndu women.

December 9, 2017: After retired veteran Kevyn Fowler moves to a predominantly white Jacksonville, AR suburb, his dog is poisoned and his truck and trailer are stolen. Then on December 9th, someone sets Fowler’s garage on fire after spray-painting “MOVE NIGGER.” Fowler is African-American.

December 12, 2017: 21-year-old white supremacist William “Bill” Edward Atchison walks into a high school in New Mexico and shoots two Latino students, killing them, before turning the gun on himself. It’s later revealed that Atchison was heavily-involved in the “alt-right” and was known to police.

December 16, 2017: On his way to practice, Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling is subjected to racist insults by an unidentified man who goes on to kick Sterling. December 17, 2018: A 52-year-old neo-nazi who had previously been convicted of murdering a man who had called Adolf Hitler a criminal detonates a nail bomb on the platform of an S-bahn train station in Hamburg, Germany, injuring one commuter.

December 22, 2017: After convincing their daughter to break up with her 17-year-old neo-nazi boyfriend, Scott Fricker and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker are shot to death in their home by the neo-nazi. December 22, 2017: A 45-year-old man leaving a gay club in Ohio is immediately assaulted by an assailant who fractures his skull, breaks his nose, and leaves him with a black eye and concussion after screaming homophobic slurs at him and stealing his phone. December 25, 2018: A 31-year-old trans woman is attacked from behind by a 40-year-old man in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, who hits her with a chair while yelling transphobic slurs at her. December 27, 2017: A 51-year-old Muslim woman in a Brooklyn Panera Bread is accosted by a mob of teenagers, who call her a terrorist, spit on her, and then begin punching her. December 31, 2017: Responding to a noise complaint, police in Colorado encounter a man who, after barricading himself into his apartment, engages them in a firefight, killing one sheriff’s deputy and wounding four others. 37-year-old Matthew Riehl was a self-described “libertarian” who frequently shared Islamophobic and alt-right posts on social media. 2017 = twenty-one shootings, fifteen arsons, sixteen stabbings, seventeen mob beatings, over 41 bomb threats, one bombing, three thwarted/failed bombings, one thwarted train derailment, a foiled political assassination, an acid attack, a hanging, and several other miscellaneous assaults by bigots, Islamophobes, nazis and racists which took the lives of forty-nine people and seriously injured eighty-four others in the countries we looked at (Canada, France, Honduras, India, Ireland, Malta, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US). And those are just the ones that we found media reports for. Here’s hoping in 2018 we’re all more effective at undermining bigoted extremism and the horrific violence that comes with it.

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kimjongdaely · 5 years ago

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so, by your rationale, if the gangs/police/government were initiating violence first (i know you don't believe this, but for the sake of argument), you don't believe that violence should be used in self-defense? do you believe they should just allow them to be attacked, up to injury or worse? also, do you think that if a massacre were to take place as a result of the protests, it would be justified? i'm just trying to clarify your stance, because this is what it sounds like.

No. Violence should not be done in self-defense—especially not in protests. What do people mean “we didn’t have a choice?” You always had a choice. You had a choice to take the high road. You had the chance at peace. You didn’t take it.

Because you see, dear anon, when you are fighting for something you believe to be “right,” you should not swoop to the same level as the enemy. Always take the high road, because that way no one can penetrate and divide you. Now, people are turning against protestors because they think the violence has become unbearable (just look at the comments! So extreme on either side). If they never used violence and stayed peaceful, people would continue to support them, including myself. This is a stupid and inefficient tactic. You hit me so I hit you and then you shoot me so I shoot you and it goes on and on until someone gets hurt or worse, dies.

A massacre is most likely going to happen at this rate. Because they are “violent people” and therefore cannot be trusted to stay civil in the future. It’s like a dog. If a dog bites someone and injures them/kills them, the dog is put down. Is it fair? Heck no. Is it what happens? Yeah.

Listen, the people should not have protested so obviously. China is watching us closely, and if we fight so obviously, China will not spare a glance to destroy us. But if we lay low for a while, faking obedience, planning something secretly and attack China when we have the proper power and weapons? That’s smart and much more likely to succeed, do you disagree?

#anon #answered

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prompt-master · 7 years ago

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Anon asked: DBH prompt: some (insert language unsuitable for children) tries to steal/hurt Sumo while he’s on a walk with Connor, and the Android gets injured protecting him. Connor doesn’t want to admit Sumo was in danger while in his care and won’t tell Hank why he’s hurt

Connor. Loves. Dogs.

Connor especially loves Sumo. Going on walks with Sumo was one of Connor's favorite parts of the day. Hank kept telling him that now that he was deviant he had to find a hobby or something but...why can't he just go on walks with Sumo? That's a hobby right! And he loved it. Sumo is just so damn cute. He has a weird little trot and he's kinda lazy and always greets Connor with a kiss to the face. You would never guess he was the Lieutenant's dog.

"Sumo. There are twenty minutes left of your recommended walk."

Sumo looked up and him, and despite having no idea what he meant, barked lovingly at him. Connor smiled proudly. He was totally spoiling him with treats later. He pet the dog behind the ears and then continued on their walk, just going about their business.

But sadly Connor's life couldn't let him have one relaxing afternoon, could it?

It started when he had accidentally bumped into a man walking by him. The guy got instantly angry and shoved Connor down to the ground. Connor glared at the man, and mumbled under his breath,

"Come on Sumo, we don't need to deal with rude assholes like that"

Big mistake.

The guy immedietly spun on his heel and turned back to Connor looking PISSED. He got in his face, yelling angrily, "What the fuck was that you said?!"

Connor didn't flinch or move. He was more annoyed at how he could easily detect the high traces of Red Ice in the man's breath. Gross.

He pushed him away, not having time to deal with people on Red Ice of all things, "leave us alone"

The man was about to comment more when he noticed the circle on the side of Connor's head. He started laughing hysterically, a gross wheezing sort of laugh that made him sound even more bonkers than he already did. "Android? Of course of course I'm not even surprised! Hell I bet you're walking a fucking android dog with the way the world is!"

"I can assure you that Sumo is a real dog." Connor stood his ground.

"Aww did your little factory manufucktuer-" he took a moment to laugh at his own little joke, but Connor could barely understand him, "not tell you that your doggy isn't real? So sad."

"I'm leaving now." Connor turned around and began to walk away from the man, but he grabbed onto the leash and suddenly tugged.

Connor glared at him, feeling a proactive anger go through him, "Do not touch that."

"Oh c'mon I just wanna see the little guy" he pouted, tugging the leash harshly again. Sumo uncomfortably barked.

"Leave us alone or I will call the police."

"You think the police give a shit? They don't- they only care about stupid shit like...like loitering."

He lifted up his leg and tried to kick at Sumo, but was stopped when Connor harshly shoved him in the chest, making him stumble back. Once his leash was let go of Sumo ran behind Connor and under a bench. Connor glared down at the man, "I told you to leave us alone." He really fucking hated red ice and what it did to humans.

Now on his nice day off he had to go and file a report to the police station because this asshole stabbed him.

Wait wait- stabbed him?

Connor looked down to his chest where the was a pocket knife sticking out. In shock he opened his mouth and closed it again, looking at the high man.

"What..."

"You're not turning me in robo boy!" He pulled the knife out, and Connor stumbled. He held onto his chest where thirium now bled out. He cringed, about to turn off his pain sensors when the man took his head and bashed it against his knee. His vision instantly went to static, and he found he couldn't get to the pain sensor. The stabbing ache in his head was evidence enough of that.

He looked up at the man who was laughing, but people were starting to gather now. Connor swore and stood up, reaching for Sumo's leash. The man grabbed his hair and yanked, "where the fuck are you going? The funs just getting started!"

He punched Connor in the stomach, causing him to go down onto his knees. He didn't dare get back up, but it turned out he didn't have to.

"Leave him alone!" A stranger had gotten the police, Connor felt relief when the man was tazed down.

He tried to stand up, but found he couldn't fully straighten. Something was wrong with abdomen. And his chest was still freely bleeding from the wound. His vision had fuzzy static like ends and warnings were showing up displaying all his injuries in big red annoying text boxes. He just wanted to get home and heal up.

Thankfully he knew the cop, so that part was dealt with. But she did say she'd need his statement tomorrow. Fine whatever it takes. Then he wondered how he was supposed to just go home all beaten up.

Oh god, Sumo had almost gotten hurt.

Hank was gonna kill him.

Hank had just started trusting him enough to take Sumo on walks alone and now he almost got Sumo hurt? What was he supposed to do. He stared off towards the ground until Sumo started excessively barking at him. Connor cringed, his aching head not enjoying the stimuli.

He felt even more in pain when Sumo suddenly took off running, dragging him along. "Sumo! What- heel Sumo heel!" But he didn't listen, he had Connor running up and down Detroit until he was in front of a familiar house.

"I...dammit Sumo..." He can't show up to Hank like this especially before he decided on what he was going to say.he tried to think of what to do but all the physical activity had drained a good amount of his thirium. He tried to move, but instead stumbled and fell against the front door. Sumo went ahead without him through the doggy door, Connor could hear things calling down as the leash dragged everything down.

Heavy footsteps ran down the stairs, "what the fuck!? Sumo-? Sumo heel! Stop it god dammit!" The clattering stopped, "what the fuck are you doing. Where's Connor?" Hank took to ranting to himself under his breath while taking off the color and leash. Then he opened up the front door, shocked to find Connor on the other end who nearly fell onto the ground.

"Connor? What the fuck- woah are you ok?" His eyes widened. He took in the stained and ripped hoodie and Connor's busted forehead, bright blue. "Holy shit Connor what the fuck happened."

"I..." Hank would hate him forever. "Hank I need thirium to start healing"

"...uh right..." He stepped aside and helped Connor down to the couch. Then stood up to grab the thirium supply from the bathroom, "should I call a mechanic?"

"I'll go to a walk in tomorrow." Connor stuck his hand in the wound- gross- and started to fix the cut valve himself with duct tape. Turns out that was also a go to solution for androids.

Hank handed him the blood bag and crossed his arms, "What happened? Was it another protestor cuz I'll kick their ass"

He shook his head, frowning at the feeling of pain that went through his head at it. He held onto his forehead where the knee had struck him. The pain was somehow behind his eyes. It made the lights terrible.

Hank frowned and lowered his voice, "you got a headache..? Ah geez kid..."

Connor put his hand over his eyes to lessen the pain light brought him. He listened to the sound of footsteps, a click, more footsteps, the sound of the fridge opening, and then even more footsteps.

Hank gently tapped his shoulder, "here"

Connor looked up, finding the lights were now off. He looked at Hank thankfully, who smiled and handed him an ice pack.

"But Lieutenant I'm not-"

"Trust me it'll help."

Connor shrugged and put it to his forehead. He sighed, nearly melting. He relaxed against the couch, shutting his eyes at the small but much needed relief.

"...Connor you can't just come home looking like shit. What the fuck happened to you?"

Connor groaned and opened one eye, "Hank I don't-"

"If you don't tell me you're not taking Sumo on another walk"

Connor frowned, but it worked. "...I'm so sorry Hank. I let you down-"

"Woah" Hank put his hands up, "where's this coming from?"

"I didn't mean to put Sumo in danger. There was this intoxicated man and he tried to attack Sumo so I shoved him and-"

"What the fuck...?"

"Please don't be mad at me Hank I know I should have better accessed the situation"

"Connor Connor calm down son! Why would I be mad at you that some high asshole beat the shit out of you!"

Connor shook his head, leaning further into the couch. He watched Sumo bite a table leg in the corner of his eye, "I'm an android. I shouldn't have gotten so hurt like that."

"Where is this guy anyway I'll beat the shit out of him myself-"

"Lucy already detained him"

"Oh... well uhm...you feeling ok?"

Connor shook his head, a weird cringe on his face, "I feel...discomfort"

Hank wrapped an arm around him, "it's ok kid" he squeezed his shoulder, "I've got you. Maybe next time I'll go on the walk with you though. Just rest up"

#Dbh #Detroit Become Human #Connor dbh #Connor whump #injury #hank dbh #fanfic

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