In this week’s edition of the week in WikiLeaks press, US State Department cables showed how South Africa allowed Madagascar’s president to circumvent customs by picking up anti-riot munitions in his personal airplane during the 2009 uprisings. Ten years on, Guantánamo Bay remains open, and open questions around detainee rights and futures remain. US State Department cables also illuminate US-funded NGOs in Egypt. Cables also expose the Philippines’ banking...
US warned Ethiopia against attacking Kenya two years ago. As Australia strengthens military ties with the US, cables show its hostile attitude towards China. Guyana presidency was described as increasingly hostile to free speech. Nigerian governor tried to strengthen his position through military means. Monsanto fiercely opposed to GMO regulation supported by 80% of New Zealand population. US opposed Greek free speech laws. Subject index .
Sarkozy asked Syria’s president Assad to release prisoners to sway French public opinion. Trading firms teamed up to weaken Ukraine government. Cables also report that president of US ally Uganda is deeply corrupt. Taiwan wasn’t ready to give up arms trade with the US for peace with China. Before his death, Zimbabwean general worked to undermine support for Mugabe. Sri Lanka’s president was considered a war criminal by the US....
On Friday, 22 October 2010, The Guardian, the New York Times, Der Speigel, Al Jazeera, and Le Monde published extensive articles based on an archive of 400,000 U.S. Army significant activities reports from Iraq obtained by WikiLeaks, cataloguing events from 2004 to 2009. WikiLeaks also collaborated with The Independent, BBC Radio, Channel 4, SVT, and the Associated Press in this release. In addition, WikiLeaks worked with organizations such as the...
UK Public Inquiry and Investigation Public Interest Lawyers The Baha Mousa Public Inquiry began in 2008, exploring the circumstances of the death of an Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa during his detention in Basra by British troops in September 2003. On 8 September 2011, the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry report was published, as well as the Chairman Sir William Gage’s statement summarizing the report’s conclusions (both are available here). Sir William...
Revelations that Denmark, present in Iraq from 2003 until the end of 2007, was shown by the Iraq War Logs to have taken previously undisclosed number of prisoners, many whom were tortured, made headlines for weeks after the publication. While neither Sweden nor Norway has had a troop presence, the war logs showed that weapons made in both Sweden and Norway have been the cause of much death in Iraq....
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