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special thanks to Dr. kamal / twana nwri /devrim cilik / Faiq aziz / institute for kurdish study in Australia. twana nwri Kurdish Cinema: In Search of Cultural Identity By Dr Muhammad Kamal. Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne The Kurds make the largest ethnic community in the Middle East without a state of their own. Their history is a chain of unsuccessful uprisings for independence. It tells about genocide, forcible assimilation, deportation and life in exile. After the defeat of the Ottomans in 1918, the British forces occupied almost all of present day Middle East. Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Point Program for World Peace (point 12) stated that non-Turkish minorities of the Ottoman Empire should be 'assured of an absolute unmolested opportunity of autonomous development.' The Treaty of Sevres signed in August 1920 gave a great hope to the Kurds and brought them closer to statehood. But the peace conference at Lausanne in November 1922, which was finalized in treaty in July 1923 disappointed the Kurdish delegation. The defeated Turkey secured a position to impose demands on the conference and categorically rejected the recognition of the national rights of the Kurds. The Allies satisfied with their own gains were happy to please Turkey for two reasons; first, Mustafa Kamal who emerged as a leader advocated the idea of westernizing Turkey and second the Allies wanted from Turkey to block the influence of Soviet Marxism in the region. In March ...

Tasaday declared genuine. From Wikipilipinas: en.wikipilipinas.org While scholars debated, the hoax claims were also being challenged outside science|scientific circles. In 1987, the Philippine Congress held a four-month-long public investigation into the hoax claims, during which Elizalde arranged for a Tasaday woman to be present to support the original claims. The investigation concluded in favor of the original claims and denounced the possibility of a hoax. In 1988, President Corazon Aquino also conducted an inquiry and announced that the Tasaday were genuine and had nearly been victimized by unscrupulous scholars and businessmen who wanted their logging|timber- and mining|mineral-rich land. After the investigations, the Philippine National Museumand other official organizations began listing the Tasaday among the Philippines' indigenous people. The Tasaday are a small group of indigenous people from the tropical rain forests of South Cotabato in Mindanao who allegedly lived a Stone Age life. Throughout the 1970s the Tasaday received world-wide fame, and then again in the 1980s when Oswald Iten purportedly discovered that they were a hoax masterminded government officials close to President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Up until the mid twentieth century, the Tasaday as of 1971 could recall historical contact with two other local groups (known to the Tasaday as the Sandukasand the Tasafangs), apparently with similar lifeways to the Tasaday and also from the forest. Contact ...

Prior to the hammer attack on Tony Ward he filmed this footage of the UAF rabble shouting abuse.Clearly the scraggy looking woman can be seen on her mobile phone calling for the ethnic thugs to arrive to attack Tony.

The residents of Aleppo apparently have had enough of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) [aka Western-backed "freedom fighters"]. They took to the streets of Aleppo in a big protest that started from al-Sabeel neighborhood. The protest included all walks of life. What united all these people was one message: "We want FSA out! We want the Syrian Army". This sentiment is not confined to the residents of Aleppo but is also a reflection of a large segment of Syria's population that extends from its north to its south. During a recent football (soccer) match in Kuwait between the Syrian national team and its Jordanian counterpart, one "Syrian" supporter in the crowd carried the tri-star French mandate flag of the FSA, and he was vociferously kicked out by the Syrians, an act that shows how most Syrians actually despise all FSA supporters.