Israel, Egypt, ISIS, Sewol & Marikana: The Marikana bloodbath when 34 placing mine employees had been shot useless in South Africa passed off on sixteenth August 2012, so at this time the eleventh anniversary might be marked in London by a commemoration starting at 16.00 outdoors the South African Embassy in Trafalgar Sq.. You’ll be able to learn extra in regards to the bloodbath and these commemoration in my put up final 12 months, London Solidarity with Marikana Miners.
On Saturday sixteenth August 2014 I attended the occasion on the Second Anniversary of Marikana Miners Bloodbath and you may see extra footage from this on My London Diary.
However the Marikana commemoration was not the one occasion on that day, and listed here are additionally a few of the different issues I photographed.
Boycott Israel – Boycott M&S – Brixton
Protesters outdoors M&S within the centre of Brixton argued that the shop legitimises the unlawful occupation of Palestine and helps Zionist racism and brutality by promoting Israeli items and referred to as for a boycott in solidarity with the folks of Gaza. I made a short go to because the RCG picket was starting after which took the tube to Bond Road.
Extra footage at Boycott Israel – Boycott M&S.
R4BIA remembers Egyptian massacres – South St, Mayfair
Marchers met on the Egyptian Embassy to march to Downing St on the anniversary of the massacres by Egyptian forces at Rabaa and Nahda squares on 14th August 2013 through which over 2600 had been killed, 4000 injured and lots of arrested.
The Rabaa hand signal with 4 fingers prolonged and the thumb pressed into the palm was adopted in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters following the overthrow of President Morsi by a army coup. After his election Morsi had given himself limitless powers to make legal guidelines and moved the nation in direction of an Islamist state, finally resulting in mass protests which led the military to maneuver on 3 July 2013, deposing him and suspending the brand new structure. Professional-Morsi demonstrations had been brutally dispersed with Human Rights Watch documenting over 900 deaths.
Extra footage at R4BIA remembers Egyptian massacres.
March towards ISIS massacres – Portland Place
The Kurdish Individuals’s Meeting and others met in entrance of the BBC to march towards the assaults on Kurds, Shia, Sufi, Christian and Yezidi communities in Iraq, calling on the UK authorities for higher motion together with stress on Turkey and Qatar to finish help for jihadism.
They met in entrance of the BBC to emphasize the dearth of correct reporting of what’s taking place in Iraq and as one poster stated, ‘Your silence is Killing folks‘. The BBC has did not report on the help that Turkey with its more and more Islamic regime has given to the Islamic State jihadist forces. ISIS depends on oil exports smuggled by means of Turkey to help its existence and murdering assaults.
Our authorities retains quiet about Turkey and refuses to sentence its actions as Turkey is a key member of NATO, and as in so many areas, the BBC toes the federal government line. Whereas it employs many effective journalists they’re constrained by their editors and managers as much as the best stage and never allowed to report impartially, significantly on the UK home channels. Generally the World Service does quite higher.
Extra footage at Kurds Protest towards ISIS
Koreans name for particular Sewol Ferry Act – Trafalgar Sq.
Koreans had been holding common silent vigils in Trafalgar Sq. for the reason that Sewol ferry catastrophe in April that 12 months when schoolchildren on board had been instructed to ‘Keep Put’ under decks and drowned.
The protest on sixteenth August was a part of international day of help for the Sewol Tragedy Victims’ Household Committee petition, already signed by round 4 million, for a particular invoice to research the deaths of 304 folks, primarily highschool college students within the ferry catastrophe.
Koreans name for particular Sewol Ferry Act
Second Anniversary of Marikana Miners Bloodbath
Happening later in Trafalgar Sq. was the commemoration of the Second Anniversary of Marikana Miners Bloodbath talked about firstly of this put up.
Amongst these collaborating was mime protester Charlie X, who got here with a poster of the structure of the Republic of South African and stood holding this and with a miner’s lamp in entrance of the locked gates of the embassy.
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