eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.

Server stats:

242
active users

#forcedrelocation

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
DoomsdaysCW<p>Boo hiss...! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> signals he’s moving ahead with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s idea to transfer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a></p><p> By MATTHEW LEE and NATALIE MELZER<br>Updated 5:05 PM EST, February 16, 2025 </p><p>JERUSALEM (AP) — "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled that he was moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza, calling it 'the only viable plan to enable a different future' for the region." [BULLSHIT!!!]</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-15-2025-1cf8b3cb7622489c368c610f85e51e35?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/israel-pale</span><span class="invisible">stinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-15-2025-1cf8b3cb7622489c368c610f85e51e35?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Causing major harms through development projects</p><p>"World Bank-funded projects have also continually been found to be in direct, serious violation of international human rights standards. Major recurring issues include mass evictions and the forced displacement of peoples and communities for major infrastructure and agricultural projects (see Observer Spring 2015), violations of the rights of indigenous and forest peoples, targeting of human rights defenders, triggering local food insecurity, and serious labour rights violations, such as child and forced labour reportedly being used in Bank-funded projects (see Observer Winter 2016). The IFC has also been shown on several occasions to have invested in companies that avoid or evade taxes (see Observer Autumn 2016). More recently, the Bank has also acknowledged that its projects can create an environment that can foster gender-based violence, including sexual abuse and the spread of HIV/AIDS (see Observer Spring 2017).</p><p>"To safeguard against risks like these, the World Bank launched its revised Environmental and Social Framework in 2018, although it applies only to its project lending and not to its DPF. </p><p>"Many in civil society remain unconvinced that the safeguards are fit for purpose if the Bank is to deliver on its mandate to implement policies that benefit the poorest, especially as the Bank is set to focus on more complex and difficult environments from 2018." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedDisplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedDisplacement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDegradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDegradation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTheForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IMFLoanSharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IMFLoanSharks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldBank</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderBasedViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderBasedViolence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManCamps</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>One of many earlier <a href="https://beige.party/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialCrimes</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a>. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BriggsPlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BriggsPlan</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaysia</span></a>.</p><p>The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> a name symbolic of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/atrocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atrocity</span></a>, so when British <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonizers</span></a> once again visited the idea of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NewVillages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewVillages</span></a>. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Malaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaya</span></a> during the 1950&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/MalayanEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalayanEmergency</span></a>. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.</p><p>When the Malayan <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CommunistParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunistParty</span></a> received support from armed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/guerrillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillas</span></a> from Malaya and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>, the British, intent on restoring <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Imperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperial</span></a> rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist <a href="https://beige.party/tags/insurgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurgents</span></a> would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.</p><p>The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.</p><p>Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CollectivePunishments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectivePunishments</span></a> directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialismInAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialismInAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DecolonialLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DecolonialLearning</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonizerCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonizerCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialViolence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonize</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MalaysianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalaysianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnYourColonialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnYourColonialHistory</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> has said that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> are developing a plan to *evacuate* <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilians</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rafah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rafah</span></a>, although the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> — by far the largest distributor of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aid</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> — has said that nowhere is safe &amp; that it will not be party to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a>, itself a violation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaw</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawsOfWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawsOfWar</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalHumanitarianLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalHumanitarianLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanitarianLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanitarianCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignPolicy</span></a></p>