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ICP
Asks of Boko
Haram's
Victims'
Marginalization,
UNCTC Funding
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 10 --
When the
Director of
the UN
Counter-Terrorism
Center
Jehangir Khan
took questions
on February
10, Inner City
Press asked
him about the
comparative
marginalization
of the victims
of Boko Haram,
and supported
a request for
information on
the Center's
non-Saudi
funders. Video
here.
Khan,
who is also
the Director
of the UN
Counter-Terrorism
Implementation
Task Force,
said he agreed
about Boko
Haram; he said
the issue
would be
addressed in
the February
11 Conference
on the Human
Rights of
Victims of
Terrorism.
We'll see.
Back on
October 21,
2015, after a
UN Security
Council
closed-door
meeting about
the victims of
terrorism,
Inner City
Press asked
two minister
from Spain and
victims'
representatives
from Spain and
of Yazidis
about media
coverage of
terrorism,
specifically
about threats
to censor such
coverage for
example in
Turkey.
Pari
Ibrahim of the
Free Yezidi
Foundation
said that in
fact media
coverage was
helpful in
letting people
know about the
outrage or
genocide that
began on
August 3,
2014.
ETA victim
Mari Mar
Blanco praised
the conviction
under Spanish
law of a
person who
tweets
apologies for
terrorism. But
how is that
defined?
Spain's
Interior
Minister Jorge
Fernández Díaz
said the
country's
laws, directed
at ETA, needed
to be updated
for Jihadists.
Spain's
Foreign
Minister José
Manuel
García-Margallo
said ISIS is
challenging
the Sykes
Picot Line, is
holding
territory and
using the
West's tools
to recruit. At
least three of
the four,
maybe more,
seems directed
at getting
Twitter,
Facebook and
YouTube to
censor social
media posts
deemed helpful
to ISIS. But
how will that
be defined?
Are for some
states, is
that really
the
motive?
We'll have
more on this.
Pari Ibrahim
of the Free
Yezidi
Foundation
(pictured
above) also
spoke of a
filing with
the
International
Criminal
Court, to go
after ISIS
members who
are nationals
of states who
have joined
the ICC.
Spain's
Margallo spoke
of a second
International
Criminal
Court, just
for
terrorists.
But wouldn't
that also
require that
states join,
or a referral
from the
Security
Council? We
aim to have
more on this
too.
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