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In September 2018, Anonymous, allegedly a senior Trump administration official, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times declaring that “I am part of the Resistance,” as if that were supposed to assuage our concerns about Republican silence.
In the end, their complicity in the Trumpian catastrophe was not so different from the communist silence that Galich condemned, and which imposed such an enormous cost on the Soviet Union’s population.
They will also not forget the Kremlin’s silence.
But in Nigeria, they maintain a policy of silence and feigned ignorance regarding LGBTI rights.
Despite the world’s attention, the movement ended in a crackdown, followed by official silence and a public amnesia that deepens by the year.
Born of those claims, Tiananmen in 1989 ended in violence and silence.
In addition, European leaders’ silence on questions of human rights is deafening.
But much like Sherlock Holmes’s dog that didn’t bark, it’s hard to know whether to be reassured or alarmed by the silence.
It can also assist in breaking the silence on such experiences among victims, potentially inspiring them to seek help.
Global Silence on China’s GulagNEW DELHI – For more than two years, China has waged a campaign of unparalleled repression against its Islamic minorities, incarcerating an estimated one-sixth of the adult Muslim population of the Xinjiang region at one point or another.
Political leaders are also making ever-bolder attempts to cow the media and business community into silence, or to co-opt them by offering special privileges.
Many in Nigeria believe that familial and even societal honor depends on women’s complicity, purity, and silence.
Many of his “applause lines” were met with stony silence.
This disingenuous silence is bad economics and bad politics.
China’s government attempted to silence the protesters, including by arresting leading activists.
During the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the US intelligence community’s professional leadership kept its counsel, having concluded that silence was the best tactic for dealing with an untethered and antagonistic boss.
Most recently, 86 people were killed when protests erupted after a prominent activist alleged in a social-media post that the government was attempting to withdraw his security detail in a plot to silence him.
Similarly, a right-wing group in Israel can silence dissent by promoting the view that criticism of the group is equivalent to anti-Semitism (or self-hatred, in the case of Jewish critics).
Today, he is sitting in the European Parliament, which makes it hard for anyone to claim that liberal judges simply wanted to silence the Cavaliere.
Emphasizing the importance of taking “a clear stance,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared Navalny to be the “victim of a crime intended to silence him.”
Some functionaries may have guessed that Putin wanted to silence Navalny before the local elections; others could have been subjects of Navalny’s corruption investigations.
Far more than the US-European dispute over the role of NATO, the silence surrounding the pandemic between the two sides shows that one can hardly speak of a transatlantic community.
Li’s death – together with further revelations of China’s efforts to silence COVID-19 whistleblowers – has sparked global outrage, and rightly so.
Making matters worse, Roth shows that China’s ability to silence other governments extends even to those that have positioned themselves as champions of human rights.
“Visiting leaders have typically excused such public silence by insisting that they raise human rights with Chinese officials in private discussions.
Finally, in my work at the UN on sexual violence in conflict, I’ve seen how assaults on women’s rights and autonomy through violent acts, including rape, can be used as a tactic to silence them.
Trump is reported to have become very upset when now-former special counsel Robert Mueller broke his long silence last Wednesday to announce his resignation and say, “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”(Mueller, highly and properly reluctant to go beyond what his report says, and disinclined to subject himself to a partisan circus, is now resisting bipartisan demands that he appear – at least in public – before a Congressional committee.)
(Nixon was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate burglary cover-up, whereas Trump is one in New York case involving his participation in pre-election payoffs to silence two women with whom he had sexual liaisons shortly after the birth of his son Barron.)
And all governments should be held accountable when pandemic-related restrictions are used as a pretext to silence journalists.
Four Priorities for a Global Pandemic StrategyBRUSSELS – The contrast between the silence of Europe’s streets and squares and the tumultuous, painful reality in many of its hospitals is heartbreaking.
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