• The free world must act to hold Myanmar's gangsters to account, By Benedict Rogers | UCANEWS, February 1, 2022
  
  
• We must not forget the people of Myanmar, living under military rule, By Benedict Rogers | CONSERVATIVE HOME, February 1, 2022
  
  
• Myanmar's Genocidal Breach of UN Court's Order on Rohingya, January 12, 2022
  
  
• Junta statement ‘full of lies’, says KNU spokesperson, By Maung Shwe Wah | Myanmar NOW, December 30, 2021
  
  
• Burma Army’s LIB 101 – Torture, Kills Woman Villager in Bilin Township, Karen News, December 30, 2021
  
  
• Myanmar Junta’s Worst Massacres of, 2021, Irrawaddy, December 30, 2021
  
  
• Junta issues order to ignore notifications from international courts, By Esther J | Myanmar NOW, December 30, 2021
  
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• REVEALED: Canadian military officer calls for a probe into a ground zero 'Covid' outbreak at Wuhan forces games TWO MONTHS before world was alerted to the 'mysterious new illness', By IAN BIRRELL | THE MAIL ON SUNDAY, January 8, 2022
  
  
• Letters from an American, By Heather Cox Richardson, December 17, 2021
  
  
• The plexiglass barrier problem, By Justin Ling | MACLEAN'S, October 29, 2021
  
  
• Beijing doubles down on baseless 'US origins' Covid conspiracy as Delta outbreak worsens, By Nectar Gan and Steve Georgen | CNN, August 6, 2021
  
  
• Beijing doubles down on baseless 'US origins' Covid conspiracy as Delta outbreak worsens, By Nectar Gan and Steve Georgen | CNN, August 6, 2021
  
  
• August 4, 2021, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
  
  
• China Rejects WHO Plan for Second Phase of COVID Origin Probe, By ZACHARY EVANS | NATIONAL REVIEW, July 22, 2021
  
  
• July 16, 2021, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
  
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GENERAL TOPICS

HUMAN DIGNITY

• I Exposed Torture and Rape in the Xinjiang Camps: The CCP Wants Me Back, by Ulnur Bozhykhan | Bitter Winter, March 31, 2022
  
  
• ICC launches war crimes investigation over Russian invasion of Ukraine, By Aubrey Allegretti | The Guardian, March 3, 2022
  
  
• Departing from protocol, pope goes to Russian embassy over Ukraine, By Philip Pullella | Reuters, February 25, 2022
  
  
• The new war has begun. How can the West respond? Atlantic Council, February 24, 2022
  
  
• February 23, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, February 24, 2022
  
  
• February 20, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, February 21, 2022
  
  
• RWCHR Weekly Digest, February 15, 2022
  
  
• China's Threat to the Bible, By Nina Shea | HUDSON INSTITUTE, December 22, 2021
  
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GOVERNANCE

• War in Ukraine Beyond the Headlines, Canadian International Council - Toronto Branch, March 30, 2022
  
  
• March 29, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, March 30, 2022
  
  
• March 26, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, March 27, 2022
  
  
• What If Russia Makes a Deal? How to End a War That No One Is Likely to Win, By Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage | Foreign Affairs, March 23, 2022
  
  
• March 21, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, March 22, 2022
  
  
• While Putin Shrinks, Zelensky Soars, By Maureen Dowd | NYT, March 19, 2022
  
  
• Gen. Rick Hillier: I was inspired by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and embarrassed for my country, By Gen. Rick Hillier | National Post, March 19, 2022
  
  
• March 17, 2022, By Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American, March 18, 2022
  
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CHINA GENERAL

• China Knew It Couldn’t Escape Politics at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. It Didn’t Try, BY CHAD DE GUZMAN | TIME, February 4, 2022
  
  
• Chinese Humiliation: Rape and Torture in Xinjiang’s “Vocational Schools”, By TURARBEK KUSAINOV | BITTER WINTER, February 4, 2022
  
  
• The Beijing Olympics looks a lot like Nazi Germany’s, By Rafael Medoff | FORWARD, February 4, 2022
  
  
• ‘Genocide Games’: Coalition of Human Rights Groups Holds Alternative Olympics Opening Ceremony, By Isaac Teo | EPOCH TIMES, February 5, 2022
  
  
• Winter Olympics: Snowboard company Burton defends working in Xinjiang, BBC NEWS, January 19, 2022
  
  
• Kilgour: Winter Olympics — here's why we're calling them the 'Genocide Games', By David Kilgour | OTTAWA CITIZEN, February 2, 2022
  
  
• Let’s Discover the Traits of the Tiger, and Use the Year of the Tiger to Fight for Freedom, By Benedict Rogers | EPOCH TIMES, January 31, 2022
  
  
• The Beijing Olympics are shaping up to be the Intimidation Games, By Bruce Arthur | TORONTO STAR, January 21, 2022
  
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RUSSIA/PUTIN

Rally on Parliament Hill about Putin.

• Russian Expulsion from the Council of Europe Highlights Failed Approach to Membership, By Aaron Rhodes | PROVIDENCE, April 1, 2022
  
  
• The Week In Russia: Navalny, Ukraine, And Nuclear Signaling, By Steve Gutterman | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 25, 2022
  
  
• Russia’s Economic Collapse – the Beginning, By David Kilgour Author & Lawyer | New Delhi Times, March 21, 2022
  
  
• Putin’s War, By Dr J Scott Younger, March 13, 2022
  
  
• Ukraine and Putin, By John Paul Rathbone et al | FT, March 6, 2022
  
  
• 10 to 15 years in prison for “fake news” by journalists about the army, HRWF, March 4, 2022
  
  
• Mobile phones mean Vladimir Putin can't fool his people forever, By SIR RODERIC LYNE | THE DAILY MAIL, March 3, 2022
  
  
• ICC launches war crimes investigation over Russian invasion of Ukraine, By Aubrey Allegretti | The Guardian, March 3, 2022
  
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WORLD EVENTS / ECONOMY

• Canada is an energy superpower – and that doesn’t just mean oil, THE EDITORIAL BOARD | THE GLOBE AND MAIL, JANUARY 4, 2022
  
  
• Support Canadian Energy newsletter, November 5, 2021
  
  
• Support Canadian Energy newsletter, October 15, 2021
  
  
• Supply-chain disruptions are derailing the global economy, by Diane Francis | Financial Post, October 12, 2021
  
  
• Gleanings II - 891, by Nick Rost van Tonningen, July 29, 2021
  
  
• Gleanings II - 889, by Nick Rost van Tonningen, July 15, 2021
  
  
• CPA Daily Dose, July 2, 2021
  
  
• Interest Cost Risks to Government Budgets, FRASER INSTITUTE, June 29, 2021
  
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IRAN

Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence

• Rights activist Narges Mohammadi sentenced to another 8 years in prison, Human Rights Without Frontiers International, January 27, 2022
  
  
• Freedom of Religion or Belief: IRAN:Give Persian-speaking Christians a #place2worship!, Human Rights Without Frontiers International, December 7, 2021
  
  
• Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests, CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN, November 17, 2021
  
  
• MEK of Iranians marks 57th Anniversary,NCRI-US, September 7, 2021
  
  
• B’nai Brith Stands with Iranian-Canadians, B'NAI BRITH CANADA, September 1, 2021
  
  
• IRAN’S NEW PRESIDENT LAST PERSON MIDDLE EAST NEEDS TODAY, Message of Hon. David Kilgour, co-chair of NGO Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, to a rally near Parliament Hill, Ottawa. 3 August 2021
  
  
• IRAN’S NEW PRESIDENT MUST NOT COME TO SCOTLAND, By Struan Stevenson | THE HERALD SCOTLAND, July 8, 2021
  
  
• Iran's new president will bring more instability to Middle East, By David Kilgour | TORONTO SUN, July 5, 2021
  
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TURKEY

• Turkey Starts New Sham Trial of Political Prisoner Osman Kavala, The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), 18 December 2020
  
  
• TURKEY AND THE RULE OF LAW, Hon. David Kilgour, J.D., International Freedom Convention 2020, Ottawa, 9 December 2020
  
  
• Turkey Is Moving Toward A Neo-Ottoman Regime With Calls To Convert Hagia Sophia, By Paul Marshall | Religion Unplugged, June 25, 2020
  
  
• Conference on Turkey, Dec 4, 2019 in Washington, Middle East Institute (MEI) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)
  
  
• In Meeting Erdogan, Trump Courts Another Tyrant, By The Editorial Board | The New York Times, November 13, 2019
  
  
• Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power, By David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Lipton | The New York Times, November 12, 2019
  
  
• THE GREAT KURDISH BETRAYAL, By Struan Stevenson, October 18, 2019
  
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VIETNAM

(L) Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, "Mother Mushroom", was released. (R) She had participated in the Right to Know campaign before imprisonment. Mother Mushroom was released and her family including her children and her mother all were welcome to Germany.

On July 7, 2018, 33 Vietnamese-Canadian community organizations from Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and other centres across Canada gatherd in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, to demonstrate against the Internet Security Law and the Special Economic Zones Bill in Vietnam

• Freedom of Religion or Belief News: SPECIAL VIETNAM: The collmErci ision of religion and the Vietnamese State/About the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam, HRWF, May 11, 2021
  
  
• Torture of Political Prisoners Continues in Vietnam, By Kaylee Uland | Asia Sentinel, November 8, 2020
  
  
• WHAT SHOULD THE PEOPLE OF VN DO FOLLOWING THE EVENT OF DONG TAM ON JANUARY 9, 2020? (Editorial)
  
  
• Dr. Long Ba Nguyen’s Opening Speech at the Ceremony to Announce the Results of the Charter 2000 Movement’s 2019 Contest & Celebrate the 19th Anniversary of Charter 2000 (November 16, 2019, Dim Sum King Seafood Restaurant - Toronto)
  
  
• Hon. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D.: HONG KONG NEARS AN ABYSS(Eng. & Vietnamese)
  
  
• South China Sea, Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration and '9-dash demarcation', Notes for Hon. David Kilgour, J.D., At Embassy of People's Republic of China, Ottawa, August 25, 2019
  
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MEMORIAL

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SANTHAN SAMUEL LAWRENCE (22 Aug, 1943 - 17 Feb, 2022)

• In Loving Memory of Samuel Lawrence
  
  

British Conservative MP Sir David Amess died after being fatally stabbed at a constituency meeting east of London

• Sir David Amess tribute by Hon. David Kilgour, co-chair, Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, 18 October 2021
  
  

Ian Gardiner Waddell Very sorry about Ian's passing. We were both elected to Parliament in 1979.

• Condolences pour in following the death of former B.C. tourism minister Ian Waddell
  
  
• Parlinfo: Ian Gardiner Waddell, M.P.
  
  

Dr. Norman Lyle Epstein

• In Memory of Dr Norman Epstein – ETAC Canada Committee Member
  
  
• Ve'ahavta Starry Nights Dr. Norman Epstein & Dr. Achol Dor
  
  

Former Canadian PM John Turner (Courtesy thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)) David Russell TURNER (1968 - 2021)

• Today in Canada’s Political History: The Right Honourable John Turner Passes Into History, By Arthur Milnes | National Newswatch, September 19, 2021
  
  
• Stamp honours public service contributions of Rt. Hon. John Turner, Canada Post Magazine, June 7, 2021
  
  
• David Russell TURNER - Obituary
  
  
• Ex-PM John Turner eulogized as exemplary politician; COVID limits number of guests
  
  
• John TURNER (1929 - 2020) - Obituary
  
  
• John Turner, Briefly Its Leader but Long a Force in Canada, Dies at 91
  
  
• KILGOUR: John Turner, an appreciation
  
  
• Rt. Hon. John Turner passes at 91
  
  
• Reflections on John Napier Turner
  
  
• John Turner's message frm his 90th birthday
  
  

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