Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2011 May 26

26 May 2011

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Stories from 26 May 2011

India: Malayalam Bloggers Campaign For Soumya

Kerala was rife with outrage, when 23 year old woman Soumya was thrown out from a moving passenger train, raped and brutally murdered. With the public losing the trust in mainstream media, blogs with the individual's voices question media's silent role and discuss many unnoticed aspects of the story.

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China: Netizens Declare Candidacy In Upcoming Elections

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Their chances may not be good, but a small and growing number of Internet celebrities and microbloggers have decided to run in grassroots elections this coming September in constituencies around the country.

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Panama: Wikileaks Reach Panamanian Government

Written by Ariel Moreno · Translated by Jen Fumero · Latin America

The diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks have wreaked havoc in global politics. Panama is not an exception. A cable that links the government party CD - Democratic Change - with the Colombian drug dealer David Murcia has triggered outrage among Panamanian citizens.

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Azerbaijan: Eynulla Fatullayev Pardoned Following Twitter Action

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Just two days after the UK branch of Amnesty International launched its Twitter campaign to call for the release of Eynulla Fatullayev comes news that the imprisoned journalist and prisoner of conscience has been included in a list of prisoners to be pardoned ahead of the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

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United States: A Blog for Rethinking the Hispanic World

Written by Yarisa Colon · Translated by Marianna Breytman · North America

In New York, the Hispanic cultural and artistic dynamism can be felt. Global Voices spoke with journalist and cultural critic Claudio Iván Remeseira about his blog Hispanic New York Project, a digital space for rethinking the dominant vision about Hispanics in New York.

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Serbia: Arrest of Ratko Mladic

Written by Vilhelm Konnander · Eastern & Central Europe

Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader was arrested today by police in Serbia, the country's president, Boris Tadic, confirmed on national television. General Mladic has been on the run since 1995 facing charges of genocide for his role as Bosnian Serb military commander during the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Updates from 26 May 2011

Ukraine

Window on Eurasia reports on the Ukrainian Peoples Party's proposal to declare the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars by Stalin “an act of genocide and a crime against humanity.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

At OpenDemocracy.net, Oleg Pavlov writes about Jadidism, “an Islamic movement common among the Muslims in the Volga and Urals region,” and peaceful religious co-existence in Tatarstan.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Belarus

Nils van der Vegte of RussiaWatchers reports on the economic crisis in Belarus.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bosnia Herzegovina

Richard Byrne of Balkans via Bohemia and Borut Peterlin react to the news of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general wanted for war crimes, including the Srebrenica massacre. Sladjana Lazic of A Slice Of Serbian Politics and Viktor Marković (@Belgrade) report [en, sr] on small-scale protests in Belgrade and other Serbian cities; Marković also tweeted earlier today that “more than 100 Facebook groups [had been] created in support of Ratko #Mladic in the past two hours.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Peru

Global Voices author and Spanish Lingua Editor Juan Arellano is updating a Storify post [es] on the developments of “March for dignity, Fujimori never again! #26m” taking place in Lima right now, on May 26. Protesters have mobilized to show their rejection of ‘fujimorismo' and their discontent with the possible victory of Keiko Fujimori in the upcoming second round of presidential elections.

• Silvia Viñas

Barbados

B.C. Pires says that the most recent corruption allegation against FIFA vice-president Jack Warner “looks for Jack like it did for Tony walking into that diner in the last episode of the Sopranos; but…it seems more likely Jack will emerge from Sunday’s disciplinary hearing, not in a hail of bullets, but with a shining halo.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Fernando Dámaso at Translating Cuba, is concerned about the country's architectural patrimony.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

“Women’s oppression, he said, was a myth created by the Judeo-Christian West as a tool of capitalism. I nearly fall on the ground”: And then, Lisa Allen-Agostini writes a must-read post about it.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Kenya

Taking care of an orphaned monkey in Kenya : “We currently have a baby genet at the Colobus Trust which was found a few weeks ago being played with by a troop of vervet monkeys at the Diani Reef Hotel. The genet was weak and exhausted and showed signs of nerve and muscular damage from the incident, along with a small wound on her front left paw.The Trust took her in and has assigned three volunteers to act as foster mothers…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

China

Fanua from ChinaSMACK translated a local news about two French students selling crepes in Shanghai - the chengguan came, and the French street vendors fled like everyone else.

• Oiwan Lam