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By Amal JAYASINGHE Colombo (AFP) - Le Sri Lanka marque dimanche le cinquième anniversaire du massacre de 279 personnes, la plus meurtrière attaque terroriste de l'histoire de l'île, mais la justice, tant attendue par les familles endeuillées et les plus de 500 blessés, n'est toujours pas rendue. Saman Sirimanna, fonctionnaire de 59 ans, et son épouse Sriyani, 57 ans, ont perdu leurs deux enfants quand un kamikaze a fait irruption dans l'église Saint-Antoine de la capitale Colombo, le 21 avril 2019, dimanche de Pâques. M. Sirimanna raconte à l'AFP que son fils de 19 ans et sa fille de 22 ans, t...
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L'armée polonaise a déclaré dimanche matin dans une communiqué publié sur X, anciennement Twitter, q'un missile russe avait survolé son espace aérien pendant quelques secondes. "Il y a eu une violation de l'espace aérien polonais par l'un des missiles de croisière lancés cette nuit par l'aviation à longue portée de la Fédération de Russie. Les cibles des frappes étaient des villes de l’ouest de l’Ukraine, indique l'armée polonaise.L'objet est entré dans l'espace polonais près de la ville d'Oserdów et y est resté pendant 39 secondes. Pendant tout le vol, il a été observé par des systèmes radar ...
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Accra (AFP) - Two African American survivors of a century-old massacre in the United States were in Ghana Sunday with their grandchildren at the start of a visit to connect with their "motherland." Viola Fletcher, 107, known as 'Mother Fletcher', and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100, known as 'Uncle Red', are from the district of Greenwood in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa that was devastated in 1921 by a mob of armed white people. Up to 300 African Americans were killed in the attack on the area nicknamed "Black Wall Street" and some 10,000 left homeless when the district was set ablaze, leaving...
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Tulsa (United States) (AFP) - As they gathered to witness US President Joe Biden's historic visit to the site of a racist massacre that devastated a thriving community, Black Tulsans said they hoped his presence means the long-ignored injustice will finally receive recognition. The Tulsa district of Greenwood -- nicknamed "Black Wall Street" -- was devastated in 1921 by a mob of armed white people. Hundreds are thought to have died in the violence sparked by a false accusation against a young Black man. Biden is the first sitting president to attend the annual commemorations. Now, locals say, ...
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Tulsa (United States) (AFP) - President Joe Biden led emotional commemorations on Tuesday to honor victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, saying the United States must learn from one of the worst episodes of racist violence in the country's history. The Democratic leader marked the centenary of the massacre by meeting survivors in the city, after the White House announced new initiatives including billions of dollars in grants to address racial disparities in wealth, home ownership and small business ownership. "This was not a riot, this was a massacre," Biden said to loud appla...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden -- who is popular with Black Americans, a voting bloc that helped him win the White House -- promised to "deliver some real change" during his first term in office. While he and Kamala Harris, the country's first Black vice president, have made some inroads, they already have encountered some stumbling blocks as well. Here is a look at Biden's relationship with the African American community, as he prepares to visit Tulsa for the 100th anniversary of a race massacre in the Oklahoma city, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history: Lifel...
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Tulsa (United States) (AFP) - At the foot of modern buildings on an anonymous street, a few discreet metal plaques catch the eye. "Grier shoemaker," "Earl real estate" -- riveted to the ground, they bear the names of Black-owned businesses that once stood there before being destroyed during one of the worst racial massacres in the United States, in 1921. A rare vestige of a neighborhood so prosperous it was called Black Wall Street, the plaques prove that the history of Greenwood -- a historically Black neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma -- is understood not by the monuments that currently stand,...
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Washington (AFP) - Three Black centenarians who survived one of the deadliest US race massacres appealed to Congress for justice Wednesday after a lifetime of pain triggered by a 100-year-old tragedy only now coming to light for many Americans. In gripping testimony, 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre of 1921, recalled the horrors of the attack -- and how she and others were left behind by a nation she accused of burying the past. "No one cared about us for almost 100 years. We and our history have been forgotten, washed away," she told a ra...
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Boulder (United States) (AFP) - Ahmad Alissa's chubby face in an undated photo released by police Tuesday contrasts with images of his arrest as the suspect in the Boulder, Colorado mass shooting -- that of a shirtless, shoeless man with blood covering one leg escorted away by two officers. Alissa, 21, faces 10 counts of murder in the first degree in the shooting, police said. This is what we know about him up to now. Still no known motiveAlissa was hospitalized and was in stable condition after being shot in the leg in an exchange of gunfire with police during the Monday attack, Boulder Polic...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Experts searching for victims of the 1921 race massacre in the US city of Tulsa, have uncovered at least one set of human remains, a state archaeologist has announced.The remains were found at the city-owned Oaklawn cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, near an anonymous grave about three feet (one meter) deep, said Kary Stackelbeck.Experts were analyzing the remains and it was unclear whether they belong to one of the victims of one of the deadliest ever massacres of African Americans, in which up to 300 people were killed when white mobs torched a black neighborhood.The convulsion...
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