Archive for MSF
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) expelled from Gaza!
Posted in Kids with tags Doctors without Borders, Gaza, Gaza war, genocide, Israeli government, Israeli military, MSF, NGO, Palestine, UNRWA, war crimes on February 4, 2026 by xi'an
Gazaouis have nowhere to go!
Posted in Kids with tags ceasefire, Doctors without Borders, Gaza, Gaza war, Israel, MSF, Palestine, Rafah, Stop the War, The Guardian, war crimes on February 17, 2024 by xi'an
support earthquake victims in Syria and Türkiye
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Aleppo, Doctors without Borders, donation, earthquake, Gaziantep, MSF, Syria, Türkiye on February 6, 2023 by xi'an
Donate to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suport victims of the earthquake today. MSF already has teams working in northern Syria.
remembering Prague Spring, 1968
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags China, Communist Party of China, Croissance des Jeunes Nations, Czechoslovakia, Doctors without Borders, Kyiv, MSF, Prague, Prague Spring, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, urban guerilla, USSR on March 2, 2022 by xi'an
In 1968, I was quite young (!), but I do remember vividly the invasion and repression of Czechoslovakia by troops of the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Maybe because the French public radio [our main source of information then] was quite vocal about it, maybe because my parents were early subscribers of a progressive, anti-colonialist, third-Worldist, Catholic newspaper named Croissance des Jeunes Nations, which I read as well and which mostly covered liberation movements in the Third World, but also the resistance of Czechoslovak people against Soviet tanks… Today these tanks are back, now in Kyiv streets. (With the difference that the China of 1968 denounced in the strongest terms the Soviet invasion.) While the Iron Curtain prevented most inhabitants to flee the country, the death toll was relatively limited, with 108 registered victims. After a few days into the Russian invasion, the toll is already much higher and the increasing bombing of Ukrainian cities is going to see it rise faster and faster. Support Ukraine!
