52. Sri Lanka and Tamil People, Third Session (Berlin, 20-22 May 2022)

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal met in Berlin in May 2022 for its third session dedicated to Sri Lanka, which was attended by human rights activists from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. This session followed two previous sessions by the Tribunal: the first, held in Dublin in 2010, shortly after the massacre of the Eelam…

Chile 1973-2023: Memories for the Present

On Monday, Chile commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military coup that inaugurated a bloody dictatorship holding a ceremony at the government palace in La Moneda attended by several regional leaders. The military regime led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) killed 3,200 people, of whom 1,469 disappeared. Half a century later, 297 repressors have been…

Rohingyas: Listening to an ongoing genocide

The Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) judgment on the genocidal persecution and expulsion of Rohingyas people into Bangladesh, back in 2017, was the first systematic documentation of the Myanmar military junta’s criminal responsibility (openly shared by the former Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi). The pieces of evidence produced by the PPT were further and repetitively…

Memory of Salvatore Senese

 by Franco Ippolito This contribution, authored by Franco Ippolito, past President of the PPT (2014-2017), provides a reflection on the specific and present significance of the professional and political role of the second President of our Tribunal, Salvatore Senese (2004-2014). Senese played a major role in the Italian institutional scenario by promoting the increasing importance…

DISPAK DISPAC’H by Patricia Allio

The Tribunal becomes theatre. Artist Patricia Allio proposes a documentary performance on migration policies inspired by the session that the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held in Paris in 2018 on the rights of migrants and refugees. The theatrical Project DISPAK DISPAC’H stems from the study and participation in the research project carried out by the Permanent…