Stories about History from December, 2009
Nepal: India-Nepal 1950 Treaty
Bhumika Ghimire's latest vlog stresses that its time to re-negotiate the India-Nepal 1950 treaty of peace and friendship.
Cambodia: Khmer Rouge parade video
The Eyes of the Pineapple uploads an old film footage of a parade of Khmer Rouge armour on the streets of Phnom Penh.
Haiti: Outrage over Lavalas Election Ban
The Haitian Blogger highlights reactions to what is being called “rigged” elections carded for February 2010.
Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: We are the Windies
B.C. Pires thinks that Roebuck and Berry, two well respected names in the cricket fraternity, are “simply wrong…in their contention that the West Indies national cricket team should be allowed…to...
Indonesia bans film on Balibo Five
A film about the Balibo Five was banned by Indonesian authorities. Balibo Five refers to Australia-based journalists who were allegedly murdered by Indonesian soldiers in East Timor in 1975.
CEE: “Social Media and Social Memory”
Evgeny Morozov writes about “social media and social memory” – and a Facebook project involving a 22-year-old Lublin resident posing as a 7-year-old Jewish boy who was killed by the...
Serbia: More on the Late Patriarch Pavle
More on the life of the late Serbian Patriarch Pavle: Again & Again; Anegdote; Belgraded – here and here.
Ukraine: “We Remember”
Ukrainiana, Kyiv Scoop, and LJ user igordaily (UKR) write and post photos and video from this year's commemoration of Holodomor, the famine of 1932-33; Nash Holos writes about the National...
Montserrat: Soufriere Activity
Repeating Islands has an update on the activity of Montserrat's Soufriere volcano.
