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  • Did Georgian troops fight with smuggled German guns?
    20 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did Georgian troops fight with smuggled German guns?
    August 18, 2008, 15:12
    Elite Georgian soldiers fighting in South Ossetia were illegally armed with German HK G36 assault rifles, according to reports.
    The ‘Report Mainz’ programme, made by German public broadcaster ARD, showed images of Georgian soldiers with German-made assault rifles slung over their shoulders.
    It’s not clear how the guns ended up in the war zone. All arms export in Germany must meet certain criteria to be (…)

  • Forget everything they told you about Rwanda...
    20 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rwanda: Obscuring the Genocide by Barry Collins
    "a war that was complicated by considerable international intervention has become over simplified into a morality tale of good versus evil...Such a simplification further obscures the truth about what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and whitewashes the role of Western intervention more broadly..."
    http://www.spiked-online.com/index....
    also:
    http://www.truthout.org/article/uns...

  • Free Kashmir : Arundhati Roy
    19 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 19, 2008
    VIDEO:
    http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3381339.cms
    “India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India.”
    Arundhati Roy is a rare, independent voice in the mainstream shrill. Her statement on Kashmir is a unique sentiment of nailing the problem when all others are busy singing to the tunes of jingoism, communalism, terrorism and of course the Pakistani ‘hand’.
    This report says it all:
    SRINAGAR: Activist and author Arundhati Roy, who (…)

  • Olympic Statistics Western Media will NOT Report - Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide & Afghan Genocide
    15 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world is obsessed with Olympic hype at the moment and we are being deluged with sporting statistics e.g. which truly marvellous athlete swam faster than who else by 0.01 second.
    However the racist, lying Mainstream media, politicians and academics of the First World-dominated World simply IGNORE the statistics that everyone should know about but which are kept SECRET e.g. that avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in British India totalled 1.5 billion (…)

  • Douse the flames in Jammu & Kashmir: Communist Party of India (M)
    14 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Special Correspondent
    Source: "The Hindu"
    “RSS-BJP combine using the land row to whip up communal passions”
    UPA government urged to initiate dialogue
    with Sangharsh Samiti
    NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday accused the RSS-BJP combine of utilising the Amarnath land row in Jammu and Kashmir to “whip up communal passions” in a bid to consolidate its ‘Hindu vote bank.’
    “Communal passions are being sharply aroused with rumours spreading like wildfire about (…)

  • Pakistan : Explosions near Wana kill 12 militants; Nato missile attack suspected
    14 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: "The Dawn"
    By Our Correspondent
    WANA, Aug 13: At least 12 militants, most of them non-locals, were killed in a series of explosions in Bagher area of South Waziristan on late Tuesday night. The local Taliban suspected the blasts were caused by a missile attack.
    Local people reported having heard four loud explosions late in the night. The place targeted was the residence of local tribesman Abdur Rehman Wazir in Bagher, about 30 kilometres west of Wana.
    Rehman Wazir, who is (…)

  • Dozens injured in Kashmir protests
    14 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    SRINAGAR, Aug 13: Angry Muslims mourning at least 20 protesters killed by police torched security bunkers and rioted in occupied Kashmir’s main city on Wednesday, as a land row with Hindus revived calls for independence.
    Police fired teargas shells to disperse thousands of Muslim protesters who defied a curfew at several places across the occupied valley, police said. They said over two dozen people were injured in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and police.
    A curfew remained (…)

  • The Latest Bush War
    13 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Ah, the time grows short from May to November, but still there is time for one more Bush war. The Russian incursion into Georgia has been heavy-handed and overbearing, but not really all that surprising.
    Russia is a nation on the far edge of Europe, and prior to the 20th century all political communications were sent by dispatch. Before the Czars could hear about an issue, in many cases it was already over. Ruling over a huge empire with weak and almost non-existent (…)

  • Shoot-at-sight orders in Kishtwar, curfew relaxed in Srinagar
    13 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jammu/Srinagar (Press Trust of India): Shoot-at-sight orders were on Wednesday issued in Kishtwar town, rocked by communal clashes over the Amarnath issue, even as fresh violence erupted in Srinagar with protesters pelting stones at security personnel in several areas in the city.
    The toll in two days of violent protests in Kashmir Valley over the "economic blockade" rose to 21 with three persons wounded in police firing succumbing to their injuries early on Wednesday, official sources (…)

  • Uprising in Kashmir: 12 protestors shot dead
    13 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jawed Naqvi
    Source: "The Dawn"
    NEW DELHI, Aug 12: Twelve Kashmiri protesters were shot to death in different parts of the Valley on Tuesday, at least four of them at a funeral for the slain Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. He was killed on Monday in an army assault on a rally that was headed for the LoC on its way to Muzaffarabad.
    Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said there was no news of the whereabouts of Shabbir Shah, another senior resistance leader who was (…)