Agents provocateurs at Boer meetings
Posted on | februari 22, 2011 | No Comments
Mr Paul Kruger, convenor of the first Boer People’s Leadership Council (‘Volksraad’) in 113 years — had his nose broken by an agent-provocateur who was identified as one Willem Boshof. The fracas occurred at a Thursday-evening meeting at the Paardekraal monument. This incident is very reminiscent of the vicious fear-and-intimidation tactics always used by the secret ruling-Afrikaner Broederbond cabal at any political meetings which were not ‘approved’ of by the ruling National Party before its hegemony ended in 1994.
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Tags: Afrikaans > Boer People’s Leadership Council > Facebook > Krugersdorp > Paul Kruger
Human Rights in the Rear View Mirror: Colombian Commandos Training Mexican Military and Police
Posted on | februari 21, 2011 | No Comments
In another misstep of the historic failure of Plan Colombia and the US supported War on Drugs, Colombia is training thousands of Mexican soldiers, police and court officials in an effort to boost Mexico’s fight against drug cartels.
Trainings have mostly taken place in Mexico, but now Mexican troops and police are traveling to Colombia to receive training from “Colombia’s battle-tested police commandos,” The Washington Post reported on Saturday. The article also suggests that, in addition to asserting itself as a regional power, Colombia is acting as a proxy for Washington because increased U.S. military presence in Mexico is not politically viable.
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Tags: Alexander Cortes > Colombia > Drugs > Hillary Clinton > Human Rights Watch > Leahy Provision > Mexican Military > Mexico > Richard Gil Kerlikowske > The Economist > Washington Post > White House Drug Policy > Wikileaks
The Hunger Trigger
Posted on | februari 21, 2011 | No Comments
As the din of revolution overwhelmed the Arab streets and thousands of defiant young Arabs, whose visceral anger like scalding lava has been bubbling just below the surface for years and now suddenly bursts into violent demonstrations over their governments’ inability to provide the basic necessities of life forcing Tunisia’s Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali to abscond, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak into an isolated corner, and other Arab autocrats to concede political and economic reforms in a preemptive maneuver to placate popular wrath, shout with steely voices their demands, the Moroccan people seem to be living in a nirvana.
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Tags: Algeria > Egypt > Hassan II > Hosni Mubarak > Hunger > Jordan > Mohammed VI > Moroccan government > Morocco > The Socialist Union of Popular Forces > trigger > Tunisia > Yemen > Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
AU Should Reign On Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi
Posted on | februari 20, 2011 | No Comments
Information about the uprising underway in the oil-rich Libya is still sketchy (partly due to government control), but signs are proliferating that the Gaddafi regime’s response is turning out to be the most reckless and brutal in comparison to Tunisia and Egypt’s uprisings.
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Tags: African Union > AU > Azzahf Al-Akhdar > Gaddafi > Green March > Libya > Revolutionary Committee
More protests: death toll in Libya now stands at 173 at least
Posted on | februari 20, 2011 | No Comments
Death of a young protester in Benghazi.
Tens of thousands gathered in Benghazi on Sunday for funerals of protesters killed by Libyan security forces as Human Rights Watch said overnight violence had doubled the death toll from four days of clashes to 173.
The unrest is the worst ever during Muammar Qadhafi´s 42 years in power. There are no reporters in the city (they are not allowed). The only news therefor comes from witness accounts. They suggst that Benghazi is in a cycle of violence, where people are killed and then, after funeral processions to bury the dead the next day, security forces shoot more protesters.
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Tags: Death > Human Rights Watch > Libya > Muammar Qadhafi > Protests > Reuters