The Special Investigator (FiscalĂa Especial) for the Acteal massacre in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas has announced the discovery in a cave of two AK-47 rifles which are believed to be those used in the Dec. 22, 1997 slaying of… Read moreChiapas: arms used in Acteal massacre discovered
Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has arrived back in the Chiapas rainforest after concluding his tour of Mexico’s northern states in the second phase of the “Other Campaign.” Arriving first in the Chiapas highland city of… Read moreZapatistas back in conflicted Chiapas
President Felipe Calderon has initiated a sweeping purge of Mexico’s federal police forces, replacing nearly 284 senior and middle-level commanders. The move was announced June 25 by Public Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna. “We are conscious that Mexicans demand honest,… Read moreMexico purges federal police
Welcome to the promised land, Gonpo. From the New York Times, June 23 (emphasis added): From Tibet to New York, a Youth Now Faces a Long Journey to Recovery Gonpo Dorjee, 16, arrived in America on May 26. But he… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
“Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid has been convicted of genocide and sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the 1988 “Anfal” counter-insurgency campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which up to 180,000 Kurds were killed—some in poisonous gas attacks, some… Read more“Chemical Ali” to hang —another betrayal of historical memory?
A number of Sunni tribal leaders from the Anbar Salvation Council are among 12 people killed in a suicide bombing at the Mansour Hotel in central Baghdad June 25. Although the hotel is also home of the Chinese embassy and… Read moreIraq: insurgents target Sunni sheikhs
From Long Island Newsday, June 23: Boy on a bike is killed An 11-year-old Wyandanch boy was killed Friday when he biked into the path of a tractor-trailer, which then struck an oncoming minivan, critically injuring two children, police said…. Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Ten civilians were killed June 23 inside the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan in a mortar attack from Afghan territory—fired by foreign forces, a local authorities say. “Ten innocent people were reported killed when some mortars hit civilians in… Read moreWaziristan: NATO bombing Pakistani territory?
An internal debt crisis has prompted Zoroastrians in Mumbai to allow advertising billboards into an ancient funeral ground—sparking a split in the community. Zoroastrian dissdients say the signs—exhorting motorists to “Rev up your night life” by buying a popular model… Read moreIndia: debt crisis sparks Zoroastrian split
A NATO air-strike on supposed Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan has killed dozens of civilians, including women, children and a Muslim cleric, Afghan officials charged June 22. The clash began the previous night when Taliban fighters attacked NATO troops in… Read moreAfghanistan: air raid kills civilians —again
Pakistan is nearing completion of a previously unknown plutonium-producing reactor at Khushab, approximately 109 miles south of Islamabad, the third such facility at the complex, a new satellite photo reveals. David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and… Read morePakistan expands plutonium production
At least eight people, including three children, died in Mogadishu in clashes between insurgents and Somalian interim government and Ethiopian occupation forces June 20. One of the dead was a Somalian police officer killed in an attack on a military… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopian troops fire on civilians
