Forensic examinations have determined that five bodies found in Ayacucho department, Peru, are relations of Lucy Pichardo, a peasant woman who reported the disappearance of 11 family members after the National Police had conducted a “counter-subversive” operation in the area…. Read morePeru: disappearances in Ayacucho
Police in Mauritania fired tear gas and beat union members Oct. 7 in the second protest this week against the new military regime. Workers threw rocks at police in running skirmishes around the streets of the capital Nouakchott. Police reportedly… Read moreRepression in Mauritania
The France-based Sudanese opposition website Sudan Tribune reports that the huge arms shipment seized by pirates off Somalia was not ultimately bound for the Kenyan government, as widespread reports had it—but for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). If true,… Read morePirate-seized arms were bound for SPLA?
In a three-week enforcement operation that ended Sept. 27, ICE fugitive operations teams arrested 1,157 immigrants in California: 436 in the San Francisco area, 420 in the Los Angeles area and 301 in the San Diego area. The operation targeted… Read moreMore coast-to-coast ICE “fugitive” raids
On Sept. 5, Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company Inc. pleaded guilty through its president, Lawrence Shipley III, to conspiring to harbor unauthorized immigrants. The Houston-based company agreed to pay a $1,334,000 forfeiture to the government, federal prosecutors said. Sentencing… Read moreTexas donut company pleads guilty in immigration case
Seven agricultural workers arrested in a July 7 ICE raid at an apartment building in Waipahu, Hawai’i, have pleaded guilty to criminal charges for using false identity documents to gain employment and have agreed to cooperate in a continuing investigation…. Read moreHawaii: farmworkers released in plea deal
On Sept. 22, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 21 workers at the Honua Kai construction site in Kaanapali, on the island of Maui in Hawai’i. Twelve of the workers were from Mexico, eight were from Brazil and… Read moreICE construction raid in Hawaii
Human Rights Watch Oct. 1 called on the Ethiopian government to release rendition victims in custody or prosecute them in an open court. The renditions were the result of the US-backed Ethiopian military intervention in neighboring Somalia in late 2006…. Read moreEthiopia must release rendition victims: HRW
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Bosnian Army Gen. Rasim Delic to three years in prison Sept. 15 for crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during the 1992-1995 war. Gen…. Read moreBosnian war crimes defendant blames al-Qaeda
Seven Russian soldiers were killed when a car exploded at their headquarters in separatist South Ossetia Oct. 3—the Russian army’s first casualties in the region since the end of a five-day war with Georgia in August. “The latest terrorist acts… Read moreSouth Ossetia blast kills Russian troops
A suicide bomber struck the offices of the opposition United National Party (UNP) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, Oct. 6, killing at least 27. Authorities blamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The attack came as the military announced it… Read moreSri Lanka: dialectic of terror escalates
Suicide bombers targeting Shi’ite worshippers killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more at two Baghdad mosques Oct. 2. They attacks came as Shi’ites marked the first day of Eid, a three-day celebration that follows Ramadan, Islam’s holy month…. Read moreIraq: more mosque attacks
