An AQAP suicide bomber killed more than 90 Yemeni troops as they practiced for a parade in the capital Sana’a, two days after a US drone strike killed two presumed AQAP operatives. Fighting in southern Yemen has killed hundreds over the past week.
As NATO chiefs in Chicago broached negotiations with the Taliban, Amnesty International convened a “Shadow Summit” where women’s groups rejected the idea—while supporting the US/NATO occupation that collaborates with fundamentalist warlords.
After a week of clashes in Tripoli between pro- and anti-Assad Sunni factions, fighting spread to Beirut when a Sunni cleric and anti-Assad opposition leader was killed by government troops at a checkpoint.
Two anti-NATO protesters in Chicago are slapped with terrorism-related charges—days after Human Rights Watch issued a report calling for an investigation into possible war crimes by NATO in last year’s air campaign in Libya.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights are demanding action following the torture-slayings of several reporters and photographers across Mexico in recent weeks.
Amid new massacres—49 mutilated bodies found on a roadside in Nuevo León, another 15 along a highway in Jalisco—Mexican federal authorities have finally detained high-ranking military officers in an investigation of cartel collaboration.
Campesinos from Honduras’ sprawling and rugged department of Olancho protested outside the national electric company in Tegucigalpa to demand cancellation of the Patuca III hydro-electic project until land rights in the area have been clarified.
Miskito Indians in Honduras burned down government offices in angry protests over a DEA helicopter raid they say killed innocent villagers in a fishing boat. The fracas comes as the Pentagon has established three new bases in Honduras.
The Israel Corporation, with holdings in the energy sector across South and Central America, has especially targeted Peru for massive expansion—but found its holdings in Bolivia expropriated in President Evo Morales’ nationalization of the grid.
The Asháninka indigenous people helped beat back the now-resurgent Shining Path in Peru’s Apurímac-Ene River Valley, but now oppose a government hydro-electric mega-project that would flood their traditional territories.
Two ministers have resigned and the army chief has been sacked after charges that Peru’s armed forced abandoned stranded troops in a guerilla-controlled jungle. Local indigenous residents now charge a “dirty war” is being carried out in the zone.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International reports.
