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you should've added the "toast" graphic, because that's what they are: toast. They're already admitting it and turning on each other. Should be a very short trial
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The question is to go with the civilian trial or a military courts martial. That's an option for the authorities to work out. Usually the military will defer to the locals. On the other hand the locals could save money by allowing the military to do the work. It'll be a weighing of whose penalty is more severe.
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Post commander refers to it as an... "isolated incident."
Hopefully the perps will face a very long stay at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary barracks alongside all the other.... "isolated incident" personnel.
#4
I'm leaning towards Oklahoma law, because it is a lot fiercer than military law. Plus, if any of the wounded people die, the Okies will expeditiously execute the lot of them. The Army would never do that.
[An Nahar] A gunman walked into a Catholic church and killed a pregnant woman Thursday, then did away with himself, but emergency crews performed a C-section on the woman inside the church and saved the baby, a police official said.
Another woman sitting near the victim was maimed by a stray bullet in the shooting, which occurred just before a Mass at St. Mary's Church in an upper-middle class neighborhood of Madrid, the National Police official said.
The pregnant woman was just days away from giving birth.
The official said preliminary investigations indicated there was no relation between the 34-year-old man and the 36-year-old woman he killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.
Neither the man nor the woman were named and the motive for the attack was not immediately known. But the newspaper El Mundo said the man knelt before the altar of the church before he shot himself in the head and that he used to be the woman's boyfriend.
The paper gave no source, and it was not clear if the child was his. El Mundo said the baby delivered in the emergency procedure was a boy.
It quoted witnesses as saying the shooting occurred as dozens of people were getting ready for the evening Mass and the parish priest was getting his gown on to conduct the service.
No other details on the attack were immediately available.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two persons including a police officer were maimed in a 'shootout' between a police patrol and a gang of 'armed snatchers' in city's Gulshan area yesterday.
Police tossed in the slammer injured snatcher Billal Hossain, 25, his accomplices Ruhul Amin, 20, and Tuhin Sheikh, 22, while another mugger Nurul Islam managed to escape with a firearm.
Sub-inspector Nazmul Huda of Gulshan Police Station received a bullet in his right leg and was sent to Rajarbagh Police Hospital. Billal was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with a bullet in his left leg.
Police said SI Nazmul and his team noticed a private car intercepting a woman walking in front of the South Park in Gulshan-1 around 7:00am.
Getting down from the car, four youths attacked her to snatch valuables.
As police approached the gang, one of the youths opened fire on them prompting retaliation from the law enforcers.
Following the shootout police tossed in the slammer the three and recovered four machetes and two knives from the spot.
Law enforcers filed two cases in this connection.
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[Dawn] In its 2011 report on Pakistain the UK-based rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International stated: "Gender-based violence, including rape, forced marriages, `honour killings', acid attacks and other forms of domestic violence, was committed with impunity as police were reluctant to register and investigate complaints."
Previous studies, including one in 1999 by the New York-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW) have come up with similar findings noting that violence against women was an "epidemic". HRW has since continued to campaign for laws to more effectively protect women.
Not epidemic. Endemic. A slight difference in spelling, but like naat, laden with meaning. Writing new laws that will only be broken seems rather a pointless exercise, under the circumstances. Better would be to enforce the laws currently on the books, but that seems a good deal too much to ask.
According to a survey released in June 2011 by Thomson Rooters Foundation's TrustLaw, (which describes itself as a global hub for free legal assistance and news and information on good governance and women's rights), Pakistain is the world's third most dangerous country for women after Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 90 percent of women suffering domestic violence. Other forms of physical abuse are also common, states the report, based on assessments by gender experts.
"Honour killings"
The consequences for women can be horrendous. In April this year, according to media reports, two men entered the home of 28-year-old Asma Firdous in a village near Multan, cut off six of her fingers, slashed her lips and arms and sliced off her nose. Asma, taken to hospital by her parents, was "punished" for a dispute her husband had with relatives. Her future remains uncertain, with her husband unlikely to accept her back.
According to the autonomous Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP), 791 women became victims of "honour killings" in 2010. An "honour killing" involves a murder carried out to "save" the perceived "honour" of a family after a woman is accused of "damaging" it in any way. Raped women, those who marry a man of their own choice, or those suspected of any contact with an unrelated man were among those killed. HRCP says the vast majority of domestic violence cases (not necessarily leading to murder) are never reported.
"The problem is that we are a highly patriarchal society. The status of women is low and also brutality is growing by the day," Gulnar Tabussum, convener for the Women's Action Forum NGO, told IRIN from Lahore.
A bill aimed at preventing domestic violence lapsed during 2010 because it could not be presented in time to the upper house of parliament.
Dowry woes
As the Thomson Rooters Foundation report points out, Pakistain also has one of the world's highest rates of murders related to dowry -- the money and other gifts given to women at the time of marriage. The tensions this causes, and the violence it can lead to, are experienced by many women.
One of them is Humaira Hamid (not her real name), 21, married a year ago. "My husband and his family kept on demanding more and more gifts from my parents -- TV sets, furniture, a washing machine and other items, even though they are not rich and had already given a lot at the time of the actual marriage. Even now the pressure continues, and I am beaten each time a present does not turn up after they have asked for it," she told IRIN.
Like many other women in the same situation, she does not know what to do or where to turn to. "We are all helpless. My parents will never take me back given the stigma of divorce. It is unacceptable for a woman to live on her own even though I am educated and could support myself and so I have no choice but to try and bear my husband's violence," she said. "At least some of my friends are in the same situation -- others never talk about it."
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