[ARABNEWS] Bangladesh police have charged 13 men with murder over the brutal lynching of a 13-year-old boy that provoked national outrage after video footage of the attack went viral, a detective said Monday.
Police submitted a charge sheet to a court in the northern city of Sylhet on Sunday over the killing last month of Samiul Alam Rajon, who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of stealing a bicycle.
"After we filed the charge sheet including the statements of some witnesses, the court last evening accepted it," detective Suronjit Talukder, investigating the case, said.
Samiul, accused of theft, was tied to a pole and then subjected to a brutal assault in which he pleaded for his life. An autopsy found 64 separate injuries had been inflicted on the teenager.
A 28-minute video of Samiul, which was widely circulated after being posted on social media, has prompted deep soul-searching among Bangladeshis as well as a series of mass protests.
In the video, the terrified youngster can be heard screaming in pain and repeating: "Please don't beat me like this, I will die."
At one stage he is told to walk away. But as he tries to get to his feet, one of the attackers shouts: "His bones are okay. Beat him some more."
Ten men have been jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since the July 8 killing and have confessed their involvement, Talukder said.
Another three, who fled the city, have also been charged in absentia with murder including Kamrul Islam, who was arrested in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... after officials received a tip from members of the country's large Bangladeshi expatriate community.
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Police involved in investigating the shootout last last month between police and local armed groups have been forced to fabricate or destroy evidence by local government and police officials in the Transcarpathian region, according to a Ukrainian language news account which appeared in mukachevo.net and korrespondent.net news outlet.
An unsigned letter was reportedly written by Rada Verkhovna member Viktor Baloga to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office saying that many of the charges against some individuals involved in the July 11th shootout are bogus, and the entire investigation should itself be investigated. Baloga said that evidence in the cases brought last week may have been destroyed or hidden, evidence he said could implicate several others, including local government officials, in the shootout and in smuggling in the region.
Baloga said in his letter than his own refusal to cooperate with the investigation was because several top officials from the region who are pressing the criminal cases have ties to organized crime who may have been involved in the shootout. The officials identified in the letter include V. Patskana, who also is a member of Rada Verkhovna, and a local official identified as CF Shymonyaka, both of whom have ties to a local crime boss identified as Shimoni. Baloga charges Shimoni directly controls the smuggling in excise goods from eastern Europe into Ukraine, and into rebel held areas of southeastern Ukraine.
Shymonyaka, according to the korrespondent.net account, was a local operative for the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Also involved are two others: Mikail Lano, who was directly involved in the shootout, and V. Lunchenko, whom Baloga charges supplied the weapons used by armed groups in the shootout.
Baloga said the members of a local Right Sector, a Ukrainian political group known to supply volunteers for Ukraine's main effort against Russian backed rebels in southeastern Ukraine, were given weapons including machine guns and grenade launchers, then transported across several police checkpoints in Mukachevo before arriving at Antares. The presumption is that police knew about the coming shootout, and had provided help to armed members. He said that cell telephone logs and recordings will verify that some police agents in the area at the time of the shootout had called, and in some cases texted, police commanders while the transportation was taking place. Baloga said the recipients of those calls and messages ignored the warnings about the coming shootout.
Among those recipients were Shymonyaka and a police commander identified as S. Sharanich.
Baloga also said that the police had obtained surveillance warrants from a local court the day before the shootout, and were monitoring movements at the Antares Spa in Mukachevo. He said the police may have deliberately caused or assisted the shootout, despite the fact the shootout cost the lives of two police agents. He said two police department department heads, identified as I. Rusnak and V. Moshak, were under pressure from their superiors to alter or destroy evidence, presumably which might have implicated local officials in both the shootout and excise goods smuggling through the region.
Baloga said surveillance videos slated to be used in prosecuting cases were turned over to another member of Rada Verkhovna, M. Nayemu, which were then posted to the internet. The order to destroy those videos apparently came from local police officials, and in reaction, Moshak gave them to Nayemu. Those videos purport to show how some armed individuals moved freely in and out of Antares the day of the shootout.
Both I. Rusnak and V. Moshak were fired from their jobs.
The July 11th shootout at the Antares Spa and Bar in Mukachevo left four dead and 14 wounded. A total of seven cases were fielded against the Right Sector members involved in the shootout.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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Rebel media is denying claims made by Ukrainian media, and now by US government officials, that it was rebel artillery that struck the far southern Donetsk town of Sartana late Sunday night. Meanwhile, throughout western sectors of Donetsk, a total of eight civilians were killed in overnight shelling by both sides of this year old war, according to Russian language news accounts.
The Donetsk ministry of defense responded to a remark Monday by US State Department spokesman John Kirby, that rebel artillery killed two and wounded two in Sunday night/Monday morning's attack, saying rebel forces "do not respond to the provocations of [the Ukrainians], and fully adhere to the Minsk agreement items."
According to TASS Russian news agency, Kirby said that Ukraine has "every right to open fire," since they are doing it in self-defense.
Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin wrote Monday in his Live Journal blog that the artillery that struck Sartana was Ukrainian, saying "everybody on both sides of the line knows this."
The Ukrainians accuse rebel artillery of hitting two other locations in the Mariupol defense zone earlier on Sunday, including at Talakovke and Starognatovke.
Artillery shorts, colloquially known as "drop shorts" in British parlance, are nothing unusual in the annals of most nation's artillery shooters, and have taken place before in Mariupol. Last spring, Ukrainian media made much of an artillery attack which struck high rise residential buildings in eastern Mariupol, but subsequent videos showed that the artillery, in this case rocket artillery, had been fired from the west. In the Mariupol defense zone, most of the artillery supporting Ukrainian troops are emplaced in western and north western areas of the Mariupol defense zone.
At the moment, Ukrainian media is saying a total of six unidentified individuals were wounded in Sartana and a total of 52 residences were hit, five of them completely destroyed by direct hits in Sunday night to Monday morning attacks. Weapons that Ukrainian media alleges the rebels used include 82mm and 120mm mortars. Other localities hit included Bogdanovka, Granitnoye, Starognatovka and Chermalyk. It should be noted that if the Ukrainian claim of rebels using 82mm mortars is true, then the rebels have moved their forward zone much closer to Mariupol, within about three to four miles, or about five kilometers.
Ukrainian reports say rebel artillery struck Starognatovka twice Monday afternoon using 122mm tube artillery. A news account in korrespondent.net suggested that looting is taking place at Sartana.
Eight civilians total were killed in overnight artillery strikes on both sides of the line, according to a news account in vesti-ukr.com
The civilian dead were recorded in three main areas: western Donetsk city and suburbs, Gorlovka and in Mariupol.
In Ukrainian held Krasnogorovka near western Donetsk city, a man in his late 50s was killed by shrapnel, wounded at his residence on Ulitsa Sovkhoznaya. Ukrainian media said the artillery which struck Krasnogorovka including 120mm mortars and 122mm tube artillery. Rebel artillery have temporarily damaged gas, water and telephone service in the city, according to a separate news account in tsnesor.net
In Donetsk city proper, in Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts, two unidentified civilians were killed in Ukrainian artillery attacks. A total of 12 buildings were destroyed overnight including seven residences in Kuibyshevsky district alone. In Petrovksy district, five residences were destroyed. One unidentified civilian was killed. In Kirovsky district a total of 22 buildings were damaged in artillery strikes, with one unidentified civilian dead.
Rebel officials say the Ukrainian artillery firing on western Donetsk originates from Peski, Avdievka and Opytnoye. Rebel media said Ukrainian artillery struck rebel positions at the Donetsk airport, now a daily occurrence, and at nearby Spartak.
Ukrainian media said that rebel artillery on Monday struck Avdievka twice, once using 120mm mortars and the other using 122mm rocket artillery, with the target being the coke plant. An undisclosed number of residences in the town were damaged and power was knocked off line, apparently by rebel artillery.
Three unidentified civilians were killed in overnight shelling in Gorlovka with the victims' ages ranging from 47 to 79. Ukrainian shelling damaged 11 residences and a children's social center.
Ukrainian media said that a rebel artillery strike early Sunday morning on Zaitsevo killed one civilian woman. 120mm mortars were used in that attack.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
The poor darlings will find it harder to import all the luxuries that fancy new presidential palace needs, not to mention the weaponry for Erdogan's war against the Kurds.
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's embattled lira hit a new historic low in value against the dollar Monday as investors took fright at ongoing political uncertainty and the prospect of early elections.
The lira slid to a new low of 2.862 to the dollar, losing 1.06 percent on the day.
The Turkish currency has now declined 7.62 percent against the dollar over the last month, and 22.62 percent since the start of the year.
The current pressure was prompted by the collapse of coalition talks between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), paving the way for early elections.
The government is also waging an unprecedented two-pronged "anti-terror" operation against jihadists in Syria and Kurdish murderous Moslems in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, further rattling investors.
But Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said on Monday that there was no need for panic or any major intervention to buttress the lira.
"For the moment we don't see such an eventuality as necessary. An equilibrium will be found on the markets," he said.
[DAWN] MEERUT: An Indian army soldier was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's city of Meerut after he tried to rescue a girl from harassment, said a report published on NDTV.
35-year-old Vedmitra Chaudhury, who was a Lance Naik in 416 Engineering Brigade, saw some men teasing the daughter of a milk shop owner, when he had gone to get milk on Rohta Road in Hardevnagar.
According to police, the army soldier came to the girl's rescue on Thursday and beat up one of the accused named Akash. The accused got enraged and reportedly called his friends -- armed with sticks -- who assaulted the soldier and left him critically injured.
Chaudhury was admitted in an army hospital in Gopal Vihar area, where he was residing with his wife and children, police said.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police Dinesh Chandra Dubey, two other suspects Sanju and Ritesh, apart from Akash, were locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and search for others is under way.
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Lance Naik Vedmitra Chaudhury
Defamed his name in combat tawdry
To guard a girl from bawdry, oddly,
A deed in India deemed ungodly.
[TFB] The New Zealand Army has adopted the Lewis Machine & Tool LMT .308 AR-10 rifle as their Designated Marksman Rifle. Last year British Army also adopted the LMT 308 as a designated marksman rifle.
The rifle looks to be a similar configuration to the British L129A1. The differences that I can see are the use of a Leopold 4.5-14X scope instead of a fixed power Trijicon scope, a foldable foregrip and backup iron sights mounted at a 45 angle.
Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the US Army's grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on Monday.
The two, along with 94 men, passed the 62-day leadership course, which teaches students "how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead Soldiers during small unit combat operations," it said in a statement. congratulations Unrelated? You decide.
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I have no problems with women as Rangers or even Special Forces as long as they don't dilute the requirements. If they have lower requirements for women, or lower the requirements so more women can pass, there will be major problems.
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I agree with Rambler, don't delete the requirements and the ones that make it won't turn out to be an embarrassment. They'll be worthy.
Although my friend went through Ranger school and he described it as primarily a test of starvation and mental toughness more than strength. Perhaps my friend lied in order to get me to mail him letters with flattened jerky and such (which he was certain the administrators knew about and allowed through sometimes and enjoyed themselves other times.)
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So...when they reinstitute the draft, there no reason women should not be in the forefront to make up for two hundred years of disparate impact upon one gender. Equality can be a bitch.
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I'm sure with all the budget money flowing in to social programs in Europe, they're not even thinking of conscription again as reality is making itself felt again.
BTW, the 'draft' in the US is the selective activation of the federal militia. Organized per the authority of Congress, Article I, Section 8. That is still in effect per Title X USC, subsection 311 The Militia. That's still discriminatory as all males are automatically members and female can 'volunteer'. By removing the prohibition on combat duty, the administration has effectively render it in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment (as also extended by the judiciary). To choose is a privilege not a right. And we only want 'rights' when its the good stuff, never the 'dirty end of the stick'.
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BP, I goes back to a time when the natives were restless on the frontier, the redcoats were weeks/months away. Originally in the old republic from its beginning, being part of the militia was 'having skin in the game', all free white males. If you Venn Diagram franchise with militia duty it was very close in coverage. That concept was continued when in 1862 they extended militia duty to Americans of African descent followed by the 15th Amendment extending the franchise (which a certain party spent much of century trying to prohibit). The real break from the linkage of franchise and duty occurred with the 19th Amendment, extending the franchise to those without 'skin in the game'.
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I offer my congratulations to the two women warriors as well. As long as they did the full hump, and pulled their
share of the weight, then good on them.
I understand that both are officer USMA grads. I will take a guess and say Military Intelligence and/or Signal Corps. The troops in their next units will undoubtedly take them a bit more seriously than normal.
39 years ago, I was finishing up Florida phase. At the point where you start burying extra or unnecessary clothing, boots - whatever - so that you don't have to carry it any more.
Which reminds me: these two ladies have another challenge immediately ahead of them - which is to not balloon up by 30 pounds or so, within 90 days. Good luck with that, Rangerettes!!!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ARABNEWS] Bangladesh police have charged 13 men with murder over the brutal lynching of a 13-year-old boy that provoked national outrage after video footage of the attack went viral, a detective said Monday.
