[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) slammed the Afghan courts for significant reduction of sentence to 13 men convicted of Farkhunda’s brutal murder in March 2015.
The New York-based rights organization said "It’s a bitter irony that the latest blow to justice for Farkhunda Malikzada occurred on the eve of International Women’s Day."
The Attorney General Office of Afghanistan announced Monday that 17 suspects have been awarded jail terms, which include 20 years term for 3 of the perpetrators, 16 years tem for 13 perpetrators and another perpetrator has been placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for 10 years.
"This week, Afghanistan’s Supreme Court granted significant sentence reductions to 13 men convicted of Farkhunda’s brutal murder in March 2015. The men were part of a mob that beat Farkhunda to death in broad daylight in central Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... awhile police stood by and watched," HRW said.
HRW further added that the decision is a reminder of just how badly the Afghan justice system has failed Farkhunda and her family.
"Commuting the four death sentences averts the further cruelty of capital punishment. But it does not bring justice for Farkhunda any closer," HRW said, adding that thirty men were initially charged with a murder that was witnessed by scores of people and video recorded by her killers and bystanders alike.
According to HRW, at every stage of this case the Afghan criminal justice system failed to adequately investigate, hold to account or appropriately punish those responsible.
"The trials of those originally accused were conducted in haste and riddled with procedural errors, with many defendants lacking legal counsel. Police also failed to arrest a number of attackers who are clearly identifiable in video footage of the killing. Of the 19 police prosecuted for failing to intervene to stop the mob, the court lightly disciplined only 11," HRW added.
HRW also added that President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s government could still do much more to track down those individuals implicated in Farkhunda’s killing who have so far evaded justice.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! four members of a gang which is engaged in forcing women into prostitution from Panchlaish area, Chittagong city Wednesday night.
During the drive, police also rescued three teenage girls who were forced into prostitution from a flat located in Hill View residential area.
A case was filed against Nazir Uddin, 48, Kulsuma Begum, 40, Ali Haidar, 30, and Samsu, 35, in this connection.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan said the three victims who were rescued from the clutches of the gang will give their statement before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nowrin Aktar Kakon under section 164."
Police said one of a victims managed to get out from the custody of the culprits and informed police about the flesh trade. Later, police conducted a drive at the flat and rescued them and rounded up four persons.
"The male members of the gang first developed relationship with the girls of rural areas across the country and kidnapped them technically luring to marry or promising a good job in the city.
When the victim fall off on their trap, the gang brought them to the city and sold to the flash traders and forced them into illicit business.
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Shelling and small arms attacks by Ukrainian forces on rebel positions continued Thursday in Yasinovataya, as elsewhere along the western line of contact, Ukrainian forces have intensified their artillery attacks on rebel positions according to Russian language news accounts.
According to a news release posted by the Donetsk ministry of defense, Ukrainian forces have caused more than 400 violations of the ceasefire Thursday. Artillery struck rebel positions in western Donetsk, including at Spartak, western districts of Donetsk city and at the airport, where Ukrainians pounded rebel positions for more than 30 minutes Thursday morning.
Since Tuesday little has changed at Yasinovataya: Ukrainian forces have moved forces including artillery spotters to block two roads leading into Gorlovka, at a road junction, where the rebels maintain a police checkpoint.
According to Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin, rebel positions have not changed since Wednesday with rebel positions remaining static along the western edge of the road junction, but firing on rebel positions remains intense.
Rebel military officials have identified the unit operating in the area as the Ukrainian 58th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. Apparently, three rifle companies are the units in the van of the attack on Yasinovataya.
But artillery and small arms fire continues, including, charged the rebels, 152mm artillery. So far, no reports have emerged from either side of the use of the 122mm rocket artillery system, the BM-21 Grad (Hail) launcher, which is the preferred artillery platform for either side.
Two separate reports from reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin's novorusinform.org news website said that the fighting around the road junction has devolved into small infantry engagements, fighting over single residential buildings and for rooms within those buildings. The water filtration plant, which came under Ukrainian artillery fire in initial reports on Tuesday, according to one report, has been abandoned for now.
Rebels said that 59 artillery shells landed over an period of an hour in the Yasinovataya area overnight, Wednesday to Thursday night, concentrated in the police checkpoint, at a rate of one per minute. They also charge that the Ukrainians are not just firing on rebel troops, but on civilians as well.
Rebel officials say that the Ukrainians are trying to encircle Gorlovka, which is immediately to the north of the contested road junction. A second report in novorusinform.org said that artillery attacks using 82mm mortars continue around Zaiytsevo, which is immediately north of Gorlovka.
According to Rozhin, retired GRU Colonel Igor Bezler, formerly chief of police of Gorlovka and formerly a key commander in the early fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk in the summer of 2014, indicated in a Live Journal post that the reason the Ukrainians have yet to advance beyond 300 meters from the road was because of fire from rebel 12.7mm heavy machine guns, which can,. he claimed, penetrate medium armor at the range of 500 meters. Rebel reports say that Ukrainian tank gunfire has been used to augment the Ukrainian attack, but in current reports it is unclear if tank gunfire includes 125mm tanks guns or 30mm autocannons.
Wrote Bezler: "Respect your opponent, and never count him dumber than yourself."
According to a Russian writer, Ruslan Yakubov, serving as a militiaman with the rebels, Ukrainians have deployed two volunteer battalions, the Lions Battalion and the Aydar Battalion, both of which are staffed with members of the Right Sektor Ukrainian political party.
Right Sektor has earned them the enmity of the Russian backed fighters, which have gone out of their way to fire on and kill their members.
A report from the Donetsk ministry of defense said that as many as 300 fighters have appeared at the line of contact near Yasinovataya. Another 60 were detected deploying to Volnovakha well to the west of Donetsk city, from Mariupol.
Ukrainian media has been curiously silent on the fighting near Yasinovataya, similar to the Ukrainians' silence during the rebels' Debaltsevo operation.
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 Ukraine by clicking here.
[ALMANAR.LB] North Korea looked to ratchet up already elevated tensions on the Korean peninsula still further Thursday, firing a pair of short-range missiles and announcing the liquidation of all remaining South Korean assets on its territory.
The moves were a direct response to unilateral sanctions announced by South Korea on Tuesday to punish the North for its January nuclear test and last month's long-range rocket launch.
Military tensions have been on the rise ever since the January test -- the fourth nuclear device North Korea has detonated in defiance of UN resolutions.
The UN Security Council responded with tough, new sanctions, which Pyongyang condemned as a "gangster-like" provocation orchestrated by the United States.
The North also reacted furiously to the start earlier this week of large-scale South Korea-US military drills, threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes against both Seoul and the US mainland.
The asset seizure announced on Thursday referred to two now-shuttered joint projects, the Mount Kumgang tourism resort and the Kaesong joint industrial complex.
"We will completely liquidate all assets of South Korean firms and related institutions left behind in our region," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.
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Do you suppose Pudgy is feeling some heat? He's either going to do something really stoopid or get wacked before he does.
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As per CHINA DAILY, NOKOR repo has cancelled all commercial exchange public agreements wid SOKOR.
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"CHINA-ordered, NOKOR-launched/fired".
As FOREIGN POLICY, REAL CLEAR WORLD, + OTHER NET ARTICS indic or illustrated time back, TAIWAN'S final status vee Mainland China = Beijing, i.e. formal reunification wid Mainland China or in alternate the lack of same, is the key to what happens on the Korean Peninsula in regards to de facto or final INTER-KOREAN = NOKOR-SOKOR REUNIFICATION.
IS THE OBAMA-LED OR POST-PBAMA [Jan 2017] US WILLING TO ACCEPT A NOKOR/DPRK TAKEN OVER OR ANEXED BY MAINLAND CHINA, EVEN IT MEANS HARMING OUR RELATIONS + CREDIBILITY, ETC, WID SOKOR, JAPAN, + OTHER US REGIONAL ALLIES, FOR THE SAKE OF REGIONAL, WORLD PEACE + TRADE WID CHINA???
IFF THE NET IS ANY MEASURE, MANY MAINSTREAM OR ORDINARY AMERICANS SEEMINGLY WOULD N-O-T MIND OR CARE IFF BEIJING FORMALLY TOOK OVER NORTH KOREA, CORRECT???
KJU = "Pudgy" aside, the US must decide, + given OWG Co-Superpower CHINA's determination to unilaterally or "asymmetrically" settle its various terrigtorial sovereignty issues wid neighboring countries e.g. the South, East China Seas, THE US MUST DECIDE QUICKLY!
IFF NOKOR DOESN'T DEV OR ACQUIRE NUKES TO BREAK THE "STATUS QUO" IN NE ASIA, DOES THE US PREFER THAT THE ISIS/ISIL ATTACK CHINA [+ Russia, India]???
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [The Hindu] CHINA BASE PROGRAMME: BEIJING WILLING TO BUILD [overseas = international Military] FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.
RELATED SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > MORE CHINESE BASES ABROAD? BEIJING "WILLING" TO BUILD FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.
The OWG Co-Superpower USA can S-T-I-L-L have mucho Milbases in Europe + East Asia-Pacific, BUT THE US' OWG CO-SUPEPOWER SIBLING CHINA CAN'T, NOT EVEN IN EASTPAC???
Not very "Multi-Polar" or "Sharing" of the
US now is it???
* SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST [SCMP] > WE WILL NOT TOLERATE INSTABILITY [War andor a Nuke-armed NOKOR]: BEIJING'S WARNING TO WASHINGTON AND PYONGYANG.
* XINHUA > CHINA WARNS PHILIPPINES NOT TO CHALLENGE ITS SOVEREIGNTY ON SOUTH CHINA SEA. China on "high alert" monitoring vee possible Japan-led actions [Milactions?].
* XINHUA > [The Australian] DO NOT DISTURB SPRATLY ISLANDS - CHINA FM WANG YI, in warning to Australia.
* YAHOO NEWS > BEIJING [China] ACCUSES TOKYO [Japan, as per intervention/interference in Chinese affairs] OVER PATROL PLANES FOR PHILIPPINES.
* VICE NEWS > US SAYS BEIJING "WILL SOON HAVE SUBSTANTIVE [Offensive] MILITARY POWER" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
RELATED REUTERS > CHINA ABLE TO PROJECT
"SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSIVE MILITARY POWER" IN SPRATLYS IN MONTHS.
* WORLD NEWS > Japan News" [CSIS CEO-President John H.] HAMRE: JAPAN TO BE ANCHOR IN ASIA WID US.
Sorry, Mr. Hamre, but that's N-O-T what Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama, the Globies, + "US-style", "US-par" OWG Co-Superpower CHINA wants to hear.
AGAIN, CHINA = WHY SHOULD ANGRY PUTIN-LED ANTI-US RUSSIA, + SEEMINGLY SIMILAR MILITANTLY ANTI-US IRAN, GET THEIR SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE VEE OBAMA + US AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS, BUT N-O-T [MilPol-Geopol "Quiet", Pro-US] CHINA???
Has China said they are "PRO-US"!?
YOOHOO, SWEET CAROLINE KENNEDY = POTUS HILLARY CLINTON?, ITS STILL YOUR TURN AT BAT!
[DAWN] A sessions court sentenced on Wednesday a man to 10 years in prison in a rape case.
Mohammed Adil was found guilty of sexually assaulting his teenage niece in Nov 2013 at his house within the jurisdiction of the Sharea Faisal cop shoppe.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (east) Inam Ali Kalhoro also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 and in case of default the convict would have to undergo an additional two-month imprisonment.
The court ruled that the victim testified against the accused, her testimony was corroborated by documentary evidence, including the report of a DNA test, and the case stood proved against him beyond a shadow of a doubt.
According to the prosecution, the victim’s mother remarried after the death of her first husband, the father of the victim girl who started living with her maternal grandparents.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... her uncle repeatedly raped her and when the victim informed her mother she asked her to stay silent, it added.
It said that the victim got pregnant and finally a case was registered a few months before she gave birth to a boy.
During the trial, the accused rejected all charges and the court ordered a DNA test, which revealed that the accused was the biological father of the child, it concluded.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code on the complaint of the victim.
The accused was in jug and after the pronouncement of the verdict, the court remanded him back in prison to serve out the sentence.
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During the trial, the accused rejected all charges and the court ordered a DNA test, which revealed that the accused was the biological father of the child, it concluded.
Undoubtedly ISIS will declare DNA testing unislamic, and revert to requiring the testimony of four(?) Muslim males before they will consider anything.
[DAWN] Police in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmire are hunting for a person who chopped off his wife's nose and hair, allegedly in the name of honour.
The accused, Gulfraz alias Billa, cut off the nose of his 24-year old wife, and chopped off her hair before fleeing from the scene, a police official told Dawn.
The incident occurred on March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, in Androt Potha village, some 35 kilometres from Rawalakot.
The victim told the police that her spouse would not let her visit her parents, which would trigger fights between them.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... SHO Thorar Sardar Tariq told Dawn that the accused suspected the character of his spouse.
"It was why they would often quarrel with each other, even though the couple had contracted a love marriage some five years ago," he said.
The victim was in her parents’ home for the past four to five months due to acrimony and was brought back by her spouse on Tuesday after reconciliation.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... after he brought her home he tied her with a chair and cut off her hair and then nose.
As the victim fainted, the accused fled from the scene, fearing she may have died.
Later, her brothers shifted her to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital Rawalakot for treatment.
Doctors said had she been brought to the hospital earlier, they could have stitched back the severed portion of the woman's nose.
Now she will have to undergo a three-stage treatment process, she was told.
SHO Tariq said the accused was on the lam but the police would soon hunt him down.
He said the accused had been booked under sections 337Q, 337V and 292 of the Azad (Kashmire) Penal Code," he said.
"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment," he said.
The police official said it was the first time that such an incident had occurred in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
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The accused, Gulfraz alias Billa, cut off the nose of his 24-year old wife, and chopped off her hair
Now what do you plan to do with the rest of your life? Absolutely no control or logic whatsoever. Entirely driven by emotion.
"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment,"
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"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment,"
Cutting off her hair and nose were intended to render her unattractive to other men. Doing the same to a man in that culture would not have the same effect so long ws he could earn a living, which suggeste that other bits that would render him equally unattractive ought to be cut off instead.
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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[DAWN] Police in a southern district of Azad Jammu and 
