.- The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported today that Muammar Gadhafi forces have used cluster bombs manufactured in Spain in 2007 in their attacks on residential areas Misrata, east of Tripoli city under heavy bombardment for two days. HRW warned of "grave danger" that such weapons pose to civilian populations and noted that, after investigating several fragments of the bombs, has ruled that it is MAT-120, manufactured by Spanish company Instalaza four years ago, one before Spain to underwrite the international treaty against cluster bombs, said in a statement.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Bolivia .- The demonstrators blocked several roads during protests for better pay
LA PAZ (Reuters) The ninth straight day of general strike in protest at wage increases has had starring Bolivian teachers, who have blocked several roads the day before to meet the country's president, Evo Morales, and union leadership. The cuts affect at least four of the nine departments, including La Paz, causing the first strike affecting road transport, the largest trade union challenge to Morales, according to various reports.
Volverna Allende's remains be exhumed
The remains of Chilean President Salvador Allende (1970-1973) will be exhumed in the second half of May, according to a decision issued yesterday by the judge overseeing the case, Mario Carroza. Diligence, which must be performed by the Forensic Medical Service, not a new autopsy on the corpse of the socialist leader, but is designed to try to determine the cause of his death.
Allende died on September 11, 1973 during the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet to overthrow the socialist government, and so far the most accepted version, and corroborated by witnesses, who took his life in La Moneda, which burned after being attacked by the coup by land and air. His case is among 726 complaints of human rights violations during the military dictatorship that prosecutors presented on January 26 before Judge Chariot, for situations that have never before been investigated for justice.
Allende died on September 11, 1973 during the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet to overthrow the socialist government, and so far the most accepted version, and corroborated by witnesses, who took his life in La Moneda, which burned after being attacked by the coup by land and air. His case is among 726 complaints of human rights violations during the military dictatorship that prosecutors presented on January 26 before Judge Chariot, for situations that have never before been investigated for justice.
Arrigoni, a hero of our time
Vittorio Arrigoni was killed because he does not tolerate those who kill witnesses. But also because the spiral of madness in this world which is sliding require blood on the altar of the powerful. And 'the death of a hero of our time, which, increasingly, will need heroes. The best way to honor his memory will be to prepare to face a wave of violence that is proportional to the severity of the crisis in which the power struggle that led the planet in the storm have already begun.
Yemen: demonstrators injured by supporters of President Saleh
Several cities in Yemen are the scene of demonstrations of opposition to President Saleh Friday, April 15. Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against the regime in Sana'a and in the cities of Aden and Taiz in the south. In Taiz, Yemen's second largest city 200 km south of Sana'a, the protesters were targeted by gunfire of armed supporters of the regime that marched, eight of them were injured.
Arrigoni and others: the blood of the peace
Human remains. It concluded with the exhortation was for weeks and weeks, his correspondence from Gaza during the operation lead time in December 2008-January 2009 in which Israel bombed Gaza. Vittorio Arrigoni was the only Italian correspondent was there, under the bombs of the war, and its daily news, published by the Manifesto, have been used by the entire mainstream of information, including televisions.
Suicide bombing at a police Indonesian
At least 17 people were injured when a man detonated a device he carried with him in the mosque of a police barracks, it was learned Wednesday. This is the most important Islamist attack in the first Muslim country in the world. The explosion occurred during Friday prayers at the mosque to the police Cirebon, small town located 200 km southeast of Jakarta.
The bomber died instantly. A witness said the bomber was "praying" in third place in the Assembly "when the explosion occurred." He was killed and "at least 17 people, mostly policemen, were injured," the spokesman said. The identity and motives of the alleged suicide bomber was not known at the beginning of the afternoon.
The bomber died instantly. A witness said the bomber was "praying" in third place in the Assembly "when the explosion occurred." He was killed and "at least 17 people, mostly policemen, were injured," the spokesman said. The identity and motives of the alleged suicide bomber was not known at the beginning of the afternoon.
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