RCMP charge Rwandan with war crimes

Eastern DR Congo: Surge in Army Atrocities

By: chnarendra

Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the UN peacekeeping force in Congo, MONUC, to immediately suspend its ...

26 days ago

Maher Arar's appeal to sue US govt. denied.

By: northsunm32

  Maher Arar was on his way back to Canada when he was simply changing planes in New York. He was removed and taken into custody and after several days was rendered to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured and questioned about ties to Al Qaeda.     Under torture he confessed to various things such as attending Al Qaeda ...

25 days ago

UN calls for probes of Gaza war crimes

By: hasnain

UNITED NATIONS:The general assembly approved a resolution endorsing a UN report accusing Israel and the Palestinians of war crimes.The UN General Assembly enjoined Israel and the Palestinians to probe war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza nearly a year ago, a move which the Jewish state said would hurt the quest for Middle East peace.United ...

23 days ago

A Debit Card Debacle

By: slydog

We are beset by theft at each turn it seems. If the Bernie Madoff's of the world aren't fleecing us through shakey investment schemes, the local street riff-raff are pulling a "smash & grab" to fill their crack pipes. Governments seem hell-bent on filching our threadbare pockets for whatever's left for fancy fairs and foreign wars. As we ...

9 days ago