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November 26 African American Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case! (She also wrote the "Terminator) Sophia Stewart: 'I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money,' said Stewart. 'My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'.' This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!! A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding. Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history ofHollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars. Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, 'The Third Eye,' copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.. According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that 'credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.' These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been 'often used during preparation of the motion pictures.' The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success. Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story. Others are suspicious and mocking. 'It doesn't bother me,' said Stewart in a phone interview last week, 'I always knew what was true.' Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at aghettotymz.com: 'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner.... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media.... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.' Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, 'The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.' Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. 'This is all about the Benjamins,' said Stewart. 'It's not about money with me. It's about justice.' Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God. 'I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money,' said Stewart. 'My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'.' If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the 'technocracy' represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators. Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory. June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart's press release read: 'The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman...a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is...nothing is impossible for them to achieve!' Greg Thomas, Editor In the past, inventions and discoveries and also great works of art, created by African-Americans, were taken by whites and used them to make them rich. Never thought it would happen in the 21st century. Related Article: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/6450/ http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/sophia-stewart-wins-the-matrix-copyright-infringement-case_100273392.html http://www.amazon.com/Third-Eye-Mother-Matrix/dp/0978539648 November 24 Oh Oh - Here Comes Cummings (Fed Audit)
Thursday, November 19. 2009 This one is definitely worth a read! It appears that Representative Cummings, along with a half-dozen other Representatives, have had enough of The Fed’s games. They are now calling for a FULL CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW of THE ENTIRE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, including A FULL PUBLIC AUDIT. To this I say: It’s about time! (Click for larger images.)
GET ON THE PHONE NOW TO YOUR REP AND RAISE HELL. MOMENTUM ON THIS IS BUILDING, AND IT IS UP TO **US** TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE. November 23 Financial Crisis Investigators Are Taking Wall Street NamesFriday 13 November 2009 Washington - Leaders of a congressional commission investigating the causes of the recent financial crisis are threatening to publicly identify any company or government agency that stalls in voluntarily producing requested documents. Phil Angelides, the chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, told McClatchy in an interview that the panel would investigate the role that Wall Street firms played in causing the crisis to mushroom. McClatchy reported earlier this month that Goldman Sachs, the nation’s premier investment bank, sold more than $40 billion in securities backed by risky mortgages in 2006 and 2007 while secretly betting on a housing market downturn that would depress the value of those securities. After purchasing those bonds from Goldman, pension funds, insurance companies and other institutions are facing bigger losses from the financial meltdown. Angelides, a Democrat, and Republican Bill Thomas, the vice chairman, vowed that they wouldn’t let the subjects of their inquiry “run out the clock on us.” The special commission is patterned after the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which exhaustively investigated the causes of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. While Congress gave the financial commission subpoena powers, legislators also required the panel to submit its report by December 2010. To issue a subpoena, a supermajority of at least seven commissioners is required on a panel of six Democrats and four Republicans. Angelides stressed that he is treating Thomas like “a co-chairman” and the two said they are united in their efforts. The panel has begun investigating, but has issued no subpoenas and is starting with voluntary requests for information, Angeles said. “Our biggest concern, and we won’t let people do it, is that there will be some people with trillions of dollars at stake that they want to protect,” he said. “They’ll try to run out the clock on us. Both Bill and I have watches with dates on them, and we understand that we have to move.” “You’d like to think that the threat of the use of the tools we have will get people to comply,” Thomas said. Both men promised to shame those who don’t cooperate voluntarily. “We’re going to be aggressive in our pursuit of information,” Angelides said. “We’ll be more than happy to share with people the names of those who are not forthcoming.” The commission’s reporting deadline next year follows what are expected to be closely contested congressional mid-term elections, and the commission’s probe parallels efforts in Congress to pass the most sweeping revamp of financial regulation since the Great Depression. There’s public and congressional skepticism about the panel, partly because many of the broad contributing factors in the financial meltdown are well known and have been covered in dozens of congressional hearings. These contributing factors include weakened mortgage lending standards, faulty performance of the credit-rating agencies, overextended investment banks, insufficient and at times nonexistent federal regulation, as well as secret, insurance-like bets that encouraged risk taking. In addition, the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to keep lending rates unusually low for an extended period of time led to an era of cheap borrowing for financial firms and consumers. That fed interest in high-yield mortgage-backed securities and fueled Wall Street’s role in buying $2 trillion in risky mortgages. “Everyone’s got their theories about what went wrong,” Angelides said. “It’s our job, as best as we can as an official government inquiry, to try to bring clarity to the American people. And while there are many theories out there, and while I would say the elites in the country think they know what went wrong, there is not a broad understanding for most Americans about what the heck happened.” The commission faces numerous hurdles, not the least of which is a compressed time frame that weakens some of the benefit of having the power to subpoena documents or witnesses. Thomas, a former California congressman and a former chairman of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged a race against time because “to do a first-rate job, it takes more than 18 months, and now it is 12 months” until the panel must submit its report. To probe a crisis that cost Americans more than $11 trillion in wealth, the commission must work within an $8 million budget to cover staff, offices and investigative expenses while taking on Wall Street giants such as Goldman Sachs. “It’s a small, thin budget. Goldman will probably spend more on attorneys alone,” joked Angelides, a former California state treasurer and rainmaker in California Democratic politics. The commission won an important tool — the ability to have personnel from the Securities and Exchange Commission and bank regulatory agencies available to the panel through next December. “It certainly helps, because it gives us expertise without having to spend dollars, Thomas said. No government agency or Wall Street titan is off limits, the pair insisted. “It would be hard not to drive to the root without looking at the major government agencies. It would be hard not to drive to the root without looking at major Wall Street firms,” Angelides said. “We will obviously look at the most significant players in this marketplace.” Republicans Charged in $10 Million Scandal
By Brad Bumsted and Debra Erdley HARRISBURG — Former House Speaker John Perzel, one of the most powerful members of the General Assembly since 1994, was charged Thursday with 82 felonies for allegedly masterminding a “sophisticated criminal strategy” to spend more than $10 million of taxpayers’ money on political campaigns, Attorney General Tom Corbett said. Most of that money paid for computer technology to help Perzel, a Republican who represents a Northeast Philadelphia district, and other House Republicans win elections, a statewide grand jury concluded. Perzel is charged with theft, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conflict of interest. “By all accounts, Perzel was aggressive in the acquisition and retention of power,” the grand jury report said. “He demanded obedience and loyalty, and punished or eliminated those, whether elected officials or employees, who challenged that power.” Perzel, 59, was charged with nine other Republicans, including a former legislator and Perzel’s former chief of staff, based on recommendations of the 188-page grand jury report, said Corbett, a Republican candidate for governor. Through his attorney, Brian McMonagle of Philadelphia, Perzel released a statement saying he is innocent and questioning Corbett’s motives. “I never used public funds for my personal or political gain. … It smacks of political opportunism at the expense of my reputation, and I am going to fight very aggressively to prove my innocence.” Corbett denied any conflicts in handling the case because he’s a gubernatorial candidate. “I’m not running against any members of the House or Senate,” he said. “I have a job to do, and we’re doing that job.” Brian Preski, 44, a Philadelphia lawyer who headed Perzel’s staff when he was House speaker, was charged with theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Corbett said Perzel gave Preski authority to implement his plan, making Preski a principal conspirator and “arguably one of the most powerful” Republicans in Harrisburg. “It’s clear Brian will be exonerated once he has a day in court,” said his lawyer Hayes Hunt. Former House Appropriations Chairman Brett Feese, 55, who resigned Nov. 3 as chief counsel for House Republicans, is accused of theft, conspiracy, conflict of interest and obstructing justice. His attorney, Joshua Lock of Harrisburg, could not be reached for comment. Feese, of Lycoming County, attempted to thwart the investigation by hiding evidence and manufacturing misleading notes, Corbett said. Investigators conducted hundreds of interviews and reviewed millions of e-mails, faxes, contracts, letters, memos and other documents, before presenting thousands of pages of testimony to the grand jury, Corbett said. The grand jury said House Republicans hindered the investigation, causing significant delays. An obstruction of justice investigation within the House Republican Caucus and three other caucuses continues, Corbett said. In 2004, Perzel’s campaign committee donated $25,000 to Corbett, along with a $1,219 in-kind contribution to pay for a reception. “Even if they’ve helped, and they’ve done something wrong, we go after them,” Corbett said. Corbett said Perzel used “dirty tricks” such as automated phone calls against fellow House Republicans who opposed him, including Rep. Curt Schroder of Chester County and Rep. Will Gabig of Carlisle. “It’s like a modern-day version of the (Watergate) plumbers,” Schroder said. He said voters in his district received anonymous calls in 2006 after he aggressively pushed a property tax reform plan as an alternative to one Perzel backed. Perzel kept a “ghost employee” — his brother-in-law, Samuel “Buzz” Stokes, 66, of Philadelphia — on the House payroll to do campaign work, the grand jury said. From 2000 to 2006, Stokes was paid $196,808 in taxpayers’ money, Corbett said. Stokes is charged with theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. The others charged are Perzel’s chief of staff, Paul Towhey, 38, of Blue Bell; Perzel legislative aide John Zimmerman, 61, of Hummelstown; Perzel campaign aide Don McClintock, 41, of Voorhees, N.J.; Feese aide Jill Seaman, 57, of Dauphin; former Feese and Perzel aide Elmer Bowman, 34, of Red Lion; and former House Republican Information Technology Deputy Director Eric Ruth, 34, of Boca Raton, Fla., who is Perzel’s nephew. The charges are part of a broad, 3-year-old investigation into whether Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate used state resources for political campaigns. In July 2008, Corbett filed charges accusing 12 people with ties to House Democrats, including two former legislators, of using state resources for campaign activity. The charges against Democrats involve $3.6 million in bonuses paid secretly in 2005 and 2006 to legislative staffers, some of whom worked on campaigns. Five of the 12 defendants have agreed to plead guilty. As in the first phase of the investigation, Corbett said, the grand jury uncovered a concerted plan to use taxpayers’ money, employees and resources for political campaigns. But the difference was that Democrats used taxpayer-paid bonuses to reward staffers, and Republicans sunk taxpayers’ money into technology to fuel campaigns, he said. Perzel, a fixture in state politics for three decades, won his first House election in his predominantly Democratic district in Philadelphia in 1978. Ten years later, he won his first leadership position in the Republican Caucus and became Republican Policy Committee chairman. He was elected speaker of the House in 2003, a post he held until 2006. He served as majority leader for nearly a decade before that. Although he won re-election in 2006, he lost his leadership post after staunchly defending the ill-fated 2005 legislative pay raise. But it was his narrow victory in the 2000 election that became a “defining moment” for Perzel, Corbett said, prompting Perzel to seek computer software to get voters to the polls and catalogue data on them at taxpayers’ expense. The Republican Caucus paid almost $9.3 million to GCR & Associates of New Orleans for sophisticated computer work, of which about $4.5 million was for work on campaigns. Under the “Edge” program, the user had a Web-based tool to “mine” voter data. It would produce a database showing voters’ political party, gender, jurisdiction, religion and other details. Perzel wanted to use another program, “Blue Card,” to help him run for governor next year, the grand jury said. Republicans paid Washington-based Aristotle Inc. $6.2 million, mostly for campaign work, Corbett said. Officials from the companies were not charged with wrongdoing and cooperated with the investigation, he said. Perzel, Preski and their wives attempted to enrich themselves by selling information collected by the taxpayer-purchased campaign programs, the grand jury said. The venture apparently was not successful, Corbett said. Legislative staffers spent hundreds of hours preparing fundraising mailers for Perzel, the grand jury said. They were sent to constituents Perzel dubbed “the little people,” who made contributions as low as $5 and $10, Corbett said. Extra information on the accused Brian Preski, 44, of Philadelphia • Legislative aide on various committees from 1995 to 2000, when he became John Perzel’s chief of staff. He left that position in 2007. • Charged with 72 counts of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Brett Feese, 55, of Muncy • State representative from 1994 to 2006, including stints as chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee beginning in 2003 and majority chairman of House Appropriations Committee beginning in 2004. Did not seek re-election in 2006. • Hired as chief counsel to the House Republican Caucus in 2007. Resigned Nov. 3. • Charged with 62 counts of theft, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conflict of interest. Elmer Bowman, 34, of Red Lion • Former aide to Feese and senior staff member in the House Republican Policy Committee. Resigned last week. • Charged with 48 counts of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Samuel “Buzz” Stokes, 66, of Philadelphia • Perzel’s brother-in-law and former campaign manager. Was on the House payroll, but allegedly performed little or no legislative work. • Charged with 42 counts of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Jill Seaman, 57, of Dauphin • Former executive assistant and paralegal for Feese in the House Republican Caucus. • Charged with 46 counts of theft, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conflict of interest. Paul Towhey, 38, of Blue Bell • Perzel’s chief of staff. • Charged with 24 counts of theft, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conflict of interest. Don McClintock, 41, of Voorhees, N.J. • Perzel campaign aide. • Charged with 24 counts of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Eric Ruth, 34, of Boca Raton, Fla. • Deputy director of House Republican Information Technology; nephew of Perzel’s wife. • Charged with 48 counts of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest. John Zimmerman, 61, of Hummelstown • Legislative aide to Perzel. • Charged with two counts of hindering apprehension or prosecution and obstruction of justice. — Tribune-Review In World News...US Makes Debut Attendance at Hague War Crimes Court
Posted by admin On November - 22 - 2009
Thu Nov 19, 2009 THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues Stephen Rapp made a debut appearance for the United States at the world’s war crimes court Thursday and said the U.S. remained wary of politically driven prosecutions. The United States is not a signatory to the 2002 Rome treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and Rapp’s attendance at meetings this week and next is the clearest sign yet of Washington engaging with the court. “Our view has been and remains that should the Rome Statute be amended to include a defined crime of aggression, jurisdiction should follow a Security Council determination that aggression has occurred,” he said. Rapp said however that the United States was keen on “gaining a better understanding of the issues being considered and the workings of the court.” “The court itself has an interest in not being drawn into a political thicket that could threaten its perceived impartiality,” he said. Rapp’s attendance comes after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in August it was a “great regret” the United States was not a full ICC signatory. But Rapp, the former chief prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, said the United States remained concerned about the issue of the crime of aggression since U.S. officials or servicemen and women could risk ICC investigation for their roles in wars due to politically inspired prosecutions. That was one factor behind Washington’s decision not to ratify the Rome Statute. The issue of crimes of aggression is to be addressed next May in Uganda at a review of the Rome Statute. William Pace, one of the conveners of a coalition of groups supporting the ICC, said although the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama was not calling Rapp’s attendance at the ICC meeting a policy change, he welcomed what was “essentially a constructive speech of re-engagement.” “We are not surprised that every permanent member of the United Nations Security Council wants to keep as much control over the power to determine whether an act of aggression has occurred as they interpret the U.N. charter to give them,” he said. But Pace said most other countries do not believe the Security Council’s permanent members should have sole control over determining whether an act of aggression has occurred. Rapp is leading the U.S. delegation attending the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which is made up of 110 countries that have ratified the court’s founding treaty. The ASP oversees the ICC’s activities. The United States, along with Russia, China and Israel, has not yet ratified the treaty. Elizabeth Evenson, counsel at the international justice program at Human Rights Watch, dismissed the United States’ concerns, stressing the independence of the prosecution and ICC judges. “We are hoping the U.S. will see that there is nothing in the experience of the ICC that would give them the hesitation to think that this is a politically motivated court,” she said. ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE. ---------------------------------------- Posted by admin On November - 22 - 2009
Africa News The Hague - Two former rebel leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo are set to be the first people ever to stand trial for murder before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Only the second case ever to be tried by the ICC, the proceedings starting Tuesday are to see the participation of hundreds of victims against two men - former DR Congolese rebel leaders Germaine Katanga, 31, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 39, both of the Lendu tribe - accused of having orchestrated the killing of several hundred civilians from the village of Bogoro in 2003. Bogoro is located in Ituri, a district in the north-east of DR Congo. At the time of the alleged crimes, an ethnic conflict was raging there between the Hema and Lendu tribes. Between January 2002 and December 2003, more than 8,000 civilians died in Ituri. More than 500,000 people were displaced. On February 24, 2003, Lendu militias and cooperating paramilitary groups allegedly attacked the Hema-populated village of Bogoro, killing, plundering and raping around 200 civilians. Survivors were allegedly imprisoned in a building filled with bodies. Women were abducted and sexually enslaved. The Ituri Patriotic Resistance Forces (FRPI) - established by the Ngiti tribe that allied itself with the Lendu - allegedly pillaged and razed the village. Katanga, who allegedly commanded the FRPI and Ngudjolo Chui, alleged commander of the Lendu Nationalist Integrationist Front (FNI), are charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and seven counts of war crimes, including willful killing. They are alleged to have committed these crimes via orders to their subordinates. The two former army commanders are also accused of having used child soldiers - defined as a war crime under the Statute of Rome, the ICC’s founding document. A total of 345 victims are also participating in the trial, represented by two lawyers, Fidel Nsita Luvengika and Jean-Louis Gilissen. In the first ICC trial, which started in January against alleged war criminal former DR Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga, lawyers are representing a total of 93 victims. French-born judge Bruno Cotte, Malinese judge Fatoumata Dembele Diarra and Belgian judge Christine Van den Wyngaert are expected to take several months for the Katanga-Ngudjilo Chui trial. Arrested and transferred to the Netherlands on October 17, 2007, Katanga, who has rejected all charges, first appeared in court on October 22, 2007. Ngudjolo Chui was arrested and transferred to the ICC on February 7, 2008. His case was joined with that of Katanga on March 10, 2008. The Katanga-Ngudjolo Chui case is the second case ever to be tried by the ICC. Both cases it has tried so far stem from investigations into conflicts in the DR Congo. It will be the court’s first murder case. A fourth Congo war crimes suspect, Bosco Ntaganda, military chief of staff of the DR Congolese militia National Congress of the Defense of the People (CNDP), remains at large after a warrant for his arrest was issued on August 22, 2006. In 1994, ethnic conflict erupted in the former Belgian colony of the DR Congo when rebels crossed the border following the genocide in Rwanda. The war formally ended in 2003, but fighting continues in the east of the country. The ICC, an independent, permanent court founded in 1998 and working in cooperation with the United Nations, aims to prosecute the most serious war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since it began operating in 2002, it has investigated war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DR Congo, Uganda, the Central African Republic and Darfur. ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE. ---------------------------------------------------------
ICC TRIAL OF CONGOLESE MILITIAMEN TO REVEAL “THE TRUTH” THE HAGUE — Lawyers for two Congolese militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out a village blocking a strategic route in an ethnic war, on Monday welcomed start of their trial in The Hague this week as a step towards “the truth”. Germain Katanga, 31, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 39, are to appear before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday. They stand accused over an attack by their forces on the village of Bogoro in Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern Ituri region that killed 200 people in February 2003. “We are all seeking the same thing, we are all seeking the truth,” Katanga’s lawyer, Andreas O’Shea, told journalists on Monday, adding that his client “shares and sympathises with the grief of the victims of the war in the DRC.” The men face ten counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including using child soldiers to murder, maim and pillage. According to fellow defence lawyer Jean-Pierre Kilenda, co-accused Ngudjolo “is at last happy to … provide the international community with the explanations it has been wanting.” Ngudjolo, he added, was “also a victim” and had had no part in the alleged crimes. “We are hoping that all the evidence … will be able to ascertain the truth.” The prosecution says more than 1,000 fighters of Katanga’s Patriotic Resistance Force (FRPI) and Ngudjolo’s Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) entered Bogoro on February 24 six years ago “with one communicated and agreed goal: to erase the village”. Until the attack, the town had been controlled by rival Thomas Lubanga’s Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), blocking FRPI and FNI fighters and camps from the road to the key city of Bunia. “They (militia) killed more than 200 persons,” prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the press conference. “The women of the Hema community were raped before they were killed. They pillaged the entire village. They kept some women as sex slaves.” Katanga and Ngudjolo are both of Lendu ethnicity, while the Bogoro inhabitants were mostly Hema. Non-governmental bodies claim that inter-ethnic and militia violence in Ituri is about control of the area’s gold mines, and has claimed 60,000 lives since 1999. ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE. ----------------------------------------------------- British Newspaper says Leaked Documents Call Into Question Blair’s Account of Iraq War Buildup Posted by admin On November - 22 - 2009 |
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