From Seriki Adinoyi
Three days after the curfew imposed on Jos city, since the beginning of the crisis, was lifted following the return of relative peace in the city, three Fulani herdsmen were yesterday murdered, roasted and buried in a shallow grave in Tusung Village near Kassa, in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, by people suspected to be Berom youths.
Briefing newsmen at the Nigerian Air Force Hospital mortuary, Jos, where the bodies were deposited, the Director of Operations of the Military Special Task Force (STF), Colonel Kayode Ogundele, said though no arrest has been made, but his men who discovered the bodies are on the trail of the assailants. He assured that they would be tracked down.
Meanwhile, the state police command has commenced a process for the re-trial of suspects of the Jos crises in the state capital as required by the Constitution of the Federal Republic on Nigeria.
This was made known yesterday in a press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhammed Lerama, on behalf of the state Police Commissioner, Ikechukwu Aduba.
Lerama said in the statement that, “The Plateau State Police Command wishes to state that the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) and the Federal Directorate of Public Prosecution (FDPP) Abuja held a pre-trial meeting at the Police Headquarters Jos on May 20 with the officers and personnel of the state CID Jos as well as the private legal practitioners employed by the Federal Ministry of Justice to prosecute the offenders involved in the Jos crises.
“The reason for this meeting is for the stakeholders to harmonise all aspects of investigations conducted in the cases for a successful prosecution”
Source: Thisday Newspaper
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Actor dies in Russia after 'racist' attack
A black actor who appeared in popular Soviet films has died in the northern Russian city of Saint Petersburg after being brutally beaten in what is suspected to have been a racist attack, officials said yesterday.
Tito Romalio, 59, died on May 11 in Alexandrovskaya Hospital after being beaten by a 43-year-old Russian in a street in the north of the city following a conflict," local police said. "A suspect was arrested."
Russian media, citing anonymous police sources, reported that the attacker, identified as Khamzya Yenikeyev, beat the actor because of racist hatred.
Romalio, who was of Brazilian descent, started his acting career as a child and had minor roles in such popular Soviet films as Artyom's Adventures, 1956, and The Amphibian Man, 1962.
The actor often encountered difficulties with racism, said the Novaya Ivestia newspaper, citing his friends.
"Tito had a bitter fate," his friend Yelena Yakhontova told the daily.
"In Russia, he always lived with the brand of a 'darkie' and humiliated himself to find work.
"He had to get by somehow by working as a character actor."
Africans and other non-whites living in Russia are frequently attacked by neo-Nazi gangs, though the authorities have claimed some success in reducing violent hate crimes of late.
A total of 74 people were killed in racist attacks in Russia last year, a drop from the 120 killed in 2008.
The figures were collated by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, a respected group that tracks hate crimes.
Source: Time Live
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Bangkok conflict erupts in gunfire
10 killed, 125 wounded as troops try to surround protesters' camp
By Ambika Ahuja and Martin Petty,
A tire burns as Thai soldiers clash with anti-government protesters in Bangkok's financial district on Friday. The protesters are gathered behind walls of tires and wooden staves soaked with kerosene and topped with razor wire.
Photograph by: Sukree Sukplang, Reuters, Reuters
Troops and rioting anti-government demonstrators battled through the night and into this morning, intensifying a violent political conflict that erupted in gunfire Friday and turned Bangkok's commercial district into a bloody battlefield.
Ten people have been killed and at least 125 were wounded, including three journalists -- two Thais and a Canadian working for France 24 television -- since the fighting erupted Thursday night, according to the Erawan medical centre.
Troops battled through last night with protesters who hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails on roads surrounding an area of luxury hotels and shopping malls they have occupied for nearly six weeks, witnesses said.
The violence left the city of 15 million tense, with gunfire and loud blasts heard on major roads where protesters faced off with the army as it battled to establish a perimeter around the sprawling encampment, with the intent of starving out the protesters.
The turbulence adds to a five-year crisis that pits a royalist urban elite who back Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva against rural and urban poor, many of which have adopted red as a protest colour, who say they are disenfranchised.
The "red shirts" broadly support former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist billionaire ousted in a 2006 coup and convicted of corruption.
A journalist among a group of demonstrators north of the site said violence had intensified during the night. Multiple blasts and gunshots were heard, followed by loud cheers from the protesters, who refused to disperse.
Thai television showed footage of injured protesters being loaded into ambulances after street battles with soldiers that appeared to be spreading towards a major intersection.
The military said some people among the protesters fired handguns and grenades on Friday, causing chaos.
Fires blazed in the road as troops closed off streets after firing volleys of warning shots at protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails and set piles of tires alight in a commercial area dotted with hotels, banks and Western embassies.
The fresh wave of violence follows an assassination attempt on Thursday on renegade general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a military adviser to the red shirts, who was critically wounded while speaking to reporters. He had brain surgery and is on life support.
Much of the city was braced for a crackdown at the main protest site where thousands of the red-shirted demonstrators, including women and children, have gathered, protected by medieval-like walls made from tires and wooden staves soaked in kerosene and topped by razor wire.
Army spokesmen Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Friday said there were an estimated 500 armed "terrorists" among the thousands of protesters in the city.
A source close to army chief Anupong Paochinda said more troop reinforcements would be deployed, fearing more protesters would arrive to surround and attack soldiers.
The protesters say Oxford-educated Prime Minister Abhisit lacks a popular mandate after coming to power in a controversial parliamentary vote influenced by the politically powerful military.
The two months of protests have spiralled into a crisis that has killed 36 people, wounded more than 1,400, paralyzed parts of Bangkok, scared off investors and squeezed the economy.
Source: The Vancouver Sun
By Ambika Ahuja and Martin Petty,
Photograph by: Sukree Sukplang, Reuters, Reuters
Troops and rioting anti-government demonstrators battled through the night and into this morning, intensifying a violent political conflict that erupted in gunfire Friday and turned Bangkok's commercial district into a bloody battlefield.
Ten people have been killed and at least 125 were wounded, including three journalists -- two Thais and a Canadian working for France 24 television -- since the fighting erupted Thursday night, according to the Erawan medical centre.
Troops battled through last night with protesters who hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails on roads surrounding an area of luxury hotels and shopping malls they have occupied for nearly six weeks, witnesses said.
The violence left the city of 15 million tense, with gunfire and loud blasts heard on major roads where protesters faced off with the army as it battled to establish a perimeter around the sprawling encampment, with the intent of starving out the protesters.
The turbulence adds to a five-year crisis that pits a royalist urban elite who back Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva against rural and urban poor, many of which have adopted red as a protest colour, who say they are disenfranchised.
The "red shirts" broadly support former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist billionaire ousted in a 2006 coup and convicted of corruption.
A journalist among a group of demonstrators north of the site said violence had intensified during the night. Multiple blasts and gunshots were heard, followed by loud cheers from the protesters, who refused to disperse.
Thai television showed footage of injured protesters being loaded into ambulances after street battles with soldiers that appeared to be spreading towards a major intersection.
The military said some people among the protesters fired handguns and grenades on Friday, causing chaos.
Fires blazed in the road as troops closed off streets after firing volleys of warning shots at protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails and set piles of tires alight in a commercial area dotted with hotels, banks and Western embassies.
The fresh wave of violence follows an assassination attempt on Thursday on renegade general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a military adviser to the red shirts, who was critically wounded while speaking to reporters. He had brain surgery and is on life support.
Much of the city was braced for a crackdown at the main protest site where thousands of the red-shirted demonstrators, including women and children, have gathered, protected by medieval-like walls made from tires and wooden staves soaked in kerosene and topped by razor wire.
Army spokesmen Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Friday said there were an estimated 500 armed "terrorists" among the thousands of protesters in the city.
A source close to army chief Anupong Paochinda said more troop reinforcements would be deployed, fearing more protesters would arrive to surround and attack soldiers.
The protesters say Oxford-educated Prime Minister Abhisit lacks a popular mandate after coming to power in a controversial parliamentary vote influenced by the politically powerful military.
The two months of protests have spiralled into a crisis that has killed 36 people, wounded more than 1,400, paralyzed parts of Bangkok, scared off investors and squeezed the economy.
Source: The Vancouver Sun
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