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It is shameful that India’s Christians, an important element for the country’s social and economic development, are being massacred whilst the world’s governments and humanitarian associations remain silent in what is another example of “Christianophobia.” Italian bishops call on the faithful to take part tomorrow in a day of prayer and fasting in remembrance of the Blessed Teresa of Kolkata.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, calling it a case of history repeating itself, insisted that his country was provoked into the war in Georgia by “the aggressive actions of Georgia and their US enablers.” “Just as Premier Stalin was forced to defend the motherland by invading Poland and executing the instigators of their war of aggression, we were forced to intervene in Georgia,” Putin asserted. “We are surrounded by the enemies of our progressive politics. Our survival requires that we be ever vigilant lest socialism fall victim to fascist aggression.” The White House called Putin's remarks “an amazing rewrite of...

A man suspected in the massacre of 19 men, woman and children during a Baja California drug war 10 years ago has been arrested in Los Angeles and returned to Mexico where he faces murder and other charges. 33-year-old Jesus Ruben Moncada was taken into custody Thursday night while taking out the garbage at his home in East L-A. He was allegedly a high-ranking member of the Felix Arellano drug cartel, who in 1998 helped gun down 19 people during a raid on an Ensenada ranch in search of a rival pot smuggler. Moncada was arrested on an immigration violation...

Chinese may have killed 140 Tibetans this week: Dalai Lama 2 hours, 14 minutes ago Chinese security forces opened fire on a crowd this week in eastern Tibet and may have killed 140 people, the Dalai Lama told a French daily on Thursday. "The Chinese army again fired on a crowd on Monday August 18, in the Kham region in eastern Tibet," he told Le Monde. "One hundred and forty Tibetans are reported to have been killed, but the figure needs to be confirmed."

GORI, Georgia — On the day that Russia declared an end to its war in Georgia, Jumberi, a taxi driver who gave only his first name, took a long drag on a Marlboro Red cigarette and said that after the first bomb hit, all he saw was body parts. He motioned to the shattered windshield of his Toyota Corolla and the bloody handprints on the side of the car — left there when the wounded and dying collapsed as they begged him to take them to the hospital. "I heard the sound of the jets, but I did not see...

Today is the anniversary of one of the more controversial battles in US history - one that has been debated over and over for years. On this day in 1876, Genl George A Custer and large share of the US 7th Cavalry were killed in a battle near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Because many of us on Free Republic enjoy history as well as debating history, I wanted to post this to see what you all have to say about this battle? Who's fault was it? Did Custer have a bad battle plan? Or did Reno and Benteern...

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN White slaughter in South Africa? Plans made to conduct campaign of genocide after Mandela's death Posted: February 9, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years. © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com While former South African President Nelson Mandela, 85, scoffs at rumors of ill health, plans are being made by the nation's Communist Party to slaughter all whites in the country upon his death, G2B sources say....

While Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hangs in there, locked in a tough race with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Republican undercard is facing obliteration in the 2008 general elections for the Senate. Polling suggests that a massacre may be in the offing — and one that’s possibly even greater than the worst of previous GOP years: 1958, 1964, 1974, 1986 and 2006. Scott Rasmussen, whose site, www.rasmussenreports.com, follows these races closely, is producing truly hair-raising polling data. Of the open Republican Senate seats in contention, Democratic victory seems very likely in Virginia (Democratic former Gov. Mark Warner now has 55...

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian court on Tuesday convicted a general and three members of a death squad of kidnapping and murder in a ruling that prosecutors say could set a precedent in the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori. The four were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 35 years in connection with a 1992 massacre, but the three-judge panel absolved another member of the death squad and three officers accused of providing support for it. The verdict made no reference to a ninth man charged in the case. The judges found the three former soldiers and...

Wong told authorities he had made more than 20 threats to people over the Internet in the past year, officials said. He threatened one person, saying that he would be "putting a bomb on him" and that he "wanted to use kamikaze on him," according to the affidavit. Wong was brought to the federal detention center in Miami, the FBI said. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney. Vincent Wong said his older brother never intended to hurt anyone and stockpiled assault weapons and ammunition at his Homestead home only for investment purposes. Calin Wong told police...

It is a huge photo. Pictures of massacred victims are located on the upper right hand part of the photo. Pictures shown in earlier FR post on Tibetan massacre (Photos of the massacre in Tibet) are included here, too. These pictures were reportedly taken at a morgue of Anduo. Reportedly, gunshot wounds are visible from the pictures.

URGENT APPEAL Since 10th March 2008 there has been successive peaceful demonstrations in various parts of Tibet (inside and outside TAR), which were brutally suppressed. The current situation in Tibet is extremely serious. The Chinese government's ultimatum is due to expire at mid-night today. Therefore, we are extremely concerned that there is every possibility of a huge massacre of Tibetans taking place after the ultimatum. The Central Tibetan Administration urgently appeal to the international community including the United Nations, governments, parliaments, Human Rights groups and Tibet Support groups to effectively urge the Chinese leadership to immediately stop repression and to...

One of the world's top Torah authorities, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky spurred controversy on Sunday when he declared that Jews are forbidden from employing Arabs according to halacha, the haredi newspaper, Yom Hadash reported. "According to halacha, it is forbidden to employ Arabs, especially in yeshivas," Kanievsky, a Lithuanian rabbi who lives Bnei Barak, told the paper. "It poses a mortal danger since we are at war with them." According to the publication, following the shooting attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, managers of a Bnei Brak Yeshiva paid a visit to Rav Kanievsky and told him that their institution has...

DELAND, Fla. — Three middle school students were charged Friday with plotting to kill their classmates and themselves, police said. Two boys and a girl, all 13, were taken into custody shortly after the plan was discovered on March 5. Their mental health was evaluated before they were transferred Friday to a juvenile detention center, said Volusia County sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson. Investigators said in a news release the ringleader had exchanged instant messages with a DeLand Middle School classmate, saying "I will kill every person I see. ... Everyone will pay for what they did to me." The student,...

Snakes bite. That is how G-d created them. I may not have many complaints against snakes, but I certainly do have complaints against those people who set them loose in our living room, in Jerusalem, next to our children, poring over their holy books. One of the leaders of the process that brought this catastrophe upon us, Education Minister Yuli Tamir, had the audacity this week to pay a visit to the people bitten by the snake. No, she did not enter on her tiptoes, begging for forgiveness for her stupidity and wickedness. She entered the building as if her...

Police is refusing to pass on the body of the terrorist who murdered eight pupils at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva last week to his family, Army Radio reported Monday. According to the report, police said they would only release the body if the family promises to hold a "humble" funeral with few participants. The body was due to be released on Sunday, but the police against it, arguing that there were too many mourners gathered at the family home, in violation of an earlier agreement with the family. On Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held consultations with officials regarding...

(IsraelNN.com) Students at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva (Seminary) booed Education Minister Yuli Tamir after she came to pay a condolence call Sunday night following last week's massacre of eight young students by an Arab terrorist who was a resident of Jerusalem. Tamir said she was kicked, spat on and shouted at by a group of students who called her a "murderer" and ordered her to "get out of here" as she left the building after addressing the students. Students charged that the transfer of guns to terrorist groups in the Palestinian Authority forces authorized by her government had led to...

The bias of the mainstream media against Israel never ceases to amaze me. It must rank as one of the most curious sociopolitical phenomena of our era. The further the Palestinian Arabs move toward a barbaric Islamic theocracy, the deeper the support for them among the cadre of "progressive" journalists. An example of the entrenched bias is last Thursday's (March 6) article from the Associated Press, "7 die in shooting at Jerusalem seminary." Let us first examine the headline: "7 die." Seven what-people? Jews? Martians? And they are not killed, they simply "die," in the passive sense, as if from...

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem police arrested eight people over the weekend in connection with the massacre of eight yeshiva students at the Merkaz HaRav Kook Yeshiva last Thursday night. Jerusalem District Police Chief Aharon Franco confirmed on Saturday that eights suspects had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the terror attack, which police said was well- planned. No details on the eight suspects were released. Franco also said in an interview with Channel 2 TV that the killer did not fit the standard Palestinian Authority terrorist profile. “He is not known to the security forces. He was a normal man who...

White House urges Israel, PA to keep negotiations going despite attack on Jerusalem yeshiva. 'The most important thing is that the peace process continues,' says White House spokesman Reuters Published: 03.07.08, 19:17 / Israel News The White House on Friday urged Israel and the Palestinians to stick with US-backed peace efforts despite a shooting attack that killed eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. "The most important thing is that the peace process continue and that the parties are committed to it," White House spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters. Thursday's attack by a Palestinian gunman dealt another blow...

From Yeshiva World News: Yochai Lipshitz HYD, 18, of Yerushalayim; Neria Cohen HYD, 15, of Yerushalayim; Yonosan Yitzchak Eldar HYD, 16, of Shilo; Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld HYD, 19, of Kochav Hashachar; Roie Roth HYD, 18, of Elkana; Segev Peniel Avichayil HYD, 15, of Neve Daniel; Avraham Dovid Moses HYD, 16, of Efrat; and Doron Tronoch HYD, 26, of Ashdod. Hespeidim are scheduled to start at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva’s Bais Medrash at 10:00AM, and proceed to Har Hazeisim - and other Bais Hakvaros at approximately 11:30AM. At least seven Bochrim remain hospitalized, some of them in grave condition. Please be...

You cannot have it both ways! Every year in America, this “both ways” mentality gets worse and worse. Somewhere along the line Americans started thinking that we could have all of our rights and freedoms and have expedient justice and results at the same time. Well, I have to tell you: YOU CANNOT. There is a blend of the two that must be championed if we are going to continue being a successful country. The mortgage crisis of late is one of the great disasters caused by this “have it both ways” mentality. The government was constantly pressured by citizens...

DE KALB, Ill (CBS) ― A gunman opened fire on a geology class at Northern Illinois University Thursday afternoon, killing four people before killing himself on-stage in front of panicked students. Officials said the gunman opened fire in a lecture hall shortly after 3 p.m. and the campus was immediately placed on lockdown. The shooting happened at a geology lecture class in Cole Hall. Officials said the gunman emerged from behind a screen at the front of the lecture hall and opened fire with a shotgun. Police said the gunman, armed with a shotgun and two handguns, shot the professor...

TINLEY PARK, Ill. — A massive manhunt stretched into its third day Monday in the search for a gunman who killed five women — a manager and four customers — in the back room of a clothing store. The gunman entered the Lane Bryant store in a strip mall southwest of downtown Chicago on Saturday morning where he herded the victims to the back of the store before he shot them to death. The five victims include a part-time nurse, social worker, real estate agent with two sons and two others. A sixth victim, who pretended to be dead after...

The first time a knife was put to Anna Alwoch's face, her lips were hacked off by rebels. The next two times, sharp blades were used by surgeons to rebuild her mouth -- and the process is almost done. Alwoch (55) is on a list of candidates for plastic surgery to repair her face, along with other victims who were mutilated by members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda. The LRA massacred thousands and abducted over 10 000 children to be soldiers and sex slaves during its 20-year rebellion against the central government. More than two...

ISRAEL - PEACE - SURVIVAL, NOT GENOCIDE! In the beginning...Israel has always faced genocide, from the moment the Islamo Arab fascist leader, the infamous [later on exposed as Hitler's buddy] Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini has called, incited, led to "kill the Jews" in the 1920s. The Mufti, that prior to inciting to "kill the Yahud [Jews]" & leading massacres such as Hebron 1929 and the Farhud in 1941, has participated in the massacres and genocide of Christians, the Armenian Genocide that is [http://Armenian-Genocide.org], where 1.5 Million Christians were brutally murdered. An ally of the Nazi "Fuhrer": Adolph Hitler,...

Burma peace push starts here United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari is to meet with Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont next week to begin an Asian voyage to craft strategies for dealing with the Burmese military regime, the foreign ministry announced on Friday. "Gambari will first meet with Thai Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram Monday morning and then with Prime Minister Surayud in the afternoon," ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said. After Thailand, Gambari is to travel to Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and Japan to consult with Asian governments as part of his preparations for a return to Burma some time in November...

A traditional burial ground, or the site of a massacre? Questions continue to surround the discovery of the remains of more than 80 First Nations people at an excavation site near Departure Bay beach in Nanaimo. Excavation for a condo development uncovered the remains at the ancient Snuneymuxw burial site. On Friday, Nanaimo media members received an anonymous tip suggesting that at least 60 of the bodies were uncovered, with their hands bound and their heads removed, suggesting a massacre had occurred. Calls to Madrone Environmental Services, conducting the archeological excavation of the site near Departure Bay Road's 7-Eleven store,...

Human Rights: Anyone remember all the abuse the U.S. took over Iraq? In international arenas, we were vilified for using force to oust a brutal tyrant. Guess what: The choice in Burma is now either that or hypocrisy. The savagery in Burma now embodies every political nightmare in the recent annals of civilization. Like the French Reign of Terror, the Burmese junta is sending out tumbrel trucks to round up any democracy marcher it can identify from news photographs. As in Argentina's Dirty War, thousands of innocents are disappearing. From what little is known, Buddhist monks have been marched to...

Compassionate, concerned people are watching the disturbing and thrilling events in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. As pro-democracy protesters, sparked by the economic hardships endured by the people under the military dictatorship, face repression they have caught the attention of the world community. Missing from the reportage of major Western media outlets such as the New York Times and BBC News, has been the philosophical identification of the military dictatorship, namely the Burmese way to socialism, which is the state's official ideology.

Burma is rich in natural resources, yet one of the poorest countries in the world. Very little of the revenue goes to the people. Instead, the funds are keeping the country's military leaders in a life of luxury. Kate Woodsome at VOA's Asia News News Center in Hong Kong explains how Burma's money is being spent. Burmese citizens were shocked when a video of the wedding of Senior General Than Shwe's daughter found its way into public markets and onto the Internet last year. The video shows a portly bride adorned in diamonds and emeralds. Military police are shown escorting...

Rangoon (dpa) - In their ongoing crackdown on dissent in Rangoon, where tens-of-thousands took to the streets in protests last week, military authorities have arrested people who merely clapped for the demonstrators or took pictures of the events, sources said Thursday. On Wednesday night security personnel raided homes situated along Kyartawya Street, east of the Shwedagon Pagoda, and arrested scores of people who had allegedly given moral support to the monk-led peaceful demonstrations that rocked Rangoon between September 18 to 26, informed sources said. "Their crime was for clapping and encouraging the monks," said one observer. The Shwedagon, Rangoon's most...

Yangon - Myanmar's ruling military junta has released 80 monks and 149 women, believed to be nuns, who were rounded up in last week's demonstrations. A Burmese journalist has also been released. Earlier on Wednesday morning, more opponents of the military regime were arrested in the country's most important city Yangon. At least eight lorry loads of prisoners were taken to an undisclosed location. The arrests came a few hours after the departure of Ibrahim Gambari, the UN's special envoy to Myanmar. He met with junta leader General Than Shwe and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an attempt...

NEW DELHI: On a day when the United Nations along with India is celebrating Mahatma’s Gandhi’s life and his ideologies of truth and non-violence, the government’s refusal to condemn the use of force against demonstrations by peaceful Buddhist monks in neighbouring Burma is ironic. If Gandhi were alive would he not have spoken out? But the Congress-led coalition in New Delhi, has so far continued to walk a tight rope on the suppression of democracy in its neighbourhood. New Delhi is fighting shy of using its clout with the generals to broker a deal between the generals and the national...

Freedom: As thousands of monks marched on Rangoon last week, a velvet revolution seemed near. But barbarism destroyed the road to democracy. Burma's rulers sent a message that tyranny pays. It must stop. Burma is often characterized as a pariah state in the Western media, with its reclusive regime holding few friends or allies. In reality, that's fiction. Burma remains a fine upstanding member of the United Nations while a real Asian democracy, Taiwan, is shut out. Burma is also a full member of the region's Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Burma has China as a patron, doing $2 billion...

Blogger Niknayman has a list of names and affiliations of over 300 monks and civilians who have been arrested by the Myanmar Military Regime. Many are from the National League of Democracy, the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Newspapers across Asia are putting the number of detained people at 1500. Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norwegian organization reports that the number of arrested is much higher at over 2000. Death toll is rumoured to be in the hundreds, though the Myanmar Junta refuses to confirm the official number. Democratic Voice of Burma is quoting this announcement from Ko...

As protests spiral into chaos and bloodshed inside Burma, the country's giant neighbor, China, looks on with concern, worrying about a total meltdown on their borders, which could spread instability across its frontiers. After saying nothing for weeks, its senior leadership calls on the Burmese junta to act wisely, yet does not condemn their brutal crackdown or support the Burmese pro-democracy movement. But while the world has focused on how China abets the Burmese generals, in recent years the policies of India, the world's largest democracy, could be described in exactly the same way, and are just as craven. These...

The country's top brass seem to have learned nothing from the contempt they drew from the international community for their conduct 19 years ago when Burmese generals put down the popular uprising in 1988. Then Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, as the country's army commander-in-chief, blithely headed a high-ranking delegation to Rangoon shortly after the junta's resort to violence left some 3,000 people dead, and sent hundreds of thousands seeking refuge in Thailand. The visit was tantamount to condoning a military dictatorship elsewhere decried for the excesses against demonstrators. The trade-off? Some kind of arrangement involving Burmese timber and fishery. Not long...

UN envoy meets with Myanmar junta chief 02/10/2007 06h54 An image provided by the Democratic Voice of Burma, shows the body of a buddhist monk in a Yangon river©AFP/DVB YANGON (AFP) - UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Myanmar's junta leader Than Shwe in the nation's remote capital Tuesday, as the military regime insisted it was not to blame for a deadly crackdown on mass protests.Gambari had been waiting since the weekend to see the reclusive general to express global outrage after security forces put down protests led by Buddhist monks, leaving at least 13 dead and hundreds -- possibly...

They aren't used to quiet nights.After years in a cramped Burmese refugee camp, Ar Min Ro Dhin and his family were accustomed to the noise coming through their shelter's bamboo walls and floors, from the sounds of gunfire ricocheting to the voices of soldiers threatening to break into the camp."We were full of fear all the time, daytime and nighttime," Dhin, 36, said through a translator. "It was not very safe. We were worried about our future."Now, as Myanmar, also known as Burma, seethes with pro-democracy protests and violence, Dhin and his family are safe.Granted refuge in the United States,...

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand." Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand....

Thousands dead in the massacre of the monksLast updated at 01:05am on 1st October 2007 Comments Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: 'Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.' Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered...

PHILADELPHIA - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said Wednesday. The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified "contribution" to Marie Roberts, a mother of three. Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last Oct. 2, killing...

150th Anniversary of Mountain Meadows Massacre 11 September 2007 Elder Henry B. Eyring’s remarks at the Mountain Meadows Massacre Sesquicentennial on 11 September 2007, in Washington County, Utah. Dear Friends— I speak today, by assignment, on behalf of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In so doing, I express their appreciation for the invitation to participate on this program. It is important and appropriate that we meet together on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. We gather as relatives of the massacre victims and perpetrators and as unrelated but...

MOUNTAIN MEADOWS, Washington County — The lilting melody of a lone bagpipe and a Christian sermon on forgiveness echoed across this small mountain valley Saturday, as did the names of 120 men, women and children who were massacred here. Their memory is a solemn warning about the dangers of inflammatory rhetoric, peer pressure and myth disguised as fact, according to Western historian and author David Bigler. Members of the Mountain Meadows Association and others whose ancestors were either killed or did the killing on Sept. 11, 1857, joined in a memorial service — and later, a dinner meeting — to...

Paris, 1Sept. (IPS) By 1988, there was nothing left of the relatively free atmosphere people acquired for a short period after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)’s brutal machine of repression had already uprooted a great number of other thinkers. Thousands of activists and sympathisers of the opposition groups had been already arrested, tortured, forced to repent or summarily executed, and their political rallies and media were banned. The peak of atrocity was however a death-fatwa in summer of 1988 issued by Grand Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the founder of the IRI. The fatwa was initially...

Paris, 1Sept. (IPS) By 1988, there was nothing left of the relatively free atmosphere people acquired for a short period after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)’s brutal machine of repression had already uprooted a great number of other thinkers. Thousands of activists and sympathisers of the opposition groups had been already arrested, tortured, forced to repent or summarily executed, and their political rallies and media were banned. The peak of atrocity was however a death-fatwa in summer of 1988 issued by Grand Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the founder of the IRI. The fatwa was initially...

...Christopher Cain’s pedantic, made-for-TV-caliber account of Utah’s notorious Mountain Meadows Massacre bullies the audience with extremist hobgoblins and hearsay. The love story is pretty bad, too. Jon Voight stars. Grade: D+...

You can count on one person not waiting in line when the movie "September Dawn" opens on Friday. Mitt Romney says he will not go see the movie, billed as a dramatic recreation of the Mountain Meadows massacre, the killing of 120 unarmed Arkansas pioneers by Mormon settlers in Utah in 1857. The extent of the Mormon church's involvement has long been debated. "That was a terrible, awful act carried out by members of my faith," Romney said during an interview today with the Associated Press while his presidential campaign was in Reno, Nev. "There are bad people in any...

August, 1933 The Simele massacre, Iraq, the massacre & ethnic cleansing by Arab Muslims on Christian Assyrians, indigenous people August 7th ~ "Assyrian Ethnic Cleansing," The New Assyrian Martyrs Day “Though the body may perish, the soul lives on” August 7th of every year marks the Assyrian Martyrs Day, what began as the commemoration of the Simele massacre in 1933, where an estimated 3,000 Assyrians were systematically targeted by the Iraqi government to cleanse the Assyrian race, the indigenous people of Iraq whose roots date back to the Sumerians, the earliest recorded civilization in the mid 4th millennium B.C. The...