"FDLR and LRA combatants are responsible for the great majority of killings of civilians documented by Human Rights Watch. Both armed groups are deliberately terrorizing and punishing civilians and attacking their property as a military tactic in retaliation for Congolese government military operations. Those who committed or ordered such attacks are responsible for war crimes.

On May 10, for example, FDLR combatants brutally massacred at least 86 civilians, including 25 children, 23 women, and seven elderly men at Busurungi, in the Waloaloanda area of Walikale territory, North Kivu. Twenty-four others were seriously wounded. Some of the victims were tied up and executed; others were shot or their throats were slit by knives or machetes as they tried to flee. A number of people were burned to death when FDLR combatants deliberately locked them in their homes and torched the village."

Given the track record of the Sri Lankan government, there are very significant grounds to question whether these statements were voluntary

one thing that i would like is for Paul Rogers (the Bradford uni peace studies professor, not any other Paul Rogers one could infer i am referring to) to tell us what he really thinks.

his staff homepage emphasises his radical assessment and uniquely cogent analysis.

i would like somebody to come along and tell me in a nutshell what he thinks, and the implications of these thoughts. in fact i would like this very much.

i would also like it if Matthew Elliott of the TaxPayers' Alliance would say less.

i would dearly like that.

what are we doing?

"Navy chiefs say each carrier must have 36 aircraft to run continuous operations"

"A spate of deadly bombings has prompted the United Nations to suspend food distribution to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in the southern Philippines, a UN official said Wednesday."

"Chinese officials did not give a breakdown of the deaths, and it was unclear how many of them were protesters and how many were other civilians or police officers."

thank you

thank you

thank you

truth and sanity in an often ugly, hijacked debate

"The vast majority of people who live in social housing in Britain were born in the UK according to a research study published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission today. The study found that less than two per cent of all social housing residents are people who have moved to Britain in the last five years and that nine out of ten people who live in social housing were born in the UK."
yo

Epoch Times: "According to Xinhua, China's mouthpiece, 156 Uighurs have been killed in the massacre—although no independent source has been able to verify this number.

"Sources at Xinjiang University estimate the number of dead at "nearly 400," including many outside Xinjiang University, Kadeer said, but she cautioned that "we can't confirm" that number," said Rebiya Kadeer, World Uyghur Congress and Uyghur American Association leader, according to Radio Free Asia."

one thing i must clear up is my dislike for the Tory party.

this covers both the British Tories and the Canadian Tories.

thank you.

and, yes, i have said to myself 'why we're the same age'. sad ain't it.

water

hops

barley

grids


networks

truth and power and events and interlocking things and words and a cup of coffee that is not good for the body but is for 'the soul'

systems

capitalism, in the raw, fucking with you, and all your community

the fact that this is not an epic fail, in domestic opinion terms and so on, is, of course, an epic FAIL

on the left is independent Pinay-cockney-Englishwoman mechanic baby momma Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena. on the right, the completely adorable Shola Ama






big big love

i should probably add i have long wanted to go to bed with Elastica bassist Annie Holland.

i could have said something more subtle than the previous sentence, couldn't i? something that anybody reading would have instantly understood as meaning the above, but just phrased more lightly, yunno? a bit classier, give the place a bit of a sophisticated vibe.

but, frankly, i thought, sod that.