PAX GAEA WORLD POST HUMAN RIGHTS HEADLINES (12/6)
Bali bombers given appeal deadline
From correspondents in Jakarta
THREE Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings have until Christmas Eve to file a last-ditch appeal before a decision is taken on their execution, Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said today. Mr Saleh said their lawyers would be given until December 24 to demand a case review after checks revealed the convicts were only informed last month that the Supreme Court had upheld their death sentences in December 2005. Herald Sun (Australia) (12/6)
Tories to introduce gay marriage motion
The Conservatives will introduce a controversial motion Wednesday to reopen the issue of same-sex marriage, following through on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's election promise to revisit the issue. The motion, which is expected to be voted on Thursday, will call on the government to "introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages.'' But the motion is not expected to pass. And Harper has said if the House votes against changing the law to allow same-sex marriages, the matter would be settled. CBC (Canada) (12/6)
Meet the President
Commander takes executive power, appoints PM
By SAMANTHA RINA
Army Commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama yesterday took executive control of the country, saying he would act as President until an interim administration is appointed. The commander said the Republic of Fiji Military Forces had no choice but to take control because “the Government and all those empowered to make decisions in constitutional democracy are unable to make decisions to save people from destruction”. Fiji Sun (12/6)
VOA ups info ante as Pyongyang tries to squelch broadcasts
By TSUKASA ARITA and KOHEI MURAYAMA
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The Voice of America is expanding its Korean service aimed at the North Korean people, already isolated from the outside world and even more so since the country's missile and nuclear tests this year. Informing them about abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents in the past "is one of the important issues," said Dong Lee, chief of the U.S.-affiliated radio broadcaster's East Asia and Pacific Division Korean Service. "Although we don't get much out of it right now since there is no bilateral movement between Japan and North Korea . . . we are paying much attention" to what the Japanese government might do, Lee said. Japan Times (12/6)'
Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave.'
America now has staggering 7 million jailed citizens
As many people around the World continue in their amazement over the total moral and economic collapse of the American Nation, a possible new clue as to why this so was revealed this past week with the United States Department of Justice announcing the staggering rate in which their government has been jailing their own citizens, and which now stands at 7 million Americans. Pravda (Russia) (12/6)
World ponders rebuilding biggest Buddhas
Some ask whether Afghanistan's 1,500-year-old crumbled relics could or should be restored
Carlotta Gall, New York Times12-06) 04:00 PST
Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face -- a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world. In March 2001, when the Taliban and their sponsors in al Qaeda were at the zenith of their power in Afghanistan, militiamen acting on an edict to take down the "gods of the infidels" laid explosives at the base and the shoulders of the two Buddhas and blew them to pieces. To the outraged outside world, the act encapsulated the horrors of the Islamic fundamentalist government. San Francisco Chronicle (12/6)
U.S. security firm attacked in Afghanistan, seven killed
Argentina Star
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has killed seven people, including two Americans, outside the office of a U.S. security company in southern Afghanistan. Witnesses say the bomber walked up to the compound of security firm U.S.P.I. in the city of Kandahar and blew himself up among a crowd of people. They say the blast killed five Afghan employees of the company as well as the two American contractors. U.S.P.I. provides security guards to foreign companies working in Afghanistan on construction projects. Taleban militants claimed responsibility for Wednesday's blast, the latest in a wave of suicide attacks in Kandahar province since late November. Argentina Star (12/6)
DEVELOPMENT-COTE D'IVOIRE:
Calls for Service Payments Collide With Poverty
Aly Ouattara
KORHOGO, Northern Côte d'Ivoire, Dec 5 (IPS) - While there may be no such thing as a free lunch, people living in the north of Côte d'Ivoire have come close. For the past four years, free water and electricity have been supplied to citizens in this region, an area under rebel control. The New forces (Forces Nouvelles) are now making another attempt to get people to pay for the services, as small businesses and factories have been doing since 2004. But, their prospective customers seem distinctly unwilling to cough up the cash. Inter Press Service News Agency (Africa) (12/6)
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