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Showing posts with label dictator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictator. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2013
PDP slams Fashola, calls him a dictator ( What Do You Think?)
PDP slams Fashola, says he is a dictator ( What Do You Think?)
ABUJA—NATIONAL leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, took a swipe at Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, describing him as the brand new dictator for sealing off a house owned by former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, for criticising the recent deportation of Nigerians from the state.
Friday, March 15, 2013
What Happens When US Is After You: $2 trillion spent and 190,000 lives lost to kill one dictator
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, the Costs of War Project of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University released a report on the casualties and expenditures of the Iraq war.
The preamble of the report states, "The United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003 on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. The mass destruction of the invasion, occupation, and civil war followed, and amplified the societal and health disintegration caused by the previous decade of sanctions. Iraqi lives and communities remain war-devastated ten years on. American military and contractor families struggle with the loss of loved ones as well as the emotional and economic burdens of living with long-term injuries and illnesses. Total US federal spending associated with the Iraq war has been $1.7 trillion through FY2013. In addition, future health and disability payments for veterans will total $590 billion and interest accrued to pay for the war will add up to $3.9 trillion."
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to life in jail
Former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to life in jail for sanctioning human rights abuses between 1976 and 1983.
The sentence was handed down by a federal court in Buenos Aires.
Reynaldo Bignone, Argentina’s last dictator before the country’s return to democracy in 1983, was found guilty of crimes committed against 23 people, including seven women who were pregnant at the time of their arrest and detention. Their children were born in secret jails and were taken away from their parents.
The 85-year-old Bignone is already serving three life sentences for other crimes committed during the years of dictatorship, when, according to official figures, 18,000 people disappeared without a trace. Local human rights groups contest the figure though insisting that up to 30,000 disappeared.
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