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Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany

Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo.

Rwandan priest acquitted of genocide charges

A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

Turkey: Indicted Sudan leader won't attend summit

Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.

Prosecutor: Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids'

A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide.

Life sentence for Rwandan convicted of war crimes

A Rwandan man who was the first person convicted under a law allowing people in Canada to be tried for war crimes committed abroad has been sentenced to life in prison.

Key Rwandan genocide suspect pleads not guilty

A top suspect accused of forming secret death squads and orchestrating the killings of thousands during Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to war crimes charges.

Uganda wants $5m for arrest of genocide suspect

A Ugandan official says the country wants to claim a $5 million reward offered by the United States for the capture of a Rwandan genocide suspect.

A look at key suspects in Rwanda's genocide

A look at some of the top suspects and convicts in Rwanda's 1994 genocide:

Top Rwanda genocide suspect caught in Uganda

A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide — including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen — has been captured, police said Tuesday.

NY appeals court rules for Canadian energy company

A federal appeals court in New York has ruled that a lawsuit alleging that a Canadian energy company aided genocide in its pursuit of oil in Sudan was properly thrown out.

Ohio panel rules against congressional challenger

An Armenian-American congressional challenger made false campaign statements with reckless disregard for the truth when he said an Ohio congresswoman took money from the Turkish government and Turkish government-sponsored interests, the Ohio Elections Commission found Thursday.

Ohio panel hears congresswoman's complaint

An Ohio congressional candidate defended statements he made about a state congresswoman, telling an election panel Thursday he had reason to believe she took money from Turkish government-sponsored interests in return for a denial that the country committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.

Suspect pleads not guilty to Rwanda church deaths

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded not guilty on Monday to crimes against humanity at a U.N. tribunal trying the alleged masterminds of the slaughter.

Ohio elections panel hears lawmaker's complaint

The Turkish government covertly funneled campaign money to an Ohio congresswoman in return for her denials that the mass killings of Armenians during World War I constituted genocide, an Armenian American and his high-powered attorney argued at a state hearing Thursday.

Trial of suspect in Rwandan church massacre begins

A Rwandan businessman went on trial Monday for allegedly ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter, and watching as they were crushed or hunted down by armed gangs.

Brother of NZ victim rages at Khmer Rouge trial

The brother of a New Zealander tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge three decades ago told the man who ordered the execution on Monday that he wished him a similarly gruesome fate.

Khmer Rouge court told how Westerner burned alive

A former security guard at the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison told a tribunal Wednesday he watched as a Western prisoner was burned alive.

Ex-Rwanda governor sentenced to life for genocide

A U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced a former governor in Rwanda to life in prison Tuesday after finding that he was one of the main perpetrators of genocide in the African country in 1994.

Khmer Rouge twisted prisoner's ankles with pliers

A woman tortured by the Khmer Rouge testified Wednesday that she has spent most of her life trying to forget the horrors she endured in the 1970s and never spoke of the past, even to her husband and children.

Child survivor of Khmer prison weeps at trial

A man who was a child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center 30 years ago testified Thursday at the trial of the facility's commander that he hid under a pile of clothes to escape a final purge of inmates before Vietnamese troops ended the regime's reign of terror.

Ex-minister gets 30 years in Rwanda genocide

A U.N. court trying alleged masterminds of Rwanda's genocide sentenced a former interior minister to 30 years in prison Monday for tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill, only to watch them get slaughtered by militias.

Prison chief: Pol Pot ordered 4 Westerners killed

Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot personally ordered the killing and burning of four Western prisoners who were captured while sailing in Cambodian waters, a former prison chief on trial for crimes against humanity testified Wednesday.

Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill

Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual — some say risky — move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the U.S. should label Turkey's slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide.

Khmer Rouge torturer recounts baby-killing policy

Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could never take revenge for their parents' deaths, the group's chief jailer testified Monday.

Obama says nations must stop genocide

President Barack Obama says the international community has an obligation to stop genocide, even when it's inconvenient.

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Anti-Israeli rally: demonstrators invade hotel, arrested as Oz Deputy PM attacks Goldstone
Source: ynetnews.com

Pro-Palestinian human rights demonstrators arrested after invading Melbourne hotel where Deputy PM of Australia spoke to Minister Shalom, Zionists, mentioning Oz boycott of Durban II and attacking Goldstone.

Squalene: Bush called MF59 the smallest biggest biowar-weapon ever, reports Finnish blogger
Source: The Flu Case

MF59 is in the Mex.flu vaccine. It is in the patent-applications. Furthermore, MF59 is added a million times more in these vaccine's than it was during the Gulfwar-vaccinations.

Plague Reported in Russia
Source: The Flu Case

An outbreak of pneumonic plague similar to that recently reported in the Ukraine and Poland has killed at least thirty people in the city of Saratow, reports Germany's Der Spiegel.

Reported swine flu deaths in China triple in two weeks, H1N1 Influenza virus causes 178 fatalities
Source: Examiner

The number of deaths caused by the swine flu in China have increased sharply over the past few weeks. There is conjecture that this is due to a warning to local officials about covering up the effect of swine flu on China.

"Strengthened" Vaccination Centers to Open in Paris
Source: The Flu Case

The mayor of Paris has said that 10 additional sports facilities are to be opened by the end of the week as part of the operation to mass vaccinate the entire population with the swine flu shot.

Much of UK Population Exposed to Germ Spraying By Government
Source: The Flu Case

Report shows much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials in 2002. The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.

WHO: Pesticide exposure may make you want to kill yourself (Study)
Source: Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com

China has a very high suicide rate. Forty-four percent of the world's suicides are committed in China. Suicide is also the fifth-leading cause of death in China.

Anglican Church Backs Gay-Extermination in Uganda

The nation of Uganda voted in 2006 to criminalize homosexuality with a 14-year prison sentence. But this year the government seeks to up the ante be making homosexuality a crime punishable by death. So how does the Anglican Church respond? Here's how:

Novartis partnering with HHS inaugurates first large-scale flu cell culture vaccine and squalene adjuvant manufacturing facility in North Carolina
Source: Holly Springs Sun

The Novartis Holly Springs facility can also start producing MF59®, the Novartis proprietary adjuvant, as early as December 2009. Although not yet approved in the US, studies with adjuvants are currently underway in the US.

Vaccine Blamed for Polio Outbreaks in Nigeria
Source: Dr. Mercola

Nigeria and many other nations use an oral polio vaccine because it's cheaper, easier, and protects entire communities. But it's made from a live polio virus which carries a risk of causing polio.

Doctors in Ukraine say President Yushchenko created Pandemic and deliberately infected Ukrainians with California H1N1 Virus
Source: The Flu Case

Doctors in the Ukraine have signed an open letter alleging that the flu pandemic which has cost the lives of hundreds of people has been deliberately created by President Yushchenko and his allies in order to retain power.

Hemorrhagic Death: Victims in Ukraine, USA, Norway, and Hong Kong, mirror deaths experienced by victims of the 1918 Spanish flu
Source: The Flu Case

New reports from Iowa and North Carolina are raising concerns that the deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been confirmed by the WHO in Ukraine, Norway and elsewhere have already reached the United States.

Environmental "Stars" Sign up for UK Trust Advocating Population Reduction
Source: The Flu Case

The patrons of the UK's Optimum Population Trust reads like a Who's Who's of the environmental movement, and include Jonathan Porrit, green government advisor, who said in March in an article reported by the Times that the population of the UK "must fall to 30 million" - without  …

More pictures of Starving Gazans ®
Source:

"Pictures taken this week, from Palestine Today"

Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
Source: New Statesman Contents

Consensual homosexual acts between adults are still illegal in as many as 70 countries. Most countries have moved to a liberalisation of those unjust and repressive laws.

Swine flu outbreak stirs panic, political discord in Ukraine
Source: The Boston Globe

One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if i …

MSM ignore Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan & Climate Genocides

The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.

Rabbi who endorses killing babies has an unexpected donor
Source: Haaretz

Government ministries regularly transfer support and funding to a yeshiva whose rabbi determined that it is permissible to kill gentile babies "because their presence assists murder,

Iran's "Apartheid Wall"
Source:

"A senior Kurdish official confirms Iran's start on the building of a wall separating the Islamic Republic with Iraq's Kurdistan Region, meant to prevent separatists from crossing the mountainous border"

Another apology. This time for kids shipped from Britain to colonies
Source: express.co.uk

Lovely cartoon. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a ... apology Monday to ... British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony ...

British scientists testing Ukrainian 'super flu' that has killed 189 people
Source: the Mail online

British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated. A total of 189 people have died and more than one million have been infected in the country. Some doctors have likened the symptoms to those seen in many …

Are Muslims better people?
Source: Hurriyet

Two days ago, I read something in the newspapers that really shocked me. It was a statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he defended the planned visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Turkey.

Public Radio of Armenia
Source: armradio.am

Senator John McCain (Rep., AZ, USA) has publicly recognized the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Slowly, but surely, the world is recognizing and is some cases remembering the Armenian genocide conducted by the Turks.

Armenian President Defends Turkey Policy
Source: rferl.org

Relations are tightly woven around the genocide carried out by the Turks in the beginning of the 20th century.

Pro-US, pro-Zionist Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report at UN General Assembly
Source: Australian News Network

Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.

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