Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Oct 30 (IPS) – The dismissal of 20 officers and seven noncommissioned officers for extrajudicial executions of civilians presented as battlefield casualties ”is a triumph for human rights organisations and for Colombian society [...]
INDIA: End 50-Year Crackdown in Manipur, Rights Groups Urge
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) – In the world’s largest democracy, people are shot to death on mere suspicion. For half a century, the population of Manipur State in northeast India has suffered from [...]
US PREDATOR STRIKES IN FATA STEPPED UP
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Intel Net Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.462 B.RAMAN “The reported US assurances to respect Pakistani sovereignty in its territory did not apply to air strikes, which could continue as before. In fact, the Pakistan Army itself [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Cutoff Threat Unlikely to Save Iraq Troop Pact
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – The threat by the George W. Bush administration last week to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not accept the [...]
SRI LANKA: Tamil Rebels Defy Siege With Aerial Bombings
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. IPS Correspondents COLOMBO, Oct 29 (IPS) – Aerial bombings carried out on the capital and a northern military base, late Tuesday night, have signalled that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains a fighting force [...]
