The ground zero situation in Syria is very grim. In the city of Quasayr, makeshift field hospitals are treating wounded people under extremely difficult conditions. ...
11:05 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Beirut: Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad killed six soldiers in the southern province of Deraa on Saturday and at least eight others in clashes on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported. "There were heavy clashes between Syrian forces and fighters from the opposition in (Deraa)... resulting in the death of at least 6 Syrian troops," the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...
07:02 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Washington: A US government website on Friday published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces. The website, operated by a bureau of the State Department, published a series of overhead photos, said to be taken earlier this week by commercial satellite, showing what it said were mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla. They also...
02:25 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Geneva: Syrian forces and pro-government militia accused of committing a massacre in Houla could face prosecution for crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on Friday and rights experts said Syrian authorities had directly ordered torture. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called again for the Security Council to refer Syria to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and for world powers to help implement Kofi...
09:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Beirut: Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly contradicted accounts of witnesses who blamed "shabiha" or the shadowy gunmen who operate on behalf of President Bashar al Assad's regime. The UN also said it had strong...
03:21 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Beirut: When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead. The Syrian boy tried to stop himself from trembling, even as the gunmen, with long beards and shaved heads, killed his parents and all four of his siblings, one by one. The...
03:07 AM, May 31, 2012
Washington: Shocking as it was, the massacre of more than 100 Syrian villagers is unlikely to galvanize a military assault like last year's campaign in Libya to oust Muammar Gaddafi. The killings, however, did provoke the strongest international condemnation the United States and other nations could muster. The US joined more than a dozen nations in expelling Syrian diplomats on Tuesday, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pushed for further,...
01:59 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Three days after Zakia Jaffri was given a copy of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Amicus Curiae reports in the 2002 riots, she filed a fresh application on Thursday. In her application, Zakia listed those documents that had not been handed over to her. She has asked for the preliminary SIT report filed by A K Malhotra dated May 5, 2012. The next hearing in...
05:44 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. Read the full text of the final report: SUBMITTED BY: RAJU RAMACHANDRAN, SENIOR ADVOCATE (AMICUS CURIAE) I.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: 1.This Hon'ble Court vide order dated 27.04.2009 directed the Special Investigation Team [hereinafter 'SIT'] to "look into" the complaint submitted by the Petitioner No. 1 on...
02:34 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. According to Ramachandran the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) found that the conduct of certain police officials and public prosecutors were deficient while dealing with riots while commenting that offences can be made against Modi under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)....
02:31 PM, May 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT found no prosecutable evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The report is 25,000-pages long. The court has asked Jafri to file an application if she feels there are discrepencies in the report or that documents are incomplete, on...
01:49 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the case. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan...
12:13 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad will on Monday hand over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who...
10:28 AM, May 07, 2012
Oslo: The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed account of his car bomb attack at government headquarters in Oslo on July 22, which killed eight people, followed hours later by his shooting of...
02:16 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police. In a chilling account, the far-right fanatic claimed on Thursday that he sharpened his aim by playing the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" for hours on end. Breivik told an Oslo court he also took steroids to build physical strength and meditated to "de-emotionalize" himself before...
11:58 AM, Apr 20, 2012
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