Category Archives: Fail!

Most Syrian refugee children in Turkey are not in school: HRW | News | DW.COM | 09.11.2015

Over 400,000 Syrian refugee children in Turkey are not being educated, Human Rights Watch has said in a new report. Lack of schooling puts a whole generation in jeopardy and threatens to push more refugees to Europe.

Source: Most Syrian refugee children in Turkey are not in school: HRW | News | DW.COM | 09.11.2015

Christmas Island detention centre: Peter Dutton blames riot on ‘core group of criminals’ as extra police sent to restore order – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) {Racism thinly disguised?}

“We have been very clear about the fact that the Government’s not going to cower in the face of the activities of some of these criminals,” he said.”The initial reports, early reports that I’ve received, [are] the officers were met with little resistance but nonetheless there’s still a core group of criminals who are causing disruption and the Australian Federal Police and the Serco guards no doubt will deal with that threat in due course.

Source: Christmas Island detention centre: Peter Dutton blames riot on ‘core group of criminals’ as extra police sent to restore order – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro – The New York Times

Told that País had been executed the next year, in a different place, and that this had been amply documented, Rafael Cruz brushed off the mistake: “I don’t remember where País was killed,” he said.In his book “A Time for Truth,” published in June, Ted Cruz writes that the rebels who attacked the Santiago Police Headquarters met devastating resistance, and “All of the students were killed, as was their leader, Frank País.”But of the scores of rebels who participated in the attack, only a few actually were killed, according to eyewitness accounts and historical documents.Mr. Cruz did not defend his exaggeration of the number of rebels killed in the Nov. 30 uprising. “I mean, I left within a couple of days of that,” he said. “We left town.”Conflicting AccountsAll of the unrest in Santiago de Cuba led the Batista regime to close down the university there, and Mr. Cruz returned to Matanzas, on the north coast, where he says he began leading his old cell and running weapons. In Ted Cruz’s book, he graduated to saboteur, disrupting transportation and communications infrastructure throughout the province.“Yes, I know him,” said Liborio Vera Andreu, 79, a schoolmate and leader in the youth brigades in Matanzas. But he said Mr. Cruz’s involvement had been limited to participating “in strikes and in protests.”

Source: Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro – The New York Times

Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Israeli media claimed that the girl named Helwa Elayyan (22)  attempted to stab  a policeman and was immediately shot and left to bleed on the ground, surrounded by armed settlers and soldiers.

Source: Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mSm7YNxbFUThe Israeli soldiers broke into the station and took its fire extinguishers in order to put out a fire that had been lit outside, the eyewitness said.He said that the soldiers then went outside and at that moment al-Sharawi’s car approached towards the gas station from the direction of the Ras al-Jora area in what he called a normal manner.The Israeli soldiers opened fire on it with volleys of bullets.The eyewitness said al-Sharawi was likely trying to escape towards the gas station from the large amount of tear gas in the Ras al-Jora neighborhood when the soldiers riddled her car with bullets.Occupation forces then barred medics from reaching her, he said.More than half of the Palestinians killed since violence escalated at the start of October were killed during alleged, suspected and actual attacks that have killed 11 Israelis.

Source: Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada

Afghan Mullah Leading Stoning Inquiry Condones Practice – The New York Times – FAIL! 

One of the leaders of that presidential delegation, however, is a prominent, pro-government mullah who believes the stoning and flogging of adulterers is perfectly justified — as he made clear both in a sermon on the Ghor killing at Friday Prayer and in a subsequent interview on Friday.“If you’re married and you commit adultery, you have to be stoned,” said the mullah, Maulavi Inayatullah Baleegh, during his sermon at Pul-e Khishti mosque, Kabul’s biggest, on Friday. “The only question was whether this was done according to Shariah law, with witnesses or confessions as required,” he said. “It is necessary to protect and safeguard the honor of women in society, as it was done in the past during the time of the prophet.”

Source: Afghan Mullah Leading Stoning Inquiry Condones Practice – The New York Times

German BND Intelligence Spied on Friends and Vatican – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Three weeks ago, news emerged that Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), had systematically spied on friends and allies around the world. In many of those instances, the BND had been doing so of its own accord and not at the request of the NSA. The BND came under heavy criticism earlier this year after news emerged that it had assisted the NSA in spying on European institutions, companies and even Germans using dubious selector data.

Source: German BND Intelligence Spied on Friends and Vatican – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Stoning Rukhshana

What is justice?

Why is a 19-year-old girl stoned to death?

Why do police take no action?

Rukhshana is gone and our

Hearts cry for her

Rukhshana, I hope one day women

Change this country

Government is absent when it comes to women

Advocacy does not change it

Protesting does not end it

It happens over and over

It is time now to protect women from wrong traditions

Rukhshana was stoned because a

Girl in Afghanistan does not have a

Right to love, does not have the

Right to choose her life partner

Shall I write more?

Who will read and who will listen?

I am tired.

On Facebook I see only bad news about women in Afghanistan but

Good news about women from Afghanistan in other countries

We are the victims living here.

By Seeta

Source: Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Stoning Rukhshana

US presidential candidate Ben Carson says key detail of life story untrue, report | News | DW.COM | 06.11.2015

Ben Carson has conceded his story regarding a scholarship to an elite military academy is untrue, according to a report. The admission comes as the Republican candidate sees his popularity in the polls start to rise.

Source: US presidential candidate Ben Carson says key detail of life story untrue, report | News | DW.COM | 06.11.2015

PTA detainees in Sri Lanka: Prospects for justice | Groundviews

The fast by prisoners last month has given rise to fresh debate about justice for them. It is a sad reflection on Sri Lankan people and the new Government that the prisoners had to resort to such drastic action in order to even gain momentum for justice; for what is a categorical breach of these individuals’ fair trial rights and a failure of the criminal justice system. It has been reported that the fast was called off based on assurances by the President to offer a solution by 7 November 2015. However, what the President will offer as a solution is not clear.

Source: PTA detainees in Sri Lanka: Prospects for justice | Groundviews