Murder

Ferguson Protest Leader Darren Seals Shot And Found Dead

September 12, 2016 Lois Beckett, www.theguardian.com Educate! Activists, Ferguson, Murder, Protests

By Lois Beckett for The Guardian - Ferguson protest leader Darren Seals was found dead early Tuesday morning in a car that had been set on fire. Seals had been shot, and St Louis County police said they were investigating his death as a homicide. The 29-year-old’s death sent waves of shock and grief through the community of activists in Missouri who protested the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014. “We have lost a great champion of civil rights in our community,” said Bassem Masri, a friend who had live-streamed the Ferguson protests, sometimes with Seals walking behind him to protect him as he filmed.

More Murder, Arrests And Torture: Israeli Response To Uprising In Palestine

August 15, 2016 Richard Hardigan, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Israel, Murder, Palestine, Uprising

By Richard Hardigan for Counter Punch. Waleed was freezing. He was wearing only a thin t-shirt, and it was a cold March night earlier this year in his village of Awerta, which lies just outside Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. The soldiers had come for him at two o’clock in the morning. Abdullah, his younger brother, had been awake, and when he felt the soldiers’ heavy steps and heard their loud voices speaking Hebrew outside their home, he rushed upstairs to warn the rest of the family. The element of surprise is an important tool in the home invasions the Israeli army conducts in the Occupied Territories. That is why the soldiers come at night. Most likely the residents will be sleeping, and they will not have time to hide whatever is they want to keep from the soldiers.

Canada Launches Investigation Into Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women

August 5, 2016 Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Women, Investigation, Murder

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours for Aljazeera - Toronto, Canada - Canada has announced the details of a long-awaited federal inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Canadian Minister of Indigenous Affairs Carolyn Bennett said a national, independent commission would begin working on what has been described as a "national human rights crisis" on September 1. Bennett said the commission would have the "historic" ability to gather information across Canada and she thanked the indigenous families that have already shared their experiences.

Why We’re The Murder Capital Of The World

July 20, 2016 Jack Balkwill, www.intrepidreport.com Educate! Murder

By Jack Balkwill for Intrepid Report - One of the many important discussions we do not see in our corporate media is the question, “Why is the USA the most violent nation of earth?” The answer is complex, and follows in this article, but first I will attempt to make the case. The first thing I considered was to gather the latest data on murder rates per 100,000, and I did this for the ten major industrialized nations by GDP.

Disastrous Toll – 21 Latin American Journalists Killed In Past Six Months

July 6, 2016 Staff, www.rsf.org Educate! Journalism, Latin America, Murder

By Staff of RSF - This disastrous toll is attributable in part to flawed or non-existent protective mechanisms but above all to the alarming level violence, corruption and impunity in most of the region’s countries – a region that is now one of the world’s most dangerous for media personnel. As in 2015, Mexico continues to register the biggest death toll, with nine journalists murdered in the first half of 2016. It is followed by Guatemala with five, Honduras with three, Brazil with two and Venezuela and El Salvador with one.

Chilean, Trained By School Of Americas, Guilty In Murder Of Singer

June 29, 2016 Linda Cooper and James Hodge, www.ncronline.org Educate! Activists, Chile, Latin America, Murder, Music

By Linda Cooper and James Hodge for National Catholic Reporter - Nearly 43 years after the assassination of a famed Chilean folksinger, a Florida jury has found a former Chilean lieutenant liable for his grisly murder in the days after a U.S.-backed coup brought dictatorAugusto Pinochet to power. A six-member Orlando jury found Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez liable Monday (June 27) for the torture and murder of Victor Jara, rejecting the main defense argument that Barrientos never stepped foot in Chile Stadium where the folksinger was held with 5,000 others immediately after the coup.

Berta Cáceres’s Name Was On Honduran Military Hitlist

June 22, 2016 Nina Lakhani, www.theguardian.com Educate! Activists, Environment, Honduras, Latin America, Murder

By Nina Lakhani for The Guardian - Berta Cáceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before her death, a former soldier has claimed. Lists featuring the names and photographs of dozens of social and environmental activists were given to two elite units, with orders to eliminate each target, according to First Sergeant Rodrigo Cruz, 20. Cruz’s unit commander, a 24-year-old lieutenant, deserted rather than comply with the order. Cruz – who asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of reprisal – followed suit...

Mexico: Brutal Repression Of Teachers Movement Kills Six

June 21, 2016 Jorge Martín, www.marxist.com Resist! killed by police, Mexico, Murder, Oaxaca, Strikes, Teachers

By Jorge Martín for In Defense of Marxism - This is the latest instance of brutal repression by the Mexican government of Peña Nieto against the months long movement of teachers against an education counter reform. On Friday, June 17, thousands of police officers formed a human wall which prevented a teachers’ demonstration from reaching the centre of Mexico City, where their camp had already been brutally evicted days earlier. Thousands of teachers have been sacked from their jobs for refusing the pass tests which are part of the education “reform”, hundreds have been arrested including many of the leaders of the democratic teachers’ union, CNTE.

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

June 20, 2016 Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com Resist! Japan, Murder, Okinawa, Protests, US military

By Justin McCurry for The Guardian - Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa have taken part in one of the biggest protests against US military bases in recent years, weeks after the arrest of an American base worker in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old local woman. The protesters, many of whom wore black, braved scorching heat to call for an end to the island’s role as host to more than half the 47,000 US troops in Japan.

Can The People Force The Release Of The JFK Files?

June 15, 2016 Jefferson Morley, www.alternet.org Resist! Classified, JFK, Murder

By Jefferson Morley for Amazon Publishing - The CIA’s last assassination-related files might help us answer that question. These files constitute a significant body of material—more than 1,100 files containing up to 50,000 pages of material. As we have seen, these are the files of senior officers implicated in the JFK assassination story. My hunch is that this trove of long-secret intelligence files — if declassified in its entirety — will support the notion that the president was ambushed by enemies within his own government.

Will Outrage Over Recent Murders Help Honduran Environmental Activists

June 15, 2016 Victoria Molina, www.ensia.com Resist! Activists, Environment, Honduras, Murder

By Victoria Molina for Ensia - June 13, 2016 — When Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres was gunned down in her home last spring the international community and even activists in the notoriously violent country were shocked. Her death followed threats related to her support for indigenous people fighting the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam along the Gualcarque River. A few days after her death Nelson García, another leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (known as COPINH), which Cáceres founded in 1993 to advocate for the native Lenca peoples’ rights, was also murdered.

Okinawan Women Demand US Forces Leave After Rape & Murder

June 14, 2016 Takazato Suzuyo, www.apjjf.org Resist! Japan, Murder, Okinawa, Rape, US military

By Takazato Suzuyo for The Asian-Pacific Journal - A 20-year-old woman missing since late April was found dead on May 16, 2016. The suspect is a former Marine who is a civilian employee of the U.S. military at Kadena Airbase. Local police report that he confessed to the woman’s rape and murder, and told them the location of her corpse. This crime comes barely six weeks after a U.S. sailor assigned to Camp Schwab was arrested for the rape of a Japanese woman in a Naha hotel.

Victims Of Death Squads Can Sue Chiquita Executives

June 6, 2016 Valentina Stackl, www.earthrights.org Resist! Colombia, Corporate crime, Murder

By Valentina Stackl for Earth Rights International - In a victory for accountability for corporate crimes, families of those murdered by Colombian paramilitary death squads can proceed with a U.S. federal lawsuit against former Chiquita executives. Yesterday, JudgeKenneth Marra of the Southern District of Florida ruledthat, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations, “profits took priority over basic human welfare” in the banana company executives’ decision to finance the illegal death squads, despite knowing that this would advance the paramilitaries’ murderous campaign.

In Honduras, USAID Was In Bed With Berta Cáceres’ Accused Killers

May 30, 2016 Gloria Jimenez, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Corruption, Honduras, Murder

By Gloria Jimenez for Counter Punch - Less than three months before Lenca leader Berta Cáceres was brutally assassinated, the social arm of Desarollos Energeticos SA (DESA)–the Honduran company leading the Agua Zarca dam project Cáceres was campaigning against–signed a contract with USAID implementing partner Fintrac, a Washington DC based development contracting firm. The DESA representative who was present for the public signing of the USAID agreement was none other than Sergio Rodríguez, the company’s Social Investment Manager...

After Murder Of Berta Cáceres European Financiers Stop Funding Dam Project

May 10, 2016 Brian Salamanca, www.foe.org Resist! Finance, Latin America, Murder

By Brian Salamanca for Friends Of The Earth - WASHINGTON D.C.- In an announcement today, FMO stated that it took the decision after a court in Honduras decided on May 8th to press charges against four individuals in connection with the murder of Berta Cáceres. One of the suspects is the acting Manager for social and environmental matters of the Honduran company DESA, the developer of the Agua Zarca project. FMO and FinnFund will organise a mission to Honduras, to take place as soon as possible, comprised of independent experts, to develop a strategy for exiting the project.

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