Murder

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.

Berta Cáceres Murder: 4 Men Arrested Over Honduran Activist’s Death

May 3, 2016 Nina Lakhani, www.theguardian.com Resist! Activists, Latin America, Murder

By Nina Lakhani for The Guardian - Cáceres, who last year won the Goldman environmental prize for her work opposing the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque River, had previously reported both men to authorities for making threats against her life. Rodriguez had allegedly threatened Cáceres just days before her death as she led a protest by her group the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Copinh) to the river which is considered sacred by the indigenous Lenca people. Cáceres reported the incident to the authorities, and accused Desa of using local thugs to intimidate her.

‘Statement Of Solidarity’ With 2nd Anniversary May 2 Memorial In Odessa

April 26, 2016 Staff, www.UNACpeace.org Resist! Murder, State Violence

By Staff of United National Antiwar Coalition - Today Ana Edwards, representing the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), and Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and now prominent peace activist, delivered a Statement of Solidarity with Odessa to the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C. The statement calls on the governments of Ukraine, the United States and the city of Odessa to ensure the civic rights of the people of Odessa to hold a memorial program this coming May 2 to mark the second anniversary of the massacre of 46 profederation activists in that city at the hands of rightwing extremists.

No One Knows How Many Native Women Have Disappeared

April 16, 2016 Mary Annette Pember, www.rewire.news Educate! Disappearances, Indigenous Women, Murder

By Mary Annette Pember for Rewire - Although Trudi Lee was only 7 when her big sister went missing back in 1971, she wept when she talked about that traumatic event 45 years later. “Sometimes I would catch our mom crying alone,” Lee said. “She would never tell me why, but I knew it was over Janice.” Janice was 15 when she went missing near the Yakama reservation in Washington. Although her parents reported her missing to tribal law enforcement, there was never any news of the lively, pretty girl. “Mom died in 2001 without ever knowing what happened,” Lee said.

‘Berta Lives!’ Indigenous Groups March For Justice In Honduras

March 18, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Activists, Honduras, Land Rights, Murder

By Staff of Tele Sur - Activists from across Honduras have mobilized for two days of action to demand that the murders of Berta Caceres and Nelson Garcia do not go unpunished. Under the banner “Berta lives, the struggle continues!” Indigenous groups and supporters from across Honduras will march on the capital city Tegucigalpa on Thursday and Friday to demand justice for murdered environmental leader Berta Caceres and an end to repressive mining and dam projects that threaten Indigenous rights across the country.

Berta Cáceres Murder: Honduras Blocks Sole Witness From Leaving Country

March 10, 2016 David Agren, www.theguardian.com Educate! Activists, Enviornment, Honduras, Murder

By David Agren for The Guardian - Officials in Honduras have refused to allow the only witness to the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres to leave the country and return to his native Mexico. Gustavo Castro Soto, coordinator of Friends of the Earth Mexico and director of the NGO Otros Mundos, was shot twice during the attack on Cáceres on Thursday morning, and only survived by playing dead. Officials are treating him as a protected witness, according to the Associated Press, but activists say that the Honduran attorney general’s office has issued a 30-day immigration alert against him, preventing him from leaving the country.

Mass Protests Trigger On-Going Investigations Of Police Homicides

June 19, 2015 Dr. Martha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Murder, police brutality, Racial Justice

By Dr. Martha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - In a recent article entitled “Fatal Police Shootings in 2015 Approaching 400 Nationwide” theWashington Post reports that 385 people across the US ranging in age from 16-83 have died from police homicide. According to this report, one in six victims of police terror were unarmed, Black or Hispanic. Predictably, in light of the Department of Justice amnesty given to the killers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, officers were charged in less than 1% of the cases of police homicide. The magnitude of this violence should be unimaginable for a country that self-defines itself as civilized. Nelson Mandela, in response to the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which apartheid-era police killed 69 people, declared: "We no longer accept the authority of a state that makes war on its own people.”

Thou Shalt Not Kill

June 9, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Genocide, Imperialism, Murder, Wars and Militarism

By Chris Hedges in Truth Dig - The military in the United States portrays itself as endowed with the highest virtues—honor, duty, self-sacrifice, courage and patriotism. Politicians, entertainers, sports stars, the media, clerics and academics slavishly bow before the military machine, ignoring its colossal pillaging of state resources, the egregious war crimes it has normalized across the globe, its abject service not to democracy or freedom but corporate profit, and the blind, mind-numbing obedience it inculcates among its members. A lone soldier or Marine who rises up inside the system to denounce the hypermasculinity that glorifies violence and war, who exposes the false morality of the military, who refuses to kill in the service of imperial power, unmasks the military for what it is. And he or she, as Chelsea Manning has learned, swiftly pays a very, very heavy price.

Standing Against Rampant Killings in Black Communities

June 4, 2015 Don Rojas, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Murder, Police violence, Racism

By Don Rojas, Institute for a Black World. Black families across the country are being traumatized and whole neighborhoods are being destroyed by an epidemic of homicide that’s sweeping the nation and thousands plan to gather in Washington DC on Saturday, June 6 to demand that the country’s political leaders develop a public policy agenda that addresses homicide as a public health crisis. Led by Mothers in Charge (MIC), a grass roots Philadelphia-based organization with chapters in six states, families and community residents from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, New York and Washington DC are expected to gather at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday morning to draw attention to homicide as a national tragedy. Two dozen organizations that are members of the Institute of the Black World’s (IBW) Black Family Summit, along with several other national organizations from around the country are supporting the MIC’s Washington rally under the banner of “Standing for Peace and Justice.”

Beyond Drones Debate: Should US Be Judge, Jury & Executioner?

June 3, 2015 Adam Hudson, www.truth-out.org Educate! Drones, Imperialism, Islamophobia, Murder

By Adam Hudson in Truthout - Throughout the war on terror, drone strikes and other covert operations have, so far, killed around 3,000 to over 5,000 people, including about 500 to over 1,200 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Since the first US drone strike in 2002, US drones have also killed 38 Westerners, including 10 US citizens. At least 18 are European citizens, according to the Bureau's numbers. Drone strikes also inflict serious psychological trauma on communities who live under them. A Stanford and New York University report points out that drone strikes inflict harm that "goes beyond death and physical injury ... Their presence terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities."

Guatemalans Deliberately Infected With STDs Sue Johns Hopkins For $1bn

April 7, 2015 Oliver Laughland, www.theguardian.com Resist! Guatemala, Imperialism, Medicine, Murder, usa

Nearly 800 plaintiffs have launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University over its alleged role in the deliberate infection of hundreds of vulnerable Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhoea, during a medical experiment programme in the 1940s and 1950s. The lawsuit, which also names the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, alleges that both institutions helped “design, support, encourage and finance” the experiments by employing scientists and physicians involved in the tests, which were designed to ascertain if penicillin could prevent the diseases.

Drone Attack: Media & 13-Year-Old Yemeni Boy Burned To Death

February 11, 2015 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! Canada, Drones, Murder, usa

On January 26, the New York Times claimed that “a CIA drone strike in Yemen. . . . killed three suspected Qaeda fighters on Monday.” How did they know the identity of the dead? As usual, it was in part because “American officials said.” There was not a whiff of skepticism about this claim despite the fact that “a senior American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, declined to confirm the names of the victims” and “a C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment.” That NYT article did cite what it called “a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” (AQAP), who provided the names of the three victims, one of whom was “Mohammed Toiman al-Jahmi, a Yemeni teenager whose father and brother were previously killed in American drone strikes.”

Mexican Mayor Charged With Murder Of Students

November 16, 2014 Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Murder

José Luis Abarca allegedly ordered the police to attack the students because he feared they were going to disrupt an event designed to promote a bid by his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, to replace him as mayor in 2015. Surviving students, from the radical teacher training college in Ayotzinapa, about two hours’ drive away, said they were in Iguala to commandeer buses to use in future protests. They say the attacks began when police blocked their convoy as they were leaving town at about 9pm. The students claim some of the passengers descended from the bus to confront the officers, who began firing indiscriminately in their direction for about 30 minutes before making dozens of arrests. One student was shot in the face in the first attack; several more were seriously injured.

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