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Sunday, February 9, 2014
Mexico ( Woman " pleads for mercy " before they kill her ) Homicide video
Video where a woman is interrogated by another opposing group says it is dedicated to getting licenses with other names for Cabrera responds that cabrera have killed innocent people and quartered, and the governor of Durango supports the group.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Temecula Ca ( Man points " Shotgun " at Girl Scout selling cookies )
A Temecula man accused of pointing a shotgun at a 7-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies door-to-door pleaded not guilty to assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday, Feb. 5.
John Michael Dodrill, 59, didn’t speak during his brief arraignment at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley. A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.
Dodrill, who is being held with bail set at $25,000, sat on a bench with other inmates, wearing orange jail clothes and shackles.
Judge Judith Clark approved a criminal protective order for Dodrill to stay away from the girl and her father.
The father was in court for the hearing but declined to comment afterward.
The father reported the run-in with Dodrill late Sunday morning on Strawberry Tree Lane in a gated condominium complex on the southern end of town, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said.
The girl, pulling a wagon filled with cookies, had walked up to Dodrill’s front door and rung the bell while her father waited nearby, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney’s office. When no one answered, she tried knocking.
Hall said Dodrill opened the door while holding a shotgun at his side, then raised it toward the child as her father looked on.
“He said something to the effect of, ‘You should know better than to knock on my door,’” Hall said.
Dodrill then slammed the door shut, Hall said.
The stunned father called his daughter over to him and dialed 911.
Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Aveling said it was unclear why Dodrill had such an extreme reaction. Dodrill and the family don’t know each other, Aveling said, and deputies had never been called to that address for any complaints in the past.
“It’s definitely a shocker,” he said.
Sheriff’s officials have said they seized several guns from Dodrill’s home.
Contact Sarah Burge at 951-368-9694 or sburge@pe.com
John Michael Dodrill, 59, didn’t speak during his brief arraignment at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley. A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.
Dodrill, who is being held with bail set at $25,000, sat on a bench with other inmates, wearing orange jail clothes and shackles.
Judge Judith Clark approved a criminal protective order for Dodrill to stay away from the girl and her father.
The father was in court for the hearing but declined to comment afterward.
The father reported the run-in with Dodrill late Sunday morning on Strawberry Tree Lane in a gated condominium complex on the southern end of town, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said.
The girl, pulling a wagon filled with cookies, had walked up to Dodrill’s front door and rung the bell while her father waited nearby, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney’s office. When no one answered, she tried knocking.
Hall said Dodrill opened the door while holding a shotgun at his side, then raised it toward the child as her father looked on.
“He said something to the effect of, ‘You should know better than to knock on my door,’” Hall said.
Dodrill then slammed the door shut, Hall said.
The stunned father called his daughter over to him and dialed 911.
Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Aveling said it was unclear why Dodrill had such an extreme reaction. Dodrill and the family don’t know each other, Aveling said, and deputies had never been called to that address for any complaints in the past.
“It’s definitely a shocker,” he said.
Sheriff’s officials have said they seized several guns from Dodrill’s home.
Contact Sarah Burge at 951-368-9694 or sburge@pe.com
Mexico ( Mexican Newspaper Calls on Kidnappers to Release Journalist )
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Notisur newspaper on Thursday called on the kidnappers of reporter Gregorio Jimenez de la Cruz to return him “home safe and sound.”Jimenez de la Cruz, a police reporter for Notisur and the Liberal del Sur newspaper, was abducted outside his residence in Villa Allende, a town in the Gulf state of Veracruz, on Wednesday.
The reporter did not do “anything to anyone to deserve an attack of this magnitude,” Notisur said in an editorial.
Gunmen grabbed Jimenez de la Cruz on Wednesday morning outside his house in Villa Allende, which is near the city of Coatzacoalcos.
Jimenez de la Cruz is “a man of humble origins” and an “efficient reporter,” Notisur said.
His kidnapping “seriously and deeply cuts us” and is an attack on “all of us at Notisur, his editorial home, as well as at Diario El Liberal and En La Red,” the newspaper said.
The public criticism of the kidnapping “is rooted in the simple and clear fact that we journalists are not, by definition, anyone’s enemies,” Notisur said.
The kidnappers should understand that “they have made a mistake with regard to the person and his work,” the newspaper said. “We want him alive. We need him. We want him returned home safe and sound.”
Jimenez de la Cruz was kidnapped as he returned home after taking his children to school, Notisur representative Sayda Chiñas Cordova told Efe on Wednesday.
He had reported in the past few days on a wave of kidnappings in Allende, which is separated from Coatzacoalcos by a river, the newspaper executive said.
PEN Club Mexico, meanwhile, condemned Jimenez de la Cruz’s kidnapping and called on officials, especially those in Veracruz, to find the reporter.
“Eight journalists were deprived of their freedom in Veracruz state last year,” the press rights group said.
PEN Club International, founded in 1921, is an organization of writers and journalists who promote freedom of expression through more than 144 chapters in over 100 countries.
The Zetas drug cartel, considered Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, and other gangs operate in Veracruz’s oil-producing region.
Nine journalists have been murdered, at least three have gone missing and about a dozen others have left Veracruz since 2011 due to the drug-related violence in the state.
A total of 87 journalists have been murdered since 2000 in Mexico, making it the most dangerous country in Latin America for members of the media, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said.
Africa ( Armed Christian " Rebel force " run Muslims out of town )
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Thousands of Muslims climbed aboard trucks protected by heavily armed Chadian soldiers in a mass exodus Friday from the capital of Central African Republic. Their flight follows months of escalating attacks on anyone perceived as supporting a now-defunct Muslim rebel government blamed for scores of atrocities during its rule of this predominantly Christian country.
In The Hague, Netherlands, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced a preliminary investigation into potential war crimes or crimes against humanity in Central African Republic, saying the crisis has “gone from bad to worse” since September.
Along the streets of Bangui, crowds of Christians gathered to cheer the convoy’s departure for the neighboring country of Chad, which is mostly Muslim. It was an acrid farewell to their Muslim neighbors who had in some cases lived alongside Christians for generations here and have few ties to Chad.
The dangers for those who stayed behind were clear: One man who tumbled from the precariously overloaded trucks was brutally slain, witnesses said.
“He didn’t even have the time to fall — he landed into the hands of the angry mob who then lynched him at the scene,” said Armando Yanguendji, a resident of the Gobongo district who witnessed the horror.
Another truck in the same neighborhood escaped attack from Christian militiamen only when Burundian peacekeepers fired into the air to disperse the crowd trying to assault the convoy, he said. Some trucks broke down even before they could leave Bangui on Friday and had to be abandoned. The passengers jumped aboard other trucks, facing constant jeering, threats and stone-throwing from the spectators.
“The Christians say the Muslims must go back where they came from — that’s why we are going home,” said Osmani Benui as she fled Bangui. “We couldn’t stay here because we had no protection.”
They did have protection as they departed. Chadian special forces went along as well as Seleka rebels in cars, armed with pistols and AK-47s. The convoy of some 500 cars, trucks and motorcycles strained under the weight of people’s belongings.
The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said Friday that tens of thousands of Muslims have now fled to Chad and Cameroon. The UN refugee agency said that almost 9,000 people have fled to Cameroon in the last 10 days, bringing the number of refugees in Cameroon to 22,000 since current began.
“It really is a horrific situation. All over Bangui, entire Muslim neighborhoods are being destroyed and emptied,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, who has gotten trapped Muslims to safety under the guard of peacekeepers.
“Their buildings are being destroyed and being taken apart, brick by brick, roof by roof, to wipe out any sign of their once existence in this country,” he added.
Hundreds sought refuge at a mosque in Bangui’s predominantly Muslim PK5 neighborhood.
But the dangers are not limited to the capital. Entire communities remain trapped in parts of northwest Central African Republic, according to the Medecins Sans Frontieres statement. A Muslim community of more than 8,000 people in Bouar “remains effectively imprisoned, unable to flee the violence.”
“We are concerned about the fate of these communities trapped in their villages, surrounded by anti-Balaka groups, and also about the fact that many Muslim families are being forced into exile to survive,” said Martine Flokstra, MSF emergency coordinator.
UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that nearly 840,000 people remain displaced inside the country, and “with no immediate prospect to return home as the rainy season begins, the refugee agency fears a worsening crisis.”
The UN refugee agency warned of a high risk of cholera and other public health problems, particularly in Bangui, where more than 413,000 people still live in makeshift sites.
In announcing the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda cited reports of “hundreds of killings, acts of rape and sexual slavery, destruction of property, pillaging, torture, forced displacement and recruitment and use of children in hostilities.” She added that “in many incidents, victims appear to have been deliberately targeted on religious grounds.”
The ICC is the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal, established in 2002 to investigate and punish atrocities when member states are unwilling or unable to do so themselves. Central African Republic is a member.
Although most of Central African Republic’s roughly 4.6 million citizens are Christian, there is a sizeable Muslim population in its north near the borders with Sudan and Chad.
Fighting in the country has worsened since last March, when an alliance of Muslim rebel groups from the north united to overthrow the president of a decade.
Although their grievances were political and economic — not religious — fighting has taken on an increasingly sectarian tone since then.
The rebels, known as Seleka, were aided by Chadian and Sudanese mercenaries. They quickly became despised by Christians in the capital after the fighters went on looting sprees, raping and killing civilians at random. An armed Christian movement known as the anti-Balaka, aided by loyalists of ousted President Francois Bozize, began retaliating several months later.
Christian fighters attempted to overthrow the Muslim rebel government in early December, sparking unprecedented bloodshed that left more than 1,000 people dead in a matter of days. An untold number have died in the weeks that followed, with most of the attacks in Bangui targeting Muslims.
The Muslim rebel leader who took power last March has stepped aside, and the country is currently being led by former Bangui Mayor Catherine Samba-Panza as interim president.
In recent weeks, angry mobs have set fire to mosques and have brutally killed and mutilated Muslims. On Wednesday, one Muslim suspected of having aided last year’s rebellion was attacked for 15 minutes with knives, bricks and feet by army soldiers shortly after Samba-Panza had left the scene. Men in uniform then paraded his body through the streets before it was dismembered and set ablaze.
No one was detained in connection with the slaying, which took place in the presence of African regional peacekeepers.
“It is very unfortunate that that happened, that we were not able to quickly intervene and then save him, but things happened so quickly that we couldn’t,” said Eloi Yao, spokesman for the African mission known as MISCA.
Babacar Gaye, the UN special representative to Central African Republic, called for an investigation and said those responsible “should be made an example of.”
Wednesday’s attack came minutes after the interim president told the hundreds of soldiers standing in formation that she was proud of them. She called on their support to bring order to their anarchic country.
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Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press journalists Andrew Drake and Hippolyte Marboua in Bangui, Central African Republic, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
In The Hague, Netherlands, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced a preliminary investigation into potential war crimes or crimes against humanity in Central African Republic, saying the crisis has “gone from bad to worse” since September.
Along the streets of Bangui, crowds of Christians gathered to cheer the convoy’s departure for the neighboring country of Chad, which is mostly Muslim. It was an acrid farewell to their Muslim neighbors who had in some cases lived alongside Christians for generations here and have few ties to Chad.
The dangers for those who stayed behind were clear: One man who tumbled from the precariously overloaded trucks was brutally slain, witnesses said.
“He didn’t even have the time to fall — he landed into the hands of the angry mob who then lynched him at the scene,” said Armando Yanguendji, a resident of the Gobongo district who witnessed the horror.
Another truck in the same neighborhood escaped attack from Christian militiamen only when Burundian peacekeepers fired into the air to disperse the crowd trying to assault the convoy, he said. Some trucks broke down even before they could leave Bangui on Friday and had to be abandoned. The passengers jumped aboard other trucks, facing constant jeering, threats and stone-throwing from the spectators.
“The Christians say the Muslims must go back where they came from — that’s why we are going home,” said Osmani Benui as she fled Bangui. “We couldn’t stay here because we had no protection.”
They did have protection as they departed. Chadian special forces went along as well as Seleka rebels in cars, armed with pistols and AK-47s. The convoy of some 500 cars, trucks and motorcycles strained under the weight of people’s belongings.
The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said Friday that tens of thousands of Muslims have now fled to Chad and Cameroon. The UN refugee agency said that almost 9,000 people have fled to Cameroon in the last 10 days, bringing the number of refugees in Cameroon to 22,000 since current began.
“It really is a horrific situation. All over Bangui, entire Muslim neighborhoods are being destroyed and emptied,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, who has gotten trapped Muslims to safety under the guard of peacekeepers.
“Their buildings are being destroyed and being taken apart, brick by brick, roof by roof, to wipe out any sign of their once existence in this country,” he added.
Hundreds sought refuge at a mosque in Bangui’s predominantly Muslim PK5 neighborhood.
But the dangers are not limited to the capital. Entire communities remain trapped in parts of northwest Central African Republic, according to the Medecins Sans Frontieres statement. A Muslim community of more than 8,000 people in Bouar “remains effectively imprisoned, unable to flee the violence.”
“We are concerned about the fate of these communities trapped in their villages, surrounded by anti-Balaka groups, and also about the fact that many Muslim families are being forced into exile to survive,” said Martine Flokstra, MSF emergency coordinator.
UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that nearly 840,000 people remain displaced inside the country, and “with no immediate prospect to return home as the rainy season begins, the refugee agency fears a worsening crisis.”
The UN refugee agency warned of a high risk of cholera and other public health problems, particularly in Bangui, where more than 413,000 people still live in makeshift sites.
In announcing the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda cited reports of “hundreds of killings, acts of rape and sexual slavery, destruction of property, pillaging, torture, forced displacement and recruitment and use of children in hostilities.” She added that “in many incidents, victims appear to have been deliberately targeted on religious grounds.”
The ICC is the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal, established in 2002 to investigate and punish atrocities when member states are unwilling or unable to do so themselves. Central African Republic is a member.
Although most of Central African Republic’s roughly 4.6 million citizens are Christian, there is a sizeable Muslim population in its north near the borders with Sudan and Chad.
Fighting in the country has worsened since last March, when an alliance of Muslim rebel groups from the north united to overthrow the president of a decade.
Although their grievances were political and economic — not religious — fighting has taken on an increasingly sectarian tone since then.
The rebels, known as Seleka, were aided by Chadian and Sudanese mercenaries. They quickly became despised by Christians in the capital after the fighters went on looting sprees, raping and killing civilians at random. An armed Christian movement known as the anti-Balaka, aided by loyalists of ousted President Francois Bozize, began retaliating several months later.
Christian fighters attempted to overthrow the Muslim rebel government in early December, sparking unprecedented bloodshed that left more than 1,000 people dead in a matter of days. An untold number have died in the weeks that followed, with most of the attacks in Bangui targeting Muslims.
The Muslim rebel leader who took power last March has stepped aside, and the country is currently being led by former Bangui Mayor Catherine Samba-Panza as interim president.
In recent weeks, angry mobs have set fire to mosques and have brutally killed and mutilated Muslims. On Wednesday, one Muslim suspected of having aided last year’s rebellion was attacked for 15 minutes with knives, bricks and feet by army soldiers shortly after Samba-Panza had left the scene. Men in uniform then paraded his body through the streets before it was dismembered and set ablaze.
No one was detained in connection with the slaying, which took place in the presence of African regional peacekeepers.
“It is very unfortunate that that happened, that we were not able to quickly intervene and then save him, but things happened so quickly that we couldn’t,” said Eloi Yao, spokesman for the African mission known as MISCA.
Babacar Gaye, the UN special representative to Central African Republic, called for an investigation and said those responsible “should be made an example of.”
Wednesday’s attack came minutes after the interim president told the hundreds of soldiers standing in formation that she was proud of them. She called on their support to bring order to their anarchic country.
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Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press journalists Andrew Drake and Hippolyte Marboua in Bangui, Central African Republic, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
Friday, February 7, 2014
India ( A man-eating tiger on the prowl " killed 9th victim " defying hunters )
LUCKNOW, India: A man-eating tiger on the prowl in northern India has claimed its ninth victim, defying hunters and wildlife officials who have been trying to gun down the animal, an official said.
Since December 29, the same big cat is believed to have been on a killing spree in a densely forested area near Jim Corbett National Park in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Salil Shukla, an official in the district of Bijnor, said the partly eaten body of a young farmer had been found on Friday.
"The victim was missing since Thursday and had gone into the jungle to locate his cattle," he said. "This is the ninth victim of the man-eater."
While tiger-hunting has long been illegal in India, the Uttar Pradesh state government has licensed six hunters to either capture or kill the tigress who has terrorised local villagers.
India is home to half the world's dwindling tiger population which now stands at around 3,000. A loss of their natural habitat has brought man and beast into closer proximity across the subcontinent.
Even conservationists say that once a tiger has tasted human flesh more than once it is almost impossible to rehabilitate it and that killing the animal is the only responsible option.
Although the latest spate of attacks is serious by recent standards, conservationist Belinda Wright from the Wildlife Protection Society of India said that the tigress was nothing compared to some of the legends of the past.
Jim Corbett, a colonial-era hunter-turned-conservationist after whom the Jim Corbett National Park is named, tells in his best-selling book the "Man-eaters of Kumaon" of tigers and leopards that killed hundreds.
"They do get a taste for humans," Wright explained. "But I think (attacks happen) more because we're very easy prey. As a tiger gets older, or is disabled in some way, we're just very, very easy as we bumble around on our two legs."
She said that conflicts between tigers and local people who live in densely populated settlements around wildlife sanctuaries "is only going to get worse."
In late January, forest officials in southern India shot dead a tiger suspected of killing three people, ending a three-week reign of terror which forced dozens of schools to close.
Some 200 tigers live in Jim Corbett park but locals say this is the first time they can remember one of them attacking villagers.
The hunters have employed a variety of tricks to lure their prey, including traps and even a live goat as bait. Forest officials armed with tranquilliser guns have ridden on elephants to follow its trail through the forest.
AFP visited the area at the weekend and found villagers desperate for an end to the traumatic series of killings.
Hunter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan had warned that the tigress was hungry and would strike again soon.
Anand Saini, whose brother Devendra was the tiger's victim on January 26, said everyone was living in fear.
"It is for the first time ever that we have become conscious of the fact we have so many tigers close to us in the forest," he told AFP from his home in Bijnor district.
"The children in the village are now being asked not to venture too far out, particularly early in the morning or after sunset.
"Even the farmers who used to sleep in the fields to prevent animals like deer from destroying their crops are staying home at night."
Devendra was dragged to his death while erecting a fence around his farm.
His stomach and parts of his thigh were missing while there was a cluster of paw marks around his body.
Since December 29, the same big cat is believed to have been on a killing spree in a densely forested area near Jim Corbett National Park in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Salil Shukla, an official in the district of Bijnor, said the partly eaten body of a young farmer had been found on Friday.
"The victim was missing since Thursday and had gone into the jungle to locate his cattle," he said. "This is the ninth victim of the man-eater."
While tiger-hunting has long been illegal in India, the Uttar Pradesh state government has licensed six hunters to either capture or kill the tigress who has terrorised local villagers.
India is home to half the world's dwindling tiger population which now stands at around 3,000. A loss of their natural habitat has brought man and beast into closer proximity across the subcontinent.
Even conservationists say that once a tiger has tasted human flesh more than once it is almost impossible to rehabilitate it and that killing the animal is the only responsible option.
Although the latest spate of attacks is serious by recent standards, conservationist Belinda Wright from the Wildlife Protection Society of India said that the tigress was nothing compared to some of the legends of the past.
Jim Corbett, a colonial-era hunter-turned-conservationist after whom the Jim Corbett National Park is named, tells in his best-selling book the "Man-eaters of Kumaon" of tigers and leopards that killed hundreds.
"They do get a taste for humans," Wright explained. "But I think (attacks happen) more because we're very easy prey. As a tiger gets older, or is disabled in some way, we're just very, very easy as we bumble around on our two legs."
She said that conflicts between tigers and local people who live in densely populated settlements around wildlife sanctuaries "is only going to get worse."
In late January, forest officials in southern India shot dead a tiger suspected of killing three people, ending a three-week reign of terror which forced dozens of schools to close.
Some 200 tigers live in Jim Corbett park but locals say this is the first time they can remember one of them attacking villagers.
The hunters have employed a variety of tricks to lure their prey, including traps and even a live goat as bait. Forest officials armed with tranquilliser guns have ridden on elephants to follow its trail through the forest.
AFP visited the area at the weekend and found villagers desperate for an end to the traumatic series of killings.
Hunter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan had warned that the tigress was hungry and would strike again soon.
Anand Saini, whose brother Devendra was the tiger's victim on January 26, said everyone was living in fear.
"It is for the first time ever that we have become conscious of the fact we have so many tigers close to us in the forest," he told AFP from his home in Bijnor district.
"The children in the village are now being asked not to venture too far out, particularly early in the morning or after sunset.
"Even the farmers who used to sleep in the fields to prevent animals like deer from destroying their crops are staying home at night."
Devendra was dragged to his death while erecting a fence around his farm.
His stomach and parts of his thigh were missing while there was a cluster of paw marks around his body.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
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