Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Criminal Minds, S1E17 quote


now, what if the party which injures (murderer) is a government official / diplomat / a government administration / any powerful figure (police force) & the murder itself happens to take place in a foreign place where thousands unnecessarily died [Japan, China, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yemen, Colombia, India, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine (Crimea), Rwanda, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Congo, Sudan, Canada, US etc.]. Where's the atonement for all those unnecessary deaths?

Sunday, March 22, 2015

South African cops raping women

Although, rapes anywhere in any shape or form is horrible; in South Africa, cops apparently are far more actively involved in perpetrating these crimes themselves. This didn't make the worldwide media, unlike the India ones.
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The 'Broken Blue Line' conducted by the Johannesburg-based Institute of Race Relations, investigated the extent in which police officers in the country plan & execute serious & violent crimes such as murder, rape, & armed robbery.


And it drew a disturbing conclusion: that police involvement in serious & violent crimes, including rape & murder, were a 'pattern of behaviour' & not isolated incidents.

The report, funded by Afriforum, analysed 100 randomly chosen media reports from April 2011 to January 2015 on alleged police involvement in serious crimes.

Of those, 32 were murders & attempted murders, 22 were armed robberies, & 26 were rapes, as well as other serious offences.

In one incident, a woman was raped several times while in custody & in another, a woman was raped in court.

A 2011 version of the report had similar results, including a serious problem with sexual violence by police officers in a country which has one of the highest recorded rates of rape in the world.

It warned that 'violent crime levels in South Africa won’t turn around while the "wolf guards the sheep".' 

A report in Pretoria News in July 2013 said that almost 1,500 serving police officers had criminal records - which is more than one in every 100 officers in the country.

Sunday, March 8, 2015

International Women's Day 2015: something to be proud of?

So, International Women's Day (IWD) was on March 8th & a lot of rallies were taken out & lots of beautiful speeches were given around the world. If you didn't know already, IWD has been celebrated for over a century now:

1. Thanks to fashion show runways (e.g. Victoria's Secret), objectification of women's bodies is now perfectly fine in our “modern” society:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2891936/Oh-degrading-year-women-writes-SARAH-VINE.html

2. Thanks to silence of the media, sexual assaults & murders of almost 1,200 indigenous Natives women, in the past 30 years, in Canada, don’t even register on the government’s radar to do something about it (it is still just “talk” & more “discussion”):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/international-women-s-day-indigenous-women-still-not-equal-in-canada-1.2985100

3. Thanks to silence of the UN on the rape & human trafficking of women, even by its own peacekeepers (soldiers hailed from developed countries; US, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Netherlands etc), has not only silently condoned the abhorrent practice but has helped flourish it in almost 11 countries around the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistleblower

Is this what IWD has been celebrating for the past century? Is this what IWD has been working towards for the past century? Are these some of the many “accomplishments” to be proud of?