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2 Survivors Describe Massacre At Fujimori Trial
By CARLA SALAZAR, Associated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru - Hooded men with machine guns burst into a Lima tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including an 8-year-old boy, two survivors of the 1991 attack testified Friday at the murder trial of former President Alberto Fujimori.



Fujimori, 69, is facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly ordering the massacre and the 1992 killings of nine university students and a professor. He is also charged with ordering the kidnappings of a prominent journalist and a businessman.

He has denied having any knowledge of death squad activities or ordering a dirty war against the Marxist Shining Path "rebels" in the early 1990s.

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80 Arrests At Supreme Court

WASHINGTON - Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Demonstrators wearing orange jumpsuits intended to simulate prison garb were arrested inside and outside the building in the early afternoon. "Shut it down," protesters chanted as others kneeled on the plaza in front of the court.



They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on court grounds. Those arrested inside the building also were charged under a provision that makes it a crime to give "a harangue or oration" in the Supreme Court building.

The maximum penalty is 60 days in jail, a fine or both.

The court is considering whether prisoners still detained at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.

Officials briefly closed the court building during the protest. It reopened around 2 p.m. EST.

Protests were also held some other world capitals.

In Manila, Philippines, about 30 activists picketed the U.S. Embassy to demand the camp's closure. "We are appealing to President Bush and the U.S. government to close Guantanamo Bay now," said Aurora Parong, director of Amnesty International in the Philippines.

Small demonstrations by Amnesty supporters, also in orange jumpsuits, were held in Rome; Prague, Czech Republic; Brussels, Belgium; and Budapest, Hungary.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_go_su_co/us_guantanamo_protest_6
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I had a friend that used to work at the embassy in Manilla. He said he went out one day and got some lunch at a place across the street and one of the guys protesting something or other came in and sat down next to him to eat lunch as well. My friend asked him why he was doing it and the guy replied "Because I get paid to do it"

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Was he paid to get arrested?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur

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Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0&feature=related

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Most of the worlds the greatest human rights violators are enemies of the US. Coincidence?

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THE DIGNITY OF THE TIBETAN PEOPLE



The sword of hatred is ornamented with the handle of invasion,
A red star has imprisoned the sun and moon,
The high snow-peaked mountains are cloaked in the darkness of a poisonous wind;
The peaceful valleys have been shattered by the sound of artillery.
But the dignity of the Tibetan people competes with the glory of the sky.

Composed November 10, 1972.

From FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, page 39. Also in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume Seven, page 339.

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Pro-Tibet Vigil Held In *gasp* Beijing
Mon Mar 17, 4:18 PM
By Ian Ransom and Chris Buckley

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray for the dead, after authorities warned anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender.



VIDEO:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7290000/newsid_7299200/7299209.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1

Police kept reporters well away from the peaceful protest by dozens of apparently ethnic Tibetan students gathered inside the Central University for Nationalities.

It was a small, rare show of defiance in the host city of this year's Olympic Games, where Communist Party authorities are especially eager to prevent public shows of dissent.

"It was only to pray for the souls of the dead," said an ethnic Tibetan student from northwest China's Gansu province, who was kept away from the sit-in by "security" guards.

The vigil was broken up by authorities hours before a deadline in Tibet's regional capital, Lhasa, for protesters who rioted through the city on Friday to hand themselves in to police by Monday night or face harsher treatment afterward.

Exiled representatives of Tibet in Dharamsala in India on Sunday put the death toll in Friday's protests against Chinese rule at 80.

Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet regional government, said only 13 "innocent civilians" had been killed and dozens of security personnel injured.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "increasingly concerned" about reports of violence and loss of life in Tibet and urged restraint from authorities there.

"I'm increasingly concerned about the tension and reports of violence and loss of life in Tibet and elsewhere," Ban told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York.

"At this time I urge restraint on the part of the authorities and call on all concerned to avoid further confrontation and violence."

A Tibetan shopkeeper near Lhasa's marketplace, badly hit by the violence, said he had not heard of anyone surrendering to the police or informing on suspected rioters.

"We are just waiting for the time to pass," he said.

As the deadline approached, a Chinese spokesman told reporters his government "would not compromise" with Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, or reexamine its policies in Tibet.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the often bloody unrest had been organized by the Dalai Lama's followers at home and abroad.

"It's not an ethnic issue, not a religious issue or a cultural one," he said. "At the root, it's the fundamental problem of the Dalai clique seeking to ... separate Tibet from China."

The Dalai Lama says he wants autonomy for Tibet within China but not outright independence, and he has strongly rejected the allegation that he launched the protests.

RESTRAINT AND TROOP CONVOYS
China said it had shown "great restraint" in the face of violent protests by Tibetans and Lhasa was "returning to order".

Troops poured into areas neighboring Tibet which are largely inhabited by ethnic Tibetans but ethnic Tibetan people there said angry anti-Chinese demonstrations were still sporadically erupting.

An ethnic Tibetan in remote, mountainous Aba prefecture in Sichuan province said fresh protests flared near two Tibetan schools on Monday, with hundreds of students facing police and troops.

About 40 students from a high school for Tibetans in Maertang county, Aba, were beaten and arrested for protesting, the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy later said.

Repeated calls to the school went unanswered.

The resident, who asked not to be identified, said 18 people, including Buddhist monks and students, had been killed when troops opened fire on Sunday. Earlier a policeman was burned to death, he said. His account could not be immediately verified.

The violence of the past week is likely to weigh uncomfortably on the Chinese state, which is anxious to "polish" its image in the build-up to the Games.

"If the Tibetans in Lhasa take to the streets again in large numbers and really challenge the Chinese authorities, I think we'll see a very harsh crackdown," said Kenneth Lieberthal, a political scientist at the University of Michigan.

INTERNATIONAL REACTION

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Chinese Open Fire On Hundreds Of Monks & Nuns At Tibet Rally
March 25, 2008
(MANAN VATSYAYANA)

Protesters have demanded the safe return of the Dalai Lama after the spiritual leader was branded a "monster" by Chinese authorities

Jane Macartney in Beijing
Paramilitary police opened fire on hundreds of monks, nuns and Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China yesterday to demand the return of the Dalai Lama.



Residents of Luhuo said that a monk and a farmer appeared to have been killed and about a dozen people wounded in the latest violence in Tibetan areas of China. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said that one officer was killed when police confronted a �lawless mob� in Luhuo.

The demonstration began at 4pm when about 200 nuns from Woge nunnery and a similar number of monks from Jueri monastery marched towards the Luhuo Third District government office. They were joined by several hundred farmers and nomads, witnesses said.

Shouting �Long Live the Dalai Lama� and �Tibet belongs to Tibetans�, they approached the office. The paramilitary People�s Armed Police appeared and ordered the crowd to turn back.

Witnesses said that shots were fired and two people appeared to have died.

They identified one as Congun Dengzhu, a farmer, and the second as an unknown monk.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3612661.ece

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Stop writing AmeriKa.