[AA.TR] Police in Uganda are facing a barrage of criticism after they allegedly stripped a leading female opposition politician during an arrest.
Fatuma Zainab, environment secretary for the main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday of her ordeal as she travelled to a political rally over the weekend.
The incident, which was capture by local TV news broadcasters, showed Zainab, a Muslim mother-of-two, being incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! when the convoy she was travelling in to a rally in the western town of Rukungiri was stopped.
Police began arresting the activists, including politicians, and putting them in waiting trucks.
"I assumed that since I was the only woman and not doing any wrong they would not arrest or beat me," she said.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... an officer then pointed at her and shouted for others to arrest Zainab.
"They got me, I tripped and fell down," she said."That was when some three coppers came and pulled off my trouser and my blouse leaving me naked."
Wearing just her headscarf, Zainab crawled under a vehicle to try to preserve her dignity. Police then called for a tow truck to pull the vehicle away from where she lay.
"One man called out to the driver not to move saying, 'Please stop, you are going to kill her'," Zainab told Anadolu Agency.
She recounted how male coppers tossed her clothes towards her as she lay under the vehicle. Having put her clothes back on, Zainab was then grabbed by a group of male and female police.
"They started dragging me on the road, they pulled at my trousers and my pleas fell on deaf ears," she added. "By the time they carried me to the police vehicle, I was again naked and they were giving me my clothes saying dress up. I told them 'No, you wanted to see me naked, I don't want to cover myself, take me the way I am.'"
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[AA.TR] Death toll from inter-communal festivities between rival communities in South Sudan's Warrap State over a land dispute has now reached at least 90, a local official said Wednesday.
The festivities began on Friday afternoon over a disputed land between Luacjang and Ananatak, and lasted until the army and state authorities intervened Tuesday, County Commissioner Biar Biar Mawien told Anadolu Agency via phone.
"The governor's driver was killed with other 90 people and his executive vehicle belonging to the state house too has been smashed," the commissioner said, adding that 144 others were also injured.
Warrap State caretaker Governor Akec Tong Aleu also confirmed that the festivities between the two communities had ended.
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Watch for same in refugee landing zones. See Detroit.
Around 20 Syrian migrants have filed a case against the Berlin state Government demanding immediate access to shelter and benefits after waiting for more than a week to be registered by the authorities.
Because after all, a young tough boy of military age in a foreign country not only has the right to benefits, but have them post haste...
It comes as serious splits emerged in Angela Merkel's Government over how to divide economic migrants from genuine refugees fleeing war-torn countries. Hundreds of asylum seekers are still waiting to be registered due to huge backlogs at the city's main refugee centre.
Huge crowds gather outside every day and many claim they have been waiting for weeks. Until their papers are processed by the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, the refugees have no access to Government refugee shelters or benefits. See Murphy's rule of subsidizing: 'What you subsidize, you get more of.'
They are effectively homeless with the country's bitter winter just around the corner - and night-time temperatures have already fallen below freezing.
In the northeast they had their first snowfall last night. A friend's photos, posted this morning, are stunning.
More than 170,000 migrants flooded into Europe last month alone as the continent's unprecedented refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control.
This latest development is likely to raise eyebrows as Germany's controversial policy of welcoming new arrivals with open arms has already been blamed for the shocking numbers. And Mrs Merkel's promise to grant automatic citizenship to refugees was blasted for encouraging more migrants to make the treacherous journey.
The country is now considering setting up "transit zones" on its borders, where migrants would be kept while their asylum claims are assessed. A few former camps have no doubt come to mind, bad visuals however. Very bad.
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In the human trial, patients who took the experimental drug showed a marked reduction in alcohol craving.....“We need to do larger trials” to validate the results.
I recommend an entire college campus suffering from the "rape epidemic".
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FTA: ‘What sorts of things would be even more useful if they disappeared right after we used them?’” Depends on how much kinetic energy, high speed fragments and collateral death & destruction were to be released during the 'disappearance' of these 'things'.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
