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...second is that Kimberley concerns itself only with nations that are in a state of war as defined by the U.N. This essentially overlooks all kinds of miserable deeds in places like Angola, which is still recovering from a grinding 30-year war and where murder and robbery are facets of daily life in the diamond fields. I was told that miners have been eviscerated if they were suspected of having swallowed a stone...
...Military chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon has angrily denied any military involvement in the killings. He blames them on "internal purges" in the N.P.A., which indeed murdered hundreds of its own people in the 1980s. Yet there is much to incriminate Esperon's men. Last week it emerged that a suspected member of one hit squad, which killed campaigning Methodist pastor Isaias Santa Rosa in August, carried army identification and orders for a "secret mission" from army intelligence. (The papers were discovered on the hit man after he himself was killed, apparently by friendly fire.) Before his murder by two unidentified...
...reports the local human-rights group Karapatan, while Amnesty International recorded 51 cases of what it calls "political killings" in the first six months of this year, compared with 66 in all of 2005. When it comes to journalists?46 have been killed on Arroyo's watch?the murder rate is second only to Iraq's. Last week seven major U.S. companies with operations in the Philippines, including Wal-Mart and Gap, were moved to write a letter urging Arroyo to protect workers, especially union members, at their local subcontractors...
...Investigations into these deaths yield hardly any results. Of 114 political murders recorded since 2001 by a special police task force, arrests have been made in just three cases, with no reported convictions. Even if the killers are ever caught and prosecuted, their bosses will almost certainly remain unknown or untouchable. Last month three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2005 murder of a prominent antigraft journalist called Marlene Esperat, shot dead while dining with her children. Rynche Garcia Arcones, 24, Esperat's daughter, felt shortchanged. "We want the mastermind," she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
...CONVICTED. Mounir el-Motassadeq, 32, friend of three of the Sept. 11 hijackers; of being an accessory to murder in the 2001 attacks, overturning a 2004 decision clearing him due to lack of evidence; by a German appeals court; in Karlsruhe. The presiding judge said the fact that el-Motassadeq did not know the exact timing or targets of the attack was "irrelevant" because he knew of a plot to hijack airliners. El-Motassadeq, at liberty in Hamburg awaiting the verdict, faces up to 15 years in prison...