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...report highlighting the abuses carried out during those eight bloody days in May has galvanized relatives and human-rights workers who refuse to let the matter fade away. The report, drawn up by experienced researchers in Rio de Janeiro and backed by the São Paulo police's own ombudsman, alleges that law-enforcement officers, many operating as hooded assassins, went after civilians and settled scores. Thirty-three officers were killed during the first two nights of attacks on police stations and other targets, according to data compiled by researchers at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. More...
...state needs to give us answers," da Silva says. "We want an ethical public-security policy." Police chiefs have so far refused to comment on the report, but the authorities have defended officers and pointed out that it was not the police that closed the cases but judges. The mothers and families of the dead vow to keep on fighting...
More than a third of Americans are obese--the highest rate in the report and nearly 10 times that of South Koreans...
...Washington Torture Charges Unlikely A draft report from a U.S. Justice Department ethics investigation says the Bush Administration lawyers whose secret memos laid the legal foundation for brutal interrogation tactics should not be prosecuted. However, the draft also recommends that state bar associations consider disciplinary action, including possible disbarment, for those involved in composing the memos. Attorney General Eric Holder has yet to approve its findings...
...Tiger websites had reported that the Tiger leaders had contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday morning to inform the aid group that only some 1,000 people remained in the narrow area under Tiger control, including the Tiger leadership, nonmilitary LTTE members and cadres, some injured. The pro-Tiger site TamilNet had reported that LTTE leadership told the ICRC that "there was no firing from the LTTE side" and "urged the ICRC to evacuate the wounded." Both the leaders mentioned in the report were later killed by government forces...