Ariel Sharon’s Troubling Legacy- Human Rights watch!

According to Human Rights Watch, Ariel Sharon died without facing justice for his role in the massacres of hundreds and perhaps thousands of civilians by Lebanese militias in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. The killings constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Sharon also escaped accountability for other alleged abuses, such as his role expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, prosecutable as a war crime. Sharon ordered the removal of all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and from four West Bank settlements in 2005, but the overall number of settlers in occupied territory increased significantly during his term as prime minister.

“It’s a shame that Sharon has gone to his grave without facing justice for his role in Sabra and Shatilla and other abuses,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “His passing is another grim reminder that years of virtual impunity for rights abuses have done nothing to bring Israeli-Palestinian peace any closer.” 

Relatives of the victims of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre carry candles on the 18th anniversay of the massacre, September 15, 2000.

Sharon, as Israel’s defense minister in 1982, had overall responsibility for the Israel Defense Forces, which controlled the area of the Sabra and Shatilla camps. An Israeli commission of inquiry found that he bore “personal responsibility” for the massacre and that he decided Phalangist militias “should be sent in” to the camps from September 16 to 18, despite the risk that they would massacre the civilian population there. The militias killed between 700 and 800 people, according to Israeli military intelligence estimates; other estimates were much higher. The dead included infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly, some of whose bodies were found to have been mutilated.

In February 1983, the Kahan Commission, Israel’s official commission of inquiry investigating the events, found that the “serious consideration… that the Phalangists were liable to commit atrocities… did not concern [Sharon] in the least.” Sharon’s “disregard of the danger of a massacre” was “impossible to justify,” the commission found, and recommended his dismissal as defense minister. He remained in the Israeli cabinet as a minister without portfolio and later became prime minister in 2001, serving until his stroke in January 2006.

Israeli justice authorities never conducted a criminal investigation to determine whether Sharon and other Israeli military officials bore criminal responsibility. In 2001, survivors brought a case in Belgium requesting that Sharon be prosecuted under Belgium’s “universal jurisdiction” law.  

Political pressure led Belgium’s parliament to amend the law in April 2003, and to repeal it altogether in August, leading Belgium’s highest court to drop the case against Sharon that September.

Sharon long promoted establishing unlawful Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. In 2005 he ordered Israel’s withdrawal of nearly 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of four West Bank settlements, but during his term as prime minister, the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, increased from roughly 388,000 to 461,000. The transfer by an occupying power of its civilians into an occupied territory is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, and a potential war crime.

A West Bank separation barrier that he approved in 2002 was largely built inside the West Bank, contrary to international humanitarian law, encompassing many settlements on the Israeli side.  Since 2003, the Israeli military has subjected thousands of Palestinians who live in areas of the West Bank between the barrier and the 1967 armistice line (the “Green Line”) to severe, discriminatory restrictions on their freedom of movement, with devastating economic and social consequences.

During Sharon’s term as prime minister, Israeli forces killed more than 1,430 Palestinian civilians, while Palestinians killed 640 Israeli civilians, according to data collected by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Israeli forces also unlawfully demolished hundreds of homes in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

“For the thousands of victims of abuses, Sharon’s passing without facing justice magnifies their tragedy,” Whitson said.

Source: Human Rights watch.

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Man bags 13 years for filming rape of four-year-old!

The man pictured below was jailed for a total of 13 years after he filmed himself raping a four-year-old girl.

Brett Deane, 28, from Welland Road, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, was caught after police were alerted that images of sexual abuse were being posted online.

Deane was arrested the following day and his mobile phone seized.

Officers also discovered explicit drawings depicting a man raping two children labelled as being aged 11 and 12.

Deane, was charged with 10 counts comprising: two counts of raping a girl under 13; four of serious sexual assault and taking, making, possessing and distributing an indecent photograph of a child.

He pleaded guilty to all charges and was jailed for a total of 13 years.

Detective Sergeant Amerjit Singh, of the force's Public Protection Department, said: "It is almost impossible to comprehend such an horrific act of attacking a young child who had no way of defending herself.

"Deane did not give a moment's thought to what impact his actions will have on such a young victim who will, no doubt, be haunted by this abuse for many years to come."

Amina Agboola: Mum Charged Over Toddler Death!

A mother has been charged over the death of her two-year-old daughter, after her boyfriend was accused of the girl's murder.

Amina Agboola died in November 2013 after being taken to Peterborough City Hospital with serious injuries.

Mother Sarah Raqueman, of Scott Drive in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, has been charged with causing or allowing the toddler's death and two counts of neglect against two other children.

The 28-year-old was remanded in custody when she appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court this morning. She will next appear before Cambridge Crown Court on January 14.

Dean Harris, her 19-year-old boyfriend, also of Scott Drive, has already been charged with murder.

He is next due to appear in court on February 28.

The couple were arrested after taking Amina to hospital. A post-mortem found she died from a blunt force injury which ruptured her liver.

After her death Amina’s father, Reuben Agboola, said: "I want to thank everyone for the continuing love, prayer and support for my little princess.

"I am extremely grateful and proud to have her as my child, I believe she is now at a better place."



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Ariel Sharon dies aged 85!

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died after eight years in a coma.

Ariel Sharon, was reportedly Israel's prime minister in one of its most turbulent phases and one of the most controversial figures in its history.

Dr Shlomo Noy, who personally treated Sharon since his debilitating stroke eight years ago, said that Mr Sharon had struggled with "surprising strength" over the past week as his condition had deteriorated. "He departed peacefully with his wife and family at his side," he said.

The decorated former army general was pronounced dead at the Tel Hashomer Hospital, near Tel Aviv, days after doctors reported a sharp deterioration in his health, leading to multiple organ failure. He was prime minister from 2001 until he suffered a massive stroke in January 2006, which left him incapacitated.

Widowed twice, Ariel Sharon is survived by his sons Gilad and Omri.

South African Church Where Members Eat Grass!

This is reportedly happening live in South Africa.

At Rabboni Centre Ministries, a South African church at  Garankuwa TUT campus at Pretoria is where the pastor alleged  have his members eat grass. 

The name of the pastor is Pastor Lesego Daniel. The church has a closed group on Facebook with the name Rabboni Centre Ministries. 

These pictures you are staring at were reportedly posted on Facebook and Twitter. The group is only accessible by its members as efforts to check the page is not possible.

According to someone who claims to be privy to this via twitter the pastor does this while trying to prove a point that humans can be controlled by the spirit of God and can survive on whatever they choose to eat. 

As they eat, they are kicked and stepped upon and are said to be dead to touch during the ordeal. 

See these handles @ClaysonMonyela and @ah_qu_uh  on twitter for more. The pastor himself is reportedly on twitter as @rabbonitv (Pastor Lesego Daniel).

Ministry of Aviation pulls down Stella Oduah’s profile from own website!

The Federal Ministry of Aviation has pulled down the profile of embattled Minister Stella Oduah from its wedsite, in what appears an open admission that her bio contained falsehood and misleading claims.

Although the website is still functioning, the link to Ms. Oduah's profile  has been deactivated as at 12.32 p.m. Nigerian time Thursday, when our reporter visited.

The link now leads visitors to a 404 error suggesting the profile page had been taken down.

Mrs. Oduah, and her associates have spent the last two days scrambling to clean up the minister’s biographies on the Internet, following allegations that she lied about her academic qualifications.

Initially , her profile on the Minister of Aviation was revised, with references to St. Paul’s College removed.

The Wikipedia page of the minister was also edited and it now has no reference to the university Mrs. Oduah attended. The last edit on the Wikipedia page was done at 14:41 p.m. Nigerian time Tuesday.

All links and reference materials on the Wikipedia page capable of linking the minister to the university that has disowned her have also been deleted.

Even the minister’s personal wedsite  was reviewed to remove any reference to St. Paul’s College.

The minister had claimed that she earned Bachelor and Masters degrees from St. Paul’s College but her claim to a masters degree has since been punctured.

PREMIUM TIMES has also determined that the minister lied in her claim that she was awarded a honorary doctorate by a non-existing Pacific Christian University in the United States.

Mrs. Oduah had since October been enmeshed in a a N255million armoured cars scandal in which she was accused of compelling an agency under her supervision, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to buy her two exotic bullet cars at clearly inflated prices.

The purchase of the cars generated outrage for weeks because its cost was inflated, and it was neither listed in the government-approved budget nor did it comply with the Nigeria’s public procurement law.

The House of Representatives has since asked President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the minister but the president has failed to act.

Former 'teacher of the year' gets 38 YEARS in prison for having sex with a 12 yr-old boy!

A female teacher found guilty of having sex with a 12-year-old student has been sentenced to 38 years in prison in December 2013.

Married mother Ethel Anderson, 31, was told she was a 'parents' worst nightmare,' as she was jailed in Tampa, Florida. 

Judge Chet Tharpe told Anderson in court that she manipulated the boy's parents into believing he was safe and groomed the child for sex.

Anderson was charged with nine counts of molesting a student after it was discovered that she was having sex with a boy who was 12-years-old at the time. 

'She would rub on my legs, kiss on my ears, neck and stuff like that... We would tongue kiss.'

The former 'teacher of the year', from Riverside, Florida, who has a six-year-old child, told the judge today she is not a sexual predator and not a risk to society.

But the boy's mother showed no signs of forgiveness. 

'Anger and hatred don't even begin to explain how I feel about what you took from my son,' the boy's mother said in a statement read at the sentencing by prosecutors.  

'His innocence is lost forever.'

Anderson, who worked as a language arts teacher at Mango Elementary School, cried as she listened to the teen's testimony earlier this year and denied the charges when she took the stand.

When confronted about the 230 pages of racy text messages she said they were just sexual therapy that she was using on the 'troubled student' to motivate him.

She told the court: 'At the time, with him struggling with school and having behavioral issues and anger issues, acting out at home and not being able to connect with his family, the way that he and his parents felt, that was my purpose. 

'To gain his attention and, yes, I did it in an inappropriate way.'

The mother claimed the boy would threaten her, telling her things like, 'keep playing you're gonna lose your child'.

The boy also told the court that he did not want to lose his virginity to a teacher and would tell her to stop, but she persisted because she 'wanted him so bad'.

The parents of the young boy were suspicious of their son's close relationship to the Anderson and tipped off police.

Wearing a wire, the boy's mother later confronted Anderson, when she admitted having oral sex with him. The tape was played to the jury. 

In her testimony, Anderson testified she only admitted to sex acts in the secretly-recorded confession by the boy's mother, only because that is what she thought the mother wanted to hear.

The 30-year-old turned down a 15-year prison deal followed by 15 years of probation and a jury decided her fate.

The boy has since transferred schools.





38 years?..... what was this sentence aimed at???