blessed britons

Robin Cook's first trip abroad included Indonesia, where he shook hands warmly with Suharto...
[He] knew of course. Amnesty filled cabinets with evidence of Suharto's grisly record. Milosevic and Saddam Hussein were wimps by comparison. Shortly before Cook flew in, an exhaustive investigation by the foreign affairs committee of the Australian parliament concluded that Suharto's troops had caused the deaths of "at least" 200,000 East Timorese, a third of the population. In New Labour's first year in office, Britain was the biggest weapons supplier to Indonesia.

— John Pilger

Spoils of a Massacre

mad world

According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Remick Waite simply pronounced before the beginning of argument in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886) that:
The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.

— David Korten

The Post-Corporate World

murder

17 bullets in the body

Submitted by antarchi on May 23, 2007 - 14:06.

13-year-old Iman al-Hams ... was machine-gunned by the unit's commander. She had 17 bullets in her body, and three in her head, a Palestinian doctor told the Guardian. Iman is one of 654 Palestinian children to have been killed in the occupied territories since September 2000. Several were killed as they sat at their desks in class. Three and a half thousand children have been wounded. Over 300 are in Israeli prisons.

no investigation

Submitted by antarchi on March 24, 2008 - 14:36.

On December 9, 2003, according to Army criminal investigation documents, a detainee named Abu Malik Kenami died while in custody at Mosul Airport, after undergoing interrogation tactics... Army personnel told investigators that Kenami, who was arrested a few days before his death, was repeatedly punished “for talking” by being forced to do exhaustive exercises while he had a sandbag hood on his head. On the night of his death, he had his hands zip-tied behind his back and was placed with other detainees in a holding cell and told to sleep. Kenami was found dead the next morning. No autopsy was ever conducted and no official cause of death was determined.