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Politician killed in Central African Republic after he denounces violence

A lawmaker in the Central African Republic’s interim parliament was murdered in the capital Bangui Sunday by unidentified assailants, according to the Central African League of Human Rights.

The MP who was killed was identified as Jean-Emmanuel Ndjaroua, representative of the southeast region of Haute Kotto, by the League’s chief Joseph Bindoumi.

No group claimed responsibility for killing Ndjaroua a day after he made a speech denouncing recent violence and calling for Christian militias to be confined to barracks.

Government officials said attackers followed the lawmaker, and shot him several times outside his house.

Red Cross country director Antoine Mbao Bogo said his organization had been called to collect the body.

Lynchings of minority Muslims

A weekend of violence and looting in Bangui has left at least 10 people dead, according to witnesses and a humanitarian official who spoke to AFP Sunday. The violence included two gruesome lynchings of minority Muslims.

Fighting broke out Saturday evening between Christian vigilantes and Muslims in the west of Bangui where many buildings were torched, they said.

A resident told AFP that the Muslim killer of a Christian woman was lynched and killed before his body was burned and deposited in front of the local town hall, where it could be seen early Sunday.

A suspected Christian militiaman killed another Muslim civilian, and was about to burn the body when Rwandan soldiers of the African peacekeeping force MISCA shot him dead, a witness who gave his name as Innocent told AFP.

The shooting prompted an angry crowd to shout slogans against the Rwandan soldiers, whom they mistakenly believed to be Muslim. “Death to the Rwandans,” one shouted, according to Innocent.

Five other people were killed in unclear circumstances, the witnesses said.

Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch confirmed the witness reports and said another Muslim was lynched early Sunday near Bangui’s central market.

The former French colony has been engulfed in violence for nearly a year since the Seleka rebel group installed Michel Djotodia as the country’s first Muslim president in a coup in March 2013.

The following months saw rogue Seleka fighters unleash a wave of atrocities against the Christian majority, prompting the emergence of vigilante groups.

The violence has raged unabated even after Djotodia stepped aside and the parliament appointed interim President Catherine Samba Panza last month, and Muslims have been fleeing the violence in their thousands.

A man was lynched Friday after he fell off a lorry in a convoy of terrified Muslims fleeing Bangui. Residents hacked him to death and dumped his body on the roadside.

‘The French won’t fire at us’

Meanwhile looting was rampant in the capital, where young people could be seen removing furniture and equipment from buildings and shops — some still smoldering from fires set on Saturday — despite the heavy presence of French and African peacekeepers as a French helicopter gunship circled above.

The peacekeepers went from door to door to try to rout the looters, who simply moved on to other targets, pushing their carts and wheelbarrows between French armored cars.

“The French won’t fire at us,” one young looter said, laughing.

The mayhem came as French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian began an African tour on Sunday in the Chadian capital N’Djamena mainly focused on the Central African conflict.

Chad, the impoverished country’s neighbor to the north, has 850 troops in MISCA and is also home to 950 French troops — Paris’s largest concentration of soldiers abroad after Djibouti.

Le Drian is to meet Chad’s President Idriss Deby, often described as the kingmaker of Bangui politics, before heading to Brazzaville for talks with President Denis Sassou Nguesso, a mediator in the conflict.

On Wednesday Le Drian will begin his third visit since the French operation codenamed Sangaris was launched two months ago.

Muslim Central Africans and foreigners have been fleeing Bangui for several months to escape killings, looting and harassment by armed Christian militias.

The International Criminal Court said Friday it had opened an initial probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic.

Atrocities, the fear of attacks and a lack of food have displaced almost a quarter of the country’s population of about 4.6 million, while the United Nations and relief agencies estimate that at least two million people need humanitarian assistance.

The landlocked country has been prone to coups, rebellions and mutinies for decades, but the current sectarian conflict is unprecedented.

Reuters contributed to this report.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/140210/politician-killed-bangui-central-african-republic-violence

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Would You Like A Canadian Politician To Say Hi To You?

Yesterday, the Ottawa Citizen posted a link to a website that featured a scandal-tainted Canadian Senator named Mike Duffy doing a fundraising pitch. Given ongoing accusations that Duffy was misappropriating government funds, it was an interesting piece of web-arcana that the conservative party certainly wouldn’t want to draw attention to. But what made it amazing wasn’t the pitch.

Duffy had recorded hundreds of lead-ins to the video, each one with a different name, hoping to personalize it for as many people as possible. The Ottawa Citizen invited people to try the link and replace it with their own names, to see if he had one especially for you, Grace. Or you, Lorraine. Or you, Wendell. 

On its own, it was a fun distraction – seeing if Duffy had read your name, maybe tweeting it at friends. But a politico (and programmer) named Kevin O’Donnell turned a diversion into a bizarre work of art. He did some sleuthing and found that all the “name” videos were centrally located, and then ran those videos against a list he found online of 3,500 names. Doing this netted him 750 first names videos recorded by Mike Duffy, now divorced entirely from the fundraising pitch that followed.

O’Donnell created a website that serves all the “name” videos, so you can now send it to anyone who appears on the list, or just lose yourself in them as he hypnotically says hello to Floyd, Francine, Francis, Frank, Franklin, and so on.

The internet allows us to create quick-hit, time sensitive content that we can post online in an attempt to reach people quickly. It also allows that content to exist, relatively undisturbed for months or years after its sell-by date. But rediscovering and reusing that content can reveal a world of riches.

This happens all the time with stuff like Keyboard Cat, and the Space Jam website. Little pieces of ephemera that have long since been forgotten/abandoned by their creators, that take on a new life when they capture the internet’s attention. But Mike Duffy – man, this one’s inspired.

(h/t Steve Portigal)

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Court rejects release of spy records on iconic Canadian politician

March 29, 2013 by Joseph Fitsanakis

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Canada’s highest court has rejected a legal argument in favor of releasing surveillance records on Tommy Douglas, an iconic Canadian politician who was monitored for most of his life by the security services. Douglas was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who later became the leader of the New Democratic Party and Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Under his Premiership, which lasted from 1944 to 1961, Saskatchewan’s government became the first democratic socialist administration in North America and the first in the Americas to introduce a single-payer universal healthcare program. But Douglas, who is widely recognized as the father of Canada’s healthcare system, was under constant surveillance by Canadian intelligence throughout most of his life. Government records show that the now-defunct Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) began monitoring the socialist politician shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It appears that, in the political context of the Cold War, Douglas had drawn the attention of Canada’s security establishment by supporting antiwar causes, which led some to suspect him of holding pro-communist sympathies. The government surveillance, which was at times extensive, lasted until shortly before the politician’s death in 1986. Under Canada’s legal system, security dossiers on individuals are typically released 20 years after the target’s death. However, even though several hundred pages from Douglas’ dossier have already been released, many hundreds more remain secret. In 2005, Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill launched a legal campaign aimed at securing the release of the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier. His campaign is supported by Douglas’ family, notably Douglas’ daughter, Shirley. But the Canadian government has resisted Bronskill’s effort from the very beginning. In 2010, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which inherited Douglas’ dossier after the RCMP’s Security Service was dissolved, filed an affidavit cautioning against the release of the secret pages. In the affidavit, the CSIS said that the release of the files on Douglas would “cause damage [despite] the passing of time and the age of the information”. It went on to add that “sources may still be active” and “some of the investigations are entities that [will] remain of interest for many decades”. On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed with the CSIS and ruled that the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier would stay secret for the foreseeable future. The court refused to elaborate on the reasons for the ruling, but it is assumed it agreed with the position of the Canadian government. The latter argued that divulging Cold War-era techniques would imperil current intelligence work, including “covert investigations against terrorists”. Furthermore, the government claimed that the remaining pages in Douglas’ dossier contain “no issue of public importance”.

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