The Massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenicia , Bosnia

A Bosnian Muslim man cries near coffins prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 9, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

Syria 20 Methods of Torture

"They forced me to undress. Then they started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest, and ears. I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke," said a 31-year-old man who was detained in Idlib in June. "They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice. I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days."

Other torture methods described in the report include hanging detainees from the ceiling and beating them with cables, whips and pipes and pulling out fingernails with pliers.



Former detainees who were interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported witnessing the death of other detainees while in custody, though the rights group has not been able to confirm independently the numbers of fatalities in detainment.



While the majority of those interviewed were men between the ages of 18 and 35, Nadim Houry, the deputy director of HRW's Middle East and North Africa division, told ABC News the group also interviewed women, children and the elderly.



"I interviewed a child as young as 11 years old and a man over 70 who had been detained and tortured when security forces couldn't find his sons," said Houry.



Houry also said that activists from across Syria's religious communities, including the ruling Alawite minority, had reported being detained.

Anti-government protests have been raging across the country for over a year and have become increasingly violent over recent months. The Syrian authorities have maintained that they are battling foreign-funded terrorists while activists contend that they are fighting for freedom and democracy. The United Nations puts the death toll at over 10,000.

Syria Has 27 Torture Centers: Report
 
 

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/03/12536841-rights-group-syrias-20-ways-to-torture-prove-its-crimes-against-humanity?lite

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/syria-27-torture-centers-report/story?id=16703453

Yasser Arafat was Poisoned by Radio Active Material Leading to his Death

Eight years after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Al-Jazeera network published on Tuesday findings of an investigation which attempts to shed light on the circumstances of his death. According to the report, Swiss experts found high levels of polonium, a highly radioactive element, in his personal belongings.

Arafat's death on November 11, 2004 had generated no small number of conspiracy theories, including poisoning by Israel and even HIV.



Al-Jazeera's report cites experts from the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, who examined Arafat's belonging. "Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element," Al-Jazeera reported.



The tests that were conducted in Paris immediately after Arafat's death found no evidence of poisoning. Al-Jazeera's research indicated that Arafat was in good health until falling suddenly ill in October.



In 2005, Haaretz reported that Israeli experts who analyzed the report drawn up by the medical team that treated Yasser Arafat in Paris say that the most likely possibility is that he was poisoned in a dinner meal on October 12, 2004.
Yasser Arafat


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Yasser Arafat, who died yesterday aged 75, was the unchallenged leader of the Palestinian people and their movement for statehood over more than 30 years.

Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Raouf 'Arafat al-Qudua al-Husseini was born in Cairo on August 24 1929, the sixth of seven children. (He assumed the forename Yasser, after a companion of the Prophet Mohammed, in the 1940s.) His father was a respectable wholesale foodstuffs merchant of modest means who moved the family from Gaza to Cairo.


In 1990, Yasser Arafat married, in conditions of great secrecy, 26-year-old Suha al-Tawil, a Palestinian Christian who converted to Islam on marriage, and who spent much of her time thereafter in Paris. They had a daughter, Zahwa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31751.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139036,00.html


http://www.tutorgig.info/ed/Yasser_Arafat

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40566_New_Lab_Tests_Suggest_Arafat_May_Have_Been_Poisoned

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1476400/Yasser-Arafat.html