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Chemical fears as tanker sinks Oct 31, 2000 Trinicenter Special

Al-Aqsa Intifada: - By Noam Chomsky
After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often by "excessive use of lethal force in circumstances in which neither the lives of the security forces nor others were in imminent danger, resulting in unlawful killings," Amnesty International concluded in a detailed report that was scarcely mentioned in the US. The ratio of Palestinian to Israeli dead was then about 15-1, reflecting the resources of force available. more...

The New Hanging Bill in TnT - By Kim Johnson October 30, 2000
IN its most recent avatar the Constitution (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2000, which has been laid in Parliament, shows that Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj has both the tenacity and the belligerence of a pitbull.
And if there's anyone who brings those traits out in him (more than the Chief Justice) it is people who frustrate his urge to hang condemned men and women. more...