Why Sesachalam Killings Is A Fake Encounter

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Why Sesachalam Killings Is A Fake Encounter
By Ajmal Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan150415.htm

After the third day Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations team which included this writer visited the place from where the bodies were found, they had also spoke to the families of victims and different government officials who were concerned. The team made very remarkable observations like the part of the forest where the encounter took place had no red sanders. There are no red sander trees within many kilometers of the site. Only twenty dead bodies were recovered (along with a few logs). Which begs the question, what happened to the rest? Where are the injured? Where are the arrestees? What happened to the many logs that they were supposed to have been carrying?. Blood stains are only found on the spots where the bodies were lying. There are no random blood marks on the ground, as one would expect in a random firing. There are no bullet marks anywhere on the encounter sites. No bullet holes on trees, the clay mounds or on the ground. In the 'random' firing every
 single
bullet seems to have found it's mark - the upper body of the victims. (In fact, media reports say, quoting both the witnesses who saw the bodies and the doctor who conducted the autopsy, that the bullet injuries are primarily on the upper body and the shots have been fired at close range.)


UN Imposes Arms Embargo On Rebels As Yemen Slaughter Continues
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson150415.htm

The UN Security Council voted on Tuesday to impose an arms embargo on leading members of the Houthi militia as well as Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of former longtime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh. The resolution was passed with 14 votes in favor and Russia abstaining. The text of the embargo was drafted by Jordan, a nonpermanent member of the Security Council. The Jordanian monarchy is actively participating in the anti-Houthi air assault in Yemen being spearheaded by Saudi Arabia


Coal Is Dying All By Itself
By Tim McDonnell

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcdonnel150415.htm

Coal, the No. 1 cause of climate change, is dying. Last year saw a record number of coal plant retirements in the United States, and a study last week from Duke University found that Even China, which produces and consumes more coal than the rest of the world put together, is expected to hit peak coal use within a decade, in order to meet its promise to President Barack Obama to reduce its carbon emissions starting in 2030


The Storm Is Over
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly150415.htm

The other storms will come, and we will have to see how we weather them, but what if our terrible fear of each other could pass us by? What if, for those of us doing the easiest time, "I can't do 3 more years" became "I won't make you do 3 more years" - became our part in a chorused "we won't do 3 more years!" ringing through our society. How miraculous it would be to hold our children and grand-children and sing, "I think that we can make it. The storm is over now."


Do Something, Anything: Naming And Shaming In Yarmouk
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud150415.htm

The population of Syria's Palestinian Refugee Camp, Yarmouk - whose population once exceeded 250,000, dwindling throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000 - are a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none excluded


Will Washington Kill Us All?
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts150415.htm

The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth. Global Warming can disappear instantly in Nuclear Winter

Putting The Real Story Of Energy And The Economy Together
By Gail Tverberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg150415.htm

In my view, the real story of energy and the economy is much less favorable than either of these views. It is a story of oil limits that will make themselves known as financial limits, quite possibly in the near term—perhaps in as little time as a few months or years. Our underlying problem is diminishing returns—it takes more and more effort (hours of workers' time and quantities of resources), to produce essentially the same goods and services


Sri Lanka: Deterioration Of The Legal Intellect: IV
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando150415.htm

A determination issued by the United Nation's Human Rights Committee on 1stApril 2015, reveals extraordinary failures on the part of Sri Lankan State agencies – the police, the forensic pathologist, the Attorney General, and the Supreme Court – regarding a custodial death that took place at the Moragahahena Police Station on 26th July 2003


Codemening The Attacks By Maoists On Security Forces In Bastar
By PUCL

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl150415.htm

Statement of PUCL Chhattisgarh on the recent attacks on security forces by Maoists