ARUSHA, Tanzania—A United Nations court has sentenced a former businessman to 25 years in prison for his role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Yusuf Munyakazai was convicted of leading an attack that killed 60 to 100 Tutsis and sentenced Wednesday. He also was accused of helping transport Hutu militias to sites where he helped them kill hundreds of Tutsis.
June 29, 2010 CBC News
– SEE THIS—0:57 —-WHY IS this being IGNORED!!—
Independent journalist Amy Miller speaks to media outside the Alternative Media Centre on Harbord Ave. on Monday.
June 28, 2010 PBS Euro News
June 28, 2010 Northwest News
Methods used will be poisoning, road traffic accidents, lethal vaccinations, being shot in the head, being abducted and tortured, disappearance and anyway that makes out it was accidental death thus saving on paperwork and inquiries. U.S. intelligence will covertly asses your behavior and movements then base the assassination around your everyday activities. This law will be abused and no one will know 
Ladies and Gentleman, the U.S. Government has just declared war on the general public.
What follows is a list, as detailed as we can make it, of what we saw and heard.
People were held for up to 35 hours with a single meal
No one seemed to have received food more than twice daily, the meal they did receive was a hamburger bun with processed cheese and margarine described as a centimeter thick. Detainees had to create loud noises for hours to receive any food at all. All reported feeling more ill and dehydrated after eating than before. Some vomited and received no medical attention when they did. Water was not provided with the meal.
Inadequate water, as little as an ounce every 12 hours
Although some people reported receiving approximately an ounce (a small Dixie cup) of water every three hours, most seemed to have received far less than that. They had to create loud noises and continuously demand water, only to receive it up to an hour and a half later. Sometimes rooms with over a dozen people were only given a handful (four or five) cups of water and forced to share. Some reported the water as yellow-coloured and smelling of urine, which they didn’t drink.
After watching the worst incidents of G20-related mayhem on television on the weekend, many Torontonians may well assume it is good news that the police arrested some 900 people. It’s not.
Hundreds of those arrested and detained in a makeshift prison, some for more than 24 hours, were released without any charges whatsoever. Why? They had done nothing wrong in the first place. They were either peaceful protesters or just curious onlookers.
At the scenes of mass arrests, police seem to have made no attempt to separate the wheat (peaceful protesters or onlookers) from the chaff (vandals). Heavily armed, riot-clad police closed in on the crowd from all sides and nearly everyone present — including journalists, legal observers and people just walking home — were arrested, handcuffed, stripped of their possessions, transported to a detention facility and held in steel cages. The police say they first issued warnings to people to disperse, but those caught up in the net say they heard no such warnings.
The suspension of the civil liberties of so many people for so little cause is, at a minimum, an unacceptable stretching of our laws and of the powers we entrust in the police. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has called it “punitive policing” — apparent retaliation for the actions of hooligans who smashed store windows and set police cars ablaze earlier in the weekend.
A man is run down by a police horse at the G20 protests in Toronto on June 26, 2010.
I was not there as part of the protests. I was just there to take photos and video. But what I saw at Queen’s Park that day left me very unsettled.
Queen’s Park was the officially designated protest zone. I did not see any violence from the protesters, nor from the police. The police were standing calmly, forming a wall blocking protesters from moving south on University Ave. However, at about 7:00pm, the police decided to push the protesters out of the park.
The wall of officers, assisted by mounted police, moved forward, pushing the protesters back (eventually all the way to Bloor Street). A few people who did not move back fast enough were struck and/or arrested. After several arrests, a few members of the crowd became violent, and I saw a couple of rocks being thrown. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the crowd was non-violent and complied with police orders to move back. This video was captured at 7:28pm at Queen’s Park South during the push.
The mounted officers were from the Toronto and Montreal police forces. After being knocked down, the man was nearly stepped on. He was able to get up and walk away, so hopefully he was not badly hurt.
The Food and Drug Administration urged farmers on Monday to stop giving antibiotics to cattle, poultry, hogs and other animals to spur their growth, citing concern that drug overuse is helping to create dangerous bacteria that do not respond to medical treatment and endanger human lives.
Joshua M. Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, said antibiotics should be used only to protect the health of an animal and not to help it grow or improve the way it digests its feed.
“This is an urgent public health issue,” Sharfstein said during a conference call with reporters. “To preserve the effectiveness [of antibiotics], we simply must use them as judiciously as possible.”
The FDA issued a draft of its guidance, and the public has 60 days to comment on the draft.
Sharfstein said that the guidance was a first step, and the agency would issue new regulations if the industry does not comply voluntarily.
June 28, 2010 BBC World News
TORONTO – Freed U.S. protester Bridie Wyrock says she was thrown in a tiny concrete cell for 19 hours without seeing a lawyer.
Wyrock, 20, of Cleveland, was in Toronto to take part in G20 protests when she was rounded up Saturday by police. She was among more than 500 protesters detained at an Eastern Ave. detention centre.
“I didn’t want to get arrested,” she said Sunday after being released. “They put me in a small concrete cage for 19 hours.”
She said protesters for many hours didn’t have access to lawyers or telephones.
“It was very cold inside that jail,” Wyrock said. “All they fed us during 19 hours was cheese and butter sandwiches.”
It has been years since the United States has had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden, although he is thought to be in Pakistan, CIA director Leon Panetta said on Sunday.
He also gave a sobering account of the war in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban seemed to be strengthening with a stepped-up campaign of violence, even as U.S.-led forces undermine the Islamist movement with attacks on its leadership.
Progress is being made in the nearly nine-year-old conflict but “it’s harder, it’s slower than I think anyone anticipated,” Panetta said on ABC’s “This Week” program. He did not directly answer a question about whether the war was being won.
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by Kristen Coughlan
I went to the G20 on Sunday to film some video and pictures. I saw the aftermath of the Saturday riots. There was graffiti on the walls and windows. Stores were boarding up their windows to cover the damage or keep the store from being damaged in case if any other possible riots. ATMs were smashed. Some of the monuments were boarded up or fences put around it.
In the Downtown core, there was at most ten cops at every street corner. They were searching mostly people in protest like clothing. I also saw a bus load of more officers coming in by City Hall. Later in the day you can see cops just sitting around looking bored. Some of the cops just lined their bikes on the street and sat down nearby. That is almost a billion dollars wasted.
I spent a little bit in Queen’s Park and interviewed people that were there during the riots. The main groups that were at the time I was where were Toronto Zeitgeist, an Anti-Zionist/Israel group, a Pro-Israel group, and women’s rights.
The biggest protest I saw on Sunday was the bike protest. At city hall was was a protest about the genocide in Ogaden. One of the embassies had Georgians and Sri Lankas protesting. On top of the roof of the embassy were two snipers.
It was pretty calm in the downtown core. The people that were with me and I weren’t searched at all by the cops. It is when I left Toronto I found out all the action was happening at an old film studio which the cops were using as a detention centre.