Midweek Links

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Tang

• Chinese forces invaded India, marching 19km into the Ladakh region of Kashmir.
• Communist forces attacked Congress Party politicians in Chhaatisgarh, killing at least 27.
• Sunni forces in Iraq bombed Shi’ite marketplaces, killing over 60.
• A Christian activist group alleges that the Seleka group that conquered the Central African Republic in March of this year is a Muslim organization. Seleka’s sudden strength and its described behaviours suggest a link to the global Muslim Brotherhood, a claim previously made only by one anonymous commenter and the unreliable Wayne Madsen.
  • The CAR had accused Seleka of including “rebels from Darfur” and Mahamat Nouri’s UFDD and of receiving arms from Eritrea.
• Police in Uganda shut down two radio stations, a newspaper, and a magazine after they reported on a letter from General David Sejusa accusing of President Yoweri Museveni of establishing a monarchy and assassinating political opponents.
• Australia’s National University has forbidden the student newspaper Woroni from blaspheming Islam in the same way that the newspaper has previously mocked Catholicism, Scientology, Mormonism and Judaism.
• Police in Balagarh, West Bengal arrested several Hindus for the apparent crime of having been attacked by Muslim rioters.
• The US has been conducting espionage on New Zealand’s civilian communications.
• Brazil has canceled circa $900 million in debt owed by African states.
• Philippine soldiers fought Abu Sayyaf group soldiers near Patikul in Sulu province.
• The PLO attacked the Jewish village of Kochav Yaakov.
• Indian censors have suspended Comedy Central for ten days.
• Reporters Without Borders has denied the existence of recently released arguments suggesting the Mohammed al-Dura shooting may have been a hoax. This suggests the organization has an extreme anti-Jewish bias to the point of being oblivious to facts.
• Aron Lund writes that “the Free Syrian Army doesn’t exist”, describing it as a Turkish intelligence operation and naming nine of its supposed supreme leaders who “keep appearing in the media as representatives and leaders of the FSA”, but “none of them have any boots on the ground.”