Syria s Hijacked Struggle

Like me, they were all forcibly abducted.

The Special Rapporteurs called upon the Government to investigate the threats against and murder of Nizam Ahmed and Nadeen Ahmed and to investigate the threats against Akram Sheikh and ensure his safety.

A chemical weapons ban should not be hostage to nuclear weapons.

Is that blackmail?

Doc, that's blackmail.

Yes, but why should they go to all this trouble to kidnap a harmless little governess?

And he's holding it over my head.

Mr. Wilkes, who can't be mentally faithful to his wife... and won't be unfaithful to her technically.

With a sledgehammer?

But Tilde was blackmailing us.

You're blackmailing me into marrying you.

Letting them beat us.

Hundreds of armed persons had occupied military and civilian facilities, taken hostages and killed scores of people.

Did you really think you could put that over on Kane?

Of course, the comic figure in all this is the longsuffering Mr. Wilkes.

The hostage takers who had been rendered unconscious by the gas were not taken into custody, they were simply shot in the head.

You want to be an Indian now? they said, finger on the trigger.

Among the specific terrorist activities addressed were, for example, the incitement to commit terrorist acts, hostage taking and the prevention and combating of smuggling of radioactive sources.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot by the hostage takers or shot by the police forces coming in and trying to deal with the situation.

We go over to the jail, and you let Joe go, or we tuck you 2 away and make a trade with Stumpy.

Still, if as you suggest, your actions can be construed as blackmail my actions?

And the other thing that happens is that we're all carrying around little Mary Poppins technology.

Félix Faría Arias was detained on 8 March 1997 in Baruta, near Caracas, as he was about to enter his house, by two individuals identifying themselves as members of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP).

In the resulting administrative vacuum, the CPN M have attempted to set up their own civil structures, often based on coercion and the extortion of exorbitant taxes aimed at sustaining the armed struggle.

And did I tell you, Caroline, that Capt. Butler... made a stupendous contribution to the Association for the Beautification... of the Graves of the Glorious Dead?

To spend the rest of my time worrying when I'll be caught up with... by some hoodlum holding a first mortgage on my life... payable on demand?

The main victims of the continuing violence are civilians.

against the continued massacres of women and children in Algeria.

Indeed, Iraqi children are exposed to beating without regard for their age and for myriad reasons, thus growing up insecure, hostile, and violent. Moreover, they are prone to being kidnapped by criminal gangs, trained to steal or pickpocket, or, worse, placed at the mercy of terrorists for use in attacks.

These serious violations occur whether persons are held in pre arraignment custody under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior, or in investigative detention and after court sentencing under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice.

(a) The wrongful removal of children who are subjected to enforced disappearance, children whose father, mother or legal guardian is subjected to enforced disappearance or children born during the captivity of a mother subjected to enforced disappearance

The Niger has experienced violent uprisings in the wake of the armed rebellion which broke out in its northern and eastern regions.

The other limbs cannot at rest remain.

2.6 The author alleges that he was tried and convicted because of his political views, as a supporter of the former President.

The complainant had further been physically abused also by supporters of the Awami League.

It is not a coincidence that the most impoverished regions are the ones suffering the most protracted conflicts, where human rights are often trampled and threatened.

He claims that because of the party members' support for their imprisoned leaders, the party members themselves have been stigmatized and are personally at risk of persecution by the police even under the BNP regime.

These are the countries that stand to lose most from continued marine turtle decline.

Children are sometimes abducted for short periods of time, often in the course of a sexual attack, and are then released.

The beating of the three youths continued intermittently during an interrogation which lasted for several hours.

Mr. Vama has the backing of pro independence FLNKS, but is opposed by some Kanak chiefs from the South Province.

Although he had reported the threats to the authorities, no steps were apparently taken to investigate the threats or provide him with protection.

(a) To liaise with the Special Adviser with regard to the protection of indigenous peoples from genocide

Having itself experienced the tragic consequences of armed conflict, the Philippines stands solidly behind this initiative.