Sunday, 10 June 2012
Saturday, 9 June 2012
UN Observers enter Mazraat al-Qubeir
UN observers today entered the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir to verify
reports of mass killings in the village. After hours of coordination
with local authorities and communities in the area, the observers were
able to access the village at 3:30 local time.
Mazraat al-Qubier was empty of its own residents and thus the observers were not able to talk to anyone who witnessed Wednesday's horrific tragedy.
Upon the arrival of UN observers villagers from a neighbouring town came and spoke of what they heard and the relatives they lost.
Bmp tracks were visible in the vicinity. Some homes were damaged by rockets from bmps, grenades and a range of caliber weapons.
Inside some of the houses, the walls and floors were splatted with blood. Fire was still burning
outside houses and there was a strong stench of burnt flesh in the air.
The circumstances surrounding this crime are still unclear. The number and names of those killed are still not confirmed. The observers are still working to ascertain the facts.
The observers were not able to enter Mazraat al-Qubeir yesterday despite multiple attempts throughout the whole day. Their mission was obstructed by three factors:
• They are being stopped at Syrian Army checkpoints and in some cases turned back.
• Some of our patrols are being stopped by civilians in the area.
• We are receiving information from residents of the area that the safety of our observers is at risk if we enter village of Mazraat al-Qubeir.
SHOTLIST:
1. Various shots, UNSMIS military observers approaching Syria Al-Kubeir village
2. Close up of UNISMIS observer driving next to a shelled house
3. Close up walls of shelled house with holes and bullets marks
4. Wide, burning smoke outside house
5. Wide, wide hole from shelled house with UNSMIS military observers
on the background
6. Wide , various UNSMIS military observers walking inside Al-Kubeir village
7. Med, Inside house , unidentified men showing mattress spattered
with blood and bullet holes next on the walls
8. Close up of blood stained mattress
9. Med, Unidentified man holding sheet with some human flesh remains
10. Med, Blood stained floor
11. Close up pool of blood
13. Med, Unidentified man pointing at picture frame of man inside
house , then breaks down crying.
14. Wide, shelled house
15. Med, UNSMIS civilian staff going through rubble
16. (Soundbite )(Arabic) Man:
"Young children, infants, my brother,his wife and seven children, the eldest only in 6th grade all dead. I will show you the blood. They burnt his house."
17. Wide, of shelled village
18. Med, close up UN personnel gathering evidence on the ground
Mazraat al-Qubier was empty of its own residents and thus the observers were not able to talk to anyone who witnessed Wednesday's horrific tragedy.
Upon the arrival of UN observers villagers from a neighbouring town came and spoke of what they heard and the relatives they lost.
Bmp tracks were visible in the vicinity. Some homes were damaged by rockets from bmps, grenades and a range of caliber weapons.
Inside some of the houses, the walls and floors were splatted with blood. Fire was still burning
outside houses and there was a strong stench of burnt flesh in the air.
The circumstances surrounding this crime are still unclear. The number and names of those killed are still not confirmed. The observers are still working to ascertain the facts.
The observers were not able to enter Mazraat al-Qubeir yesterday despite multiple attempts throughout the whole day. Their mission was obstructed by three factors:
• They are being stopped at Syrian Army checkpoints and in some cases turned back.
• Some of our patrols are being stopped by civilians in the area.
• We are receiving information from residents of the area that the safety of our observers is at risk if we enter village of Mazraat al-Qubeir.
SHOTLIST:
1. Various shots, UNSMIS military observers approaching Syria Al-Kubeir village
2. Close up of UNISMIS observer driving next to a shelled house
3. Close up walls of shelled house with holes and bullets marks
4. Wide, burning smoke outside house
5. Wide, wide hole from shelled house with UNSMIS military observers
on the background
6. Wide , various UNSMIS military observers walking inside Al-Kubeir village
7. Med, Inside house , unidentified men showing mattress spattered
with blood and bullet holes next on the walls
8. Close up of blood stained mattress
9. Med, Unidentified man holding sheet with some human flesh remains
10. Med, Blood stained floor
11. Close up pool of blood
13. Med, Unidentified man pointing at picture frame of man inside
house , then breaks down crying.
14. Wide, shelled house
15. Med, UNSMIS civilian staff going through rubble
16. (Soundbite )(Arabic) Man:
"Young children, infants, my brother,his wife and seven children, the eldest only in 6th grade all dead. I will show you the blood. They burnt his house."
17. Wide, of shelled village
18. Med, close up UN personnel gathering evidence on the ground
Leaves Of The Horn (Trailer)
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Brooklyn Bridge suit will go forward
US District Court Southern District of New York Judge Jed RakoffWhat a huge debt this nation owes to its "troublemakers." From Thomas Paine to Martin Luther King, Jr., they have forced us to focus on problems we would prefer to downplay or ignore. Yet it is often only with hindsight that we can distinguish those troublemakers who brought us to our senses from those who were simply troublemakers. Prudence, and respect for the constitutional rights to free speech and free association, therefore dictate that the legal system cut all non-violent protesters a fair amount of slack.These observations are prompted by the instant lawsuit, in which a putative class of some 700 or so “Occupy Wall Street” protesters contend they were unlawfully arrested while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011. More narrowly, the pending motion to dismiss the suit raises the issue of whether a reasonable observer would conclude that the police who arrested the protesters had led the protesters to believe that they could lawfully march on the Brooklyn Bridge’s vehicular roadway.
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