Friday, October 21, 2011

Western Media use phrases like "Accused" to hide its involvement in the Brutal murder of another African Leader


Libya's rebel army has been accused of executing both Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in cold blood as the United Nations suggested their deaths amounted to war crimes.

Libya's rebel army has been accused of executing both Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in cold blood as the United Nations suggested their deaths amounted to war crimes.
Both Gaddafi and his son were filmed or photographed alive and relatively uninjured after their capture on Thursday, before both died of multiple gunshot wounds Photo: AP
Human rights groups and Gaddafi's wife Safia called for an independent investigation into the deaths, which robbed victims' families of the chance to see Gaddafi put on trial for his murderous acts.
Both Gaddafi and his son were filmed or photographed alive and relatively uninjured after their capture on Thursday, before both died of multiple gunshot wounds.
On Friday, at the refrigeration units in Misrata where the two bodies are being kept before their burial, young men queued for the chance to see the corpses and take pictures of them on their mobile phones.
Libya's interim president, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, is expected to declare the country officially liberated today, though the fate of Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's chosen heir and the only man who could continue the fight, remains unclear.
Within Libya, Gaddafi's death has been a cause for celebration, but its new leaders have been warned that summary executions will not be tolerated by the international community.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: "It is unclear how (Col Gaddafi) died. There is a need for an investigation."
Describing footage of Gaddafi's last moments as "very disturbing", he said that if the former dictator had been executed: "That would raise issues that a crime had been committed and we would have to look at dealing with that. It is very clear under international law that summary executions are illegal.
"You can't just chuck the law out of the window. Killing someone outside a judicial procedure, even in countries where there is the death penalty, is outside the rule of law."
It raised the possibility that rebel soldiers could be pursued for war crimes.
Amnesty International, meanwhile, called for "a full, independent and impartial inquiry" into the circumstances of Gaddafi's death.
Gaddafi's wife, Safia, also called on the UN to investigate the death of her husband and her son, according to a Syrian TV station.
David Cameron, however, said Libya, not the UN, should investigate the deaths. His spokesman said: "The account of precisely what happened is a matter for the NTC."
Several videos of Gaddafi after his capture near Sirte show him walking and talking to his enemies. His body was later photographed with a clean bullet hole in the left temple and bullet wounds in his abdomen and chest.
His son Mutassim, meanwhile, was photographed smoking a last cigarette and holding a bottle of water, almost uninjured, before being shot in the neck.
Mahmoud Jibril, the interim Libyan prime minister, admitted Col Gaddafi was relatively unscathed when he was captured.
He said: "When they transferred him to the pick-up truck he had no injuries. When the vehicle started moving he was caught in the crossfire and he was injured with a shot to the head."

Monday, October 17, 2011

TZ Currency Bounce Back


CURRENCY CONVERTER WIDGET

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Mid-market rates: 2011-10-17 10:05 UTC
1.00 USD=1,698.04 TZS
US DollarTanzanian Shilling
1 USD = 1,698.04 TZS1 TZS = 0.000588914 USD
TZ Shillings shows a little sign of improvement after hitting a rock button y'day, This a great news for Tanzania online Enterprise after few days financial woes and Power crisis showing a little sign of improvement maybe Tanzania business will get back on its track

Saturday, October 15, 2011

TZ Currency Hits All times Low Against USD

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Mid-market rates: 2011-10-15 14:19 UTC
1.00 USD=1,700.00 TZS
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1 USD = 1,700.00 TZS1 TZS = 0.000588235 USD
The effects of frequent power blackout are begin to show as the Country currency value keeps dropping as reported by The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the year-on-year inflation rate rose to 14.1 percent in August from 13.0 percent in July, mirroring rising inflation across east Africa This is Perfect News for Foreign investors, Tourists & Exchange students!.. imagine your 100 USD worth 170,000/= TZS surely life would be much better for you

Reuters Blogger calls "AU" African Useless !


The joke always used to be that the ‘U’ in the African Union’s, the AU, stood for useless. After the hopeless failure of African diplomatic efforts to bring a peaceful end to Libya’s rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi, and even more since the bloc held back on recognising the new Libyan rulers, critics suggest the African Union could be making itself irrelevant.
But is the African Union wrong to treat the anti-Gaddafi forces with more caution than their Western allies and the Arab world has done even if the former rebels seem to have widespread support for ending an autocrat’s rule?
There are plenty of reasons why the African Union would be reluctant to recognise the rebels who overthrew a man who did as much as anyone to found the African Union in place of the ineffectual club called the Organisation of African Unity.
Many individuals African rulers benefited from Gaddafi’s largesse – particularly when they were in trouble – allowing them to get over any queasiness at his comic theatre at African summits and his coronation as Africa’s “King of Kings” as well as to humour his quest for a “United States of Africa”.
For South Africa’s ruling ANC, Gaddafi was a friend during the struggle against apartheid. For Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, who expelled the Libyan ambassador after he switched sides this week, help has been much more recent. Some autocrats may also fear that the example set by the overthrow of Gaddafi could inspire opponents in their own countries.
For the African Union – and South Africa in particular – there was the embarrassment of seeing peace efforts (no matter how well intended) dismissed internationally while the rebels fought towards Tripoli under the NATO air cover which made their war possible.
It’s not that there is a fully united front in Africa. Increasingly assertive giant Nigeria, striving to set itself out as a champion of democracy, was quick to recognise Libya’s new rulers. West Africans have not forgotten the hundreds of thousands who perished in Gaddafi-fuelled wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone and elsewhere either.
But might there be sound reasons less tied to history and emotional links for African countries to be wary of leaping to recognise the rebels?
First may be the treatment of black Libyans and Africans from south of the Sahara, reported by Amnesty International this week, but evident since the start of the rebellion. While there certainly seems to be truth that some African mercenaries fought for Gaddafi, there have been plenty of reports of black Africans being killed or tortured when it wasn’t really clear whether they were fighters or just part of the army of hundreds of thousands of Africans who made their way to Libya to do hard jobs that Libyans didn’t want.
For some, as explained in this Reuters report on Algeria, there is the suspicion of Islamist links among the anti-Gaddafi forces.
The African Union’s Democracy Charter is also clear that those who takes power by force should be sanctioned not welcomed (although it could be interpreted that this applies to democratically elected governments, which Gaddafi’s certainly wasn’t). Hypocritical it may be for those African leaders who first took power by force to now insist that others should not do so, but the African Union has condemned coups and rebellions elsewhere and suspended countries until they held elections. That has undoubtedly helped make clear that taking power by force should not be the workaday means of changing government that it once was in Africa.
Should the African Union treat the Libyans differently to forces that took power elsewhere even if they appear to have popular support and promise democracy? The African Union will probably recognise Libya’s new leadership in the end, if only because it would be impractical to do otherwise, but is the caution justified? Is it just holding off because of wounded pride over failed peace efforts and ties to old friend Gaddafi?
 

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