Kumbukumbu - Mauaji Rwanda 1994

Wadau, nilikuwa mwandihsi wa habari katika gazeti la serikali, Daily News. Siku ya 4/4/1994, tulipata Telex kibao kuwa watu wanafurika Bukoba na sehemu zingine mpakani kutoka Rwanda. walisema watu wanauawa ovyo, kisa...eti WaTusi!  Walisema watu waliokuwa marafiki jana, leo ni maadui!  Asante Mwalimu  Nyerere, sisi waTanzania wote ni NDUGU!

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Rwanda genocide victims 1994

By The Associated Press

   KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Twenty-five years ago, Rwanda descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history.

   The massacres, mostly by gangs wielding machetes, swept across Rwanda and groups of people were killed in their homes and farms and where they sought shelter in churches and schools. The mass killings started after a plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, in the capital, Kigali, killing President Juvenal Habyarimana. The killers were encouraged by hate messages broadcast on radio stations. Rwandan police, military and other government authorities did not stop the killings.

   Scores of thousands of terrified Tutsis fled Rwanda for neighboring countries including Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. The waves of murders continued until the rebel forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country. Paul Kagame, who led the rebels, helped re-establish order in the country and served as vice-president and defense minister from 1994 until he became Rwanda's president in 2000. Under Kagame's leadership Rwanda has achieved stability and economic growth, although he is widely accused of being intolerant of criticism and of running a repressive government.

   The scale of the killings in 1994 was unimaginable but the reporting and photographs taken at the time, for which AP won Pulitzer prizes, helped to inform the world of the horrors of the genocide.

Four Witnesses Allegedly Killed by Kenyan Police!

By TOM ODULA
Associated Press

   NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Six men were dead. On that, Kenyan police and a watchdog could agree. Then the narratives diverged, and sharply.

   Police posted on Twitter that the six men had robbed a motorbike taxi driver and raped his passenger. Human rights activists quickly put together a different account from witnesses: Two of the dead were robbery suspects. The others apparently were killed by police for witnessing officers kill the two men.

   As frustration in Kenya grows over alleged police abuses, the public has begun fighting back. They have formed the Dandora Social Justice Center and others to investigate what they say the government doesn't.

   In low-income neighborhoods of the capital, Nairobi, police killings are common. Many cases have gone unreported with families suffering in silence, rights activists say. Rarely are perpetrators held accountable.

   Police officers have been implicated in numerous reports by international rights groups and even Kenya's government-backed rights commission. A database kept by the local Nation newspaper says police killed 180 people in Kenya in the first nine months of 2018, the majority in Dandora.

   Police counter the allegations of illegal killings by saying the rights groups are embellishing their reports to attract more donor funding.

   The rise of social justice centers in Kenya in recent months has had an immediate impact.

   The six deaths in October documented by the Dandora Social Justice Center were among 28 alleged killings by police documented over a month's time in Nairobi's low-income neighborhoods of Dandora, Mathare, Kayole and Githuria.

   One of the witnesses killed was a 17-year-old boy who climbed a tree to hide from officers but was pulled down and shot dead, said Beth Mukami with the social justice center.

   The center's account of the police killings was given to the Independent Police Oversight Authority, a civilian oversight group with the mandate of investigating police abuses. The authority says it received 288 complaints in 2018 of deaths and serious injuries allegedly committed by members of Kenya's National Police Service.

   The social justice groups have become a critical partner, said Dennis Oketch, spokesman for the authority. The groups work quickly on the ground, flagging cases when the crime scene is still fresh and witnesses are still available, he said. The groups also hold the authority accountable by following up on cases, he added.

   Wilfred Olal, who co-founded the idea of social justice groups, said the idea started about two years ago during discussions in a civil society group known as the People's Parliament.

   "The communities come together, do research on matters affecting the community, especially on human rights and social justice," Olal said. Most justice centers receive on average five cases a day.

   Other issues addressed in the 10 Nairobi slums that now have social justice centers include gender-based violence, pollution and political accountability.

   Currently most resources for the centers come from the community, Olal said.

   "We don't want to rely on donors so much. We are modelling justice centers to be business-savvy so that it gives them independence," he said. The centers have received some support from rights groups Amnesty International and the International Justice Mission.

   The community-based groups are the best placed to rapidly respond to rights violations and train local youth in leadership, said Irungu Houghton, Amnesty's country director.

   "The centers operate in very poor and marginalized neighborhoods," he said. "Bruised by neglect and violence, the centers' biggest challenge is building confidence and trust with the community that they can deliver results." Every time a young person is wrongly killed, "this trust is broken."

   People had had no safe place to go to report alleged police abuses, said Mukami with Dandora Social Justice, whose husband disappeared almost a decade ago in a police crackdown on a quasi-religious gang known as the Mungiki.

   Mukami says she suffered greatly as a single parent, not knowing whether her husband was alive or dead. The new social justice centers offer counseling to families of people who say they have suffered police-related trauma.

   One of the greatest challenges the new centers face is protecting their volunteers, Olal said.

   Currently one group member is in hiding after receiving threats from a police officer who was shown in a viral video shooting an armed suspect until bullets in his gun are finished, then taking a colleague's gun and shooting until it's empty too.

   The activist went into hiding after allegedly documenting how the officer pulled another suspect he had shot from a hospital bed, with the suspect found dead days later.

   Despite the challenges, the new centers have become community focal points for residents' complaints, Mukami said.

   "It shows us that people do not have trust in government and have nowhere to turn to," she said.

Tanzania Police arrest Suspects in Killing of Wayne Lotter

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) - Police in Tanzania say they are holding suspects in the killing last month of prominent South African wildlife conservationist Wayne Lotter. Police chief Simon Sirro said in a statement Friday that some of Lotter's possessions were seized from the suspects. He did not say how many suspects are being held. Lotter was fatally shot in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam while being driven from the airport to his hotel. Lotter helped to train thousands of game scouts throughout the East African nation. He also developed an "intelligence-based approach" against poaching that has had success in countering wildlife trafficking, according to the U.S.-based conservation group PAMS Foundation that Lotter co-founded. Poachers have killed tens of thousands of elephants in Tanzania in the past decade.

Kuwanasa Wauji wa Albino, Mbinu za Kivita Zinatumika!

Mwandishi wa makala haya na mmiliki wa blogu ya MaendeleoVijijini, Bw. Daniel Mbega (mwenye jezi nyekundu) akiwa sambamba na wanausalama katika tukio la kukatwa kiganja mtoto Baraka Cosmas Songoloka. Hapa ni kwenye tukio katika Kitongoji cha Kaoze, Kilyamatundu wilayani Sumbawanga.

Na Daniel Mbega, MaendeleoVijijini

Tabora: KWA wakazi wa Kitongoji cha Kona Nne, Kijiji cha Ugembe II, Kata ya Mwakashanhala wilayani Nzega katika Mkoa wa Tabora, takriban kilometa 90 kutoka Nzega mjini, saa 3:00 ni usiku mkubwa na wengi wamelala baada ya shughuli za ujenzi wa taifa.

Liberian Civil War Atrocities

Murder Victims in Liberia Civil War

   MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - The skeletal remains of 27 people were all that was left of a massacre, one of many in this West African nation's back-to-back civil wars more than a decade ago. When the United Nations handed over the bones to the government last month, it was an invitation to investigate. Instead the remains were buried quickly, without ceremony, in a site intended for victims of the Ebola virus.

   The incident left many Liberians feeling as though the government wanted to bury the past, too.

   As the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission prepares to leave Liberia with the country's return to stability, questions remain about who must take responsibility for the atrocities over 14 years that left some 250,000 dead.

   Unlike neighboring Sierra Leone, which also suffered from the fighting that spilled over the border, Liberia has yet to deal with perpetrators of the killings, many carried out by drugged and under-age fighters, overseen by people who may now be in power.

   "If there is a need for exhumation for further investigation, that will happen," Information Minister Eugene Nagbe told The Associated Press, insisting the remains of the 27 people were not buried in the same spot where victims of the Ebola outbreak were buried.

   The government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said it is taking measures to reconcile with the past, but human rights advocates say the president doesn't have the political will to allow the pursuit of past crimes. Before she took power, Sirleaf said that if she was elected she would go for reconciliation instead of prosecution.

   Some in Liberia see this year's election as a chance to bring in a government that might take a more assertive approach.

   The bones handed over by the U.N. mission are thought to be those of victims of the River Gee massacre in 2003, which left more than 360 dead, the New Democrat newspaper reported, citing a 2008 report of the truth and reconciliation commission set up after the civil wars. The U.N mission had begun a forensic investigation into the killings but chose to turn over the bones as its gradual withdrawal from Liberia continues. The mission ends in March 2018.

   The truth and reconciliation commission had blamed on forces loyal to former Liberian rebel leader-turned-President Charles Taylor. Taylor is currently serving a 50-year sentence in Britain after being found guilty of war crimes by a U.N.-backed special court for his role in the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone when he was Liberia's leader.

   Liberia has never had such a special court, though the truth and reconciliation commission had recommended criminal prosecution for dozens of ex-warlords and a 30-year political ban for people who supported the war.

   One of those supporters was Sirleaf, who reluctantly appeared before the commission in 2008 and admitted to providing $10,000 to Taylor when his National Patriotic Front rebel movement was fighting the regime of then-President Samuel Doe.

   But Sirleaf told the truth commission that the money to Taylor was for "humanitarian purposes." Her critics have debunked this, saying that in the 1990s Taylor and his rebels weren't pursuing any humanitarian venture. Meanwhile, Sirleaf held a string of overseas positions with the United Nations and the World Bank and returned to Liberia only in 2004 when Taylor was forced to step down. She was elected president the following year.

   The truth and reconciliation commission's recommendations for criminal prosecution and political bans have never been implemented, and many people named by the commission are now senior members of Liberia's government. The National Human Rights Commission, tasked with implementing the commission's suggestions, remains underfunded.

   Meanwhile, many massacres during the fighting from 1989 to 2003 remain uninvestigated, Liberians say. Some prefer to be done with the past, but others feel closure is vital.

   "It is hard and worthless to keep repeating the graphic of the scene and see the hate and vices that occasioned the war still exist unabated," said Isaac Redd, director of press at the House of Representatives who survived a 1994 massacre at Kpolokpai. "I have personally prayed for the lost souls and asked God to take control for the perpetrators. I have forgiven them."

   Redd, a local radio reporter at the time, recalled that "deaths by chopping off limbs and heads with machetes were ordered without discrimination." Victims were tied up on arrest, and there was no interrogation. "Heads were smashed against the rocks in the middle of the town."

   Those rocks still take center stage in the small coffee-growing town. Visitors stand by them, agape, as survivors explain the atrocities.

   Like the rest of the survivors, Redd does not know how many people were killed in the Kpolokpai massacre, but he said that when rebel fighters released him the next morning, "I was confused but remembered seeing around a hundred bodies on the rocks."

   Many have called for the establishment of a war crimes court like the one that existed in post-conflict Sierra Leone, even as some say no amount of accountability can ease the trauma left behind.

   Peterson Sonyah, who witnessed killings in another assault that has come to be known as the Lutheran Church Massacre, is among those calling for a war crimes tribunal "so that our ugly past cannot haunt us as a nation."

   Sonyah survived an attack by Doe's troops by hiding under a church bench. Around him, soldiers opened fire, the flashes brightening the hall as if it was daytime.

   "People started crying all over the place. Women were raped and made to give out whatever money they had to the soldiers before they were gunned down," he said.

   Sonyah said Liberia Massacre Survivors Association has identified 69 mass graves in five of the country's 15 counties in the hope that someone will take interest. None is under investigation by the government.

Murder in Burundi

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA
Associated Press

   BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Satellite images, video footage and witness accounts show that dozens of people allegedly killed by Burundian security forces in December were later buried in mass graves, Amnesty International reported Friday.

   The report came as unrest in Burundi escalated with the arrest of 17 people in a security sweep, including two foreign journalists who were released later Friday.

   The rights group reported five possible mass graves in the Buringa area on the outskirts of the capital, Bujumbura, which has been wracked by violence as the security forces go into neighborhoods seen as opposition strongholds. Two journalists on assignment for the French newspaper Le Monde were among 17 people swept up in a military operation Thursday, said Moise Nkurunziza, a deputy spokesman for Burundian police.

   Journalists Jean-Philippe Remy of France and British photographer Philip Edward Moore were released on Friday afternoon, Le Monde said.

   Witnesses described how police and local officials scoured Nyakabiga and other neighborhoods in Bujumbura to retrieve the bodies of those who were killed late last year and took them to undisclosed locations, according to Amnesty International.

   "The imagery, dating from late December and early January, shows disturbed earth consistent with witness accounts. Witnesses told Amnesty International that the graves were dug on the afternoon of Dec. 11, in the immediate aftermath of the bloodiest day of Burundi's escalating crisis," the group said.

   Earlier this month, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein also called for an urgent investigation into the alleged existence of mass graves following the violence in December. Zeid said the "increasing number of enforced disappearances, coupled with allegations of secret detention facilities and mass graves is extremely alarming."

   Burundi's government has dismissed those allegations, saying they were based on false information supplied by the regime's opponents.

   In coordinated attacks, gunmen stormed three military installations in Burundi on Dec. 11. The next day, 28 people were found shot dead in three Bujumbura neighborhoods. An witness told The Associated Press that some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs. Another witness blamed government security forces, saying they went after the victims in door-to-door searches.

   President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek re-election to a third term last April touched off street protests that led to a failed coup in May and a rebellion that has left the central African country on the brink of civil war.

   The Burundian government has rejected the proposed deployment of African Union peacekeepers in Burundi, saying they will be treated as an invading force.

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200 killed in Burundi since April including Son of Activist

Burundi: Killing of Welly Nzitonda

The late Welly Nzitonda

Press Statement

John Kirby
Department Spokesperson

Washington, DC

November 7, 2015

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The United States is gravely concerned by the political and security situation in Burundi and condemns the killing in Bujumbura yesterday of Welly Nzitonda, the son of human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa. We extend our deepest condolences to Pierre Mbonimpa, whose son-in-law was murdered in October, and who himself has been jailed and shot in recent months.

Nzitonda’s killing is the latest in a cycle of violence between government security forces, armed opposition groups, and criminal gangs. In this context, we are particularly concerned that inflammatory rhetoric deployed in recent days by some government officials and President Nkurunziza’s planned security crackdown this weekend are increasing the risk of an outbreak of mass violence in Burundi.

The United States strongly urges the government to abandon plans for security operations that could inflame the situation, and we call on Burundian leaders—both in government and opposition—to immediately and publicly renounce violence and commit to regionally-mediated dialogue with all stakeholders, as called for by the UN Security Council, the African Union, and the East African Community. The United States stands ready to support this dialogue and encourages regional leadership in addressing this crisis to secure the safety and peace of the people of Burundi.‎ ‎

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 BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Carrying prized possessions, scores of people fled Burundi's capital Saturday before a looming security crackdown that many fear will be a wave of violence.

   A government-issued deadline to turn in illegal weapons or face extraordinary police action expires midnight Saturday and President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose decision to extend his rule sparked the country's current crisis, has urged the security forces to use all means necessary to restore order.

   But many here blame the security forces for a series of killings that has raised international concern and convinced residents in some volatile areas to flee their homes.

   At least 198 people have been killed in Burundi since late April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid that was ultimately successful for a third term in office, according to U.N. officials. At least 13 people have died in the past week, with many coming from Bujumbura neighborhoods known as opposition strongholds. More than 200,000 people have fled Burundi fearing violence.

   Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, warned Friday of a worsening security situation and said perpetrators would face justice.

   In Cibitoke and Mutakura, neighborhoods in northern Bujumbura that have been hotbeds of anti-government protests, some residents told The Associated Press Saturday they had no option but to seek refuge elsewhere. In order to leave their home areas they had to pass through search cordons mounted by the security personnel looking for illegal guns. Some carried bed mats on their heads and children on their backs.

   "Now I decide to leave as everyone is leaving. There is fear everywhere. But I still believe in God and all this will end," said Marguerite Bigira, an elderly woman who was among a group of people fleeing Mutakura.

   Although the current violence appears to be political, Burundi has a history of deadly conflicts between the country's Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Nkurunziza took power in 2005 near the end of a civil war in which some 300,000 people were killed between 1993 and 2006.

   Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Thursday quoted the president of the Burundian Senate, Révérien Ndikuriyo, as saying: "You tell those who want to execute the mission: On this issue, you have to pulverize, you have to exterminate - these people are only good for dying. I give you this order, go!"

   Human Rights Watch said Saturday that in the last two days some neighborhoods in Bujumbura "have started to empty" as panicked people flee to areas where they consider less dangerous.

   "Burundians take these warnings seriously, having seen relatives, friends, and neighbors shot dead by the police during nightly raids. Panic has set in, and some residents of Bujumbura have been packing up their belongings and fleeing," the group said in a statement Saturday. "The police have a duty to restore security and disarm people who have weapons illegally, and they can use lethal force when lives are at imminent risk. But that does not give them a license to kill."

   Mutakura resident Philbert Nzinahora said that a family in Bujumbura's Carama neighborhood, seen as more peaceful, has agreed to host his wife and children until it is safe for them to return home. He will not accompany them, in order not to compromise their safety, he said: "I will find another place to go."

Tyler Perry Asaidia Watoto Albino Kutoka Tanzania Walioko Marekani Kwa Ajili ya Matibabu

Heko kwa msanii maarufu Tyler Perry kwa kusaidia watoto albino kutoka Tanzania, ambao wanapata matibabu kwa ajili ya majeraha waliopata kutokana na  kukatwa vingo vyao.   Watoto hao albino wako nchini Marekani na watapewa viungo bandia kwa ajili ya kuwasaidia katika maisha yao.  Perry ametoa dola $200,000 kwa ajili ya ujenzi wa nyumba huko New Jersey ambao watoto albino wataweza kufikia wakiwa Marekani.   

Na Tanzania tuko karne gani hadi tunaamini eti ukinywa supu iliyotengenezwa na kiungo cha albino itakufanya uwe tajiri au ushinde nafasi ya uongozi? Aibu sana. Bora dunia ione ushenzi wa Tanzania.  Albino ni bindamu ila amekosa rangi (pigmentation) kwenye ngozi.  Sasa tumekuwa soko kuu ya kuuza viungo vya albino Afrika nzima! Acheni ushenzi na mawazo finyu jamani.  Unaweza kuwa binadamu mwenzio kweli?

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Tyler Perry na watoto Albino kutoka Tanzania walioko Marekani kwa jali ya matibabu ya kukatwa viungo vyao.

ATLANTA (AP) - Tyler Perry recently met with a group of Tanzanian children with albinism who are living in a home the filmmaker helped fund.

   Perry's representative said Monday he donated $200,000 three years ago to help build a four-bedroom house in New Jersey for a group of children who had been mutilated for their body parts. The children attended Perry's "Madea on the Run" play Thursday night at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre, where they met him backstage.

   The children will stay there while they receive medical treatment in the United States.

   Perry donated after watching a special featuring Elissa Montanti, a Staten Island woman who runs the nonprofit Global Medical Relief Fund for children affected by war and natural disasters.

   Montanti recently brought the children with albinism to the U.S. from Tanzania.

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

Afariiki Baada ya Kuchomwa Sindano ya Kuongeza Saizi ya Matako

Wadau, huko Texas mwanamke Mmarekani mweusi amepoteza maisha yake kwa kupenda kuchoma sindano za kuongeza saizi ya makalio.  Huyo dada alichoma sindano kadhaa na  kweli matako yake yaliongezeka. Lakini alitaka zaidi! Hatimaye sindano hizo zikamwua!  Sindano zenyewe zina Super glue na fixa fleti ya matairi!   Mpende mungu alivyowaumba. Na hao madaktari feki waliokuwa wanamchoma wamekimbia. Wakaikamatwa watashitakiwa kwa mauaji.

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Wykesha Reid went to the Deep Ellum salon for the same reason many others did: She wanted to add curves.
“Everybody else got big booties,” Patricia Kelley, 70, who had raised Reid since she was a baby, said Reid told her. “So she wanted a big booty.”
Reid, 34, a nursing home staffer, joined a growing number of people who are turning to black-market buttocks injections — which are much cheaper and riskier than plastic surgery — to get their bodies closer to pop-culture idols such as Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.
Reid went to the salon in the 3800 block of East Side Avenue three times for the injections with no problems.
“Your butt’s getting too big,” Kelley recalled telling her. “But she got hooked on them booty shots.”
On Feb. 18, Reid returned to the salon for a fourth visit, Kelley said Thursday. But something went wrong. Police found her body inside the business at 7 the next morning. The building had been cleaned out and her purse and cellphone were missing, Kelley said.
Now Reid’s family hopes someone will be brought to justice in her death.
Police issued arrest warrants late Wednesday on charges of practicing medicine without a license for Denise Ross, 43, and Jimmy Clarke, 31, who also is known as Alicia.
Ross and Clarke are wanted in connection with a case in which a woman who received butt injections suffered pain, soreness and psychological problems but survived.

Kusoma habari kamili BOFYA HAPA:

Mweusi Mwenye Hasira Aua Polisi Mjini New York Halafu Ajiua!

Wadau, ni kipindi cha hatari hapa USA. Weusi wanauawa na polisi kama wanyama halalfu wanaachiwa na wazungu wabaguzi! Hasira zina zidi kupanda na hata baadhi ya wazungu wanaona kuna ubaguzi dhidi ya weusi! Jana, kijana mweusi mweye hasira alitoka Baltimore, Maryland na kwenda mjini New York kwa nia ya kuua polisi. Aliua wawili waliokuwa wanakula chakula cha mchana ndani ya gari yao ya kazi (Cruiser)!  

Na sasa polisi wabaguzi wanasema kuwa watapiaga watu risasi na kujibu maswali baadaye! Yaani chuki na moyo ya ubaguzi unazidi!  Kwa kweli mtuombee, maana sijui nchi hii inaelekea wapi! Wzaungu wen gine wana hasiri kwa vile nchi inatawaliwa na mweusi! Ingawa Raisi Obama kafanya mengi mazuri katika kipindi kifupia, hawawezi kumpa sifa hata kidogo!  Wanamponda na kufanya kazi yake iwe ngumu!

Na tumwombee usalama wa Meya wa New York, Bill DeBlasio. DeBlasio ameoa mwanamke mweusi na ana watoto weusi,  Amesema wazi kuwa amemonya mtoto wake aw mwanaglifu na polisi maana wanaweza kumwua kwa vile ni mweusi! Jana DeBlasio alivyoenda hospitalini, polisi walimpa mgongo! Wanasema kuwa DeBlasio ndo sababu yule kijana katoka Baltimore kuua polisi New York!

Meya wa New York, Bill DeBlasio na Familia yake

 Kazi ya polisi ni kulinda Rais na viongozi! Lakaini hao wa Mjini New york ni wa aina yake!

Weusi walioawawa na polisi hivi karibuni ni Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, John Crawford,  Sean Bell,   na wengine.

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Polisi waliowawa mjini New York - Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu

   NEW YORK (AP) - A gunman who vowed online to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two New York City officers in a patrol car and fatally shot them in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.

   Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, wrote on an Instagram account: "I'm putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let's take 2 of theirs," two city officials with direct knowledge of the case confirmed for The Associated Press. He used the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMikeBrown.

   The officials, a senior city official and a law enforcement official, were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity.

   Police said Brinsley approached the passenger window of a marked police car and opened fire, striking Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the head. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

   "They were, quite simply, assassinated - targeted for their uniform," said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who looked pale and shaken at a hospital news conference.

   The sudden and extraordinary violence stunned the city, prompted a response from vacationing President Barack Obama and escalated weeks of simmering ill will between police and their critics following grand jury decisions not to indict officers in the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. Garner and Brown were black; the officers who killed them are white.

   Demonstrators around the country have staged die-ins and other protests following the grand jury decisions. The New York police union head declared there's "blood on the hands" of protesters and the city's mayor.

   Brinsley took off running after the shooting. Officers chased him down to a nearby subway station, where he shot himself in the head as a subway train door full of people closed. A silver handgun was recovered at the scene, Bratton said.

   "This may be my final post," Brinsley wrote in the post that included an image of a silver handgun. The post had more than 200 likes but also had many others admonishing his statements.

   Bratton said the suspect made very serious "anti-police" statements online but did not get into specifics of the posts.

   The Rev. Al Sharpton said Garner's family has no connection to the suspect and denounced the violence.

   "We have stressed at every rally and march that anyone engaged in any violence is an enemy to the pursuit of justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown," he said.

   Brown's family condemned the shooting in a statement posted online by their attorney.

   "We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. It cannot be tolerated. We must work together to bring peace to our communities," the family said.

   Most of the protests have been peaceful, particularly in New York. Bratton said police were investigating whether Brinsley had attended any rallies or demonstrations and why he had chosen to kill the officers.

   Brinsley was black; the officers were Asian and Hispanic, police said.

   Mayor Bill de Blasio said the killings of Ramos and Liu strike at the heart of the city.

   "Our city is in mourning. Our hearts are heavy," said de Blasio, who spoke softly with moist eyes. "It is an attack on all of us."

   Scores of officers in uniform lined up three rows deep at the hospital driveway. The line stretched into the street. Officers raised their hands in a silent salute as two ambulances bore away the slain officers' bodies. The mayor ordered flags at half-staff.

   In a statement Saturday night, Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the shooting deaths as senseless and "an unspeakable act of barbarism." Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, issued a statement saying he unconditionally condemns the slayings.

   "The officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day - and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day," Obama said. "Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal - prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen."

   The tragedy ended a bizarre route for Brinsley that began in Maryland early Saturday. He went to the home of a former girlfriend in a Baltimore suburb and shot and wounded her. Police there said they noticed Brinsley posting from the woman's Instagram account threats to kill New York officers.

   Baltimore-area officials sent a warning to New York City police, who received it moments too late, Bratton said.

   But the posts were apparently online for hours, though it's not clear if anyone reported them. Bratton called on New Yorkers to alert authorities of any threats to police they see - even if they don't seem real. "That information must get into the hands of the police officers," he said.

   Brinsley had a history of arrests in Georgia for robbery, disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon. Bratton said his last-known address was in Georgia, but he had some ties to Brooklyn.

   Meanwhile, the department grieved the sudden and violent loss of the officers.

   "Both officers paid the ultimate sacrifice today while protecting the communities they serve," Bratton said Saturday night.

   Ramos was married with a 13-year-old son and had another in college, police and a friend said. He had been on the job since 2012 and was a school safety officer. Liu had been on the job for seven years and got married two months ago.

   Rosie Orengo, a friend of Ramos, said he was heavily involved in their church and encouraged others in their marriages.

   "He was an amazing man. He was the best father and husband and friend," she said. "Our peace is knowing that he's OK, and we'll see him in heaven."

   De Blasio and the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, have been locked in a public battle over treatment of officers following the grand jury's decision. Just days ago, Lynch suggested police officers sign a petition that demanded the mayor not attend their funerals should they die on the job. On Saturday, some officers turned their backs on de Blasio as he walked into the hospital.

   "That blood on the hands starts at the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor," Lynch said. "After the funerals, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable."

   The last shooting death of a New York City officer came in December 2011, when 22-year veteran Peter Figoski was shot in the face while responding to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment. The triggerman, Lamont Pride, was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2013 to 45 years to life in prison.

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   Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire and Tom McElroy in New York, Juliet Linderman in Baltimore and Josh Lederman in Honolulu contributed to this report.

  

Bill Cosby Allegations

Kifo cha Eric Garner - Aluyeuawa na Polisi Mjini New York

Wadau, nina uchungu sana na kifo cha Mmarekani mwesui, Eric Garner (42). Aliuwawa na polisi wabaguzi. Walisema alikuwa anauza sigara kwa senti 50 kila moja, bila kulipa kodi.  Yaani hiyo ni kosa ya wao kuu mtu! Na siku hiyo walivyomwua hakuwa anauza sigara! Basi tu, walikuwa wanawinda weusi!


Wadau, marehemu nilikuwa namfahamu. Nilimwona mara kadhaa huko Staten Island, New York.  Pale alipouwawa kuna duka la vipodozi na mahitaji mengine. Mara nyingi ilikuwa nikimwona anatabasamu, alikuwa na umbo kama marehemu mume wangu ila mrefu zaidi.  Bora alikuwa anauza hizo sigara kuliko kuwaibia watu au kuwa jambazi. Mara la mwisho kumwona Eric akiwa hai ni hiyo hiyo Julai, alikuwa na mke wake na watoto.

Wiki hii polisi aliyemwua, mzungu, yule aliyemkaba kaachiwa bila hatia.  Yule polisi mshenzi anaitwa Daniel Pantaleo. Ukiona video unaona kabisa jinsi Panataleo anavyomwua, na utalia ukimsika ukisikia anasema, "I Can't Breathe!" (Siwezi kupumua).  Na ni wazi kuwa Pantaleo alikuwa na chuki ya siku nyingi na marehemu.  Yule kijana aliyepiga video ya mauaji ya Eric kafungwa!  Jamani!

Watu wanaandama kwa  wingi sasa karibu kila mji mkuu hapa Marekani! Watu weusi wameuawa na polisi waliowaua wanaachiwa. Ni kama vile maisha ya mtu mweusi haina thamani!  Ni maajabu, weusi na wazungu wanaandana pamoja kudai haki kwa watu weusi! Wana hasira maana wengi wameuawa na hakuna anayedhibitiwa. Tusiwasahau, Michael Brown, Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Tamir Rice, na wengine wengi!

Mwenyezi Mungu atulinde hapa Marekani!

Mauaji ya Eric Garner, Staten Island, New York

Kwa habari zaidi na Video ya Mauaji ! BOFYA HAPA:

Ubaguzi Marekani- Inasikitisha

Hao wazungu pichani wote wameua watu! Lakini wamekamatwa na wako hai, wako jela.! Mweusi akishukiwa kufanya uhalifu anauawa kama mnyama na Polisi!

Protect People with Albinism

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Thursday for increased protection for people with albinism, after the barbaric murder of a 40-year-old woman with albinism in north-western Tanzania on 12 May.

“This killing and the terrible circumstances surrounding it sadly demonstrate that the human rights situation of people with albinism in Tanzania and other countries, remains dire,” Pillay said.

According to police reports, Munghu Lugata was brutally murdered Monday night at her home in Mwachalala, a village in Simiyu region, north-western Tanzania. Her attackers chopped off her left leg above the knee, two of her fingers and the upper part of her left thumb, apparently while she was still alive.

These attacks, which are often motivated by the use of body parts for ritual purposes, have claimed the lives of at least 73 people with albinism in Tanzania since 2000. Ms Lugata’s murder is the first reported killing of someone with albinism in Tanzania in 2014.

Pillay welcomed the rapid response of the police, who arrested two local witchdoctors on 13 May.

“The fight against impunity is a key component for prevention and deterrence of the crimes targeting this exceptionally vulnerable community,” Pillay said, while noting that victims often face significant difficulties in bringing their cases to justice, fearing retaliatory attacks or further stigmatization. Without effective and affordable access to justice, many cannot claim their rights.

The High Commissioner stressed that States’ obligation to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of such crimes is particularly critical due to the vulnerability of people with albinism. States must also ensure access to effective remedies, redress and rehabilitation, including medical and psychological care for survivors and victims’ families.

“All over the world, people with albinism continue to face attacks or suffer terrible discrimination, stigma and social exclusion,” said the High Commissioner. The UN Human Rights Office has received reports of more than 200 cases of attacks against people with albinism in 15 countries between 2000 and 2013, but it is believed the actual number could be much higher.

The High Commissioner also expressed concern about the appalling living conditions in at least of Tanzania’s 13 centres for displaced children and adults with special needs. These centres host hundreds of children with albinism who have been abandoned by their families or have fled their homes out of fear of being attacked or killed. Some are administrated by the Government while others are run by faith-based organizations.

The 13 shelters are overcrowded, with very poor health and hygiene conditions. Many of the children with albinism living there reportedly suffer from skin cancer, partly due to the lack of awareness of the staff about a number of simple steps that can be taken to prevent this disease. Cases of sexual abuse have also been reported in some of these centres. Due to the very limited human and financial resources, teaching and learning materials are reported to be almost non-existent in most of them.

“I urge the Tanzanian authorities to take urgent measures to assess and address the situation in these centres, including allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, and the poor living conditions. The staff working with people with albinism should be trained on their special needs, in particular with regard to basic preventive measures to avoid skin cancer,” Pillay said.

The High Commissioner also called upon the Tanzanian authorities to take urgent concrete measures to protect people with albinism, and to actively engage in the fight against stigma attached to albinism through education and awareness-raising campaigns.

Two USIU students from Tanzania Dead in One Week in Nairobi

Rest in eternal peace, Brian Frisby (22) and Jerry Isaac Mruma (23).


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ANOTHER TANZANIAN STUDENT DIES IN NAIROBI

A 23-year-old Tanzanian student pursuing an MBA degree at the United States International University in Kenya has died under mysterious circumstances in Nairobi.

The late Jerry Isaac Mruma was found dead after he went missing since last Saturday night at the area.

Click here to Read the whole story from Daily News, Tanzania

Tanzia - Jerry Isaac Mruma (1990-2013)

The Late Jerry Isaac Mruma

Ninakushukuruni marafiki zangu, ninazishukuru blogu na tovuti zote zilizotoa tangazo la kumtafuta Jerry Isaac Mruma, na yeyote kwa namna yoyote aliyotoa ushirikiano kwa ndugu, jamaa na marafiki kwa kusali, kuomba na kutoa maneno ya kutia faraja katika kipindi chote tokea Jumapili hadi kufikia leo, Ijumaa, Novemba 22, 2013 ambapo mwili wa Jerry umepatikana.

Habari zaidi zitatolewa na familia itakapokuwa tayari.

Asanteni.

Subi|wavuti.com

Source: http://www.wavuti.com/#ixzz2lNQ64F5D

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Wadau, nilifanya kazi Daily News na baba yake Jerry, Mzee Isaac Mruma.  Nakumbuka Isaac alivyooa na Jerry kuzaliwa. Jerry amefariki Kenya alipokuwa anasoma MBA.  Nimesikia kuwa Jerry ameuawa kwa kunyongwa karibu na Chuo aliyokuwa anasoma. Nangojea taarifa zaidi.

 

Poleni sana Mzee Isaac Mruma na familia.

REST IN ETERNAL PEACE JERRY MRUMA

- Chemi Che-Mponda

Aliyemwua Omar Sykes Washington D. C. Amekamatwa!