Note for Americans: A not surprising but tragically high number of you don't know that there are two of 'em. Here it is. (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cf.html)

World court rejects Congo plea (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2996634.stm)
The International Court of Justice at the Hague has dismissed a Congolese request to stop a French investigation into torture allegations.

A French court has begun a judicial enquiry into several senior Congolese officials, including President Denis Sassou Nguesso, accused by human rights groups of torturing Congolese civilians . . . .

. . . . Because the Congolese army chief, Norbert Dabira, has a home near Paris, the human rights groups claim the case can be tried under French law, even though the alleged crimes were committed abroad.

The BBC's Geraldine Coughlan at The Hague says that France insists on the competence of its courts under the 1984 international convention against torture . . . .A notice to the current U.S. administration: Keep your summer homes inside the United States.

We need the last of the old pseudo-Marxists to be over and done with so the paradigm can undergo its dormant phase and ideological renaissance.

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