Chinese authorities have carried out their first executions of Tibetans in connection with the deadly riots that swept Lhasa last year, according to exile groups.
It identified three of the executed Tibetans as two men – Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak – and a woman named Penkyi. The fourth victim was not named.
The posters are a matter of some concern to the local party apparatus, in part because Kim Jong Il’s name was used without any honorific title (Great General, Grand Kleagle, Most Omnipotent Plenipotentiary, His Previously Porcine Majesty). How concerned are they? Apparently, the security forces have plans to haul in 80,000 people for handwriting samples.
He showed a lot of enthusiasm. He said he hopes the North and South Korean government can talk things through so to have a lot of South Korean companies enter the North, and he also said that since they have the natural resources and the South has the skills to sell, if both sides work together he expects the North and South to prosper.
Su Radio Radicale una breve intervista al sottoscritto sull'attualità birmana dopo la lettera di ASSK a Than Shwe e il suo incontro con tre diplomatici occidentali. L'intervento è inserito all'interno della trasmissione dell'associazione Non c'è Pace senza Giustizia curata da Carla Caraccio e da Giovanni Fontana, di Distanti Saluti, in onda ogni venerdì. E' una sorta di radiogiornale sui diritti umani e sulla condizione femminile nei paesi autoritari, molto ben fatto oltretutto. Qui la puntata.