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| 10 Jun 2007 - 08:19 | Carol
ohsoswisss@yahoo.com
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I live in Sonoma County, not far from where Maria was murdered. I am living with my spouse who strangled me over 3 years ago. I still have a faint V mark on the side of my neck from his fingers. Last month I had surgery to correct the damage done to my muscles in my arm socket and chest. He says that I'll never be able to prove it. Domestic violence always gets worse, what's then next for me. The sheriff does little when I do make a report of verbal and/or physical abuse and they have told me that "It's your fault for staying." I even had one officer make ref to Maria and the fact that she was ignored, almost like it was a standard. This life is hard and cruel and people pretend to care. My heart continues to break over the injustices women and children endure.
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| 07 Jun 2007 - 20:51 | Rhonda
catlady@molalla.net
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I was beaten to near death for protecting a 9yr old girl that had been raped in Stevens Co,WA.The prosecuting attorney let both men walk (he was friends with them) for assaulting my medical bills $1.2 million passed onto the tax-payers. The pervert served 6 months for rape. This man had also molested a 3 1/2 & 7 yr old no charges.The Governor (Gregiour)on down will not respond. Colville,WA is a manufacturing town for meth & kiddie porn. Criminals are protected!
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| 07 Jun 2007 - 09:30 | admin
URL: news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/ 2/hi/south_a . . .
| Afghan woman radio boss shot dead
A female owner of a radio station in Afghanistan has been shot dead.
Zakia Zaki was shot seven times, including in the chest and head, as she slept with her 20-month-old son at her home north of Kabul, officials say.
The governor of Parvan province, where the attack took place, told the BBC he did not know who killed her. No one has admitted carrying out the attack.
Her murder came just days after a woman newsreader was killed for reasons which were described as "family-related".
'Act of terror'
The Parvan governor, Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, visited the scene of the killing in the town of Jabal as Siraj, about 70km (40 miles) north of the capital.
He said the attackers were three men armed with pistols and rifles, who broke into Ms Zaki's house and got into the bedroom.
An older son, aged three, was with her at the time of the attack, but none of her six children was injured.
The Interior Ministry condemned what it called "this act of terror" and said it was trying to track down the perpetrators.
Zakia Zaki, was 35 years old and worked as a reporter and a schoolteacher.
She was one of the few female journalists in the country to speak out during the Taleban's rule.
She had also headed the US-funded station, Radio Peace, since it opened after the fall of the Taleban in 2001.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kabul says that at times Ms Zaki criticised the former mujahideen, some of who have been implicated in war crimes.
Observers say that the motive behind the murder is far from clear, and a massive police operation is now underway to identify and arrest the killers.
'Freedom of expression'
Zakia Zaki started her radio career eight years ago. At the time Parvan province was one of the few areas in the country to be controlled by anti-Taleban forces.
The Independent Association of Afghan Journalists has condemned the murder, describing it as an example of how difficult the working environment has become for journalists and especially for women.
"She believed in freedom of expression, that's why she was killed," the association's head Rahimullah Samander told Reuters.
The group said she had received threats in the past but had no personal enemies.
The killing comes six days after the shooting dead of another Afghan woman working in journalism, a 22-year-old newsreader from a private television station, Shokiba Sanga Amaaj.
According to senior police sources in Kabul, her father has blamed two male relatives and one person has been arrested.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/ 2/hi/south_asia/6726117.stm
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| 06 Jun 2007 - 14:59 | Beth Gromisch
sekai.no.kakumei@gmail.com
URL: ga3.org/campaign/stopviolence
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My name is Beth Gromisch, and I'm an intern with the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Together with the International Rescue Committee, we have put together a petition to stop the violence against women and children:
http://ga3.org/campaign/stopviolence
This is a petition is on behalf of all organizations and Americans, which will be presented with I-VAWA to Congress in August. We currently have 25,000 signatures, but we need 50,000. Would you be able to post a link to the petition on your site? Besides getting signatures, we want to inform the public about this act to protect women. Thank you for your time.
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