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  • Friday, July 16, 2010

    News coverage of Special Rapporteur's fact-finding mission to Ecuador

    The preliminary findings of the Special Rapporteur have received extensive press coverage in both national and international press. Links to select articles can be found below.

    English:
    BBC: UN concerned about extrajudicial killings in Ecuador

    Spanish:
    AFP: UN Special Rapporteur reports sharp increase in killings and impunity in Ecuador
    AP Latin America: UN Rapporteur amazed by impunity in Ecuador
    Univisión: UN reports 30 murders in Ecuador’s border region with Colombia
    Agencia EFE: UN Rapporteur calls the level of impunity for killings in Ecuador ‘scary’
    Europa Press: UN Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions reports a high level of impunity in Ecuador
    El Comercio: Bofetada de la ONU al Estado ; Editorial: Ecuador preocupa al relator de la ONU ; Artículo de opinión: Involución ; Artículo de opinión: Los incomprendidos
    El Universo: Sicariato worries UN Rapporteur ; Entrevista a la asambleísta María Paula Romo: “Autoridades deben aceptar las falencias” ; Informe del relator confirma que el sicariato prolifera en el país ; La delincuencia y el desempleo trastocan la acogida del régimen
    El Telégrafo: Cuestionan informe del relator de la ONU ; “No quisiera un informe manipulado”
    Diario Hoy: Policía usa al sicariato para cubrir crímenes
    El Expreso: Informe del relator queda registrado en la ONU, Fiscal dice que será archivado (REACCIONES)
    Diario La Hora: Campea Impunity ; Fiscal responde a relator de la ONU (REACCIONES) ; Plan de seguridad no da resultados

  • Tuesday, July 27, 2010

    Wikileaks' "war diary" provides detail on targeted killings by Special Forces in Afghanistan

    On January 26, 2010, wikileaks.org published more than 90,000 confidential US military documents dating from January 2004 through December 2009. These “war files” document missions carried out in Afghanistan by the US army, including by Special Forces units such as Task Force 373 (TF-373), set up to capture or kill top Taliban and al-Qaida leaders listed on a Joint Prioritized Effects List (JPEL). The UN Special Rapporteur has previously reported [Afghanistan report] on covert missions to capture/kill suspects in Afghanistan, as well as on the law applicable to targeted killings.
    Interviews with Sarah Knuckey, Director of the Project on Extrajudicial Executions, on the implications of the wikileaks information, and the activities of TF 373, are available here and here.
    Links to select articles addressing the leak and its relation to targeted killings by US Special Forces can be found below.

    The Guardian
    Afghanistan war logs: Task Force 373 – special forces hunting top Taliban Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath Afghanistan war logs: as it happened Afghanistan war logs: How the IED became Taliban's weapon of choice
    The New York Times
    View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan
    World BB News
    Wikileaks: a new journal of the disasters in Afghanistan

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