April 10, 2013

guardiancomment:

FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko writes:

“I didn’t have time to see if they looked good or not, whether they were blondes or not” – such were the words of Putin after our most recent act of diversion, when Femen activists confronted him in Hanover, shouting to his face, “Fuck you, dictator!” Putin was quick to smile, but a Kremlin official was already demanding that Germany punish our activists. Within half an hour, four criminal cases had been opened against the dictator’s assailants.

This is our reality. Femen activists are arrested, beaten up or even kidnapped, as happened to us in Belarus after our protest ridiculing president Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk.

Read her entire piece here

Criminal cases? Really?

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July 5, 2012
Argentina convicts ex-dictators of baby theft

Two former Argentine dictators were convicted and imprisoned Thursday for executing a systematic plan to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta’s war on leftist dissenters three decades ago.

Long time coming. More here.

The U.S., and more specifically the C.I.A, played a key role in supporting the military junta and these dictators. For those interested Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine describes exactly how the U.S. is implicated in this.

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