In the last week there have been three or four attempts in the Kingston, Tolworth and Worcester Park areas to abduct children from schools and parks, by an unidentified man and woman. David Lindsell writing in Surrey Commet say, according to police the two alleged abductions at schools are unlikely to be linked.
Kingston police had believed that incidents at Knollmead Primary School, Tolworth, and Grand Avenue Primary School, Surbiton, may be connected.
The international criminal court's new chief prosecutor launched an aggressive defence of the institution, rejecting the view that it is "a pro-western, anti-African court". Fatou Bensouda, from Gambia, will next month replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who has been accused of applying "selective justice" to Africa. The decade-old court has sought justice for millions of victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, the Central African Republic, Darfur in Sudan, Kenya, Libya and Ivory Coast, Bensouda said on Wednesday.
Strongly supporting the creation of an independent, sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the island of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament and president of the Lok Janshakthi Party, Ram Vilas Paswan, called upon the international community to ensure that a referendum is conducted to determine the political aspiration of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.
President Mahinda Rajapakse today rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the former warzones.
"Some are shouting remove military camps from the north and east," Rajapaksa said at a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of crushing of the Tamil Tigers, claiming "the LTTE diaspora had not given up their separatist ideas."
Capital punishment is a big problem for the human society . The major problem with capital punishment is that it is final: once it is carried out it cannot be undone. There are very few cases when we can be 100% sure that someone is indeed the killer. Killings rarely have eye witnesses, and even where there are eye witnesses, people do make mistakes and identify the wrong people as the perpetrators of crimes when that is not so. Since capital punishment cannot be undone in the event that it is discovered, after the execution of the accused, that in fact the accused person is the wrong person, it must be stopped worldwide. Many people on death row have been cleared by DNA. The question is how many are dead and did not commit the offense for which they were sentenced to death.
