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Case asks: Is she a heroic mom or a shrewd killer?

21.05.12

EARLY, Iowa (AP) — Something shocking happened one cold night a decade ago in this quiet country town of 500 people, but even now, just one fact about it all is undisputed:

Tracey Roberts, at home with her three children, fired 9 shots from two guns into her 20-year-old neighbor, leaving him dead on the floor of her bedroom.

Tall and thin with curly brown hair and blue eyes, she was 35 at the time. It wasn't long before her image appeared in newspaper coverage of the shooting and even on a national TV talk show, where she was celebrated as a heroic mother who acted in self-defense to protect herself and her young children from men who broke into her home and assaulted her.

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

how, who and why of my arbitrary arrest in Juba

21.05.12

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ASKING FOR OUR COLLEAGUE NGOR GARANG TO BE RELEASED AND PASS THE LINK ON TO YOUR FRIENDS AND CONTACTS.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/release_ngor_garang/

By Dr. James Okuk

“No civil servant shall be favoured or victimized because of his or her political opinion.” RSS Interim Constitution, 2011 article 139(l) .

November 6, 2011 — In the first place I would like to thank all those who have expressed their solidarity with me when I was arrested, detained and imprisoned in Juba for almost two weeks without due legal process as enshrined in the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan (2011). I also appreciate the views of those who wished me bad situation of carrying my own cross and rotting in the oppressors’ detention cells and prisons for ever.

It was a very difficult moment worth forgetting, but thank God and my courageous soul that I didn’t break down in the inhumane places that I was locked in. Of course those terrible places are known as “Factories for Manufacturing Manhood” (Masna Elrujal in Arabic) as I read it on one of the colonial detention cell walls still being used by the so-called liberators ruling in South Sudan now. What a continuation of the bad and unfortunate past! God save us from the evil of ourselves and adoption of colonial inhumane practices in the new Republic of South Sudan!

Source: Sudan Tribune