Traduction de «Feu de masse » (Français → Anglais) :

C. whereas around 600 activists were briefly detained and criminal proceedings were started against 28 individuals; whereas the authorities opened an investigation into the actions of the protestors, deeming them ‘mass riots’, which, under Russian law, are mass actions that involve ’violence, pogroms, destruction of property, use of firearms, or armed resistance to the authorities’; whereas the authorities have alleged that the violence was planned and was part of a conspiracy to destabilise the country and overthrow the government;

39. Calls on all countries in the region to act swiftly to tackle the persistent reports of alleged arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment and abuses, in spite of legislation prohibiting such practices; expresses particular concern over the reports of torture in detention centres and the arbitrary arrests of thousands of migrants in Mauritania, as well as the authorities’ refusal after two years to communicate the whereabouts of certain convicted prisoners to their families; expresses alarm also at reports in Chad of mass ill-treatment in detention, detention without trial, and hundreds of forced evictions in N’Djamena, in addition to the fo ...[+++]rced disappearance of prisoners; points out that forced disappearances are considered a war crime under the Rome Statute; condemns the reports of extremely poor conditions in some of the region’s prisons, particularly in Chad and Mali, which lack basic healthcare and inflict great suffering on inmates; calls on the Sahel countries to improve living conditions for prisoners and, in particular, to guarantee the safety and security of the most vulnerable groups, such as women and children; draws attention, moreover, to the recent death sentences imposed by the Malian judiciary for crimes including robbery, criminal association and the illegal possession of firearms;

2,5 ± 0,5 % Ignition loss by mass

Persistent drought had accumulated dry masses of easily ignitable fuels on the ground and fire behaviour changed from traditional fire spread to surging forest fires followed by rapid fire spread. Fire fighters in Guadalajara, Spain, found themselves trapped by the rapid fire spread.

Last Saturday, Jocelyn Massé, aged 21, was travelling on a bus in Honduras with his girlfriend, Mélanie Poirier, when two armed robbers boarded the vehicle and opened fire, killing Mr. Massé.

The African Union urgently needs to help stop the killing in Darfur, where whole villages have been bombed and torched, where mass executions and rape are common and where an Aids crisis is now looming.