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May 15, 2013

14 YEAR OLD BOY ATTACKED BY RACISTS IN GREECE RECEIVED 30 STITCHES TO FACE

(www.left.gr) have uncovered and released this horrific picture of a 14 year old boy attacked by racists in Greece on Easter Monday (May 6, 2013)

The 14 year old boy from Afghanistan, who had come with his mother to Greece and where to leave for Switzerland to live with his brother was attacked and received thirty stitches to his face.

Left.gr have reported

”Thirty stitches to the child’s face, resulting in blind racist violence. A fourteen-year child who did nothing, who just existed, received wild Nazi punishment .

He had come to Greece with his mother living as a refugee in Athens. The young Afghan preparing to go with his mother to Switzerland, where his brother lives.

Read more at http://greeceexposed.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/breaking-news-14-year-old-boy-attacked-by-racists-in-greece-received-30-stitches-to-face/

May 3, 2013

The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict has started

Source: Independent

Iraqi leaders fear that the country is sliding rapidly into a new civil war which “will be worse than Syria”. Baghdad residents are stocking up on rice, vegetables and other foodstuffs in case they are prevented from getting to the shops by fighting or curfews. “It is wrong to say we are getting close to a civil war,” said a senior Iraqi politician. “The civil war has already started

This is borne out by the sharp rise in the number of people killed in political violence in Iraq in April, with the UN claiming more than 700 people were killed last month, the highest monthly total for five years.

The situation has suddenly deteriorated since the killing of at least 36 Sunni Arab protesters at a sit-in in Hawijah on 23 April. An observer in Baghdad, who did not want to be named, said “ever since, Hawijah people are frightened of a return to the massacres of 2006”. She added that Sunni and Shia were avoiding going into each others’ areas. Signs of deteriorating security are everywhere. Al-Qa’ida showed its reach on Monday when five car bombs blew up in overwhelmingly Shia southern Iraq, leaving 21 dead. The Sunni fundamentalist group, which had a resurgence in 2012, is responsible for killing a majority of the almost 1,500 Iraqis who have died in political violence so far this year.

Its members are now able to roam freely in Anbar province where a year ago they were a secretive underground movement. In neighbouring Kirkuk, al-Qa’ida last week seized the town of Sulaiman Bec, shot the chief of police, stormed the police station and departed with their weapons after agreeing a truce with the Iraqi army

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-civil-war-in-iraq-has-already-begun-politician-claims-conflict-has-started-and-warns-it-will-be-worse-than-syria-8601732.html

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