Coups, Coups, Coups

[urbanoid]

20 minutes ago, Markus Becker said:

From X, parliament voted unanimously to lift the martial law. 

And I'm more shocked than a French police officer from WW2 that our official news is silent! 

I posted a DW link several hours ago.

[Markus Becker]

That's fringe by their standards. Not content wise but scale of reception wise.

Tagesschau and ZDF Heute are the Big Ones. 

[X-Files]

FWIW

South Korea president declares emergency martial law, sending shockwaves across country | CNN

[Murph]

That is a shocker, I wonder what is going on in South Korea?

[Markus Becker]

https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1863981716844499430?t=E0u1WcdpgcI9hmYAtvpDtQ&s=19

The troops and cops are now not following  presidential orders. 

[lucklucky]

What is going on with President?

[Mr King]

[futon]

2 minutes ago, Mr King said:

Exactly.

I'll quote myself again:

https://www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/45925-coups-coups-coups/page/5/#findComment-1783699

Which is a shame. Yoon has been so important in improving relations with Japan. 

[Mr King]

8 hours ago, urbanoid said:

I think support for the execution of Johnny Somali should be near unanimous.

It was great watching those videos and seeing him slowly realize he was not in America anymore.

[JWB]

Yonhap reports that South Korea's Defense Minister has resigned.

Kim Yong-hyun said he takes "full responsibility" for the imposition of martial law in the country and apologized to the people.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1864267082126266528

 

[rmgill]

23 hours ago, Mr King said:

It was great watching those videos and seeing him slowly realize he was not in America anymore.

Worse, he posted videos of himself directly contradicting his defense claims. 

[Ivanhoe]

https://haitiantimes.com/2024/12/09/micanor-altes-gang-attack-warf-jeremie/

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PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Haitian government has vowed to take decisive action against the gangs responsible for the massacre in Warf Jérémie, a neighborhood in the Cité-Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince. The attack, orchestrated by the notorious gang leader known as Micanord “Wa Mikanò” Altès and also Monel Félix, resulted in the deaths of a reported 184 people, including several elderly victims, during retaliatory violence over the past weekend. In a statement posted on the Prime Minister’s Facebook, officials condemned the killings and pledged to hunt down those responsible.

 

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“These latest killings bring the death toll in Haiti this year to a staggering number of 5,000,” Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, during a press conference marking Human Rights Day.

 

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The organization noted that Micanor is not new to committing crimes against Vodou practitioners. In June 2012, he executed 12 elderly women and mambos, falsely accused of witchcraft, according to the organization.

This new massacre is part of a wave of violence by gangs against civilians living in poor neighborhoods. It occurs in a context where gangs are spreading terror in areas such as Solino, Nazon, and Carrefour Aéroport and have made threats of attacks on other areas like Christ-Roi and Delmas 30.

 

 

The contrast between Haiti and the DR gets ever wider.