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To: isopatch who wrote (90025)	4/14/2001 9:48:43 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Isopatch, Sudan-A nice place to celebrate Easter- about like Indonesia last Xmastime... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Article by AFP posted on April 13, 2001 at 11:02:23: EST (-5 GMT) Sudan flogs more than 50 Christians after protest: church KHARTOUM, April 13 (AFP) -- More than 50 Christians were flogged after taking part in a demonstration against a Sudanese government order to move Easter services, a church official told AFP Friday. Fifty-two Christian men were each sentenced Thursday to 15 lashes and 20 days in prison, while four young women and two 12-year-old boys were each given only the 15 lashes, an official from the Sudan Council of Churches said. "The trial was summary with no lawyers present to defend the young Christians. ... All of the convicted were immediately flogged," said the church official, who asked not to be named. He said the church council planned to appeal the verdicts Saturday, "although the procedure may take longer than the prison terms." On Wednesday, police fired live rounds at protesters outside All Saints Church in downtown Khartoum, injuring several, and took into custody some 100 demonstrators, witnesses said. The Christians, most of them from war-torn southern Sudan, had thrown stones at passing cars to protest the government's cancellation of an Easter service due to take place Tuesday. Religious tension is rife in Sudan, where the mostly Christian and animist south has been fighting successive Islamic and Arab governments in Khartoum for the past 18 years. P.S. Write a note off line and I'll tell you what event the NIF Government is afraid of and cancelled....

To: isopatch who wrote (90025)	4/14/2001 10:37:35 PM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 95453

OT/Here's how the Russian chihuahuas do it.(G) And did it for decades in the former Soviet Union. It's the standard Stalinist tactic for dealing with dissidents. Can't wait for the frantic replies to THIS post. LOL!! There's enough freedom in America that fortunately the kind of news story pasted below can't happen here. At least not yet. But I do think this politically correct trend of vengeful socialist herd behavior has and is leading our society in a dangerous direction. Recently, there've been numerous efforts - by the left - to curtail freedom of expression by conservatives on some major Ivy League campuses. Out-spoken conservatives are either shunned and ignored, or attacked by the biased media. Even more so, on the web, as I repeatedly was on this thread during last years election AND ever since. But the herds attempt to enforce their will upon independent thinking individuals goes far beyond politics. In the year, and a half before I joined SI, was a regular reader of this thread. I watched Slider get attacked over and over by the same people now attacking me with the same absurd accusations of mental illness. All they do is label anyone who strongly disagrees with them as crazy and proceed to pound away over and over, hoping it will stick. What a joke! Nobody can force me to respect insignificant, inferior, second rate, and the otherwise unsuccessful who CAN'T face and admit their failures as investor/traders. And I'm going to continue to pull the curtain aside to expose and ridicule the VERY amusing smoke and mirror attempts to cover up those failures along with A FEW others across SI with the courage to do so. And surprise!! During last falls election, we discover that the majority of our own nasty little chihuahuas are left liberals and Gore supporters. Birds of a feather....HA! Back to the USSR guys?(G) Hey I understand they have a stock exchange over there. From what I hear, you chihuahuas would fit right in with the skill level. <roflmao> Isopatch vny.com Friday, 13 April 2001 13:52 (ET) Human rights defender institutionalized By MARINA KOZLOVA TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, April 13 (UPI) -- Elena Urlaeva, a consultant of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, has been labeled mentally ill by Uzbek psychiatrists and sent to a mental hospital, Ruslan Sharipov, the head of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan told United Press International Friday. The Tashkent's Mirabadskii district court made a judgment to forcibly treat Urlaeva and institutionalized her on April 6. Vera Evstigneeva, her mother, told UPI Urlaeva was on her way to the mayor's office on April 6 to participate in a protest when she was jostled into a car by people "in civilian clothes." She was then brought to a local militia station and later sent to a mental hospital. Recently Shavkat Alimkhodjaev, a deputy mayor of Tashkent, told UPI that he thought Urlaeva was "mentally diseased." Around that time, psychiatrists started to demand a psychiatric examination. Uzbek officials as well as relatives may demand a person be examined by psychiatrists. The HRSU said Urlaeva, 44, had managed to get a letter to them, in which she said she was held incommunicado at the police station and physically abused. Khayrulla Khusankhodjaev, the chairman of the medical board at the mental hospital, harassed and abused her and promised to make a diagnosis that would keep her in the hospital for a prolonged period, the HRSU quoted her as writing. Last week, the chief psychiatrist of the Uzbek Health Ministry, Bakhodir Tashmatov, said that an estimated 318,000 mentally ill patients were on the books of the mental health service in Uzbekistan. Psychiatrists are going to start to treat Urlaeva by force soon, Tashmatov said. The HRSU applied to the World Health Organization, Red Cross and other international medical organizations for establishment of an independent medical board to examine Urlaeva."