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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48416)	4/30/2005 1:11:07 AM
From: JD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Forensic Experts Probe Kurdish Mass Grave Saturday April 30, 2005 5:46 AM BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A skull with pink and white dentures belongs to an old woman, investigators said. A skeleton nearby was that of a teenage girl, still clutching a brightly colored bag of possessions. The trenches full of the skeletons of Iraqi Kurds, still in their distinctive, colorful garb, buried where they fell after being shot dead nearly 20 years ago, bear witness to the brutality of the regime of Saddam Hussein. International forensic experts this week examined a mass grave site in Samawa, on the Euphrates River, about 230 miles southeast of Baghdad, collecting evidence to prosecute Saddam and his top lieutenants for the mass killings of ethnic Kurds and Shiites during his more than 30 years in power. Many of those buried in the 18 trenches were believed to be Kurds killed in 1987 and 1988 during the Anfal campaign, said Gregg Nivala, from the U.S. government's Regime Crimes Liaison Office. ``These were not combatants,'' he said. ``They were women and children.'' During Anfal, hundreds of thousands of Kurds were killed or expelled from northern Iraq. The campaign included the gruesome 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja. The Saddam regime was carrying out a program of removing Kurds from the northern homeland and replacing them with Arabs. Many of the Kurdish victims were buried in Iraq's central and southern desert. Outgoing Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin, himself a Kurd, said half a million people perished and 182,000 are missing... ...Amin said the ongoing insurgency, fueled largely by disenchanted Sunni Arabs and ex-Baathists, was hampering investigations. ``The same people that did this are the same people that want to stop me doing this (investigation),'' he told reporters... guardian.co.uk

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48416)	4/30/2005 3:18:30 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A time for peace No country can fight for too long and hope to survive. There is a time for war and there is a time for peace. Sir: It is breathtaking to watch the recent developments between India and Pakistan. First cricket diplomacy, followed by people to people diplomacy including the opening of old bridges and roads between the two countries; and then President Musharraf’s visit to New Delhi to watch his countrymen playing cricket in India. So far, all the wars over Kashmir have only served to bankrupt both India and Pakistan. People of both countries are tired of wars. They are anxious for a new relationship and friendship between the two neighbours. They recognise that an improved relationship will bring the people together and the present fear and animosity will yield to civility. No nuclear power can protect or provide for a country. There is no winner in a nuclear war. The Soviet Union was a super power with many a nuclear missile. But it crumbled like an earthen pot and no one remembers it anymore. The people of India and Pakistan must bury their past hostilities and use their resources for the betterment of both their peoples. It is better to be rivals in sports, than enemies in war. I believe that once Pakistan is able to attain peace within itself, it will not be hard to make peace with India. Enough blood has already been shed. There are enough widows in both countries from previous wars. It is time to take care of them and their children. No country can fight for too long and hope to survive. There is a time for war and there is a time for peace. Fortunately, this is the latter. P JOSEPH RAJU USA dailytimes.com.pk

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48416)	5/1/2005 6:04:08 AM
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April 30 George Washington inaugurated 1789: After traveling for about two weeks from his home at Mount Vernon, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States on this day. The ceremony took place on Wall Street in New York City, near the spot now marked by John Quincy Adams Ward's statue of Washington. A great crowd broke into cheers as Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall, took the oath administered by Chancellor Robert R. Livingston and retired indoors to read his inaugural address to Congress. 1980: Queen Beatrix ascended the throne of The Netherlands. 1975: The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) fell to North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War. 1945: German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. 1939: The National Broadcasting Company made the first public television broadcast in the United States, at the New York World's Fair. 1900: American railroad engineer Casey Jones, later made famous in song, died in a train wreck. 1812: Louisiana became the 18th U.S. state admitted to the Union. Édouard Manet French painter Édouard Manet, who died this day in 1883, broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time. His critical break with academic painting's historical emphasis on illusionism paved the way for the revolutionary work of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. "It will endure as the characteristic _expression of his talent, as the highest mark of his power.…When other artists correct nature by painting Venus they lie. Manet asked himself why he should lie. Why not tell the truth?" Émile Zola, on the painting Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet