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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07060124.htm
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Alcoholic prohibition and Christian prayer team worker murdered in Kerala
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
KERALA, INDIA (ANS) — A worker involved in the alcoholic prohibition movement, who was also a Christian prayer team member, was murdered on June 15 at Konny in Pathanamthitta District of Kerala State in India.
The dead body of Joy Anthariyeth, 52, was found at Kavil junction near a bridge over a rivulet at Thannithodu.
Joy was a member of the action council seeking to shut down the alcoholic toddy shop of Thannithodu. He was also one of the active members of the SVM Prayer Fellowship.
Joy was brutally murdered as he was going back home on Friday night after attending a prayer meeting, according to Salem Voice Ministries News Service.
“Joy was threatened several times by the toddy shop authorities for leading the agitation against the toddy shop for shutting it down,” Police officials told Rev. Paul Ciniraj, the Director of the Salem Voice Ministries and SVM News Service.
Police said Joy was walking through the south side of the Kavil bridge on Friday, June 15. An eight-member group of men drove by and pulled him through the bridge and beat him. Joy tried to escape through the narrow path which is between the Marthoma Church and the Federal Bank, but the attackers together beat him severely death and threw the dead body from the bridge into the rivulet.
N.Rajesh, the Circle Inspector of Konny, investigated the case and arrested five of the suspected murderers on Wednesday, June 20. Another three suspects are in hiding.
According to SVM, Somarajan, who is also known as Karatte Madhu (37), Mohanan (47), Shibu (27), Sahadevan (36) and S. Animon (28) were the suspects arrested by the police. P.T. Biju (31), Santhosh (32) and Sunil (24), who are also suspects, are still at large.
The suspected murderers were believed to be Hindu extremists.
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Lake Forest, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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Iraq - ‘Chemical Ali’ and two former Saddam officials sentenced to death by hanging
AFP via translation | June 24, 2007
Posted on 06/24/2007 1:54:11 AM PDT by HAL9000
via translation -
ALARM - Genocide Kurdish: death penalty by hanging for “Ali the chemical one”
BAGHDAD - “Ali the Chemical one”, cousin of Saddam Hussein, was condemned Sunday to the death penalty by hanging by the High Iraqi penal court for the genocide having cost the life some 182.000 Kurds in 1988.
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Reuters - Iraq strongman “Chemical Ali” sentenced to death
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An Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” to death by hanging for his role in the 1980s scorched-earth campaign against Kurds.
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