Afghanistan: misery awaits returned refugees

Mexico: narco-killing spree in Ciudad Juárez —and throughout country
At least 25 were killed in drug-related violence in Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, including six in a massacre at a family party. Another 11 were killed when gunmen shot up a bar in Chihuahua City. Five Jalisco state police were killed in a roadside attack. [more]

Toll of unknown victims on Mexico-Arizona border rises
The Tucson-based Human Rights Coalition reports that the number of unidentified bodies found in the Arizona-Sonora border region is on the upswing. Of 183 people found dead in the sector in FY 2008, 59%, were unidentified. [more]
Recovered arrows evidence of Amazon cleansing

Brazil: Amazon tribe occupies dam site
Indians from the Enawene Nawe tribe in the Brazilian Amazon occupied and shut down the site of a huge hydroelectric dam, destroying equipment, in an attempt to save the river that runs through their land. [more]

India: tribe vows to fight mine with axes and arrows
One of India's most isolated tribes, the Dongria Kondh, is preparing to stop British company Vedanta from mining aluminum ore on their sacred mountain, after police and hired thugs forced protesters to dismantle a barricade over the weekend. [more]
East Timorese demand justice
Peru: Sendero resurgent in Apurimac Valley
Peru: cabinet shake-up in "Petrogate" scandal
Colombia: Uribe decrees emergency powers in judicial strike
Colombian guerillas linked to Mexican cartels?
Pakistan: US strikes are "helping the terrorists"
Iraq: Christians flee sectarian terror in Mosul

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