Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Myanmar Times co-founder Ross Dunkley was arrested

Ross Dunkley an Australian newspaper publisher was arrest in Myanmar. His the co-founder of the Myanmar Times. Post Media chairman David Armstrong has suggested Dunkley's arrest is linked to a power struggle between foreign and domestic owners of the Myanmar Times, which publishes weekly editions in English and Burmese.

Dunkley co-founded the Myanmar Times in 2000 with local partner Sonny Swe, the son of an influential member of the junta's military intelligence service.
(source: Channel News Asia)

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Sandor Kepiro was charged with war crimes




Prosecutors have charged a Dr. Sandor Kepiro with war crimes, who was a former Hungarian military officer during the massacre in the Serbian city of Novi Sad 1942. Most of those killed in the raids in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II were Jews, Serbs and Gypsies, also known as Roma. Some 550,000 Hungarian Jews and 50,000 Roma died in the Holocaust.

Hungarian forces, who occupied Novi Sad after their German allies conquered Yugoslavia in 1942, rounded up hundreds of families and eventually mowed them down with machine-gun fire on the shores of the Danube. The bodies were then dumped into the icy waters, which had to be broken up by artillery fire.
Kepiro fled to Austria in 1944 and to Argentina after the war. Kepiro was at the top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted war criminals list. His whereabouts were uncovered in 2006 by Wiesenthal Center director Dr. Efraim Zuroff as part of Operation Last Chance. The famous Nazi hunter identified the Nazi war criminals and the hunt has started.

On my first photo can see the house where Képíró lives in Budapest since 2006. The house is located just in front of Synagogue and only 5 minutes walk from the Danube River in Budapest.The second photo was taken from the entrance door of the house where he lives and clearly can see the Jewish menorah on the house at the other side of the road.