Seventeen years after the kidnapping of 19 people in Štrpci, the Islamic community is continuing to demand investigations from the state. “To this day the details of the kidnapping are not known, and the bodies of the kidnapped, who are believed to be dead, have not been found,†Dean of the Faculty for Islamic Studies Almir Pramenković said.
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B. Jeffrey Madoff: That’s the Way It Was
July 18th, 2009 |
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I wanted my kids to watch a few examples of what the news was like when I was their age so I put on the clip of Cronkite’s coverage of the Kennedy assassination. “Wow”, my son said. “That was so quiet and so powerful.”
Dozens jailed in Italy Mafia case
July 17th, 2009 |
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An Italian judge has jailed 49 members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate – some for up to 20 years – for running protection rackets against businesses.
The government says the case is a landmark in the ongoing battle against organised crime in southern Italy.
The accused, all from the Lo Piccolo crime family, were extorting money – called "pizzo" – from shops in Sicily.
The BBC’s David Willey in Rome says failure to pay led to violence, arson and occasionally murder.
Official figures suggest that up to 80% of businesses in Palermo pay the protection money to Mafia criminals in order to continue their commercial activities.
But this is the first time that Sicilian business groups, working closely with the police, have achieved a successful prosecution, including the payment of compensation to victims, says the BBC’s David Willey in Rome.
But the fight against Mafia crime in Sicily is far from over, our correspondent adds.
Seventeen years after the murder of two leading anti-Mafia judges and investigators, the authorities are investigating alleged newly-discovered links to members of the security services who may have betrayed the judges to the crime clans.</p
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