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RUSSIA'S MEGA-ALUMINIUM MERGER – ANOTHER FABLE FOR OLEG
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MOSCOW (Mineweb.com) -According to the Aesop fable, an ass and a dog happened to be travelling the same road together, when they found a sealed document on the ground. The ass picked it up; broke the seal; and read it out, as the dog listened. The text was all about hay, barley, and straw. The dog grew bored, and told the ass to skip to the part discussing meat and bones. But the ass could find nothing like that, and said so. The dog replied: "Throw the paper away. It's completely useless."
The moral of the tale is that we enjoy reading or reporting only what feeds our appetite – though Aesop thought this was too obvious to spell it out himself. It is, however, a little, but unlearned lesson which Oleg Deripaska and Victor Vekselberg – the Russian equivalents of a new fable – have been performing in recent days, with the newspaper talk they have inspired of a Kremlin-approved merger between their Russian bauxite mining, alumina refining, and aluminium assets, to be paid for, or supplemented by, Swiss metals trader, Glencore.
According to the current press leaks, the shareholding of the new post-merger company would be structured to give Deripaska 64.5% of the shares; Vekselberg 21.5% plus a blocking share; and Glencore 14%. The reports claim Brian Gilbertson, the SUAL chief executive, would be appointed chairman to give respectability to the enterprise; Alexander Bulygin, Rusal's chief executive, would run the new company as he runs Rusai. Industry analyst Rob Edwards values the combined assets of the proposed company at $6.2 billion for SUAL; $18.7 billion for Rusal; and $4 billion for the Glencore alumina properties in Ireland, Jamaica, and Sardinia, if they are to be included. Altogether, $28.9 billion. If such a consolidation materializes, it would have rated alumina production of 11 million tons per annum, and 3.8 million tons of aluminium. The latter beats Alcoa of the US, currently world aluminium leader, by a trifle under 300,000 tons.
To be fair, Vekselberg is not promoting the mega-merger at all. Rusal experts have been seen inspecting and valuing smelters belonging to Siberian Ural Aluminium (SUAL), which Vekselberg owns, and which Gilbertson manages. Gilbertson has been talking up a big deal for SUAL in the not too distant future; although he's been doing that ever since Vekselberg engaged him to achieve just that, two years ago. Vekselberg's spokesman, Andrei Shtorkh, is emphatic for the record that "we are not commenting on rumours at all – that means the rumours and any of their variants." Privately, however, the Vekselberg group has not concealed its concern that the Kremlin is contemplating a buy-out of the two Russian aluminium producers, and a consolidation of their assets into a single state-controlled enterprise. Shtorkh acknowledges that this is "really a matter of concern, not only for SUAL, but for any private business, for what this process is – deprivatization." In short, Vekselberg is playing the dog of the fable. He doesn't see in the reported merger the value he wants for his appetite or assets. He may be hinting that the reports of the merger are intended to pre¬empt, or dissuade, the Kremlin from making its own consolidation move. In Moscow, that's not a political game anyone wants to admit to playing – unless he is certain of winning. Apparently Vekselberg is not.
That Vekselberg has been ready to sell the privately structured SUAL has been evident for some time. A year ago, he gave up to Deripaska half of his interest in the Komi aluminium project – the major new bauxite mine in Russia's northwest, which SUAL was having difficulty developing in the face of resistance from the state electricity and gas monopolies. Gilbertson too has been unable to deliver on his assignment – the sale of SUAL to a major international company, or an initial public offering (IPO) of SUAL shares on an international exchange. Shtorkh has conceded that if the Russian government were to conclude that aluminium is little more than a solid form of electricity -bauxite refined into alumina is then electrolyzed into aluminium – then President Vladimir Putin might be persuaded to think that state-owned gas should not power state-owned electricity plants in order to supply power to alumina refineries and aluminium smelters at prices that subsidize the profits of the private aluminium companies trading their metal abroad.
Last October, it was clear that Deripaska faced the same problem. His way out was to beat the Kremlin to the punch by launching Rusal's shares on the London Stock Exchange. But that move has been a failure. Rusal let it be known this year that it is no longer planning an IPO. It has never explained why. According to the latest press leaks, in three years' time Deripaska would have the option to buy Glencore out of the proposed mega-company, and then issue an IPO. An IPO postponed for that far into the future isn't an IPO at all.
Borrowing as much as Rusal does – with debt of about $2.7 billion at present, set off against annual revenues of almost $7 billion – is relatively simple to secure for bankers in the booming aluminium market. But selling shares in an asset structure, whose owners, or former owners, claim the assets were stolen from them; and whose cashflow is subject to the possibility of multi-billion dollar Russian tax claims, is difficult. Rusal has paid off in secret settlements many of the asset and contract claims that have reached the courts of the US, the UK, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Each claim was called groundless and extortionate by Rusal, when filed. But the settlements have been paid, nonetheless. And the claimants keep coming. Not the least of these is Mikhail Chernoy, who put Deripaska in business, and who continues to claim, with pending legal action in the UK, that partial payments by Deripaska for his stake in Rusal fall short by about $3 billion.
More sensitive even than Chernoy's claims was the ruling last month by the UK High Court that it will take jurisdiction over Rusal for trial on charges that it, its chief executive Alexander Bulygin, and Deripaska himself seized control of the Tajikistan Aluminium Plant (TadAZ) at the end of 2004 by a combination of fraud and corruption. This case is important, because it is the first time an international court of repute has asserted the right to take Deripaska and his men to trial. The pressure has forced Deripaska himself to cut short his visits to England to a bare minimum, and to claim that the Belgrave Square residence and country house he bought there are not lived in by himself. How damaging a trial would be is already indicated by the ruling of a London arbitration tribunal, which reviewed much of the same evidence, ruling last November that the Deripaska-run TadAZ had violated trading contracts with the powerful Norwegian aluminium producer, Norsk Hydro. The tribunal awarded $145 million to Hydro, while TadAZ and Rusal have sought UK court protection to keep details of the arbitration case secret. Deripaska has to bet that a UK High Court judge would come to the same conclusions about the TadAZ takeover as the arbitrators.
The High Court judgement puts all of Rusal's bankers on notice that the metal which secures their loans could be subject to activities that a London trial would find unlawful. This is not (yet) a reason to reopen the loan contracts, let alone call in the borrowings. But the growing evidence of a pattern of corruption in Tajikistan creates fresh problems for the two international banks – the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank – which have so far been endorsing Deripaska's reputation, as well as that of his allies in Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, headed by President Emomali Rahmonov. The Deripaska pattern is also documented in other countries, according to a recent US court filing alleging similar misdeeds in the takeover of Nigeria's aluminium smelter.
A direct sale of Rusal to the Kremlin – I mean the Russian state – would be more straightforward to accomplish than selling an IPO to foreign investors. For one thing, there are no international regulations, no disclosure requirements, no accounting rules, no transparency required. The state buyer is also in a position to agree relatively easily to the asking price, if international trader-lenders like Glencore are willing to put up the loan money for the buy-out, secured by a lengthy offtake agreement for future aluminium deliveries. Securing multi-billion dollar loans for a deal like this has already proved swift and uncomplicated for the banks when the state-owned oil company Rosneft took over Yukos; and when Gazprom bought Roman Abramovich and the Millhouse holding out of Sibneft. You might say that so long as Putin appears to be pledging the full value of the state's credit, and aluminium prices can be expected to remain high enough for the payback period, then Glencore and its allied banks would be only too happy to open their ATMs,
But this is not what the leaked version of the merger suggests should happen. There is no telling what the President told Deripaska when they met on August 2. The Kremlin-issued "excerpts" report only a discussion of car-building, with Putin quizzing Deripaska on the difference between promise and performance at his GAZ group. Whether Deripaska was seeking permission, or receiving instructions, on the aluminium asset consolidation won't be clear for a while. But it will be clear soon enough, and the value of the meeting may turn out to be no better for Deripaska than the session in May which Putin had with steelmaker Alexei Mordashov. That was just before Mordashov launched his hapless bid for a "merger" with Arcelor.
Like Vekselberg, Deripaska is exposed to the conclusion of the chief Russian policymaker that everyone would be better off if their aluminium assets were consolidated under control that was invulnerable to offshore supply manipulation, paid taxes, and complied with the law. For years Deripaska's cashflow managers, led by Gulzhan Moldazhanova, have been encumbering the Russian assets with debt, passing Rusal's cash through to the holding company for asset purchases in other sectors; and for securing profits abroad, in part by the creation of a parallel bauxite-to-metal production chain that could not be taken over in a crunch by the Kremlin.
Deripaska produces aluminium metal in Russian smelters, but as his former spokesman, Yevgenia Harrison once admitted, most of the value (read profit) in Rusal is earned offshore. "To a very large extent," she said, "we are processors of imported raw materials. Thus, a relatively large portion of Rusal's value added is created outside of the Russian Federation."
This is done through what are known in the metals trade as tolling schemes. Tolling is a chain of contracts, according to which raw materials, such as alumina, are supplied to a smelter, which electrolyzes it into metal. This is then returned to the owner of the alumina and the trading chain. In Russia, this scheme eliminates 18% internal value-added tax and other taxes payable when the alumina enters the country, and the metal leaves it. But if the scheme is owned and secretly controlled by a single Russian owner, with the objective of avoiding tax, then, according to the letter of the law, it is illegal. The perpetrator of such a scheme could thus be vulnerable to back-tax claims, penalties, and interest.
Other tax minimization schemes known to have been used by Rusal, and investigated by Russian government agencies, include the registration of trading companies handling the metal in Russia in the Chukotka region, which offered tax relief in return for local investments that were never made.
The Kremlin may not want to put Deripaska on trial for tax evasion, as it did to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the Yukos oil company. But there is no reason to believe that Kremlin approval for merging Rusal and SUAL also means carte-blanche for Deripaska to run the new company on the same cashflow basis – or for Gilbertson working for a new master to do the same. Not a single publication of the rumoured Kremlin approval reveals that Deripaska (or his man Bulygin) has been approved as the new manager. As in Aesop's fable, it is, of course, in the ass's interest to pick up and put out only what suits his stomach.
In the current uncertain situation for Vekselberg and Deripaska, both have a keen interest in jacking up the price of a sale; declaring grand promises of investment to the future when they will have no obligation to pay; and reducing the amount of the buy-out price they would be obliged, according to Russian business practice, to share with others. Creating one variant of the mega-company at a value of $28.9 billion – with Glencore contributing alumina assets, not financing – could be a blocking move, making a Kremlin plan for consolidation too expensive to implement, as well as too slow.
Vekselberg is at a personal disadvantage with the Kremlin, compared to Deripaska; for example, Vekselberg's wife is not related to the Yeltsin family as is Deripaska's. Also, so far as is known, Vekselberg's offer to exhibit his $100 million collection of Faberge eggs throughout Russia has been less appreciated than Deripaska's hosting of Tatiana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter, and her husband, Valentin Yurnashev, at his $100 million collection of English real estate. However, Putin's personal relations with Deripaska have been cool, and in the two meetings the Kremlin has confirmed as taking place -the recent one just mentioned, and one a year earlier – there is no sign that Deripaska has the approval he wants, and needs.
On the other hand, Vekselberg has the more lucrative oil and gas business -that, too, subject to US court trial on charges of grand larceny and fraud – than Deripaska, whose holding company is only starting to amass energy assets, and whose ambition to own oil and gold is not much more than that. Vekselberg can thus afford to exit from SUAL more easily than Deripaska from Rusal, because Rusal is the cashcow on which Deripaska's foreign and domestic assets depend.
Those other Russian assets are also subject to domestic opposition and Kremlin counter-attack, alleging illegal takeover tactics in the paper and pulp sector; and price-rigging in the cement sector. In the latter case, a Moscow court recently upheld a price-rigging conviction of Euro Cement, a Deripaska-owned asset which is the dominant supplier to the Russian residential construction industry. Convictions of this kind by the timorous Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) are almost unprecedented; the order for a fine of Rb267 million ($10 million) unheard of. If Deripaska had the clout his promotional media claim, the FAS would have settled for a promise to curb cement price increases. Instead, the FAS accepted a reduction in the payback from Rb1.9 billion ($71.2 million), plus the promise of EuroCement to invest Rb10 billion ($375 million).
Two months ago, Oleg Deripaska summoned the New York Times to an interview, at which he proclaimed he was a new man, who had turned over a new leaf. More than that, he told the newspaper, he was "going global", on his way to surpassing Alcoa, and becoming the world's largest aluminium producer. Rarely has quite so much conviction of success served as camouflage for quite so much failure and uncertainty. In the language godfather Chernoy uses, that's chutzpa. For the one question neither Deripaska's promotion team, nor the anonymous Kremlin approvalists cited in the press to date have answered is why Putin would agree to allowing the largest tax evasion scheme in the Russian metals business to be expanded, under the same management.
by John Helmer - Thursday, August 31st, 2006
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This incident makes me think about introducing user accounts where users can only edit or delete their own entries. Maybe I will keep it simple by letting every album be created with some kind of password that the user can define when uploading the log. This way they can edit or delete their entries but not others. There have been other deletions in the past, mostly by people who think that vinyl, MP3 or self-improved versions of albums should not be there. I will address this issue in an upcoming FAQ at some time in the future.
I deliberately designed this project as a community project with wiki-like user privileges (everyone can do everything). I'm not a company, I (a single person) run this project in my free time and it is not my top priority in real life. This is why I don't respond to e-mails in most cases and why I don't introduce updates often. But I care about this project nonetheless and see that it is important to people. Major issues are always addressed at some point.
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define(
     ({
        map: {
            error: "맵을 생성할 수 없음",
            zoomInTooltip: "확대",  // Command button to zoom in to the map
            zoomOutTooltip: "축소",  // Command button to zoom out of the map
            geolocationTooltip: "현재 위치"  // Command button to navigate to the current geographical position
        },
        main: {
            noGroup: "구성된 그룹 없음", // Shown when no group is configured in the configuration file
            submitReportButtonText: "보고서 제출", //Submit report  text for buttons on map and list
            gotoListViewTooltip: "목록 보기", // Go to List view tooltip text
            noFeatureGeomtery: "피처를 표시할 수 없음" // Error message when geomtery is not available
        },
        signin: {
            guestSigninText: "게스트로 진행", // Shown in the 'Sign in' page below the icon for accessing application as an anonymous user
            signInOrText: "또는", // Or text on sign in screen
            signinOptionsText: "다음으로 로그인:", // Shown in the 'Sign in' page above the icons for social media sign in
            noGroupNameText: "로그인하세요.", // Shown when the group title is not available or the group is private
            guestLoginTooltip: "게스트로 로그인", // Command button to access the application as an anonymous user
            facebookLoginTooltip: "Facebook으로 로그인", // Command button to access the application via Facebook login
            twitterLoginTooltip: "Twitter로 로그인", // Command button to access the application via Twitter login
            googlePlusLoginTooltip: "Google+로 로그인", // Command button to access the application via Google+ login
            agolLoginTooltip: "ArcGIS로 로그인" // Command button to access the application via AGOL login
        },
        webMapList: {
            owner: "소유자", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating the owner of the webmap
            created: "생성일", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating the date when the webmap was created
            modified: "수정된 날짜", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating the date when the webmap was modified
            description: "설명", // Shown in the 'Map information' section describing the webmap
            snippet: "요약", // Shown in the 'Map information' section providing the summary of the webmap
            licenseInfo: "접근 및 사용 제약 조건", // Shown in the map information section indicating the webmap license information
            accessInformation: "크레딧", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating account credits
            tags: "태그", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating tags of the webmap
            numViews: "조회수", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating number of times the webmap has been viewed
            avgRating: "평점", // Shown in the 'Map information' section indicating webmap rating
            noWebMapInGroup: "구성된 그룹이 유효하지 않거나 이 그룹과 공유된 항목이 아직 없습니다.", // Shown when the configured group is invalid/private or no items have been shared with the group
            infoBtnToolTip: "맵 정보" // Command button to view the 'Map information'
        },
        issueWall: {
            noResultsFound: "현재 영역에서 사용할 수 있는 보고서가 없음", // Shown in the issue wall when no issues are present in the current map extent
            gotoWebmapListTooltip: "기본 목록으로 이동", // Tooltip for back icon in list header
            gotoMapViewTooltip: "맵 보기" // Tooltip for map-it icon in list header
        },
        appHeader: {
            myReport: "내 보고서", // Command button shown in mobile menu list
            signIn: "로그인", // Command button shown in mobile menu list and in appheader
            signOut: "로그아웃", // Command button shown in mobile menu list
            help: "도움말", // Command button shown in mobile menu list
            signInTooltip: "로그인", // Tooltip to 'Sign in' option
            signOutTooltip: "로그아웃", // Tooltip  to 'Sign out' option
            myReportTooltip: "내가 제출한 보고서 보기", // Tooltip  to 'My Reports' option
            helpTooltip: "도움말" // Tooltip  to 'Help' option
        },
        geoform: {
            enterInformation: "세부정보", // Shown as the first section of the geoform, where the user can enter details of the issue
            selectAttachments: "첨부 파일", // Appears above 'Select file' button indicating option to attach files
            selectFileText: "찾아보기", // Command button to open a dialog box to select file(s) to be attached
            enterLocation: "위치", // Shown as the second section of the geoform, where the user can select a location on the map
            reportItButton: "보고", // Command button to submit the geoform to report an issue
            cancelButton: "취소", //Command button to close the geoform
            requiredField: "(필수)", // Shown next to the field in which the data is mandatory
            selectDefaultText: "선택…", // Shown in the dropdown field indicating to select an option
            invalidInputValue: "유효한 값을 입력하세요.", // Shown when user clicks/taps the required field but does not enter the data and comes out of the required field
            noFieldsConfiguredMessage: "데이터를 캡처하도록 레이어 필드가 구성되지 않음", // Shown when all the fields of the selected layer are disabled
            invalidSmallNumber: "정수를 입력하세요.", // Shown when the entered value is beyond the specified range (valid ${openStrong}integer${closeStrong} value between -32768 and 32767.)
            invalidNumber: "정수를 입력하세요.", // Shown when the entered value is beyond the specified range (valid ${openStrong}integer${closeStrong} value between -2147483648 and 2147483647.)
            invalidFloat: "숫자를 입력하세요.", // Shown when the entered value is beyond the specified range (valid ${openStrong}floating point${closeStrong} value between -3.4E38 and 1.2E38 )
            invalidDouble: "숫자를 입력하세요.", // Shown when the entered value is beyond the specified range (valid ${openStrong}double${closeStrong} value between -2.2E308 and 1.8E308)
            requiredFields: "모든 필수 필드에 값을 제공하세요.", // Shown when user submits the geoform without entering data in the mandatory field(s)
            selectLocation: "보고서의 위치를 선택하세요.", // Shown when user submits the geoform without selecting location on the map
            numericRangeHintMessage: "${openStrong}힌트:${closeStrong} 최소값 ${minValue} 및 최대값 ${maxValue}", // Shown as a pop over above the fields with numeric values, indicating the minimum and maximum range
            dateRangeHintMessage: "${openStrong}힌트:${closeStrong} 최소 날짜 ${minValue} 및 최대 날짜 ${maxValue}", // Shown as a pop over above the fields with date values, indicating the minimum and maximum date range
            errorsInApplyEdits: "문제를 보고할 수 없음", // Shown when there is an error in any of the services while submitting the geoform
            attachmentSelectedMsg: "첨부 파일이 선택됨", // Shown besides the select file button indicating the number of files attached
            attachmentUploadStatus: "${total}개 중 ${failed}개 첨부 파일 업로드 실패", // Shown when there is error while uploading the attachment, while submitting the geoform
            geoLocationError: "현재 위치를 사용할 수 없음",  // Shown when the browser returns an error instead of the current geographical position
            geoLocationOutOfExtent: "현재 위치가 베이스맵 범위를 벗어남",  // Shown when the current geographical position is out of the basemap extent
            submitButtonTooltip: "보고", // Command button to open the geoform
            cancelButtonTooltip: "취소", //tooltip for cancel button
            geoformBackButtonTooltip: "보고서 목록으로 이동" //tooltip for Geoform back button

        },
        locator: {
            addressText: "주소:", // Shown as a title for a group of addresses returned on performing unified search
            usngText: "USNG", // Shown as a title for a group of USNG values returned on performing unified search
            mgrsText: "MGRS", // Shown as a title for a group of MGRS values returned on performing unified search
            latLongText: "위도/경도", // Shown as a title for a group of latitude longitude values returned on performing unified search
            invalidSearch: "결과를 찾을 수 없음", // Shown in the address container when no results are returned on performing unified search
            locatorPlaceholder: "검색할 주소 입력", // Shown in the address container textbox as a placeholder
            locationOutOfExtent: "찾은 주소가 베이스맵 범위를 벗어남", // Shown as an alert when the selected address in the search result is out of basemap extent
            searchButtonTooltip: "검색", // Tooltip for search button
            clearButtonTooltip: "검색 값 지우기" // Tooltip for Geocoder clear button
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Navigating Life After Music School: White Hot Tenacity with Keegan Norman
Keegan Norman has been one of my best friends since we discovered a shared love of Chicago sports teams in my first year at Arizona State University. Keegan's exuberant personality and, as he says, "white hot tenacity" help him to navigate the challenges of a musician's life with enthusiasm and persistence. I'm grateful to Keegan for introducing me to the amazing sounds of classical guitar, being my Cubs buddy in Arizona, and most of all,
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ER: Anything else you want to add? KN: Be flexible and open minded. This career path can be intimidating, but opportunities often come along that you're not even looking for.
ER: How can people find you? KN: Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/KeeganNorman
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Tough News Decision from the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Affecting Car Crash Injury Victims
by Mark Raftus
Seriously injured car crash victims will now receive less money in their pockets after trial for loss of future income damages claims given the December 10, 2018 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision in Sparks v Holland.
In the past, certain types of income replacement benefits received by an injured Plaintiff were not deducted from a Plaintiff's award for loss of future income. These were referred to as collateral benefits.
In the past, Canada Pension Plan Disability [CPPd] benefits were not deducted from future income loss awards. Unfortunately, the highest Court in Nova Scotia has ruled that future CPPd are not a collateral benefit and are indeed deductible from loss of future earning capacity and loss of future income damages awards made at Trial.
At issue was the interpretation of s. 113A of Insurance Act which states:
113A In an action for loss or damage from bodily injury or death arising directly or indirectly from the use or operation of an automobile, the damages to which a plaintiff is entitled for income loss and loss of earning capacity shall be reduced by all payments in respect of the incident that the plaintiff has received or that were available before the trial of the action for income loss or loss of earning capacity under the laws of any jurisdiction or under an income–continuation benefit plan if, under the law or the plan, the provider of the benefit retains no right of subrogation.
A prior decision out of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Tibbetts v Murphy had interpreted this section of the Insurance Act and found that the deduction for future CPPd would apply to an award for future loss of earning capacity.
In Sparks plaintiff counsel argued that the Court in Tibbetts had not specifically ruled on whether the section also applied to an award for future loss of earnings. There is a difference in these two types of future income losses. Future loss of earning capacity involves compensating for non-specific future loss of ability to earn income vs loss of future earnings being a defined and calculable loss. An illustrative example of loss of earning capacity would be the carpenter who injures his dominant hand and can do some carpentry work but not all he used to be able to do while the carpenter who becomes a quadriplegic can do no longer do carpentry work at all so has a future loss of earnings claim.
The CPPd deduction or not issue remained debatable and unresolved until Sparks v Holland was heard last year.
Catherine Holland was injured by Josh Sparks in a May 15, 2013 car collision. As a result of her injuries from the collision, Ms. Holland applied for and was granted CPPd. The formal Action was filed on January 26, 2016. The parties' lawyers disagreed on whether future CPPd should be deducted and also disagreed on whether the deduction issue was already previously decided in Tibbetts.
Ms. Holland's lawyer made a Motion under Rule 12 of the Nova Scotia Civil Procedure Rules for a question of law to be determined. The question of law was whether the benefit deductions for income loss and loss of earning capacity stated in s. 113A of the Insurance Act also included CPPd received by a plaintiff after the trial or only applied to benefits received before the trial.
The Motion was heard by Justice Gerald Moir who answered the question "NO" holding that deductions from damages for income loss and loss of earning capacity required by s. 113A did NOT include CPPd received by or available to the plaintiff AFTER the Trial of an action only BEFORE the Trial.
In his decision on the motion at the supreme court level, Justice Moir held Tibbetts did not previously cover the issue, the references in s. 113A to loss of earning capacity were not necessarily about future income losses and that the correct interpretation of the section used in context was that the section did not apply to future CPPd payments.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal disagreed with Justice Moir and ruled future CPPd is deductible from all future income loss and future earning capacity damage awards. The key findings were:
113A was part of an insurance reform which occurred in 2003 in response to the auto insurance industry claiming personal injury damages claims were rising in volume and in total award made causing insurance premiums to also therefore increase rapidly to pay for the awards with s. 113A being designed to help reduce the rising premiums. The NS Court of Appeal stated this topic had been earlier discussed by the NS Court of Appeal in the Tibbetts case;
S113A was intended to change the collateral benefits rule to avoid double recovery occurring for income loss;
If the Court only deducted CPPd to the date of Trial as opposed to before and after Trial it would frustrate the legislative intent of limiting double recovery;
The Court held that loss of earning capacity is a future focused head of damages and Justice Moir did not interpret it properly in its context;
The Court said Justice Moir applied an overly technical approach in interpreting the phrase "available before the Trial of an action" and should have included future payments in his analysis as the claimant was "entitled" to them so they were also "available" in the future.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal gave great deference to the legislature and its stated intent to eliminate double recovery for income loss with the goal of effecting reduced premiums for auto insurance.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision is written clearly and does have an internal logic in its presentation. However, there are significant questions which remain in its interpretation and also in the practical application of the decision to the real world and in the procedural managing of a tort claim including:
The plaintiff would have paid premiums for CPPd protection out of his or her own pocket for years through the employee/employer CPP premium deductions so why would the plaintiff not be rewarded for this foresight with no deduction being mandated as opposed to the tortfeasor being rewarded for his poor conduct injuring the Plaintiff but now not having to pay fully for the future income loss he has created?
Has the intent of the legislature to reduce auto insurance premiums actually occurred? Has there actually been a measurable reduction in auto insurance premiums given all the plaintiff has given up through the imposition of minor injury damages caps as well as by future income loss compensation being taken away from the Plaintiff? Should there be an actuarial study commissioned to measure the prior losses the insurers say have taken place and also to confirm the reduction of premiums are at a proper level?
Should the legislature re-involve itself in this matter and specifically remove CPPd payments from being deducted from future loss of income/earning capacity claims after Trial?
How will the future deduction of CPPd actually be administered? Will the Plaintiff have to sign over each monthly CPPd cheque on an ongoing basis to the insurer? Who will administer this payment and provide oversight? The NS Court of Appeal decision is silent on this process.
What if the parties agree the Plaintiff is entitled to CPPd for life and the Defendant insurer demands the full lifetime CPPd deduction from the award for future income/earning capacity take place but later CPPd cuts the Plaintiff off from benefits?
These are fundamental fairness as well as practical issues which need to be sorted out.
In the end, the Court is tasked with interpreting law and making decisions and many will say the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal did its level best to arrive at its decision. The legislature is tasked with drafting and passing law. It seems to me this issue is one that is best to be revisited at the political policy level and s. 113A revisited.
We shall see if Ms. Holland's counsel decides to seek leave to appeal the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. Given the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision was a 5-0 ruling, Ms. Holland's counsel will need to seek leave [obtain permission] to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada as no Justice on the Court of Appeal dissented from the written decision.
Bottom line, this decision is not a friendly one for significantly injured victims of car crash negligence in Nova Scotia who will need to be cared for into the future.
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The statement made by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa the former head of state in Sri Lanka, that 'establishing the office of the Missing Persons is a betrayal of the armed forces' is a statement unbecoming of a former head of the state and a prominent political leader in Sri Lanka. What it directly says is that enforced disappearances which is an internationally recognised heinous crime should not be investigated in Sri Lanka because the culprits may involve some members of the armed forces. It is one of the basic norms of a civilised society that crimes must be investigated, irrespective of whoever the suspects are. A civilised legal system could exist only on the acceptance of this fundamental norm that all crimes should be prosecuted. Prosecution of a crime is an imperative duty of the state. No state can make any exception to this rule except at the cost of undermining its own authority.
The period of rule by Mr Rajapaksa was known for relativizing the norms relating to prosecution of crimes. The cases of assassinations like that of the former Sunday Leader Editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, and others as well as attacks on journalists including the brutal attack on Poddala Jayantha, are but a few instances that demonstrate the willingness on the part of the head of the state to approve a selective approach to the prosecutions relating to crimes. A dual policy of – on the one hand encouragement of the commission of crimes and on the other, preventing investigations and prosecutions of crime – became a glaring feature of those dark times.
It may be the intention of Mr. Rajapaksa in making this statement to appear as the saviour of the armed forces. However, the public impression that is created by this statement is seriously damaging to the image of the armed forces. It quite implies that the armed forces having being involved in the commission of enforced disappearances, and that these crimes should not be investigated. The armed forces could be involved in the commission of enforced disappearances only in one of two ways. One is, either some officers have violated the military law and discipline and on their own committed some heinous crimes such as commission of enforced disappearances. If this be the case, there is no reason at all for such officers to be protected. Those who commit crimes against the law and military orders do not deserve protection and in fact the military would be better off for prosecuting such offenders. However, the second and much worse scenario is, if the head of the state has in fact authorised the commission of such crimes. In which case, there is a much more serious problem of commission of crime against humanity – which is one of the gravest crimes under international law. If, Mr Rajapaksa is perhaps thinking of such a situation, then he should come out clean about his own involvement in a crime, rather than try to implicate the armed forces. However, our concern at the moment is that nobody in Sri Lanka should be allowed to say that any crime – whatever the crime may be, should not be investigated and prosecuted. If as a country we do not take that position, then we cannot survive as an organised society. The prime strategy for the protection of an organised society is the prosecution of crimes. And this fundamental position should be reasserted if we are to get back to reconstructing a society on the basis of rule of law and to ensure good governance. The statement made by Mr Rajapaksa is a blatant attack on the principles of rule of law and of good governance. As such, this statement should be condemned and the implications of such statements should be explained to the people so that their own security as an organized nation based on the capacity to protect law could be preserved against all assaults.
This Tsunami Hora should not have been the Head of State, to start with. It was the folly of the majority of the voters which lead to the calamity of our Nation. The war would have ended anyhow by our valiant armed forces with the comradeship of Sarath Fonseka.
This moron was a born swindler turned into a monster by unchecked power given by the foolish masses. The worst part is, still most of the southern voters haven't still realized what a monster, this two legged creature is. These articles should be translated to Sinhalese and made available for the majority to read and understand.
Do not worry Mr. Basil Fernando. Very soon Mahinda will go missing. Then his relatives will apply to the OMP to get the death certificate and enjoy the ill gotten wealth he has stacked in foreign countries.
If Prabakaran is still alive half of you thoppies would be underground and the other half licking the arses of Vellalas.
Well said Piyal, your comparison of MARA with Prabha, is most welcome.
I agree, MARA is a worst state terrorist than Prabha. Prabha made it obvious who he is, but MARA was a hypocrite acting he is the president for all communicates, but discreetly exercising racist policies.
Mr. Basil Fernando 60,000 sinhalese youth were burnt on tyres during 88/89 period where were you then. Probably the LTTE diaspora was not paying you then to take notice of it. By the way did you know that the Nandikadal Thambi had underage boys recruited to fight and also forced civilians to the battle field. Held a human shield against advancing Sri Lankan Forces. Tch Tch now if you talk all that the diaspora dollars will dry up.
Sri Lanka has never seen the likes of the mastermind Goebbel, until of course DJ. Goebbels philosophy in summary "lie, lie, lie and lie, and then it will become the truth in people's mind!
And now the master has become Patriot-tick (recall what MR called him at Aljazeer?), too shy to show his real face. Still with a begging bowl, seeking MR's favours?
You seem to have a misguided or misunderstood meaning of Patriotism. Just because atrocities were committed by a bunch of terrorists does not mean that the civilized society should condone similar atrocities carried out by the armed forces of a democratic country. In a civilized democratic country, every one is entitled to justice according to laws of the country. If psychopaths & killers are able to get away with murder, then the judicial system is at question but that does not make vigilantism an alternative because that is what happened in these cases, the armed forces have apparently been the judge, jury & the executioners. If the armed forces are not disciplined, they are no better than the terrorists.
SL is supposed to be a Buddhist country, which, as I understand, is, governed by Buddhist principles. If that is so, we seem to be forgetting an important saying of Buddha, which loosely translated is, that vengeance begets vengeance. I am surprised that MR being a lawyer himself & a human right activist some time ago, thinks it's 'betrayal'. What a hypocrite.
I am asking you the same question. You shameless donkey, to this day you sinhalese masses still behave like dumb fools and what have you done to take to task those responsible for those sinhalese murderers? See the Tamils how they have made all the noises, right or wrong, and how even those in the diaspora giving so much headache to your leaders. What a shameless bunch of spineless donkeys have the gall to talk about the Tamils. And you call yourself patriot with nil/zero patriotism to bring to book those who butchered and made faceless thousands of sinhalese youths. I dare you to do that instead running with your tail in-between your legs, shameless creature.
You mean to say you were such an ignorant idiot that on both counts – recruiting under-aged children and holding civilians as human shields – the LTTE has been implicated and rightly so instead of the bluffing MR who claimed that his soldiers carried the human charter in one hand and the gun in the other, that he claimed resulted in zero civilians. And what kind of zero baboons must you people be to believe such an "evangilical" butcher.
Uneducated fat man shooting himself in foot, get him to merchants ward along with Basil who never finished school?
How is that "uneducated fat man shooting himself in the foot"? Will you care to elaborate. Let us see who has shot himself in the foot then?
When following the day to day news,political write ups,Official/Public and media investigations on financial and various other crimes committed by Politicians, Services personnel and other Government Officials, Citizens are at a loss to understand the lethargy and the unwillingness of two top most leaders of the Country,as to why they do not use their legitimate powers to do what they promised at the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. We are constrained to believe they have vested interests and are guarding some of their confidants.Even today we hear deals being struck by Govt. Ministers,MPP.and top Govt. Officials.It is not the country's priority to promise high flown prosperity and people know better than the politicians it can never be achieved with dishonest and thieving opportunists.Greater majority of people want the Govt.to mete out justice and the return of what has been pillaged and plundered from the nation.Government has only to put the law in motion and should not allow anyone to interfere with the process of justice.Almost 24 hours of the day people are invoking God and goddess for deliverance but they will never respond unless those vested with power, do their duty by the people.
You may perhaps not agree that human lives are more important than money.
Can you comment something on 1983 and 1989 during which periods Ranil Wickremasinghe was a powerful Minister in the government. Do you think it is too late to investigate or money stolen by Rajapaksha must take priority?
As the head of the team who drafted the OMP bill can you enlighten the readers the rationale behind on this curious clause which says that the name of a missing person should not be taken off the list if the person is found without his/her consent!
All those who profess to be `patriots`in Sri Lanka these days are bloody rogues! Do these scoundrels think that the law should not apply to members of the armed forces who have commited crimes?
Those who financed the kids carrying cyanide capsules and suicide jackets are the greatest human right holders today.
A war with terrorists for a lawful army; where the enemies (terrorists) are in uniform as well as civilian dress is different to conventional war.
For the civilian deaths of such a war terrorist themselves are responsible and further the direct and indirect supporters of that terrorist group and sympathizers should share the responsibility.
So, if there were thousands of civilian deaths during the final phase of armed conflict in Sri Lanka the main responsibility holder should be the LTTE.
That doesn't mean that government forces should have been given a right to fire at their whim and fancy.
They had to be cautious and try their best to identify the enemy using maximum time.
But what happened, did the UN, Britain and France allowed the Sri Lankan forces and the government to be cautious using maximum time?
Their unreasonable and unsought pressure upon the government may have effected to expedite the last phase barring chance to be cautious.
So if there were civilian deaths, who were the main contributors for that?
It's the UN, BRITAIN and FRANCE.
AS some one wrote in another issue some time back that you are insane,and you blab incoherently is indicative of your psychologic disorder. As they suggested you must see a doctor ASAP.
Don't blame UN,BRITAIN OR FRANCE for the murders committed by your armed forces, take responsibility for their action as they are your people. You were in power because of them and they what they did for you, so defend them now they are in trouble.
Thanks for the request to be a good man and hope you'll also endeavor to be so as I do.
All the criminals should be apprehended and dealt irrespective of their social political or economic standing.
I just mentioned about a possibility that pressure built up against any government for ceasefire in the final phase of a war may lead to expedite and humane factor may be weakened.
I still maintain that idea. I don't have personal grudge against the UN, Britain and France.
Go on be a MAN and do the right thing.
As I'm not a doctor by profession I can't reflect your comment back to you to see a doctor.
in me or in you?
Your mind seems to be very confused, I'm sad about it.
If you like, read my entry again and see whether I've blamed the UN, Britain or France for murder.
I just mentioned that their action might have had an impact to reduce humane attitude of Sri Lankan government and soldiers, that's all.
I still maintain my idea.
There's a belief that in democracy people have power but sad that though Sri Lanka is democratic, I didn't and do not enjoy power that you mention.
I wonder what on earth made you to equal me to Mahinda Rajapakse or what on earth made you think that I'm Mahinda Rajapakse.
Robotic professional dissection and prognosis.
Far superior to GOD'S warped views.
Now GLP has to bury his head in the sand.
Hiding Behind Patriotism and the Militery to hide the crimes committed in the past won't hold for a long time.
Mahinda is doing this protect him and his goons and not the military as when the truth comes out the military will be cleared for except his goons and family and himself and few rif rafs of the military higher -ups who gave orders for these crimes.
Being a buddhist and yearning for a permeant peace i wish this would happen fast so that eternal peace will come.
I WAS INFACT GOING THROUGH THE JOINT OPPOSITION MEMBERS and found a startling information … All of them are crooks embezzlers rogues and card board patriots and we need thousands more police men to investigate them as during the past police men gave this guys protection.
MAHINDA WIMAL UDAYA WELGAMA ROHITHA JOHNSTON MAHINANDA CHAMAL…..need not go oon THEY all should be in JAIL and not the PARLIAMENT.
It looks some of the missing people had been govt informants and they are living overseas with aliases.
The function of an Office for missing persons will only be cultivating hatred.
After 6 years of the armed conflict there's no practical and humane purpose of having it except for the UN and other foreign powers to intervene unnecessarily.
Updated – FCID No.64/15 Basil R. Rs.396 Mil. In 3 Property purchases.
FCID No.17/15 Yoshita R in 8 Transaction Rs. 707 Mil., FCID 138/15 Namal R in 16 transactions Rs. 347 Mil., & FCID 82/15 Champika Karunarathna Rs. 5 Mil in Extortions.
These will only be used for political brow-beating as and when necessary?
"Mahinda is doing this to protect him and his goons and not the military as when the truth comes out the military will be cleared for except his goons and family and himself and few rif rafs of the military higher -ups who gave orders for these crimes." — whats i said yesterday and these are the root causes for these cover ups of this investigations. people should be made to understand that nobody is above the law no matter what the circumstances are .
Ant body against any inquiry of what happened in the past should be checked out of power and as you see most of the politicians who are opposing this are the oppositions members who are bosom crooks of Mahinda.
MAY BE LETS NAME THE JOINT OPPOSITION AS THE JOINT CROOKED OPPOSITION as many including the learned opposition members such as G L Peiris , and other so called learned side kicks such as DAYAN J , RAJIVA , PALITHA KOHONNE all should be charged in courts for aiding and abetting this crimes.
It is not GOD'S but G. L.Peris's warped views.
Why is this out side SL law and no oversize by the SL courts of law?
Why terrorists who change their names and now hiding in foreign or local area is not available under statistics ?
OMP will have the power to receive funding directly from any foreign source. ..Oh really , are we under colonial rule again?
The provisions of the Right to Information Act will not apply to the work of the OMP. No court, not even the Supreme Court can order any officer of the OMP to submit to courts any material communicated to him in confidence.
The Office of Missing Persons will not be a part of Sri Lanka's State law enforcement and justice system, but an independent body incorporated by parliament which gives its members the power to function outside the normal rules and regulations that guide state institutions…. So now Sudda will tell us what to do ? You may be a fernando with portuguese blood, if you want justice put it under the countries law and not from colonial with a agenda.
This idiot got so much hatred towards the country and we should have asked HK govt. deport him to SL and answer some basic questions.
He is part of the SL law institution that is so corrupt they don't even the meaning of the word corrupt. Shame on this kind of morons that used to run the law and order in SL and now under terror payroll .
What we need is proper constitution with proper check and balances to address corrupt political and judicial system.
I know this fucker will never ask for that since he is part of the system.
Watcher, What you need to know is that the expatriate Sri Lankans in Hong Kong, of which I am one, hold this man in contempt. They know him for what he is.
It is essential to find out the fate of all the missing persons during the governments of JR, Premadasa, Chandrika and Mahinda.
Armed forces personnel are paid employees of the govt. They ere expected to perform their duties within certain rules and regulations. Where as they can kill the enemy in combat it is not regular to kill civilians or those who surrender. In this sense they are like any other citizen not above the law.
MR'sproblem solving approach is wrong.This approach being short sighted would put all of us in trouble.
Rajapaksa's statement clearly shows the military under his command committed heinous crimes and he wants to protect them. This again indicted why so many among the Rajapaksa family and their supporters are opposed to foreign judges taking part in the war crimes investigations.
By this the rotter Rajapaksa has proven the guilt of the SL military and himself and Gota in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
WE should be careful in prosecution as the benefit of the doubt be given to the accused. We should not give protection to witnesses that they may try to fabricate a case.video evidence should be handled by competent people who are unbiased. Its better if our people are trained abroad. PSTD and other mental illness should be taken into account in a terrorist environment. If any he buck should stop at the top.


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The six Burton on the Wolds Primary School children came up with the ideas on their own following an assembly by the charity Save the Children.
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Danielle, Grace, Lily and Robyn spent the entire day without any shoes or socks, including their walks to and from school, and wrote a diary of their experiences, while Hana and Katie completed a sponsored silence.
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FOUR pupils at a village primary school came to school with no shoes or socks on to raise awareness of the plight of millions of poor children across the globe.
Two other youngsters also held a sponsored silence to highlight the number of children in the world who are not given a voice.
Danielle, Grace, Lily and Robyn spent the entire day of Friday, February 26 without any shoes or socks, including their walks to and from school, and wrote a diary of their experiences.
The children wrote: "The walk to school was the hardest thing we've ever done - it was so painful!
"It was freezing and when we got inside, we couldn't feel our feet.
"All we felt like doing was giving up and putting our shoes back on but we knew we had to persevere."
As well as raising awareness, the girls, including Hana and Katie who completed the sponsored silence, also raised money for the Save the Children Fund.
Burton on the Wolds Primary School headteacher Andy Robinson said: "I was extremely proud of the six amazing children.
"The four girls have kept a diary of their experiences and feelings throughout the day which has been very powerful and thought provoking.
"They are superb ambassadors for one of our five school values in particular: empathy!
"The Save the Children charity were so impressed with the children's fund-raising that they came in to present a special assembly in the morning.
"The girls also spoke during the assembly to tell everyone what they were doing and what it was like.
"They wanted the other children to realise what it's like for millions of kids around the world every day.
"They have all made the school very proud."
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2005 Ethiopian general election violence
The 2005 Ethiopian general election violence, known generally as the Ethiopian police massacre, refers to the killing of civilians by government forces during June and November 2005 which led to the deaths of 193 protesters and injury of 763 others, mostly in the capital Addis Ababa, following the May 2005 elections in Ethiopia.[1] More than 30,000 people were detained by security forces following the election, most released in 2006.[2]
7 June – November 2005
Caused by
Arrest of college student Mesafint Endalew at the main campus
Mainly sporadic protests
Death(s)
The first violent incident was flashed on 7 June 2005 at 11:20 when the police force had arrested one 4th year student Mesafint Endalew, at the main campus. Following the arrest many students marched to the police station in the camp. Despite the student released in the moment, the students immediately escalate their question towards the election votes.
Protests of the results were supposedly led by the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), began on 1 November 2005, and have prompted more than 60,000 arrests. Live gunfire from government forces has been directed at protesters and bystanders. All the top opposition leaders were arrested, as was the mayor-elect of Addis Ababa.[3]
1 Aftermath
1.1 Death toll
1.2 Reactions
1.3 Prisoners
Death tollEdit
On October 18, 2006 an independent report said Ethiopian police massacred 193 protesters. The information was leaked before the official independent report was handed to the parliament. The leak made by Ethiopian judge Wolde-Michael Meshesha found that the government had concealed the true extent of deaths at the hands of the police.[4] Gemechu Megerssa, a member of the independent Inquiry commission, whom Justice Meshesha once worked with, criticized Justice Wolde-Michael's act, stating that by taking the report "out of context and presenting it to the public to sensationalise the situation for his political end is highly unethical".[5]
The official report described by the parliament and the government gave exactly the same details as the leaked inquiry. It said that 200 people had been killed, including 6 policemen. Some 763 people were also injured. Police records showed 20,000 people were initially arrested during the anti-government protests.[6] The commission members living in Addis Ababa also criticised the government:
We are not saying the government was totally clean. The government has a lot to be accountable for. The mentality of the police needs to be changed, and then we will be able to minimize those kinds of casualties in the future. Building of [democratic] institutions is required, but that is going to take time. [So] The government was not prepared to tackle violence like that which took place last year. They could have brought an alternative way of dispersing rioting crowds.[7][8]
But, the Independent Inquiry's members added, Wolde-Michael's trip to Europe and reporting of information out of context was "dishonest" politics as well as insensitive to the process of developing Ethiopia's young democracy. The Commission said Ethiopians need to solve their problems themselves so that this kind of violence wouldn't recur. It encouraged Ethiopians who respect authority to work together, and directed the government to "think seriously" about changing the mentality of the police.[7]
ReactionsEdit
Despite the post-election complications, the Carter Center, US Government and British MPs continued to praise the democratic process in Ethiopia, but have each demanded the release of CUD leaders. After meeting with some opposition parties, the British MPs stated that the Ethiopian government should stand firmly against those who try to use "undemocratic and unconstitutional means" to change government.[9] The other top opposition parties, the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) and the United Ethiopian Democratic Party-Medhin Party (UEPD-Medhin), are working with the government for negotiations on the democratic process.[10] Opposition parties are still represented in the Ethiopian Parliament, where representatives from Oromia State hold most positions, and representatives from Amhara State hold the second most positions, in correlation with the comparative population of the corresponding states.[11] Various opposition parties including the UEDF, UEPD-Medhin, Somali People's Democratic Party, EDL, Gambela People's Democratic Movement, All Ethiopian Unity Party, Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement and the Benishangul-Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front hold positions in the parliament.[11]
PrisonersEdit
Until June 2007, many of the main opposition party's (CUD) leaders were detained for an alleged attempt to overthrow the government and initiating the post election violence. All of these charges are denied by CUD leadership both in Ethiopia and internationally, and the European Union advocated for the political prisoners to be released after a speedy trial. Some of these elected CUD officials endured very harsh conditions inside Ethiopia's poorly maintained prisons and they are at risk of various medical complications. As a result of the violence after the elections, many thousands were arrested and imprisoned. Even though the vast majority have been freed, some still remain in prison. Up to the end of 2005, around 8,000 Ethiopian rioters were freed.[12]
Amhara genocide
Gimbi massacre
Metekel conflict
Mai Kadra massacre
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^ Global Integrity. "Global Integrity Report: Ethiopia - Timeline". Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
^ Connors, Will (5 September 2007). "Why We Don't Hear About the Conflict in the Ogaden". Retrieved 22 October 2016 – via Slate.
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^ Post-election violence inquiry commission
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^ a b Teklu, Dagnachew (9 November 2006). "Ethiopia: Inquiry Commission Says Police Mentality Contributed to Chaos". Retrieved 22 October 2016 – via AllAfrica.
^ Commission members speak out
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I took a walk at Edo Japanese Castle, a role play sim in SL. Now, I don't know about the role play, and I was kind of glad there weren't many people around. But it sure is a pretty sim, and I had a nice time looking around. I'm wearing a new top I got at Sn@tch. (I know, I get many things there. Well, what can I say? Those fat packs of cute tops are great for jewelry photos. And, hey, they have a big sale this weekend, so run on over!) I'm also wearing the Alimah jewelry set from ELEMENTAL JEWELRY--there are 5 sets to select from, each with texture changing beads with 5 semi-precious stones to choose from, and 4 different ornamental beads (the large ones). And, of course, you can make it silver or gold, resize it, adjust the glow, shine, etc. Above, I'm wearing the Alimah "Neutrals" set in gold agate--this set includes blacks, whites, golds.
Jewelry: ELEMENTAL JEWELRY--Alimah Necklace & Earring sets, texture changing, in blues, greens, purples, reds, & neutrals.
Hair: Truth Hair--Briony--browns. Purchased full price.
Tops: Sn@tch. --Ginger & Jazz Halters--fat pack of colors. Lucky board gift. Thanks! But, remember there is a sale this weekend. I've been there once, and will go back again just as soon as I decide what to buy!
Jeans: Zaara--classic jeans. Purchased full price some time ago, but still my favorite.
Boots: Sakide--CrocFur Boots in black. I just don't remember whether I purchased these full price or on sale. I got them last year some time, and I love them. They are a good fit.


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