Second Iraq prison camp disturbance in two weeks triggered by inmate murder News
Second Iraq prison camp disturbance in two weeks triggered by inmate murder

[JURIST] Twelve detainees were injured Thursday night when a fight broke out at the US Camp Bucca prison camp [Wikipedia entry; JURIST news archive] in southern Iraq triggered by the murder of an inmate. The US military confirmed the fight among detainees in a statement [US Central Command news release] and said that guards had since regained control of the camp compound. Guards were not attacked and no US casualities were reported. The incident follows a riot at the same camp two weeks ago [JURIST report] initially reported by a representative of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr after a US denial which was later reversed. Inmates, relatives and human rights groups have complained of overcrowding at Camp Bucca and other US-run Iraqi detention centers, especially since security sweeps done in advance of the January 30 elections. AFP has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

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