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Police in Ngororero District, on Friday March 12, impounded a vehicle–Toyota Land Cruiser plate number RAC 251G–in Ndaro Sector loaded with 630kgs of smuggled coltan and cassiterite minerals.
Two people, who were on board the vehicle; the driver identified as Silver Murekeyimana, 31, and one Alexis Ngaboyishema, 49, the suspected rightful owner of the minerals, were arrested in the process.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Bonaventure Twizere Karekezi, the Police spokesperson for the Western region, said the smugglers were arrested following a tip-off from residents.
“At around 6pm, Police in Ndaro Sector received information that Ngaboyishema, a suspected illegal mineral dealer, was loading minerals in the vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser plate number RAC 251G. An operation was planned and the vehicle was intercepted shortly after in Gasave Village, Bijyojyo Cell transporting 630kgs of coltan and cassiterite,” CIP Karekezi explai
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About 5,255 prisoners have been set free from Burundi Prison facilities under a Presidential pardon.
President Evariste Ndayishimiye on March 5, 2021, decreed a pardon for 5,255 prisoners but this excluded political prisoners.
“Benefit from the total remission of custodial sentences, prisoners condemned definitively to sentences less than or equal to five years for all offenses”, decreed President Ndayishimiye.
However, the exception is made for crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearms, participation in armed gangs, attack on the internal and/or external security of the State, mercenarism, terrorism and bioterrorism, intentional homicide, rape, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment as well as human trafficking.
She was imprisoned for killing her four children. But was it their genes all along?
12 Mar, 2021 08:12 PM
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Kathleen Folbigg with her baby daughter Sarah. She has maintained that her four children died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Photo / Supplied
Kathleen Folbigg with her baby daughter Sarah. She has maintained that her four children died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Photo / Supplied
New York Times
By: Damien Cave
The case of Kathleen Folbigg has become a contest between cutting-edge science and an Australian court system that sometimes ignores it. The tabloids in Australia called Kathleen Folbigg a murderer of innocent babies the
She was imprisoned for killing her 4 children. But was it their genes all along?
Damien Cave, New York Times
March 8, 2021
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Kathleen Folbigg leaving Maitland Court in Australia after being refused bail in March 2004.Anita Jones/Fairfax Media via Getty Images
SYDNEY The tabloids in Australia called Kathleen Folbigg a murderer of innocent babies the nation’s “worst female serial killer.” In 2003, a court sentenced her to 40 years in prison for smothering her four children before each had turned 2.
But all along, Folbigg has insisted that she is innocent, and that her children were all victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
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