There are now enough grounds to order reinvestigation of 1995 abduction & killing of six foreign tourists following startling revelations by a new book that they were killed by pro-government counter-insurgents fully aided & abetted by the security forces . The book – “The Meadow, Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began”, by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, succinctly details the reasons & circumstances leading to the brutal killings of five out of six abducted innocent foreign tourists. The two British Authors, who specialize in investigative journalism and have worked for UK’s “ The Sunday Times” and “ The Guardian ” for nearly 18 years and have been honored with ‘Foreign Correspondents of the Year’ award in 2004 and ‘British Journalists of the Year’ award in 2009, have made painstaking efforts in lifting the veil over many other incidents which happened around that time. In respect of abduction & killings of foreign tourists, the Govt. was quick to put the blame on Al-Faran militant group, believed to be a front for Harkat-ul-Mujahideen at that time . The motive of militants behind the gory incident was stated to be release of some hardcore militants under arrest at that time. The concocted story appeared to be plausible & believable which is an essential ingredient of any covert operation. What is more shocking & deplorable is the fact that when a foreign tourist woman, trekking in the area, approached Indian Army to report the abduction of Norwegian tourist Dirk Hasert, she was raped by a Major of Rashtriya Rifles instead of acting on her complaint. Read article
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An official report into a plane crash at Fox Glacier that killed nine people says there was a low level of supervision of the adventure tourism industry which had outstripped the ability of regulators to control it. Eight parachutists and the pilot died when the Walter Fletcher plane plunged to the ground on 4 September […]
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A tourist has been killed in French Polynesia by a falling coconut. The 69-year old woman from France was at the end of a hike on Nuku Hiva when she was knocked unconsciuos by the nut. She was flown to a Tahiti hospital where she died of her injuries. Read Article
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Friends of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over the deaths. They said the President’s failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no ‘political value’ and it was not worthy of a few minutes of his time. Read […]
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NATADOLA, Fiji: Fiji Sunday urged international airlines to temporarily stop flying tourists into the flood-hit South Pacific nation, as heavy rain and high winds continued to pound the country. Officials said they could not guarantee visitors’ safety in the wake of flash floods that have killed at least two people and forced more than 5,000 […]
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HAT YAI, Thailand — Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and injuring 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists. A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area […]
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are using a recorded phone call from the jail as evidence against a teen accused in last year’s slayings of two British tourists in Florida. SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are using a recorded phone call from the jail as evidence against a teen accused in last year’s slayings of […]
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Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel endured a heartbreaking task Thursday: identifying the bodies of their loved ones ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children. Family members, some sobbing, were driven from a hotel in the southern Swiss town of Sion to […]
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A British man who died with his friend at his side on a Wanaka ski field has been named. Philip Ross Bergman, 26, died yesterday when he collapsed near a place call Rock Drop, in the Cardrona Valley .Detective Sergeant Derek Shaw said police had been in touch with Bergman’s mother in Herefordshire, England, and […]
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SARASOTA — Some key witnesses took the stand Monday in the murder trial for the Sarasota teen accused of killing two British tourists last year.Shawn Tyson, 17, is accused of killing two men from England as they walked through his neighborhood in the middle of the night, April 16, 2011. Read article
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