Bruins goes on Nazi murder trial
According to BBC News, Siert Bruins is going on trial for the murder of a Dutch resistance fighter which occured 70 years ago.
Siert Bruins, ex S.S. officer, 92, is facing a murder trial, if proven guilty could put him behind bars for the remainder of his life. Bruins is believed to have shot Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September of 1944. Bruins who was guard of the Germany Dutch border is alleged to have shot Dijkema, who had been captured, four times in Appingedam a town just east of Bruins home town of Groningen. Mr. Bruins has admitted being at the scene of the crime at the time it occured, but remains adament he was not the one who shot Dijkema. He says he was marching alongside the prisoner when the shots were fired at Dijkema, the accomplice of the crime has already died. Germany has refused to extradite Bruins to the Netherlands were the crime originally occured. This is not Bruin’s first trial either. In 1980, Bruins was sent to prison for the murder of two Jewish brothers where he spent seven years. Bruins has lived in Germany since the end of the war. The prosecutor is asking full justice be given despite Bruins old age, which only allows him to withstand trial for three hours a day. Bruins case is believed to be one of the last ones to occur in Germany.
Assad Challenges France and US to prove government involvement in chemical warfare
When France and the US went public with their allegations that the Syrian government used chemical warfare against their own people, President Assad told French magazine, Le Figaro, “It is for those who are making the accusations to provide the proof. We have
challenged the United States and France to put forward a single proof. Obama and Hollande have been unable to do so, even to their own people. … I’m not at all suggesting that the Syrian army does or does not possess such weapons. Let’s suppose that our army wishes to use WMD: is it really going to do so in an area where it is actually present and where soldiers have been wounded by these weapons, as the UN inspectors found during their visit to the hospital where they were being treated? Where is the logic in that?”
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, at a diplomatic school said, “What our American, British and French partners showed us in the past and have showed just recently is absolutely unconvincing, And when you ask for more detailed proof they say all of this is classified so we cannot show this to you.” Russia is in talks to send delegates to the US in order to discuss the matters occuring in Syria.
China is also asking that France and the US do not take military action against Syria on the belief it will only further complicate matters in Syria.
President Obama has met with Senator McCain in the hopes they will be able to win over the nations support according to cbsnews.com.
Former NBA star visits North Korean Kim Jong Un
In article released by foxnews.com, former NBA star Dennis Rodman is headed to North Korea to visit friend Kim Jong Un.
When Rodman was asked whether he would be trying to return with inprisoned American citizen Kenneth Bae, Rodman said, “I’m not going to talk about that.” Bae has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor for attacks against North Korea. Bae was staying in China and doing mission trips to North Korea to feed orphans. An envoy was denied access to North Korea to negioate Bae’s release.
Rodman was pressed for more details on his visit to North Korean leader at the airport in Bejing awaiting his flight to Pyongyang, Rodman said, “I just want to meet my friend Kim, the marshal, and start a basketball league over there. I have not been promised anything. I am just going there as a friendly gesture.”
Rodman met Kim on a trip to North Korea to promote the sport of basketball and film he was working on. Rodman has also stated on the popular social media account, Twitter, “do me a solid” and let Bae go.