RCA: Chadianos causam uma centena de mortos

Des soldats tchadiens de la Misca ont fait feu sur la population samedi dans la périphérie de Bangui. Les circonstances sont encore floues mais le bilan est lourd : au moins une dizaine de morts et des blessés. Mis à jour le 31/03/2014 à 10h10. Que s'est-il passé samedi 29 mars à Bangui, où l'arrivée de soldats tchadiens de la Misca (la force africaine) venus du Nord pour se ravitailler a tourné au drame ? D'après un officier de la Misca citée par l'AFP, "les soldats tchadiens ont été visés par une grenade qui a blessé l'un d'entre eux, et ils ont riposté". >> Lire aussi : Paris espère une résolution à l'ONU dans une dizaine de jours Selon nos informations, ces militaires ont été stoppés au Pk-12 (nord de Bangui) par un barrage anti-balaka. Ces derniers ont réclamé leur ordre de mission. "Comme les soldats de la Misca n'en avaient pas, les anti-balaka ont refusé de les laisser passer", explique à Jeune Afrique une source diplomatique d'Afrique centrale. Les Tchadiens ont alors effectué quelques tirs de sommation, avant d'être pris pour cibles par les miliciens anti-balaka. Les militaires tchadiens, lourdement armés (ils possèdent notamment des mitrailleuses de calibre 12.7), ont aussitôt répliqué. Le bilan est encore incertain, mais déjà très lourd. "Il y a déjà 24 corps recensés et ramassés et plus de cent blessés graves" dans les quartiers Nord, a déclaré dimanche Odette Dombolo, maire de Bégoua, petite commune située en périphérie de la capitale. Plus tôt dans la journée, une source de la force africaine Misca avait fait état "d'au moins huit morts" dans un premier bilan. Deux soldats de la Misca ont également été blessés "On continue de ramasser des corps" À Bégoua et dans les quartiers Gobongo et Galabadja, majoritairement chrétiens, "on continue de ramasser des corps, et les blessés sont de plus en plus nombreux. On est dépassés", a ajouté la maire de Bégoua. "Des maisons ont été incendiées par des tirs de roquettes. Un poteau électrique a même été coupé en deux vers Gobongo, ce qui démontre que les dégâts sont très importants du fait des armes utilisées", a-t-elle précisé. La journée de samedi a été particulièrement agitée. Un autre convoi de la Misca a été attaqué par un groupe d'anti-balaka nécessitant l'envoi de renforts. "Les anti-balaka pensaient qu'il sagissait de militaires tchadiens alors qu'ils étaient burundais", précise un diplomate de l'Union africaine. Un peu plus tôt, à la mi-journée, c'est la villa d'un général de la Séléka et ministre conseiller, Abdoulaye Hissene (leader de la Convention des patriotes pour la justice et la paix, CPJP), qui a été prise pour cible. La Misca et l'armée française ont du intervenir. Au moins un garde du corps du général Séléka été tué. Lire l'article sur Jeuneafrique.com

MH370: 23º dia de buscas infrutíferas

Here is a breakdown of the aircraft and ships involved in the search today: AUSTRALIA Four military P-3 Orion planes; one helicopter; four civilian planes; three navy ships. MALAYSIA Two C-130 Hercules planes. CHINA Two Il-76 planes; three helicopters; seven ships. JAPAN Two military P-3 Orion planes; a coast guard jet. NEW ZEALAND One military P-3 Orion plane; one civilian plane. UNITED STATES Two military P-8 Poseidon planes. SOUTH KOREA One military P-3 Orion plane; a C-130 Hercules plane. 04.30 The Times has an interesting piece (££) on Britain, the United States and Australia pushing for a leading role in the investigation into the missing flight MH370 amid concerns that Malaysia is not capable of conducting the investigation alone. The question of allowing Western powers a leading role in the investigation may be sensitive in Malaysia, which is angered over bitter criticism, particularly from China, about its handling of the relatives of those lost on board MH370 and its seemingly disorganised conduct of the investigations into the aircraft’s disappearance 23 days ago on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Reino Unido: 9.000 páginas sobre OVNIs

Em 2011, o Reino Unido divulgou nada menos que 9 mil páginas sobre relatos de objectos voadores. Os registos são variados. Entre eles, está um testemunho feito em de 2001 de um controlador de voo reformado que, em 1956, mandou jatos interceptarem um objecto que aparecia no radar. Os pilotos afirmaram que chegaram bem perto do ovni, antes dele partir a 'uma velocidade incrível'. Em outros casos curiosos, pessoas relataram um ovni no festival de música de Glastonbury, em 2003 e um disco voador sobre Nottinghamshire. Em outros documentos, um oficial do serviço secreto diz que milhares de relatos recebidos durante a Segunda Guerra foram ignorados, já que o governo não queria estudar ou gastar dinheiro com o assunto e que 'as pessoas não acreditariam nisso se soubessem'. Em outro arquivo, um comandante militar afirma que as pessoas ficariam decepcionadas se soubessem que as investigações sobre ovnis não prosseguiam devido a 'falta de fundos e outras prioridades'.

Um OVNI na França, em agosto de 1967

Em 2007, o Grupo de Estudos e Informações de Fenómenos Aeroespaciais Não-Identificados (Geipan), na França, foi o primeiro órgão governamental a libertar arquivos oficiais sobre relatos de ovnis. Um desses casos ocorreu em 29 de agosto de 1967, 11 anos antes da criação do grupo. Próximo a Cussac, um menino de 13 anos e sua irmã de 9 tomavam conta de vacas da família. O menino afirma ter percebido a cerca de 80 m a presença de quatro seres negros, com cerca de 1,2 m de altura, que ele achou serem crianças. Segundo o relato, o menino notou, então, que próximo às 'crianças' estava uma esfera e, pouco depois, os seres flutuavam em direcção ao objecto. O ovni, conforme o relato, sobe em espiral crescente e desaparece, fazendo um barulho estridente. Um odor forte de enxofre fica no local por horas. As crianças entram a chorar na fazenda da família, e o pai chama a polícia, que nota o cheiro de enxofre e marcas deixadas na erva. Onze anos depois, o Geipan investiga o local e nota que: os relatos não mudaram; a descrição do barulho feita pelos irmãos bate com depoimento de outra pessoa, mais afastada do local; os dois e a terceira testemunha também identificaram com clareza o cheiro de enxofre. O Geipan não chega a uma conclusão sobre o caso. Mas, segundo o relatório, 'é impossível negar o comportamento inteligente e tendido a apresentar uma tecnologia que nos é totalmente desconhecida'.

Churchill não queria que se falasse dos discos voadores

Ovnis são motivo de apreensão e alvo de muitas teorias de conspirações. Ninguém menos que o ex-primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido Winston Churchill e o ex-presidente americano Dwight Eisenhower decidiram ocultar do público o registo de um ovni feito pela tripulação de um avião da Real Força Aérea britânica. Churchill foi mais além: determinou que todos os registos de objectos não identificados feitos pela Força Aérea fossem escondidos do público. O motivo? O primeiro-ministro que salvou o Reino Unido da Alemanha nazi temia que a população entrasse em pânico e que os relatos 'transtornassem os ideais religiosos do povo', segundo Nick Pope, que participou de um comité de analistas do governo. O grupo formado pelo governo britânico analisava e apresentava um relatório semanal sobre os registos de ovnis. Os documentos foram divulgados em agosto de 2010 e não provocaram nenhuma reação extrema no povo ou acabaram com as religiões. A descoberta da proibição de Churchill foi divulgada pela TV britânica BBC.

MH370: O descrédito do Estado malaio

Kuala Lumpur: After three weeks of fruitless searching for any evidence of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Malaysian government said on Saturday it had not fully given up hope of finding survivors. Although aviation experts have said there is no chance of survival, acting transport minister and defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein told the distraught relatives in the Malaysian capital that there was still a remote chance. Relatives of passengers and crew have already begun filing insurance claims against the airline and aircraft manufacturer Boeing, while the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has said the 777's flight "ended" in the remote southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia. Mr Hishammuddin said he still hoped for a miracle in the Australian-led search. "I cannot give them (relatives) false hope," he said. "The best we can do is pray and be sensitive to them, that as long as there is even a remote chance of a survivor, we will pray and do whatever it takes." “Miracles do happen, remote or otherwise, and that is the hope that the families want me to convey not only to the Malaysian government, MAS (Malaysia Airlines), but also to the world at large. “For me, as the minister responsible, this is the hardest part of my life,” said Mr Hishammuddin. The Malaysian government has been criticised by angry relatives for what they say has been a bungled search and hiding details. Chinese relatives have staged protests in Malaysia and walk-outs from Malaysian briefings in Beijing. “The contradictory and piecemeal information Malaysia Airlines and its government have provided has made search efforts difficult and the entire incident even more mysterious,” the China Daily wrote in an editorial. “What else is known that has not been shared with the world?” Leading Chinese artists have called for a boycott of Malaysian goods and the Chinese government has formally raised concerns with Mr Najib over his country’s handling of the disaster. Mr Hishammuddin – touted as a possible successor to Mr Najib before this crisis – said Malaysia would be judged as doing everything it could and acting responsibly. But he also admitted on Friday that the focus of the search, which had been moved by 1100 km because of revised data analysis, was likely to shift again in the next few days. As defence minister, Mr Hishammuddin is also overseeing an air force investigation into why at least three military radar stations failed to detect MH370 immediately after it made a U-turn over the Malaysian peninsula and why they failed scramble fighter jets to intercept it. The Sydney Morning Herald

MH370: Três semanas ... e ainda nada!

Chinese ships are scouring a new search area of the Indian Ocean in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. The two vessels are trying to find and retrieve a number of items spotted by planes on Friday. Chinese aircraft are also flying over the area, north-east of the previous zone, and have spotted more objects, China's Xinhua news agency says. The Beijing-bound airliner disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board. Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01, and a navy vessel, Jinggangshan, which carries two helicopters, reached the new search area in the past few hours. The BBC's Jon Donnison spent the day with Australian air crews looking for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Xinhua said the Jinggangshan was expected to focus on searching for debris, oil slicks and life jackets. Eight aircraft are also taking part in the operation, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) Amsa said in its latest statement. Later on Saturday one of them, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft, spotted three orange, white and red objects floating in the ocean. Some were very small, and officials have cautioned that they may be sea junk. On Friday five search planes spotted multiple objects of various colours in the same area - about 1,100km (700 miles) north-east of the previous search zone. Satellite images so far could show anything from lost shipping containers or drifting garbage to fragments of Flight MH370. Among ocean experts, opinion differs over how much non-plane debris is in the área. Southern Indian Ocean is one of world's least researched áreas. In absence of better data, retrieving floating debris can help narrow search for "black box" recorders. But shortage of live satellite data, turbulence and passage of time since flight's disappearance hamper search for debris. Investigators will not know whether the objects are connected to the missing plane until they have been recovered by ships. Bad weather has hampered the search efforts in recent days. Saturday's conditions are expected to be favourable initially but to deteriorate later in the day. Meanwhile Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says he has reassured the families of the missing passengers that the search for any survivors will continue. Some relatives of the flight's 153 Chinese passengers have refused to accept the Malaysian account of events and have accused officials of withholding information. Acting Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein: "If there is any lead or information that involves survivors, that has been our priority" "No matter how remote the search, I am always hoping against hope that we will find survivors," Mr Hishammuddin told the latest news conference following a meeting with the families on Saturday. Burning more fuel The Australian and Malaysian governments said on Friday the search area had been changed following further analysis of radar data that showed the plane had been travelling faster, thus burning more fuel. This would reduce the possible distance the aircraft travelled south into the Indian Ocean, officials said. Search efforts had until Friday morning focused on an area some 2,500km (1,550 miles) to the south-west of the Australian city of Perth. --- Há dias diziam claramente que não havia sobreviventes e agora prometem continuar à procura de possíveis sobreviventes! Todo este processo está repleto de contradições...