Escalating Tensions--India and Pakistan

Tensions continue to soar on both sides of the border amid reports of troop movements. Both countries are apprehensive and wary towards each other. India has taken strides to garner support for its cause--its most recent ally being Saudi Arabia. Pakistan under tremendous international pressure is being pushed to act against the extremist groups operating within the country. The Indians still feel that Pakistan isn't doing quite enough. They have accused Pakistan of promoting War Hysteria in a bid to divert attention. Pakistan, meanwhile has accused India of attacking its sovereignty. Their premiers have made numerous statements to the same declaring how the country stands united against any external aggression.

The apparent boiling tensions simply cannot be disregarded by the international community for quite obvious reasons.

In Memory of Mumbai 26/11

Let those who perished be remembered eternally.

"An American Crime" II

On October 26, 1965, Indianapolis police answered a call saying that a girl had died. The call came from a pay telephone in front of a Shell station in a poor section of the city. The caller was a teenaged boy whose voice had not finished changing into that of an adult man. He sounded very nervous and directed the police to the address, 3850 East New York Street, at which they would find the dead female.

When the cops got to the dingy, rundown, clapboard home to which the anonymous caller had directed them, they found the emaciated dead body of 16-year-old Sylvia Marie Likens. She was covered with bruises and small wounds, later revealed to be cigarette and match burns that numbered over 100. There were also large areas where the outer layer of skin had peeled off. Likens also had a large letter "3" branded on her chest.

However, the most remarkable injuries, by far, were the words in block letters that had been burned directly onto her stomach: "I'M A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD OF IT!"

The Room where Sylvia's body was found.

Thus ended one of the most horrible crimes ever committed against a single victim.

source: trutv.com

"An American Crime" -- The tragic life of Sylvia Marie Likens

Sylvia
R.I.P

Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 - October 26, 1965) was an American murder victim from Indiana. She was tortured to death by Gertrude Baniszewski (née Van Fossan), Gertrude's children, and other young people from their neighborhood. Her parents, carnival workers, had left Likens and her sister Jenny in the care of the Baniszewski family three months before her death in exchange for twenty dollars a week. Baniszewski, two of her children, Paula and John, and two neighbor youths, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, were charged and convicted of the crime. Her torture and murder were described by the prosecutor in Baniszewski's trial as "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana."