Former dictator dead

Former dictator dead, Former Argentine military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has died aged 87 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.He is reported to have died from natural causes in prison.The general was jailed in 2010 for the deaths of 31 dissidents during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, of which he was overall leader until 1981.Up to 30,000 people were tortured and killed during this period, in a campaign known as the "Dirty War".Gen Videla had been sentenced to life in prison for torture, murder and other crimes in 1985, but was pardoned in 1990 under an amnesty given by the president at the time, Carlos Menem.In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon.Eight months later he was found "criminally responsible" for the torture and deaths of 31 prisoners and jailed for life.Most of the left-wing activists were taken from their cells in the central city of Cordoba and shot dead shortly after the military took power.The army said at the time that they were killed while trying to escape.Gen Videla was one of 30 members of the security forces charged with the murders.'A bad man'Last year, he was also convicted of overseeing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners.At least 400 babies are thought to have been taken from their parents while they were held in detention centres.More than 100 children given for adoption to military or police couples have since been reunited with their biological families.A court in Buenos Aires sentenced Videla to 50 years in prison, while another ex-military leader, Reynaldo Bignone, received 15 years for his alleged role in the crime.In an interview with an Argentine journalist last year, Videla said the crackdown he oversaw was the price Argentina had to pay in order to remain a republic."War, by nature, is cruel," he said. "An internal war, between brothers, is especially cruel."Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Latin America for US-based Human Rights Watch, said Videla presided over one of the region's cruellest repressions in modern times."He was arrogant to the end and unwilling to acknowledge his responsibility for the massive atrocities committed in Argentina," he said."Many of the secrets of the repression will die with him."Argentina's Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel told Reuters news agency: "Death has brought an end to his physical existence but not what he did against the people."The head of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an association that works to uncover the real identities of the stolen children, described Videla as a "bad man"."I'm reassured that a discredited man has departed this world," said Estela de Carloto in a statement to local media.Videla was born in 1925, the son of an army colonel.In 1976, he and two other military leaders staged a coup against President Isabel Peron, the widow of former leader Juan Domingo Peron.
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IN DEFENSE OF TREE RAPE: THE NECESSARY GRATUITY OF EVIL DEAD

Despite the mixed bag of emotions Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead remake has brought to the table and its piss-poor misleading marketing campaign, Evil Dead has brought to light an incredible amount of conversations ranging from feminism, gratuitous violence, and rape culture. An incredibly intelligent and poignant article was written in the wake of the film's release over at Bad Ass Digest titled "Evil Dead 2013 and the Politics of Tree Rape" written by the remarkably talented Devin Faraci.  I highly encourage everyone to take the time and read this article at some point, because he makes some ridiculously strong arguments.  While I agree with a large part of what Faraci is saying, I am very, VERY glad that Alvarez included the tree-rape sequence in his remake of Sam Raimi's classic flick.When Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead, his tree-rape sequence was one of the most terrifying things in the entire film.  Watching Cheryl helplessly be controlled by the forces of nature and unable to escape, there are shots of her sheer terror as the world around her completely shut down and betrayed her in one of the most intimate ways humanly possible. According to Sam Raimi, looking back on his original film, he regrets making the sequence. As Bad Ass Digest pointed out, seen in this video interview, Raimi says, “I think it was unnecessarily gratuitous and a little too brutal. And finally because people were offended in a way that I didn't...my goal is not to offend people. It is to entertain, thrill, scare...make them laugh but not to offend them.” It is easy to see why this particular scenario could be seen as gratuitous, brutal, and offensive.  Rape is an incredibly sensitive subject, and a very real one at that.  Putting such a dark and identifiable situation in a film, something meant to entertain, is often frowned upon; which is why we don't have a vast collection of films of mother's drowning their children due to postpartum depression or the actions of humans that result in the dogs seen in the Sarah McLaughlin commercials.Statistically speaking, 1 in 3 women will be victims of rape or sexual assault at some point in their lives; meaning there are a good amount of women who have seen The Evil Dead or Evil Dead that have been raped themselves.  There are those that believe Fede Alvarez's decision to keep the "tree-rape" sequence into the remake was one that was unwise, and his attempt to soften the brutality by using the tree solely to "hold Mia down" instead of performing the act of sexual assault made the scene particularly confusing and unnecessary...but I disagree.In the thirty plus years that have passed since Raimi's original flick, rape culture in America is developing an extremely strong and powerful voice.  After events like the Steubenville rape trials and the constant 'war on women' within the GOP's attempts to police the bodies of women, now more than ever is a time where rape shouldn't be pushed aside and downplayed.  I'm sorry, but what defines what is and isn't acceptable in terms of rape on screen?Mind you, all of this is coming from a girl who named her blog after the unreleased original title for a film that holds one of the most notoriously gratuitous rape scenes in cinematic history.  The thing is, whether or not someone is being raped by a person, a tree branch, or some weird tongue worm from the mouth of a deadite, rape is still rape. Don't you dare tell me that it wasn't really rape because it came from a deadite mouth, don't you dare tell me it didn't have a purpose because it was girl on girl, don't you dare tell me it doesn't count because it was supernatural forces rather than a real person, and don't you dare tell me that this scene has no place in this film. I'm sorry, but in this less than stellar remake, this particular scene is one that was just as relevant thirty years ago as it is today. Some have argued that the scene felt misplaced and was only included because of the original and you know something, so what? I don't know of a single moment in the history of existence where a rape had a purpose and was anything more than a misplaced terror in the timeline of life. You want to tell me one instance where rape is anything but a misplaced event in life and I'll bite my tongue. Was the tree-rape scene uncomfortable to look at? Absolutely. Was the tree-rape scene unnecessary? Perhaps. Did the tree-rape scene spark conversations about what is and isn't acceptable in terms of rape? You better believe it. In a society that is constantly debating the differences between "legitimate" and "illegitimate" rape, I am appalled that anyone would be questioning whether or not this scene has a purpose.
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First suspect death photo: 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev bloodied, dead

First suspect death photo: 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev bloodied, dead, The first suspect's death photo has surfaced online. On April 19, TMZ reported that a death photo of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, has been posted on Reddit thanks to someone who claims they have a "friend" on the inside. The photo is said to be gruesome, so don't go looking for it unless you're prepared."The picture shows the lifeless corpse of 26-year-old Tamerlan laying on a table. The body has multiple bullet wounds as well as a gigantic gash along his chest rib cage area. The body is covered in blood especially in the facial region. In the death photo, Tamerlan's mouth and eyes are open wide," TMZ reported.View slideshow: Boston ManhuntThe first suspect's death photo is legitimate according to law enforcement sources. Tamerlan was shot multiple times by police when they came face to face in Watertown, Mass. very early this morning. A shootout occurred in the middle of a street in a quiet neighborhood but police were unable to nab both suspects.Tamerlan was reportedly wearing a suicide vest and he and his brother, Dzhokhar, through explosives as police. Still, Tamerlan's body was riddled with gunshots but somehow, Dzhokhar got away. It has been well over 12 hours and no one knows if authorities know where he is or if he's still alive.The first suspect's death photo may not ever be officially released. Do you think it should be?© Effie Orfanides 2013
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