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My name is Rahim Gashi Rocky, from Kosovo but Currently living in Macedoni as a Refugee since 1999. i can say that i have been passing on through bad moments with my family during war time in Kosovo, My house is completely Destroyed and Burned down by Albanian's and i really don't feel free to go back there anymore.

Since I came here in Macedonia life was little bit Different, because my head was quite from that bomb;s that i was hearing them always everyday, and never had a good sleep
but than i relized that to be Refugee is very hard. we have been located to many places around the Macedonia, first Camp was called (Stenkovac 2) that's 20 km from the Capital of Skopje, and the number of the Refugees was so high about 3000 refugees displaced persons, so after a year UNHCR was moving Refugees to Bulidings around Macedonia,
So the name of the places where these 3000 refugees have been Located are( Pretor, Struga, BrobniStip,) so the First one it was where i was living and in that buliding we stayed year and half, and than coming near the Capital of the Skopje, Called Shuto Orizari , it was made a new camp for Refugees so i have been in that camp with my family and the rest refugees too, the number of the refugees was 1500,

So in that camp we have been staying so longer time, 3 years, and after that all the refugees decide to leave the camp because of the Discrimination by UNHCR and not good Conditions for life, so we arrange bussies and go through the border of the Macedonia to Greece, we have spend 3 months there in bad conditions without anything, sleeping in the ground and during the day staying in to hot weather. we really have been thinking that Greece will accept us get in europa so we can have a better life but Unforutunately they , didn't not. Than all the refugees have been moved back To the Shuto Orizari, and located on Private Accomodation. So my family and I have been Applying for Asylum, and we were Rejected 3 times, which means no right Request, just under UNHCR Protection.
and i really don't have Return back in Kosovo, and in Macedonian i am Rejected from Supreme Court, so i am still fighting to get Solution for me and my family.

Rahim Gashi.

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# Posted on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 at 6:10 PM

One year without the little princess Mari Luz Cortés... Un año sin la princesita Mari Luz Cortés

Missing five-year-old Mari Luz Cortes shouted: "Wait for me, wait for me" to two girls in a sweet shop - minutes before she vanished.

A woman neighbour yesterday told how she saw Mari Luz at about 5pm on Sunday chatting to two girls, of about seven and nine, in Huelva, southern Spain - just 120 miles from where four-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished.

The woman, who lives in the same square as the Cortes family, said she couldn't see Mari Luz's face but recognised the little girl by her lovely brown hair and distinctive voice.

Another female witness also said she saw and heard Mari Luz talking to someone at about the same time on Sunday - but could not see who she was chatting to because they were obscured by the corner of a building.

Mari Luz had only popped out to a shop to buy crisps 100 yards from her home when she vanished.

Her father, Juan Jose Cortes, 34, appealed for the mum of the two girls to come forward to help.

Police and the McCanns' private detective agency Metodo 3 are looking at similarities to the disappearance of Madeleine in May. Huelva is a 90-minute drive from Portugal's Praia da Luz where Madeleine went missing.

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Both girls - almost the same age - vanished with no witnesses and had been left unattended by their parents. Gerry and Kate McCann of Rothley, Leics, told yesterday how the case of Mari Luz left them reliving the agony of losing Madeleine.

Gerry, 39, wrote on his internet diary: "We hope and pray that Mari is quickly found and returned safely to her family."

Yesterday, Mr Cortes and wife Irene led a crowd of thousands through the streets of Huelva some carrying banners which read: "Help us find Mari Luz."

And last night the distraught dad - a street trader - begged the kidnappers to return his daughter, offering "everything I have".

He sobbed: "If anyone has got my daughter and wants something, then they should ask. We will just get it from wherever.

"All they have to do is ask and we will sell whatever is necessary to get it. We are heartbroken, please return our daughter."

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Pocas cosas hay más dolorosas que la pérdida de un hijo pequeño; conviene recordarlo aunque parezca evidente. Pero si a la privación del ser querido se unen el crimen abyecto y la disfunción de la Justicia, el sufrimiento se convierte en un tormento insoportable.

El 13 de enero de 2008, una tarde de domingo cualquiera, el dolor se instaló sin ser invitado en la casa de la familia Cortés. Desde entonces, la pena ha convivido con Juan José Cortés, su mujer, Irene Suárez, y los dos hijos mayores del matrimonio. Y no sólo con ellos. La angustia se ha colado en la vida de cientos de personas: familiares directos, amigos cercanos, vecinos y no conocidos que se han solidarizado con los padres de Mari Luz.

Muy pocos podían imaginar aquel 13 de enero que la terrible desaparición de Mari Luz Cortés, una niña de cinco años, se convertiría en uno de los mayores escándalos judiciales de los últimos años en España. La desgracia de una familia humilde de Huelva se transformó en indignación nacional debido a la cadena de despropósitos y errores judiciales que precedieron a la desaparición de la pequeña.

Durante 54 días, los padres de Mari Luz confiaron en que alguien les devolviera a su hija con vida. La buscaron por la barriada donde desapareció después de comprar chucherías en un quiosco, peinaron las rías y marismas de Huelva, encabezaron manifestaciones en Sevilla y Madrid, ofrecieron una recompensa y se ilusionaron con supuestas pistas sobre su paradero en Nápoles. Pero el pequeño cuerpo de Mari Luz fue encontrado el 8 de marzo flotando cerca de un muelle del río Tinto.

Un vecino de la pequeña con antecedentes por pederastia, Santiago del Valle García, se convirtió en el principal sospechoso de la Policía, que ya lo había interrogado tres días después de la desaparición tras huir a Granada con su mujer, Isabel García. Alegó tener miedo a las represalias de la familia y fue puesto en libertad sin cargos.

Del Valle fue localizado de nuevo en Pajaroncillo, un pueblo de Cuenca, y el 25 de marzo fue detenido en una parada de autobús de la capital conquense. Esta vez confesó que abordó a la niña por la calle y ésta le acompañó por voluntad propia hasta su casa. Pero cuando subían las escaleras, la menor cayó accidentalmente y murió. Según su relato, a continuación la condujo a la ría de Huelva y la arrojó al agua. Su hermana Rosa, que también fue detenida junto al matrimonio, declaró que le ayudó a deshacerse del cadáver transportándolo en su coche oculto en un carrito de la compra.

El presunto asesino de Mari Luz llevaba años sin cumplir condena por los abusos sexuales cometidos en 1998 sobre su propia hija de cinco años. En 2002 fue condenado por un juez de Sevilla, Rafael Tirado, a una pena de dos años y nueve meses de cárcel. La sentencia fue confirmada por la Audiencia Provincial en 2003, pero la notificación no llegó al juzgado de Rafael Tirado hasta diciembre de 2005, con más de dos años de retraso.

Cuando Santiago del Valle presuntamente asesinó a Mari Luz en la barriada onubense de 'El Torrejón', el pederasta llevaba más de dos años eludiendo la cárcel porque el juzgado de Tirado fue incapaz de localizarlo y no había emitido una orden de busca y captura. La dictó un día después de la detención de Del Valle en un pueblo de Cuenca, el 26 de marzo de 2008.

Nadie entendió la negligencia del juez, mucho menos la familia de la víctima, que exigió depurar responsabilidades al ministro de Justicia, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, y pidió explicaciones al presidente del Gobierno, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. El Consejo General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ) abrió un expediente disciplinario a Tirado y lo condenó a pagar 1.500 euros por lo que consideró una "falta grave de desatención", a pesar de que la Fiscalía solicitaba una condena más severa.

La setencia fue confirmada el 24 de diciembre por el pleno del Poder Judicial, que descartó suspender al juez. Juan José Cortés, convertido en 'padre coraje', acusó al CGPJ de "corporativista" y calificó su decisión de "disfunción extraordinaria" del Estado de derecho y "atentado contra la dignidad de la Justicia".

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# Posted on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 at 8:06 AM

R.I.P. GAZA

At least 30 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landed outside a United Nations-run school in Gaza, UN officials have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp was hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said.
Israel said its soldiers had come under fire from militants inside the school.
Earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned of a "full-blown humanitarian crisis" in Gaza. Speaking on the 11th day of the Israeli assault, a senior ICRC official, Pierre Kraehenbuhl, said life in Gaza had become intolerable.

GAZA CRISIS BACKGROUND

Palestinian medical sources say more than 600 people have been killed since the attacks began, and Mr Kraehenbuhl said much more needed to be done to protect civilians. At least 70 Palestinians and five Israeli soldiers were killed on Tuesday.
One soldier was killed in an exchange of fire with militants in Gaza City, while four others were killed by shellfire from their own tanks earlier in the day, Israeli military officials said.
Israel says its offensive is stopping militants firing rockets, but at least five hit southern Israel on Tuesday, with one reaching the town of Gedera, about 40km (25 miles) from Gaza, and injuring a baby.
Three Israeli civilians and one soldier have been killed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip since the offensive began 10 days ago. The UN aid agency in Gaza, Unrwa, said three artillery shells had landed close to the al-Fakhura school on Tuesday afternoon, spraying shrapnel on people both inside and outside the building.

About 350 people had sought refuge at the school in effort to escape the fighting between Israeli soldiers and militants on the outskirts of the refugee camp, to the east of Gaza City.
Television footage showed bodies scattered on the ground amid pools of blood.
Palestinian doctors at nearby hospitals had earlier said that at least 40 people had been killed. The Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya said 30 people had died there. A further 10 people died at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, doctors said.
The UN officials said they regularly provided the Israeli military with exact co-ordinates of their facilities, and that the school was in a built-up area. The Israeli military said that, according to initial checks, its soldiers had come under mortar fire from militants inside the school.

"The force responded with mortars at the source of fire," it said in a statement. "Hamas cynically uses civilians as human shields."
It later reported that two Hamas militants had been among those killed at the school. It identified the two men as Imad and Hassan Abu Askar, saying they were members of a rocket-launching cell.
Earlier in the day, at least three Palestinians were killed when another school was hit in the Shati camp, UN officials said. Ten people were also injured at a UN health centre in the Bureij refugee camp.
Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for the Palestinian territories, described the incidents as tragic and demanded an independent investigation.
The director of operations for Unrwa, John Ging, meanwhile told the BBC that the conditions in Gaza were "horrific". The BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf reports from a UN school inside a Gaza refugee camp.

"Nowhere is safe for civilians here in Gaza at the moment. They are fleeing their homes and they are right to do it when you look at the casualty numbers," he said.
"It's very, very dangerous, and even the 14,000 who have sought refuge in our schools and shelters, they are not safe either." Mr Ging said international leaders had a responsibility to act to protect civilians.
"You cannot conduct huge military operations in such densely-populated places without killing hundreds and injuring thousands of civilians," he added. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have pushed further south on the Gaza Strip and clashed with militants near Gaza City.

Skirmishes were also reported on the edges of the Deir al-Balah and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, and witnesses said Israeli tanks and infantry were advancing on Khan Younis. Information about what is happening inside Gaza is limited as Israel has barred foreign reporters from entering.
'Time against us'. Diplomatic efforts to try to end the violence are gathering pace.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he had asked his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to help convince Hamas to co-operate with efforts to end the Israeli offensive. Syria is regarded as a main backer of Hamas.
"The loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern for me", said the US President-elect Barack Obama

When later asked about the deaths at UN school in Gaza, Mr Sarkozy said: "It reinforces my determination for all this to stop as quickly as possible. Time is working against us. We must find a solution." US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the US would like to see "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza.
"An immediate ceasefire that is durable, sustainable and not time-limited," he told reporters in Washington, according to the Reuters news agency. "We want, obviously, to be constructive," he added.
US President-elect Barack Obama meanwhile broke his silence about the conflict, telling reporters that "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern for me".
However, he also reiterated that he would adhere to his principle that only President George W Bush would speak for US foreign policy at this time. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to hold talks in New York with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is going to the UN with several Arab foreign ministers to lobby for a ceasefire. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan in New York says the contours of an agreement are taking shape - international monitors along the Egypt-Gaza border to stop Hamas smuggling weapons and firing rockets at Israel, and the creation of a humanitarian corridor in southern Gaza to ensure that aid goes to the Palestinians.The question now is whether Hamas will accept such a deal and if a call for a ceasefire will be heeded by Israel, our correspondent says.

Hamas has said that Israeli attacks on Gaza must stop and the crossings into the territory, which Israel controls, must be fully opened, before it agrees to a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Miniser Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday that the military campaign in Gaza would continue until Israel had completely wiped out Hamas's ability to fire rockets into Israel.