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WHL Energy’s Seychelles permits confirmed to have world class, multi billion barrel oil potential

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WHL Energy Limited (ASX: WHN) has transformed itself into a growing international oil and gas explorer since the acquisition of its flagship Seychelles offshore oil and gas permits in October 2010.

The company’s market capitalisation has mirrored this transformation, soaring from A$6 million when it made the Seychelles acquisition, to the current A$66 million.

More recently WHL Energy has garnered institutional support for the development of its Seychelles assets that has matched the continuing growth in global interest in East Africa’s petroleum prospectivity.

In addition, the company has grown its portfolio through the acquisition of quality Australian assets in the offshore Carnarvon and Otway basins.

Share Price:     A$0.047
Issued Shares: 1.4 billion
Market Cap:     A$65.8 million
Cash: A$9 million
EV: A$54.19 million

ANALYSIS

Interest in East Africa’s oil and gas prospectivity exploded following Anadarko Petroleum’s (NYSE: APC)Windjammer gas discovery in February 2011. Subsequent successful exploration and appraisal wells in the Rovuma Offshore Area 1 off Mozambique have resulted in the identification of a resource of more than 30 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable gas.

Further discoveries have since been made by Eni with a potential 10 tcf find off Mozambique; Statoil making a 5 tcf find off Mozambique’s northern neighbour Tanzania; BG and Ophir Energy (LON:OPHR) looking seriously at liquefied natural gas options after increasing their Tanzanian reserves to 7 tcf of gas; and Tullow Oil (LON: TLW)and Africa Oil Corporation (CVE: AOI) making the first ever oil discovery in Kenya.

Little wonder then that East Africa focused Cove Energy’s (LON:COV) decision to put itself up for sale has drawn bidders such as Thailand national upstream oil and gas company PTTEP and Royal Dutch Shell - which are each offering more than US$1.8 billion for Cove, drawn no doubt by Cove’s 8.5% stake in Rovuma Offshore Area 1.
Since then, Cove's directors have unanimously recommended PTTEP's offer.
At the beginning of 2010, Cove’s market capitalisation was just under US$100 million, not dissimilar to WHL Energy’s.

Africa Oil Corporation’s market capitalisation has also grown from C$413.3 million in January 2011 to its current C$1.09 billion, while Ophir has seen its market capitalisation grow from £914.8 million on 8 July 2011 to £1.99 billion.

All this interest has drawn institutional investors to WHL Energy, with its Seychelles permits having independently assessed, unrisked, prospective resources of about 3.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) spread out over 21 leads.

WHL Energy is also in talks with 3 very large companies interested in taking up interests in its Seychelles permits, which cover 21,426 square kilometres, in return for funding a drilling program that is expected to start in 2013.

Success in this this farm-out is expected to significantly re-rate WHL Energy and its Seychelles acreage and could be cause for an uptick in WHL Energy’s valuation.

MANAGEMENT 

John Chandler serves as Chairman and was originally appointed as a non executive director in 2011. John brings key oil and gas management and corporate experience to the Chairman’s position. He is an attorney with over 30 years of commercial and legal experience, and is also a non executive director of Sino Gas & Energy Holdings Ltd.

Steve Noske was appointed as Managing Director at a key time in WHL Energy’s emergence as an up-and-coming international oil and gas company. He is mechanical engineer with 28 years of upstream oil and gas experience with Woodside, Shell, and BHP Billiton. He has worked internationally in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, and was most recently involved for 7 years in gas business management and general business development with Mitsui.

David Rowbottam serves as Executive Director of Finance, and was previously the founding managing director ofExoma Energy Limited. He also held roles as a senior financial executive with international and Australian experience with Antares Energy Ltd, Alinta Group, and BHP Billiton.

The Company maintains a highly experienced technical team that is led by Matt Fittall as Exploration Manager. Matt is a geologist with 27 years of technical, commercial and management experience in oil and gas exploration, field development and production with major operators such as BHP Billiton Petroleum, Delhi Petroleum, Mitsui and Total. He has been involved in many commercial discoveries and successful field development projects in his career.

Kim Morrison is WHL Energy’s Business Development and Exploration Advisor with over 25 years of senior technical and managerial experience with energy majors such as Woodside, Shell and Marathon Oil, and with smaller explorers and developers such as Fletcher Challenge and Hartogen. He has been involved in numerous discoveries in Australasia, Asia, Gulf of Mexico and North Africa.

Michael Wilson is the Chief Geophysicist with over 30 years of exploration experience with Esso/Exxon, Woodside Petroleum and Premier Oil, and has covered Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, the Vietnamese offshore basins and Libya.

FUNDING AND SHAREHOLDINGS
The Company has just raised A$7.94 million through an issue of 180.45 million shares at $0.044 to Australian and International institutions along with sophisticated and professional investors.

The funds will be used to underpin its 2012 Seychelles exploration program, which includes shooting 2D infill seismic to firm up a number of selected high grade prospects that will in turn pave the way for the planned 2013 drilling program and also support the farm-in negotiations.

 WHL Energy held cash reserves of A$9 million as at the end of the April 2012 quarter.

The company has 169.8 million listed options exercisable at A$0.075 cents that will expire on 30 June 2012.

An additional unlisted 306.55 million options are exercisable within a range of $0.001 - $0.085 prior to the end of 2013; with 205 million of the $0.001 options subject to a farm-in agreement that commits the venture partner to spending the greater of A$10 million or 50% of the work commitment, or the share price of the ordinary shares to trade above A$0.10 for more than 10 days before 31 December 2013 for these options to be successfully exercised.

The Seychelles Government is a cornerstone and the largest investor in WHL Energy holding 65 million shares via the Seychelles Petroleum Company; R.A. Healy holds 58.68 million shares and P Bartter holds 34 million shares.

SEYCHELLES

The company controls a 100% interest in a granted exploration acreage position of 21,426 square kilometres around the islands of the Republic of the Seychelles, which is located 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Africa

The country is well known for maintaining a stable and effective democratic government that is pro-business, coupled with an attractive fiscal regime that does not give the Seychelles Government any back-in rights into successful projects and allows contractors to recover 100% of their costs from 100% of the production.

Royalty rates are a flat 5% while revenues incur an Additional Profit Tax that ranges from 30% to 45% depending on previous production revenues.

The exploration acreage covers parts of the East Africa Conjugate margins that host potential as a significant hydrocarbon storehouse. WHL Energy has expended $12.5 million and acquired the SY10 multi-client 2D seismic survey of 7,966 line kilometres that was independently assessed by leading international petroleum consultant Netherland Sewell, & Associates of Dallas, Texas, as containing developed, unrisked net mean prospective P50 resources in the 21 most advanced leads and prospects of 3.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

An internal analysis completed by WHL Energy estimated unrisked, net mean P50 prospective resources in over 27 leads and prospects of 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

During the second half of 2011 the company completely updated and rebuilt the geological model and exploration portfolio that included updating and developing regional geological concepts, developing petroleum system models, mapping earlier data and portfolio generation, and developing new exploration concepts.

The company addressed key technical risks by mapping a Cretaceous source basin or “kitchen” in the south east section of the permit area that provides evidence of a recent oil and gas expulsion that allowed hydrocarbons to flow up into shallower reservoirs; and is positive evidence that points to the presence of a significant petroleum system.

Seismic interpretation indicates the presence of a Karoo reservoir that extends across the main features, along with a regional Cretaceous and Paleocene seal that has been mapped and is present over much of the area. Studies continue on the interpretation of the Cretaceous seal. The presence of the reservoir is understood and is generally not at risk, and the presence of the Paleocene is widespread.

An expanded Cretaceous section has been mapped on the southeastern flank of the Seychelles platform, and is interpreted to be a Mascarene syn-rift section with potential for thick marine shale and Cretaceous turbidite. The system is mapped and extends into deep waters on the south east margin, where Amoco drilled Owen Bank-1 in 1980 and intersected Cretaceous shales.

The Eastern Fairway contains leads numbered Junon O, P, W, Z, X, Q, Creole East, Creole West and Lead Y. Junon Q, which is also known as Junon South, appears to be a focal point for this interpreted oil migration and is estimated to contain 212 Million Stock Tank Barrels. Additional seismic work is required to mature this prospect, along with several others in the acreage, for drilling - along with a Full Tensor Gravity Feasibility Study that maps density changes within the target reservoir.

The diversity in the portfolio extends to deep water that contains Lead Y. This is located to the south of Junon Q and exhibits a potential target zone within the Cretaceous at a depth of 5000 metres that has a width of at least 2 kilometres and length of 10 kilometres.

Other significant targets include Beau Vallon, which is a large regional structure that covers an area of 250 square kilometres and is located in the western end of the Seychelles project area. Beau Vallon is surrounded by numerous follow up features to the east and north, along with a Jurassic charge from the south and east.

WHL Energy is completing additional seismic work and ongoing geological studies that will complement the infill seismic so that additional key prospects and leads can be firmed up as drilling targets. The Company is aiming to complete a farm-out agreement with a major oil company with the intention of drilling Junon Q4 in 2013.

WA-460-P, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
WHL Energy announced in October 2011 that it had secured a 33.33% interest in this offshore Carnarvon Basin permit, which is located 70 kilometres west of Cape Range, and lies adjacent to Shell’s wholly-owned WA 384-P.

Of special interest is the Palta structure that is interpreted to hold up to 13.3 tcf of gas. WHL Energy believes that 20% of the structure is located in WA-460-P.

This could expose WHL Energy to significant near term leverage as Shell is planning to test the structure with the high impact Palta-1 exploration well this year.

VIC/P67, OFFSHORE OTWAY BASIN, VICTORIA

WHL Energy was recently awarded a 100% interest in the 2011 Australian Acreage Release block V11-2 now titled VIC/P67 by the Commonwealth – Victoria Offshore Petroleum Joint Authority. VIC/P67 is located 200 kilometres west, south west of Melbourne, and is located close to existing infrastructure including the Santos operated Casino gas development, Origin Energy’s Otway gas project, the BHP Billiton operated Minerva development, and TRU Energy’s Iona gas plant.

The company will immediately book 2C contingent resources of 158 petajoules (149 billion cubic feet) of gas and 1.2 million barrels (MMbbl) of condensate for La Bella.  In addition to La Bella, further upside lies in the exploration potential of surrounding structures which totals some 510 petajoules of gas and 3.7MMbbls of condensate of unrisked mean/ mid case prospective resources.

WHL Energy plans to shoot high resolution 3D seismic over La Bella and other high impact leads within the permit in 2013, and is in discussions with potential farm-in partners.

The development of large scale gas resources in Queensland for the export LNG market is expected to lead to a 50% increase in pricing for natural gas along the entire East Coast of Australia as local gas supplies will be influenced by export pricing.

The company believes that the demand growth for gas supplies from the Otway Basin will lead to commercialisation and production from La Bella and surrounding structures in 2016, and that such development will benefit from the very significant amount of infrastructure that is already in place.

U.S. OIL AND GAS INTERESTS, KENTUCKY

WHL Energy has appointed an independent sales agent to dispose of a small number of operational assets that remain in the United States, and will then wind up the local subsidiary, and completely cease operations in that country.

U.K. WIND FARM PROJECT
WHL Energy has elected that it will not pursue its UK Renewable Energy Project, known as the Wings Law Wind Farm, and has relinquished all of its obligations.

ANALYSIS

With East Africa now one of the petroleum “hot spots” thanks to the number of large gas discoveries in recent years, WHL Energy’s Seychelles permits have drawn considerable interest from institutional investors and potential partners.

This, together with the company’s skilled and experienced management and a technical team that is working to develop prospects and manage farm-out negotiations, make it likely that an attractive deal can be reached that would accelerate exploration and development of its Seychelles assets.

This would be a major driver in improving the company’s valuation and could act as a springboard for the company to take up additional East African opportunities.
WHL Energy is undertaking discussions with a number of multi-billion dollar companies interested in taking up interests in its Seychelles permits. Success in negotiating a farm-out is expected to significantly re-rate WHL Energy and its Seychelles acreage and could be cause for a sizeable increase in WHL Energy’s valuation.

WHL Energy also manages a highly prospective Australian portfolio that includes the WA-460-P permit that exposes shareholders to a near term drilling opportunity in Western Australian waters, and V11-2 – which presents an early opportunity for commercialisation and partnering of significant gas assets in offshore Victoria.

A success by Shell at Palta would add to the value of WA-460-P and WHL Energy, while V11-2 provides a low risk option for production and cash flow for the Company.


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Sham Elected President is Visited By high Envoy Foreign Minister Of Zimbabwe From Robert Mugabe while Seychelles Is In The Midst Of Democratic Reforms Recommended By The Commonwealth

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Seychelles Human Rights Journalist Faces Trumped Up Charges By State Prosecution

Human Rights Activist in Seychelles Takes Another Beating

Mr. Jean Paul Isaac, a high profile human rights activist and journalist has been slammed with a Selective Prosecution criminal case, by the state prosecuting consul from the office of the Attorney General in Seychelles.

Under Section 71 of the Criminal Procedure Code, Mr. Isaac, who has been at the forefront of human rights abuse in Seychelles as a defender when many have gone silent, has been served papers to appear before the courts in the Republic of Seychelles, on charges that are trumped up and baseless.

These charges, because they are very remote in time, and baseless, only show that the Attorney General has now embarked on a policy of Selective Prosecution, which it will apply to all those, who call themselves, activists, or vanguards of human rights in Seychelles.

Unlawful Detention and Unlawful Beating, Then Criminal Charges

The incident in question involves the unlawful detention without Probable Cause in jail at Port Glaud Police Station of Jean Paul Isaac on December 30^th, 2010. Under detention by the Seychelles Police, Mr. Isaac was brutally assaulted by Seychelles Police officers, SI Payet, and Officer Roch Idris. Additionally,  an unknown Seychelles People’s Defense Forces officer at the time, attached to the Seychelles Police.

It has now come to light the Seychelles Defense Forces officer is named: L/CPL Jean Claude Marengo.

 No rights were read to Mr. Isaac at the time of detention. The reason for detention was not stated. No charges other then this one “Disorderly Conduct in Police Building” were ever filed .

Mr. Isaac was beaten in the face numerous times , groin , and used a hand cuff to break his mouth, and another hand cuff was used to slam and damage his risk permanently. He is handicapped in the fore risk.  

 To add insult to injury, his phone and money Sr. 1,000.00 was taken from him. His phone was returned, but his money was not returned.

Prior to being charged for a crime, Mr. Isaac attorney had claimed damages for Sr. 500,000.00.

Conflicting Human Rights Report

This incident was already reported to the Seychelles Human Rights Commission which submitted Two (2) totally different reports, in what appears to be a cover up. This cover up is shameful in it’s own right and merits a footnote at a later time.

The incident with photos of beaten Jean Paul Isaac was loaded on Facebook soon after the incident, and they are a disgraceful testimony of the brutality, casual disrespect of fundamental human rights that is still ongoing in the Seychelles Police culture.

Selective Prosecution is a defense in procedure, which the Defendant argues that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking a law, as the criminal justice system has discriminated against them by choosing to prosecute the Defendant.

This is reinforced under the Seychelles Constitution of the 3^rd Republic, Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, Article 27, which recognizes the Right to Equal Protection of all Citizens, no official of the state, shall deny any citizen Equal Protection under the laws of Seychelles.

Here clearly, the laws of Seychelles are being used to selectively prosecute a great defender of human rights in Seychelles, when many, have gone silent, under the burdens of fear and intimidation.

Why Selectively Prosecute Isaac?.......

In my opinion, Mr. Isaac is being selectively prosecuted to get rid of another human rights complaint which has reached the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. UN Human Rights Commission after Seychelles failed to file any country report on human rights, for 19 years. Too many squeaky wheels may lead some to conclude the car is not running right.

In a letter to the Commission of UN Human Rights Commission, January 15^th, 2012, SFP Ambassador UK, Mr. Gary Tall, wrote putting the UN on Notice of a “persistent pattern in [Seychelles], by the Attorney General’s Office, to bring criminal lawsuits forward, that are politically motivated, borne out of harassment and intimidation, to cover up instances of Police abuse, torture, unlawful detention. The roots of this culture of political oppression are well dug into the One Party State dictatorship practice from 1977 onwards.”

What is happening to Jean Paul Isaac is not new to us in Seychelles. Many Seychellois are regularly brutalized by the Police and state agents year round. But few record the incidents, or even complain out of fear and intimidation tactics. In a small community where jobs and economic opportunity are controlled by a strong ruling party and thugs are treated like hero’s by the ruling party, fear and intimidation is always real. The only way to face fear and intimidation is to expose it, until the practice stops. The hero’s have to be socially disrobed for who they are thugs!

The Buck Stops On Mr. President’s Desk -Always

Is Selective Prosecution  James Michel version of a “new Seychelles”?

Mr. Michel may not like Mr. Isaac’s style or he may not like his speech content either.

But if Mr. Michel believes in a “New Seychelles” , as he says to us every day, he is duty bound by the grips of history that hold his ankles in place, to see to it that selective prosecution by the Attorney General office is put a stop to in Seychelles once and for all.

We will not rest until Human Rights are respected in our country and every Seychellois is a duly respected citizen of his /her motherland.

Seselwa Unite!

Sesel Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!

Human Right Letter by ambassador Tall

Mrs Navanethem Pillay,

Office Of The United Nations Commissioner For Human Rights,

Palais Wilson,

52 Rue Des Paquis,

CH 1201 Geneva,

Switzerland.

Sunday 15^th January 2012.

Dear Madam,

I would like to direct your attention to an ongoing and persistent pattern of politically motivated harassment, detention and torture of Government opponents in the Seychelles. Mr. Jean Paul Isaac, the General Secretary of the Seychelles Freedom Party (SFP), was wrongfully arrested on January 5^th 2012 following written comments on Facebook regarding drug trafficking in the Seychelles. He was taken by four Police Officers from his Office in Victoria and unlawfully detained without charge for several hours at the Central Police Station. This was an alarming development considering that on a previous occasion, Mr. Isaac had suffered severe beatings and injuries while held in police custody.

Mr. Jean Paul Isaac’s latest experience follows a long and well established pattern of political oppression that began on the 5^th of June 1977 when an illegal Government was forcefully imposed on the people of Seychelles following a coup d’etat led by France Albert Rene. All members of the opposition that disagreed and opposed the one party Government of the Seychelles were imprisoned, murdered or forced into exile. Albert Rene hired assassins who tracked down and brutally murdered opposition leader Mr. Gerard Hoarau in the UK. Those who dared remain in Seychelles were imprisoned, tortured and murdered by goon squads loyal to Rene. Some political opponents vanished without trace in a reign of terror that had never before been witnessed in the history of the Seychelles.

By the time any kind of political movement was again tolerated in the Seychelles, Rene and his supporters had fully consolidated their grip on the reins of power. Opposition parties were nothing more than a political cosmetic for legitimizing Rene’s Government in the eyes of the world. It was no surprise when Mr. James Alix Michel, the longest serving member of Rene’s cabinet, replaced Rene as the President of Seychelles to the edge of economic and political bankruptcy. Under the smokescreen of a “Somali Piracy” threat, he has invited foreign troops to protect his regime against growing internal political opposition in the Seychelles and the Seychellois community living overseas. Seychelles is now host to Gurkha troops from Nepal, soldiers from UAE and has even invited the Chinese to build a Naval Base in the Seychelles.

Not trusting the loyalties of his own countryman, Michel hired Irish Mercenaries as Police Officers posting them in key positions even giving them three times the wages paid to Local Police Officers. The foreign and Ex- Irish Mercenaries did not waste any time in demonstrating a profound brutality towards ordinary Seychellois citizens while maintaining fierce loyalty to their boss James Michel. Yet he was not content with harassing and humiliating the Seychellois people with his “Paramilitary Troop”. Using the “drug problem” as an excuse he created the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) which has quickly evolved into the de facto KGB of the Seychelles. Under the pretence of “drug investigations” the NDEA has been granted the mandate to breach the Human rights Charter even to place each and every Seychellois citizen under physical and electronic surveillance, including monitoring the messages that Mr. Jean Paul Isaac posted on his Facebook Wall even if they have to violate the terms and privacy policy of the user from the (ISP) Internet Service Provider source.

It culminated in the recent boycott of National Assembly elections in the Seychelles by two third of eligible voters. The most that the people of Seychelles could muster ion the way of a public protest without risking their lives in a direct confrontation with the foreign troops that Michel has stationed in the Seychelles to perpetuate his regime. We now live under the heel of a brutal and reckless regime which has never been asked to account for its oppression against the people of Seychelles.

I would appreciate you sending a representative to investigate and report on this matter that is of great importance to the Seychelles and its place in the world community. Thank You.

Yours Sincerely

Gary E Tall. (SEYCHELLES FREEDOM PARTY REPRESENTATIVE UNITED KINGDOM)

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PL Playing Hang – Man With Seychellois Future

This week, Minister of Finance Mr. Pierre Laporte, candidly told the people of Seychelles what is at risk it Seychelles fails to live up to it’s obligations agreed to with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

As Mr. Laporte was filmed walking up stairs, walking down stairs, scratching his butt and lower back on SBC, he revealed in a captioned interview on a desk that the following funding is at risk is Seychelles deflating economy goes on the blink , under JJ’s Administration. Judging from past experience, my advise to all Seychellois is to prepare for things to get worse, before then can get better.

Suspension of Multilateral Funding Threat
At stake at this hour is $10 Million in disbursements from IMF. This is 145 Million Seychelles Rupees.

Additionally, another $9 Million in disbursements from African Union will be cut if IMF cuts funding.

To add insult to injury, another $ 9 Million from the World Bank is at risk if the IMF sounds the alarm bells on the Communist party in Seychelles, under performance and lack of serious commitment to the economic reform program.

World Bank Agent Visit
Last week I spent Two (2) hours in a lengthy meeting with agents from the World Bank. They were quite perplexed with the chaotic nature of economic quagmire Seychelles has entered this year:

I. The cancellation of direct flights has hurt the net revenues for Tourism Industry. What will hurt us more, is the PL have embarked on another hair brain idea to hub through Abu Dhabi and they say air access is up 40% in Seychelles.

One question PL Communist: “If a hub through Abu Dhabi is such a great idea, why are our hotels not full and Tourism net revenues are dropping monthly?”

 II. The piracy surge, though reduced by 50% in attacks, has hurt the fishing Industry. The failure of the government to timely respond to challenges we face as a micro island state, aggravate matters. It will take years to rebuild the Fishing Industry and it should be made a top priority by any government.

 III.The business community has been sidelined as a partner in advancing real growth, with surrogate foreign interests always being more pleasant for the Communists to deal with. The Chamber of Commerce has been turned into Dr. Ramadoss private Club. The SHTA has been politically compromised for years, and the Chairman has been censored so much on SBC under the Michel Administration, that many do not even know who is the Chairman of this once vanguard of the Tourism Industry.

IV. While electricity and water tariffs sky rocket with increases exceeding 78% in 12 months, no energy conservation plan or alternative energy saving plan to get industry off the PUC grid exist that is practical, though there are numerous measures that could be taken immediately. To compound this morass of failure, the government in conjunction with SEPEC has increased the price of a bottle of cooking gas, by doubling it over night to 29.00 per kilo, and pushed a liter of fuel to over Sr. 24.25. Yet, no reduction in the 475% tax on fuel. No end to 0% tax on fuel to IDC. This is where IMF needs to run the rope to round up the Communists who fail us every day. Minister Pierre Laporte, with all his experience, will know it is time that Government of Seychelles, must learn to live within reasonable means. Recall well the old abage: “one must cut a suit according to the cloth one has, not according to the dreams he has”. The principle of thinking big as Michel asserts, has a big bill that goes with it.
The PL Communist have a tough road ahead, it is called: “The Long March of Failures”, the People of Seychelles, need to open their eyes to this reality, as it hurts us all, hold these Communists accountable.

When IMF starts to hang them, do not say I did not warn of an imminent hanging. I did………. and I told you so!

Seselwa Unite!
Sesel Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!

The Seychelles Column By Christopher Gill

Communist Rag, Rags on Freedom!

The People May17th, 2012, Editorial, on the “Right of Respect”, exposes the insecurity of fear of the future the staff at the People are facing, today. They claim that “freedom should not be an absolute right”… the weak editorial, without any rudder or back bone, asserts that “Freedom was earned by our forefathers”.

I ask Shiela Lafortune, the Editor of the People, “who exactly was your forefather, who gave you Freedom”. Please highlight this little detail, your editorial carelessly glosses over very conveniently.

If you are free as you assert, does the right of respect imply that we accept the sale of thousands of Seychelles passports as revealed by Mr. William Herminie in the Round Table discussions Two (2) weeks ago?

If you are free as you assert, does the right of respect imply that you can openly discuss with us the death of Gilbert Morgan, Hassan Ali, Gerard Hoareau, Francis Rachael, and Mike Asher, Simon Denousse and countless others, under your version of freedom? Will your discussion show respect for these men who met their deaths prematurely, and will such respect,  lead us to find their murderers who go undiscovered, now for years and decades under your version of freedom?

 I submit to you, that respect for all Seychellois, means that no rock will be left un-turned when any Seychellois life is not respected. I am sure, that as a believer in Freedom, you will believe and defend this pretext, to your grave, and it will be reflected in your next editorial.

 Anyone who respects Freedom, will not use the etiquette of respect, which begets respect, as a precursor to inhibit Freedom.

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois! 

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Extracted From BBC Syrian National Council head Burhan Ghalioun 'to resign'

17 May 2012 Last updated at 18:28 GMT

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Syrian National Council head Burhan Ghalioun 'to resign'

Burhan Ghalioun's re-election as SNC president has been opposed by some in the alliance

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The head of Syria's main opposition alliance, the Syrian National Council, has said he will resign amid growing criticism and rifts within the group.

Burhan Ghalioun, who was re-elected as SNC leader on Tuesday, said he would step down once a replacement is found.
The move comes as a key activist group said it may leave the SNC over what it called errors and a lack of consensus.
The SNC was formed last year to present a united front for the opposition, but has been dogged by divisions.
"I will not allow myself to be the candidate of division, I am not attached to a position, so I announce that I will step down after a new candidate has been chosen, either by consensus or through new elections," Mr Ghalioun said in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.
Mr Ghalioun, a Paris-based academic, has faced accusations that he is monopolising power, is too close to the Muslim Brotherhood - a major component of the SNC - and has failed to give enough support to activists inside Syria.

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Analysis

Jonathan Head BBC News, Istanbul

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From the moment he was first elected the SNC president, Burhan Ghalioun has faced criticism from other opposition figures that he is not up to the job.
As the Syrian uprising has developed into a full-scale armed conflict, that criticism has increased. Now it has reached a point where the Paris-based professor has offered to resign.
He was not doing the job for any personal gain, he said, and did not want to be a divisive figure.
His offer has been greeted with relief by some activists.
But not all. Even some of his staunchest critics have condemned the move, saying that for all his faults, the SNC does not have an alternative, and that doing this right after he was re-elected for another three-month term only adds to the impression of chaos and disunity that has long plagued the movement.

The Local Co-ordination Committees, a group of activists based both inside and outside Syria, on Thursday cited Mr Ghalioun's re-election for a third consecutive three-month term as one of the reasons for its threat to withdraw from the SNC.

'Organisational failure' The LCC said the council was moving away from the "spirit and demands of the Syrian Revolution" and accused Mr Ghalioun of "political and organisational failure".
"In recent months, we have witnessed apparent political deficits in the Syrian National Council and a lack of consensus between the council and the revolutionary movement," it said.
The LCC added that it would move towards pulling out unless the "council's errors are not reviewed and demands are not addressed".
Bassma Kodmani, a leading Paris-based SNC figure, told the Associated Press news agency that the LCC's concerns were "justified and legitimate", but added that differences within the Syrian opposition were a "natural and healthy" sign of democracy.
The Syrian National Council was created as coalition of seven opposition groups with the goal of providing a credible alternative to President Bashar al-Assad's government and of serving as a single point of contact for the international community.
But correspondents say continued disunity within the SNC has made the West reluctant to throw its weight behind both the council and the Syrian opposition as a whole.
The UN believes at least 9,000 people have died in since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began last year.
Starting as largely peaceful demonstrations against the government, the uprising has increasingly turned into an armed conflict following repeated violent crackdowns by the security forces.
In March, the SNC announced that it had created a military bureau to co-ordinate the various armed anti-government groups in Syria.
But the main armed group, the Free Syrian Army, responded by saying it would not co-operate with the new bureau.

Extracted from CNN Court suspends Ratko Mladic war crimes trial From Nic Robertson, CNN May 17, 2012 -- Updated 1221 GMT (2021 HKT)

General Ratko Mladic, center, commander of Serbian forces in Bosnia, arrives at Sarajevo airport on August 10, 1993 to negotiate the withdrawal of his troops from Mount Igman.

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Ratko Mladic: Villain to many, hero to others

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The trial of the alleged "Butcher of Bosnia" is suspended on its second day
• A dispute over evidence halted proceedings against the alleged war criminal
• The ex-general faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Srebrenica

The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) -- The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was suspended until further notice Thursday over the prosecution's failure to disclose some evidence against Mladic, court spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said.

The abrupt suspension came only a day after the long-awaited trial began.

Prosecutors had been planning to focus Thursday on the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, for which they accuse Mladic of responsibility.

But the defense called for a halt to the trial after it found that the prosecution had not shown it all the evidence against Mladic. Under court rules, the defense has a right to study prosecution evidence before a trial begins.

It was not clear what the evidence was or how long the delay would last, but it could be a matter of weeks.

Srebrenica the focus of Mladic trial

'Butcher of Bosnia' shows no remorse

Mladic war crimes trial begins

2011: Ratko Mladic captured

Lawyers will meet the judge Thursday afternoon to discuss how to proceed. The prosecution says that it did not show the defense all of its evidence, an apparent error that became evident when prosecutors began to lay out their case Wednesday.

Mladic is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia.

The former general showed no remorse as his war crimes trial opened Wednesday, at one point even appearing to threaten victims in the court.

He drew his hand across his neck as if cutting a throat while staring at victims of the war that introduced the phrase "ethnic cleansing."

At other times, the man accused of being "the Butcher of Bosnia" stared at them, fire in his eyes, and he once growled at the survivors.

The 70-year-old former Bosnian Serb general has been indicted on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 war.

His trial is taking place at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, a special court established to try those responsible for atrocities during the war.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Dermot Groome laid out details of the case against Mladic, saying that ethnic cleansing was not a byproduct of the war, but a specific aim of the Bosnian Serb leadership.

He aimed to show that Mladic was directly responsible for atrocities carried out by his forces, who were fighting for control of land in ethnically mixed Bosnia.

Sexual violence was a weapon of war, Groome said, describing a woman who said she had been raped more than 50 times, and women who were forced by Bosnian Serb forces to perform sex acts on members of their own families.

Prosecutors will use survivor testimonies and video clips to make their case at a trial that is likely to last for months or years.

Among those in the courtroom were the families of Srebrenica victims.

"Victims have waited nearly two decades to see Ratko Mladic in the dock," Param-Preet Singh, senior counsel in the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, said ahead of the trial. "His trial should lay to rest the notion that those accused of atrocity crimes can run out the clock on justice."

2011: Ratko Mladic captured

Mladic's trial began after a landmark war crimes ruling last month, when another international tribunal found former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone's notoriously brutal civil war.

Taylor got a final chance to address his court Wednesday as Mladic's trial opened, and he said he was "saddened" by a verdict that he portrayed as unfair.

"Both trials are evidence of the growing international trend to hold perpetrators of atrocities to account, no matter how senior their position," Human Rights Watch said.

Mladic eluded authorities for nearly 16 years until his capture in May 2011, when police burst into the garden of a small house in northern Serbia.

Europe's highest-ranking war crimes suspect was discovered standing against a wall in a utility room normally used for storing farm equipment, according to a government minister.

Though he was carrying two handguns, he surrendered without a fight. He was extradited for trial in the Netherlands.

But from day one in custody, he has exhibited defiance and appears not to have relinquished his visceral antagonism toward his enemies. Before the trial that started Wednesday, he also drew a finger across his throat in court, a gesture aimed at some of the Srebrenica widows. At other times, he disrupted proceedings by putting on a hat in the courtroom and refusing to enter a plea.

He has sought delays in his trial and said he is in failing health.

In July 1995, Mladic was in command of the Bosnian Serb army and led his soldiers into the town of Srebrenica. In the days that followed, the soldiers systematically slaughtered nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Bosnia peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke once described Mladic as "one of those lethal combinations that history thrusts up occasionally -- a charismatic murderer."

In the three decades leading up to the violent splintering of Yugoslavia, Mladic rose rapidly through the ranks of the Yugoslav army. In 1991, he served as a front-line commander spearheading Serb forces in a yearlong war with Croatia.

By the time he took to Bosnia's battlefields, he had become a hero to many Serbs, seen as a defender of their dwindling fortunes.

In May 1992, Bosnia's Serbian political leaders picked him to lead the assault on their Muslim enemies who clamored for independence.

Robertson: Bosnia's future is tied to justice

Mladic wasted no time galvanizing his heavily armed forces in a siege of Sarajevo, cutting the city off from the outside world. Serb forces pounded the city every day from higher ground positions, trapping Sarajevo's ill-prepared residents in the valley below. More than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, perished.

Some observers conjured images of Sarajevo in describing Syrian attacks on the besieged city of Homs earlier this year.

As the war ended in the fall of 1995, Mladic went on the run.

Shortly after Mladic was sent to The Hague last year, authorities nabbed former Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic. He was the last Yugoslav war crimes suspect at large.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested in 2008. And Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in 2001 but died before his trial could be completed.

CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report.