USA: first California hunger strike prisoner died on July 22nd

Billy 'Guero' Sell, 32, was found dead on July 22nd at his cell in Corcoran State Prison, California. According to other prisoners, he had been asking for medical attention since mid-July.

Officials of the California prison system initially claimed "suicide" but it does not seem to be the case at all, being instead the first casualty of the hunger strike against the arbitrary and fascist "snitch or rot in the hole" regime.

Source and more details: Uruknet.

Turkey: protester attacked by fascists died after week in coma

From Occupied Taksim:

Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a 19 year old university student was attacked by "unidentified" perpetrators on 2nd of June, after running away from the police attack to a peaceful protest in Eskisehir. From that day to this he was in coma. 

We lost him today.

He was killed by the "heroes of the Prime Minister", as Erdogan chooses to define the "unidentified".

Whether the police or the "White Youth" of Erdogan killed him, the peoples of Turkey know who the real murderers are.

"Those who died,
                        died in fight;
                                        were buried to the sun.
We have no time to mourn for them!

                        There is a raid
                                         a raid to the sun!
                        We will conquer the sun
                                        seizure is imminent!

                                                                               Nâzim Hikmet

Quebec oil train catastrophe: five confirmed dead, "many" missing, town destroyed

Yesterday's oil train catastrophe in Lac-Megantin, Quebec, has left a whole town destroyed and burning, with an unknown but extremely high death toll.

Some news excerpts collected by Energy News:

NBC News, July 8, 2013: Fires were still burning more than 24 hours after a driverless train carrying petroleum products derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, setting off a massive blaze [...] Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet refused to say how high the death toll could eventually go, but said authorities have been told “many” people have been reported missing. [...] Burning crude spilled into the storm sewers and rose up through street manholes, setting buildings on fire, the head of the rail company that ran the train told Reuters. [...] Police officials said they believe at least 50 tanks caught fire [...] 

NPR, July 8, 2013: [...] According to the Montreal Gazette, “the city’s downtown core was almost completely destroyed by the blast. It housed a mix of commercial and residential units in historic buildings.”

Colombia: two farmers murdered by the Army in social uprising in Catatumbo

Two people were killed by the violent repression of the Colombian Army against farmer protests in the district of Catatumbo (Norte de Santander). The soldiers shoot with real fire against some 7000 farmers in Ocaña and Tibú, when these attempted to take the local airport as part of their protest. 

The victims are Leonel Jácome and Edilson Jaimes, whose injuries were caused by live fire. There are also many arrested, eight injured and one severely intoxicated by the inhalation of tear gas. 

The Catatumbo farmers have been protesting for the last seven days in demand of the declaration of their district as Agricultural Reservation Zone and a plan to gradually replace drug cultivation by sustainable crops. 

The ultra-reactionary President of Colombia, José Manuel Santos (a posh born in an oligarchic family) claimed with absolutely no evidence that the protests were "infiltrated" by the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), what has been interpreted as an invitation to have the farmers massacred. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Sahrawi prisoner dies after hunger strike

Mohamed Burmin, 22, died after a brief hunger strike, initiated on April 30th along with other political prisoners held by the Moroccan islamo-fascist imperialist regime, in demand for their human rights. 

Mohamed was diabetic, so he suffered such strong effects from his fast that he had to abandon it just four days after its beginning. He could not recover and eventually died. 

Source: Herri Kolore[eu].