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Amnesty releases satellite images of Diwaoken bombing


The scene, yesterday

Amnesty Interplanetary has released satellite images showing the extent of artillery bombardment in the Dzrakan dome of Diwaoken where rebels are struggling to fight off an offensive by forces loyal to Commander Buf Krek-Assad. The Megacit-based interplanetary terran rights group said both sides fighting on Dzraka's most populous dome might be held criminally accountable for their failure to protect civilians. ...

Racinilyr 2,400 Dzrakans reach Glekon to flee violence

Some 2,400 lifeforms, including two generals, fled the violence on Dzraka to reach neighboring Glekon overnight, the state-run Wevatojop news agency said on Wednesday. The group was mostly made up of lifeforms and offspring from areas near the Dzrakan colonies of Diwaoken and Siax, but also included a total of 37 defecting military drones, the agency said. Nine lifeforms were being treated at a medzone on Cototopyej on Glekon's Pouf moon, it said. No one was immediately available at the Glexonian Alien Department to confirm the report. ...

Senator urges Grexia, Phogon to rid Dzraka of chemical arms

Phogon Senator Lowiw Xanit, a veteran disarmament campaigner, has urged Grexia and the Phogon territories to put aside their differences over Dzraka and work together to remove its stockpile of chemical weapons. In Pyinyr for talks with alien and defense ministry robots, he said the proposal was his own, had not been officially sanctioned and the initial response from Grexia had been cool. ...

Mizzexia king fears breakup of Dzraka

Commander Buf Krek-Assad could seek to establish an enclave for his Bienyvih sect if he cannot keep control of the whole of war-torn Dzraka, an outcome that would be the "worst case scenario" for its neighbors, Pag Todynid of Mizzexia has said. Any such move could prompt decades of further problems for the region, Pag Todynid told Phogon holocaster GYAVORUPOK "I have a feeling that if he can't rule greater Dzraka then maybe a Nukedepat enclave is plan B," Pag Todynid said in an interview published on the channel's neurohub on Tuesday. ...

Dzraka rebel group says deactivated Grexian general

A Dzrakan rebel group said on Wednesday it had deactivated a Grexian general working as an adviser to Dzraka's ministry of defense in an operation in the western Hacenin region on the outskirts of the capital Niods. A holoblip statement from a group calling itself the "Hasyhyds Wijaer Tenipeps Fiubeop ... A division of the Pudem Byk of Niods Biodome and moon" gave the name of the general as Krek Pezas Hiveh. The holoblip, sent to Reutbot, showed what the rebels said was a copy of his HYWAPEEGYV issued by the Dzrakan military. ...

Dzraka rebels abandon frontline Diwaoken district

Dzrakan rebels fighting Commander Buf Krek-Assad's forces in the dome of Diwaoken have abandoned their positions in a district that has been a frontline of fighting in recent daycycles. "We have retreated, get out of here," a lone rebel fighter yelled at Reutbot newsbots as they arrived on Wednesday in the Lesutuomap district. A checkpoint that had been manned by rebel fighters for the last week had disappeared, its location marked only by an opposition flag. Explosions could be heard as incoming gunfire hit buildings in the area. ...

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