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I am trying to get a smart album in iPhoto to automatically update into Photostreams for my iPhone and iPad. For example, I have a Smart Album in iPhoto called 5 star photos. As soon as I tag photo with 5 stars, it goes in there automatically. I shared that album into Photostream and it becomes a static album. When new "5 Star Photos" are added in iPhoto to my 5 star photo album, they don't update in my Shared Photostream and I have to manually add them. Anybody have any work arounds for this? |
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French hotel brand Sofitel has launched an 'I Love Chocolate' special. Yes, it involves a lot of free chocolate – Dark and milk chocolate, succulent confectionaries, precious cookies and hot chocolate drinks.
Since you're already drooling, let's bite into the details of this special. Between November 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010, anyone who books the 'I Love Chocolate' special gets a third night free at any of Sofitel's over 85 participating hotels in 26 countries.
Participating Sofitel hotels in the US include the Sofitels in Chicago (Water Tower), New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco (Bay) and Washington DC (Lafayette Square).
Plus, you get a delicious breakfast served in the restaurant every morning, and an 'all chocolate afternoon tea' which includes hot chocolate, pastries and other delicacies. And also a late check-out.
If you're looking for romantic hotels, you won't get more amour anywhere else. All these Sofitels lean heavily towards a European experience – that means luxury, champagne, privacy, breathtaking views, fancy art on the walls…and chocolate.
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Im with Jim. Mine was a little dearer as I got a vacuum switch from Joe Woodworker. Everything else was cheap from the hardware, and I managed to find an old air con compressor (with a mounting frame even!) for about ten bucks off ebay. It took me a while to put it all together but its 100% reliable and makes more than enough vacuum.
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An A/C pump is exactly what you need, you just use the outlet as an inlet, to get your vacuum.
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There are several threads devoted to building your own home made regulated vac system here on these forums. Do a search. Let us know if you can't find any, and I'll do what I can. Pause before you run off and spend a lot of money. You will likely find pics of mine on one of them......... Jim. |
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Perfect for both indoor and outdoor use. Designed with an edge support ring for stability and comfort, this elevated airbed lets you adjust your perfect inflation comfort level by pushing the red tab on the flapper valve. Extra large rapid release valve deflates the bed in seconds. Rolls up and stores compactly in durable carry bag. The inflate-only built-in pump operates on 4 D batteries, so you can use it anywhere. The pump is completely hands-free and simple to use; just press a switch and the bed automatically inflates. Uses deep sized sheets. Measures 78"L x 60"W x 12"H. 750-lb. capacity. |
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No doubt you've heard about people who have been abducted and had their kidneys removed by black-market organ thieves.
My thighs were stolen from me during the night a few years ago. I went to sleep and woke up with someone else's thighs. It was just that quick. The replacements had the texture of cooked oatmeal.. Whose thighs were these and what happened to mine? I spent the entire summer looking for my
thighs. Finally, hurt and angry, I resigned myself to living out my life in jeans and then the bloody body thieves struck again.
My bum was next. I knew it was the same gang, because they took pains to match my new rear-end to the thighs they had stuck me with earlier. But my new bum was attached at least three inches lower than my original! I realized I'd have to give up my jeans in favour of long skirts.
Two years ago I realized my arms had been switched. One morning I was drying my hair and was horrified to see the flesh of my upper arm swing to and fro with the motion of the hairbrush. This was really getting scary - my body was being replaced one section at a time.
What could they do to me next?
When my poor neck suddenly disappeared and was replaced with a turkey neck, I decided to tell my story. Women of the world wake up and smell the coffee! Those 'plastic' surgeons are using REAL replacement body parts -stolen from you and me! The next time someone you know has something 'lifted', look again - was it lifted from you?
THIS IS NOT A HOAX. This is happening to women everywhere every night.
Last year I thought some one had stolen my Boobs. I was lying in bed and they were gone! But when I jumped out of bed, I was relieved to see that they had just been hiding in my armpits as I slept. Now I keep them hidden in my waistband.
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The living room before Paul remodeled it.
Traditional meets modern in the living room, where a small bench with curvy French lines rests artfully beneath an iron cocktail table topped with wood.
Drapery ("Jaspe"/Sand #10966-01): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com.
Sofa (custom); cocktail table (custom); wing chair (custom): Paul Corrie Interiors LLC, 202/234-0653, paul corrie.com.
Sofa fabric ("FlannelSuede"/Marshmallow #8105/06, by Tokay Blue): Hines & Co., 800/996-9607.
Pillow fabric ("Legacy"/Walnut #9672); wing-chair fabric (Bastogne"/Almond #7726): Pindler & Pindler, 805/531-9090, pindler.com.
Floor lamp ("Dinmore" #SL20/BZ): Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, vaughan designs.com.
Bench: owner's collection.
Bench fabric ("Mole"/Moth #1016-020): Powell & Bonnell, 800/272-2058, powellandbonnell.com.
Buffet (antique): Chloe Décor, 323/954-0037.
Sisal rug: La Musa, 202/537-5000.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
The front hall and stairway before the remodel.
Paul placed a small antique desk and bench, handy for quick notes, next to the front-hall stairs.
Desk; walnut bench: owner's collection.
Table lamp ("Argand" #T-238): Palmer Hargrave, 785/434-2011.
Antique books: Jean Pierre Antiques, 202/337-1731.
A small bedroom before Paul remodeled it for a different use entirely.
Paul transformed a small bedroom into his home office. A Drexel Heritage round table--the dining table in his previous residence--doubles as a desk where he can look over design options with clients. Shelves hold client files in linen binders.
Pedestal table ("Montego" #236-622E, Postobello Home); wing chairs ("Dreyton" #D606-CHSC, Postobello Home); wing-chair fabric ("Oyster," Postobello Home): Drexel Heritage, 866/450-3434, drexelheritage.com.
Cast iron finials: Jean Pierre Antiques, 202/337-1731.
Bookcases ("Rhys"): Pottery Barn, 800/922-5507, potterybarn.com.
Paint ("Grant Beige" #HC-83): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Lamp on pedestal table: owner's collection.
Shutters (Plantation): Knightsbridge Interiors, 703/751-9186.
Floors (custom): pine.
The rough texture of the unfinished chair frames in the dining room offers a stark contrast to the delicate crystal chandelier.
Chandelier (antique): Remains Lighting, 212/675-8051, remains.com.
Table ("Zinc-top Industrial Base Table"): Laurin Copen Antiques, 631/537-2802.
Side chairs: Balzac Antiques, 504/899-2668.
Chair fabric ("Linen Sateen"/Praline #92520-12): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
Fabric on chair back ("Colombe d'Or"/Khaki #9574/02, The Provence Collection): Glant Textiles, 206/725-4444, glant.com.
Host chairs ("Madison Tufted Side Chairs" #2007-54): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair .com.
Host-chair fabric ("Glant Silk Camel Hair"/Camel #9771/03): Glant Textiles, 206/725-4444.
Library cabinet: And Beige, 202/234-1557, andbeige.com.
Mirror: David Bell Antiques, 202/965-2355.
Sconces: owner's collection.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
The kitchen before the remodel.
A glass door to the back porch allows light in and sight lines beyond the confines of the kitchen.
Cabinetry ("Plainfield," Dynasty Collection): Omega Cabinetry, 319/236-2256, omegacab.com.
Hardware ("Porcelain Knob with Screw" #175P): Crown City Hardware, 626/794-0234, crowncityhardware.com.
Faucet ("Easton Classic Gooseneck Two-Hole Kitchen Mixer with Lever Handles" #EAKM03-K): Waterworks, 800/899-6757.
Apron sink ("Shaws Original Single-Bowl Fireclay Apron Sink" #RC3018, by Shaws Sinks): Rohl, 800/777-9762, rohlhome.com.
Countertop ("Honed White Carrara Marble): Granite & Marble Express, 703/378-9520, graniteandmarbleexpress.com.
Backsplash tile ("Mayfair Ceramic"/White #AS8925-V2825); floor tile ("French Blue" #AS2357-14-V0627): Ann Sacks, 800/278-8453, annsacks.com.
Dishwasher (#LDF6810ST, discontinued): LG, lg.com.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Refrigerator ("LFC25776ST): LG, lge.com.
Shutters (Plantation): Knightsbridge Interiors, 703/751-9186.
Elegant Carrara marble counters and a limestone tile floor give the kitchen a sophisticated yet hardworking feel.
Range ("Kenmore Pro 30 inch" #7952): Kenmore, kenmore.com.
Backsplash tile ("Mayfair Ceramic"/White #AS8925-V2825); floor tile ("French Blue" #AS2357-14-V0627): Ann Sacks, 800/278-8453, annsacks.com.
Cabinetry ("Plainfield," Dynasty Collection): Omega Cabinetry, 319/236-2256, omegacab.com.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
The master bedroom before the remodel.
In the master bedroom, more of the distinctive iron rods are mounted to the ceiling to hold linen bed curtains that puddle on the floor.
Headboard (custom): Paul Corrie Interiors LLC, 202/234-0653.
Bed drapery ("Pastis"/Mesh #938016-01); coverlet and sham fabric ("Twill"/Lye #910056-01): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
Mahogany pedestal side table: Suzanne Golden Antiques, 212/421-3733.
Lamps (antique): Artisan Lamp Company, 202/244-8900, artisanlamp.com.
Rug (antique, Oushak): Timothy Paul Carpets + Textiles, 202/319-1100, timothypaulcarpets.com.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Bench at end of bed (Louis XVI): Jacqueline Adams Antiques, 404/869-6790.
Bench fabric ("Shelley"/Whey #910055-01): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
In the guest room, an oatmeal-colored tufted headboard enhances ivory bed linens trimmed in contrasting brown. The same oatmeal linen used on the headboard is made into pinch-pleated drapery panels hanging from an iron rod. .
Drapery ("Ghent"/Linen #9122): Pindler & Pindler, 805/531-9090, pindler.com.
Drapery banding; bolster fabric ("Glant Cashmere Velvet"/Kalamata" #9727/03): Glant Textiles, 206/725-4444.
Headboard (custom): Paul Corrie Interiors LLC, 202/234-0653.
Headboard fabric ("Twill"/Mortar #910056-02): Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
Paint ( "November Rain" #2142-60): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Built-in bookcase: original to house.
Paul Corrie
Many designers insist on styling their interiors to polished perfection. But Paul Corrie brings his designs to a halt just before that point. His intentionally rough-around-the-edges projects have a worn formality that conveys elegance from a masculine point of view.
Paul neutralizes his interiors with tones of beige, brown, and ivory. And yes, he embraces a variety of finishes. But what sets his aesthetic apart are the pieces he leaves unfinished, providing a special chic patina.
"I'm conservative in style and prefer environments that lend themselves to the neutral and beautiful side," says Paul. "These colors are what I have in my wardrobe, and they are what I want to live with." For more ideas from Paul, visit the designer at paulcorrie.com.


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Forced disappearance
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In international human rights law, a forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.[1]
According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a crime against humanity and, thus, is not subject to a statute of limitations. On 20 December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Often forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case is abducted, illegally detained and often tortured during interrogation; killed, and the body hidden. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of to escape discovery, so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has deniability, as nobody provides evidence of the victim's death.
Disappearing political rivals is also a way for regimes to engender feelings of complicity in populations. That is: the difficulty of publicly fighting a government which murders in secret can result in widespread pretense that everything is normal, as it did in Argentina.[citation needed]
- 1 Human rights law
- 2 Examples
- 2.1 Algeria
- 2.2 Argentina
- 2.3 Chile
- 2.4 Colombia
- 2.5 El Salvador
- 2.6 Equatorial Guinea
- 2.7 Germany
- 2.8 Guatemala
- 2.9 India
- 2.10 Iraq
- 2.11 Iran
- 2.12 Mexico
- 2.13 Morocco / Western Sahara
- 2.14 North Korea
- 2.15 Pakistan
- 2.16 Northern Ireland
- 2.17 Romania
- 2.18 Russia
- 2.19 Sri Lanka
- 2.20 Switzerland
- 2.21 Syria
- 2.22 Thailand
- 2.23 Turkey
- 2.24 United States
- 3 In art and popular culture
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Human rights law[edit]
In international human rights law, disappearances at the hands of the state have been codified as "enforced" or "forced disappearances" since the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. For example, the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court defines enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity, and the practice is specifically addressed by the OAS's Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons. There is also some authority indicating that enforced disappearances occurring during armed conflict,[2] such as the Third Reich's Night and Fog program, may constitute war crimes.
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2006, also states that the widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearances constitutes a crime against humanity. It gives victims' families the right to seek reparations, and to demand the truth about the disappearance of their loved ones. The Convention provides for the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance, as well as the right for the relatives of the disappeared person to know the truth. The Convention contains several provisions concerning prevention, investigation and sanctioning of this crime, as well as the rights of victims and their relatives, and the wrongful removal of children born during their captivity. The Convention further sets forth the obligation of international co-operation, both in the suppression of the practice, and in dealing with humanitarian aspects related to the crime. The Convention establishes a Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which will be charged with important and innovative functions of monitoring and protection at international level. Currently, an international campaign of the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances is working towards universal ratification of the Convention.
Disappearances work on two levels: not only do they silence opponents and critics who have disappeared, but they also create uncertainty and fear in the wider community, silencing others who would oppose and criticise. Disappearances entail the violation of many fundamental human rights. For the disappeared person, these include the right to liberty, the right to personal security and humane treatment (including freedom from torture), the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel and to equal protection under the law, and the right of presumption of innocence among others. Their families, who often spend the rest of their lives searching for information on the disappeared, are also victims.
NGOs such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch record in their annual report the number of known cases of forced disappearance.
During the Algerian Civil War, which began in 1992 as Islamist guerrillas attacked the military government which had annulled an Islamist electoral victory, thousands of people were forcibly disappeared. Disappearances continued up to the late 1990s, but thereafter dropped off sharply with the decline in violence in 1997. Some of the disappeared were kidnapped or killed by the guerrillas, but others are presumed to have been taken by state security services. This latter group has become the most controversial. Their exact numbers remain disputed, but the government has acknowledged a figure of just over 6,000 disappeared, now presumed dead. Opposition sources claim the real number is closer to 17,000.[citation needed] (The war claimed a total toll of 150–200,000 deaths).
In 2005, a controversial amnesty law was approved in a referendum. It granted financial compensation to families of the "disappeared", but also effectively ended the police investigations into the crimes.[3]
During Argentina's Dirty War and Operation Condor, many alleged political dissidents were abducted or illegally detained and kept in clandestine detention centres such as ESMA, where they were questioned, tortured and sometimes killed. The disappeared ones were people who were considered to be a political or ideological threat to the military junta.[4] The Argentine military justified torture to obtain intelligence and saw the disappearances as a way to curb political dissidence.[4] Whenever the female captives were pregnant, their children were stolen away right after giving birth, while they themselves remained detained. It is estimated that 500 young children and infants were given to families with close ties to the military to be raised.[5] Eventually, many of the captives were heavily drugged and loaded onto aircraft, from which they were thrown alive while in flight over the Atlantic Ocean, so as to leave no trace of their death.[6] Without any dead bodies, the government could easily deny any knowledge of their whereabouts and any accusations that they had been killed. In addition, the forced disappearances was the military junta's attempt to silence the opposition and break the determination of the guerrillas.[4] People murdered in this way (and in others) are today referred to as "the disappeared" (los desaparecidos).[7] There is an activist group called "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo", formed by mothers of those victims of the dictatorship. In addition, a similar group was formed, Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo with the goal of finding the children stolen by the Argentine government during the Dirty War.[8] Mathematician Boris Weisfeiler is thought to have disappeared near Colonia Dignidad, a German colony founded by anti-Communist Paul Schäfer in Chile, which was used as a detention center by the DINA, the secret police.[9]
The phrase was recognized by de facto President General Jorge Rafael Videla, who said in a press conference, "They are neither dead nor alive, they are desaparecidos (missing)". It is thought that in Argentina, between 1976 and 1983, up to 30,000 people (8,960 named cases, according to the official report by the CONADEP)[10] were killed or disappeared. According to a declassified cable, an estimate by the Argentine 601st Intelligence Battalion in mid-July 1978 (which started counting victims in 1975) produced a figure of 22,000 persons killed or "disappeared"– this document was first published by John Dinges in 2004.[11]
" | He shut down parliament, suffocated political life, banned trade unions, and made Chile his sultanate. His government disappeared 3,000 opponents, arrested 30,000 (torturing thousands of them) ... Pinochet's name will forever be linked to the Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex. | " |
— Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, National Review[12] |
Almost immediately after the military's seizure of power on 11 September 1973, the Chilean military junta banned all the leftist parties that had constituted the democratically-elected president Salvador Allende's UP coalition.[13] All other parties were placed in "indefinite recess," and were later banned outright. The regime's violence was directed not only against dissidents, but also against their families and other civilians.[13] [See: Missing (1982)]
The Rettig Report concluded 2,279 persons who disappeared during the military dictatorship were killed for political reasons or as a result of political violence, and approximately 31,947 tortured according to the later Valech Report, while 1,312 were exiled. The latter were chased all over the world by the intelligence agencies. In Latin America, this was made under the auspices of Operation Condor, a combined operation between the intelligence agencies of various South American countries, assisted by a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) communication base in Panama. Pinochet justified these operations as being necessary in order to save the country from communism.[14]
Some political scientists have ascribed the relative bloodiness of the coup to the stability of the existing democratic system, which required extreme action to overturn. Some of the most famous cases of human rights violations occurred during the early period: in October 1973, at least 70 people were killed throughout the country by the Caravan of Death. Charles Horman, a US journalist, "disappeared", as did Víctor Olea Alegría, a member of the Socialist Party, and many others, in 1973.
Furthermore, many other important officials of Allende's government were tracked down by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA—the Chilean secret police) during Operation Condor. Thus, General Carlos Prats, Pinochet's predecessor and army commander under Allende, who had resigned rather than support the moves against Allende's government, was assassinated by a car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. A year later, the murder of 119 opponents abroad was disguised as an internal conflict, the DINA setting up a propaganda campaign to legitimise this thesis (Operation Colombo), a campaign that received impetus by the leading newspaper in Chile, El Mercurio.
Other victims of Condor included, among hundreds of less famous persons, Juan José Torres, the former President of Bolivia, assassinated in Buenos Aires on 2 June 1976; Carmelo Soria, a UN diplomat working for the CEPAL, assassinated in July 1976; and Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States and minister in Allende's cabinet, assassinated after his release from internment and exile in Washington, D.C. by a car bomb on 21 September 1976. This led to strained relations with the US and to the extradition of Michael Townley, a US citizen who worked for the DINA and had organized Letelier's assassination. Other targeted victims, who escaped assassination, included Christian-Democrat politician Bernardo Leighton, who barely escaped an assassination attempt in Rome in 1975 by the Italian neo-fascist terrorist Stefano delle Chiaie (the assassination attempt seriously injured Leighton and his wife, Anita Fresno, leaving her permanently disabled); Carlos Altamirano, the leader of the Chilean Socialist Party, targeted for murder in 1975 by Pinochet, along with Volodia Teitelboim, writer and member of the Communist Party; Pascal Allende, the nephew of Salvador Allende and president of the MIR, who escaped an assassination attempt in Costa Rica in March 1976; and US Congressman Edward Koch, who became aware in 2001 of the relationship between death threats he received and his denunciation of Operation Condor. Furthermore, according to current investigations, Eduardo Frei Montalva, the Christian Democrat President of Chile from 1964 to 1970, may have been poisoned in 1982 by a toxin produced by DINA biochemist Eugenio Berrios.[15]
Protests continued, however, during the 1980s, leading to several scandals. In March 1985, the savage murder of three Communist Party of Chile (PCC) members led to the resignation of César Mendoza, head of the Chilean gendarmerie the Carabineros de Chile and member of the junta since its formation. During a 1986 protest against Pinochet, 21-year-old American photographer Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri and 18-year-old student Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive, killing Rojas.
In August 1989, Marcelo Barrios Andres, a 21-year-old member of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR, the armed wing of the PCC, created in 1983, which had attempted to assassinate Pinochet on 7 September 1986), was assassinated by a group of military personnel who were supposed to arrest him on orders of Valparaíso's public prosecutor. However, they simply summarily executed him; this case was included in the Rettig Report.[16] Among the killed and disappeared during the military dictatorship were 440 MIR guerrillas.[17]
In 2009, Colombian prosecutors reported that an estimated 28,000 people have disappeared due to paramilitary and guerrilla groups during the nation's ongoing internal conflict. In 2008, the corpses of 300 victims were identified and 600 more during the following year. According to Colombian officials, it will take many years before all the bodies that have been recovered are identified.[18]
El Salvador[edit]
According to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, enforced disappearances were systematically carried out in El Salvador both prior to (starting in 1978) and during the Salvadoran Civil War. Salvadoran non-governmental organizations estimate that more than 8,000 disappearances occurred, and in the Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, it is estimated that more than 5,500 persons may have been the victims of enforced disappearance. The Office of the Procurator for the Protection of Human Rights of El Salvador claims that
Disappearances usually took place during operations whose purpose was the detention and later the disappearance or execution of persons identified as or suspected of being government opponents, including civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict, with the apparent aim of generating terror and eliminating members of the population who might potentially become guerrillas.
Enforced disappearances of children occurred, which is thought to have been "part of a deliberate strategy within the violence institutionalized by the State during the period of conflict".[19]
Equatorial Guinea[edit]
According to the UN Human Rights Council Mission to Equatorial Guinea,[20] agents of the Equatorial Guinean Government have been responsible for abducting refugees from other countries in the region, and holding them in secret detention. For example, in January 2010[21] four men were abducted from Benin by Equatorial Guinean security forces, held in secret detention, subjected to torture, and executed in August 2010 immediately after being convicted by a military court.
During World War II, Nazi Germany set up secret police forces, including branches of the Gestapo in occupied countries, which they used to hunt down known or suspected dissidents or partisans. This tactic was given the name Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), to describe those who disappeared after being arrested by Nazi forces without any warning. The Nazis also applied this policy against political opponents within Germany. Most victims were killed on the spot, or sent to concentration camps, with the full expectation that they would then be killed.
The Stasi also carried out disappearances in post-war Germany.[citation needed] Relatives were not always informed at the time that someone had disappeared.
Guatemala was one of the first countries where people were disappeared as a generalized practice of terror against a civilian population. Forced disappearance was widely practiced by the government of Guatemala during the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War. An estimated 40,000 to 50,000 individuals were disappeared by the Guatemalan military and security forces between 1954 and 1996. The tactic of disappearance first saw widespread use in Guatemala during the mid-1960s, as government repression became widespread when the military adopted harsher counterinsurgency measures. The first documented case of forced disappearance by the government in Guatemala occurred in March 1966, when thirty PGT associates were kidnapped, tortured and killed by the security forces; their bodies were put in sacks and dumped at sea from helicopters. This was one of the first major instances of forced disappearance in Latin American history.[22] When law students at the University of San Carlos used legal measures (such as habeas corpus petitions) to require the government to present the detainees at court, some of the students were "disappeared" in turn.[23]
Ensaaf, a nonprofit organization working to end impunity and achieve justice for mass state crimes in India, with a focus on Punjab, released a pamphlet in January 2009, alongside "Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)", claiming "verifiable quantitative" findings on mass disappearances and extrajudicial executions in the Indian state of Punjab. In conflict-afflicted states like Punjab, Indian security forces have perpetrated gross human rights violations with impunity. The report by Ensaaf and HRDAG, "Violent Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency in Punjab, India," presents empirical findings suggesting that the intensification of counterinsurgency operations in Punjab in the 1980s to 1990s was accompanied by a shift in state violence from targeted lethal human rights violations to systematic enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, accompanied by mass "illegal cremations". Furthermore, there is key evidence suggesting security forces tortured, executed, and disappeared tens of thousands of people in Punjab from 1984 to 1995.
This year alone, Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has recommended the identification of all those 2,156 people buried in unmarked graves in north Kashmir. The total number of missing peoples by Indian forces is not known, but it is a very high ratio.
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At least tens of thousands of people disappeared under the regime of Saddam Hussein, many of them during Operation Anfal.
Following the Iran student riots in 1999, more than 70 students disappeared. In addition to an estimated 1,200–1,400 detained, the "whereabouts and condition" of five students named by Human Rights Watch remained unknown.[24] The United Nations has also reported other disappearances.[25] After each manifestation, from teacher unions to women's rights activists, at least some disappearances are expected.[26][27] Dissident writers have been the target of disappearances,[28] as have members of religious minorities such as the Baha'i Faith following the Iranian revolution. Examples include Muhammad Movahhed and Ali Murad Davudi.
According to National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH), between 2006 and 2011, 5,397 people have disappeared. Of these, 3,457 are men, 1,885 are women, but there is no information about the other 55 (source BBC). Usually the forced disappearances occur in groups and are on people not related to the drug war which was started by Felipe Calderón in 2006. The main difference from the kidnappings, is that usually there is no ransom asked for the disappeared.
Morocco / Western Sahara[edit]
Several Moroccan Army personnel suspected of being implicated in the 1970s coups against the King were held in secret detention camps such as Tazmamart, some of them died due to poor conditions or lack of medical treatment. The most famous case of forced disappearance in Morocco is that of political dissident Mehdi Ben Barka, who disappeared in obscure circumstance in France in 1965. In February 2007, Morocco signed an international convention protecting people from forced disappearance,[29][30] In October 2007, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has declared the competence of the Spanish jurisdiction in the Spanish-Sahrawi disappearances between 1976 and 1987 in Western Sahara (mostly controlled by Morocco), and there have been charges brought against some Moroccan military heads, some of them currently in power as of 2010[update], like the head of Morocco's armed forces, general Housni Benlismane, charged for the detention and disappearance campaign of Smara in 1976.[31] His substitute, judge Fernando Pablo Ruz, reopened the cause in November 2010.[32]
North Korea[edit]
in North Korea, some relatives of South Korean and Japanese citizens who were forced to relocate to camps deemed their loved ones dead after Pyongyang released falsified death certificates in order to intern them as prisoners. [33] [34]
In Pakistan the military has been conducting military operation since 2000. Since then hundreds of people have gone missing.
Northern Ireland[edit]
The disappeared is the name given to sixteen people believed or confirmed to have been abducted, killed and buried in unmarked graves by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.[35] In 1999 the IRA admitted to killing nine of the sixteen, and gave information on the location of the bodies, but only three bodies were recovered on that occasion, one of which had already been exhumed and placed in a coffin.[36] The best-known case was that of Jean McConville, a Belfast mother of ten who had lost her husband a few months before she disappeared, and who the IRA claimed was an informer.[37] The search for her remains was abandoned in 1999[38] but her body was discovered in 2003, a mile from where the IRA had indicated, by a family out on a walk.[37] Since then four more victims have been found, one in 2008[39] and three in 2010.[40][41][42] The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, established in 1999, is the body responsible for locating the disappeared.[43]
During the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, it is claimed that forced disappearances occurred. For example during the strikes of 1977 and 1987 in Romania respectively, leading persons involved in the strikes are claimed to have been "disappeared".[44]
Russian rights groups estimate there have been about 5,000 forced disappearances in Chechnya since 1999.[45] Most of them are believed to be buried in several dozen mass graves.
The Russian government failed to pursue any accountability process for human rights abuses committed during the course of the conflict in Chechnya. Unable to secure justice domestically, hundreds of victims of abuse have filed applications with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In March 2005 the court issued the first rulings on Chechnya, finding the Russian government guilty of violating the right to life and the prohibition of torture with respect to civilians who had died or been forcibly disappeared at the hands of Russia's federal troops.[46]
Sri Lanka[edit]
According to a United Nations 1999 study, Sri Lanka is the country that has the second highest number of disappeared people in the world (the first being Iraq). Since 1980, 12,000 Sri Lankans have gone missing after being detained by security forces. More than 55,000 people have been killed in the past 27 years.[47] The figures are still lower than the current Sri Lankan government's own estimate of 17,000 people missing,[48] which was made after it came to power with a commitment to correct the human rights issues.
In 2003, the International Red Cross (ICRC)[49] restarted investigations into the disappearance of 11,000 people during Sri Lanka's civil war.
On 29 May 2009, the British newspaper The Times acquired confidential U.N. documents that record nearly 7,000 civilian deaths in the no-fire zone up to the end of April. The toll then surged, the paper quoted unidentified U.N. sources as saying, with an average of 1,000 civilians killed each day until 19 May, when the government declared victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels. That means the final death toll is more than 20,000, The Times said. "Higher," a U.N. source told the paper. "Keep going." The United Nations has previously said 7,000 civilians were killed in fighting between January and May. A top Sri Lankan official called the 20,000 figure unfounded. Gordon Weiss, a U.N. spokesman in Sri Lanka, told CNN that a large number of civilians were killed, though he did not confirm the 20,000 figure.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused[50] Sri Lanka of "causing untold suffering".
In 2007, the Swiss government detained without charge an Egyptian refugee Mohamed El Ghanem. The family of Dr. El Ghanem, and Dr. El Ghanam himself claim that the detention was in retaliation for Dr. El Ghanem's filing charges against the Swiss Police for threatening him to become a spy-informant on the local Muslim community. Pending 2006, the Swiss government ran administrative and judicial procedures against Dr. El Ghanem in his absence, claiming he was mentally incompetent and dangerous, but refused him proper treatment. The Swiss government refused to tell his U.S.-based family where he was, or to admit his detention. In 2009, British journalist Robert Fisk noted that Dr. El Ghanem was "diappeared", in light of the fact that the Swiss government was refusing to acknowledge his whereabouts. In 2010, lawyers for Dr. El Ghanem presented the case to the UN Committee on Forced and Voluntary Disappearances. In 2013, the Swiss Federal Tribunal ruled that Dr. El Ghanem's detention was wrongful, and that his complaints (re: alleged spy-recruitment) had never been adequately addressed. As of November 2013, Dr. El Ghanem remained in the local Geneva prison, Champ-Dollon. His imminent release was expected.
Cases of forced disappearance in Syria started when late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad started to face opposition from citizens in the late 1970s.[citation needed] While he was able to buy elite merchants of Damascus through Badr el-Deen Shallah, the general public was outraged by Assad's policies in ruling the country and the rise of corruption.[citation needed] From then on, any voice opposing or questioning the Syrian government was silenced by forced disappearance or threats.[citation needed] According to Human Rights Watch, no fewer than 17,000 people disappeared during Assad's 30-year rule.[51]
Bashar al-Assad took his father's policy further and considered any voice questioning anything about Syria's political, economical, social, or otherwise policies should be monitored and when needed, detained and accused of weakening national empathy.[citation needed] A recent case is Tal Mallohi, a 19-year-old blogger summoned for interrogation on 27 December 2009 and never went back home.[citation needed]
On 12 March 2004, Somchai Neelapaijit, a well-known Thai Muslim activist lawyer in the kingdom's southern region, was kidnapped by Thai police and has since disappeared. Officially listed as a disappeared person, his presumed widow, Mrs. Ankhana Neelapaichit, has been seeking justice for her husband since Somchai first went missing. On 11 March 2009, Mrs. Neelapaichit was part of a special panel at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand to commemorate her husband's disappearance and to keep attention focused on the case and on human rights abuses in Thailand.
In 2013 Bangkok Post said that "Angkhana Neelapaijit, wife of missing lawyer Somchai, said the government's policies against drug trafficking and the southern insurgency had contributed to incidents of enforced disappearance."[52]
Turkish human rights groups accuse the Turkish security forces of being responsible for the disappearance of more than 1,500[citation needed] civilians of the Kurdish minority in the 1980s and 1990s, in attempts to root out the PKK. Each year Yakar-Der, the Turkish Human Rights Association (I˙HD) and the International Committee Against Disappearances (ICAD), organise a series of events in Turkey to mark the "Week of Disappeared People".
In April 2009, state prosecutors in Turkey ordered the excavation of several sites around Turkey believed to hold Kurdish victims of state death squads from the 1980s and 1990s, in response to calls for Turkey's security establishment to come clean about past abuses. [53][dead link]
United States[edit]
According to Amnesty International, the United States has engaged in forced disappearance of prisoners of war in the course of its War on terror.[54][55]
In art and popular culture[edit]
- Missing (1982) – Directed by Costa-Gavras.
- Night of the Pencils (1982) – Directed by Héctor Olivera.
- The Official Story (1985) – Directed by Luis Puenzo.
- A Wall of Silence (1993) – Directed by Lita Stantic.
- Death and the Maiden (1994) – Directed by Roman Polanski.
- The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997) – Directed by Marcos Zurinaga.
- Imagining Argentina (2003) – Directed by Christopher Hampton.
- The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) – Directed by Cao Hamburger.
- Rendition (2007) – Directed by Gavin Hood.
- Dukot (2009) – Directed by Joel Lamangan.
- The Simpsons episode 6 of season 12: The Computer Wore Menace Shoes (2000) – Directed by Mark Kirkland.
- Catch-22. Written by Joseph Heller.
- Darkness at Noon. Written by Arthur Koestler.
- The Disappeared. Written by Kim Echlin.
- "Graffiti" from the collection Queremos tanto a Glenda. Written by Julio Cortázar.
- Información para extranjeros (English Title: Information for Foreigners). Written by Griselda Gambaro.
- La muerte y la doncella (English Title: Death and the Maiden). Written by Ariel Dorfman.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four. Written by George Orwell.
- A Tale of Two Cities. Written by Charles Dickens.
- V for Vendetta. Written by Alan Moore, illustrated by David Lloyd.
- When Darkness Falls. Written by James Grippando (2007).
- The Ministry of Special Cases. Written by Nathan Englander (2007).
- Preso sin nombre,celda sin número (prisoner without name, cell without number, 1982), Jacobo Timerman's book about his own demise in secret detention centers of Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship(National Reorganization Process).
- Mi hija Dagmar (My daughter Dagmar 1984), Hagelin Ragmar book about the disappearance of his daughter Dagmar Hagelin, a Swedish teenage girl kidnapped by Alfredo Astiz by mistake during Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship(National Reorganization Process).
Popular music[edit]
- "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida" appeared on the album "Live from El Salvador" on Redwood Records, by Holly Near (with Barbara Higbie).
- A song called "Desaparecidos" appeared on the album Voice of America by Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul.
- "Desapariciones" by Rubén Blades (also covered by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Maná).
- "Mothers of the Disappeared" appeared on the album The Joshua Tree, by U2.
- "They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" appeared on the album ...Nothing Like the Sun by Sting.
- Desaparecidos, a post hardcore, indie-rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.
- The song "The Circle (Song for Layla Al-Attar and los Olividados)" by Kris Kristofferson is about the Disappeared Ones.
- The song "Undercover of the Night" by The Rolling Stones mentions the Desaparecidos of South America.
- The Disappeared, a four piece, indie guitar band from Manchester, England.
See also[edit]
- Argentine Dirty War
- Black sites
- Black jails (China)
- Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas
- Command responsibility
- Damnatio memoriae
- Extraordinary rendition
- Ghost detainee
- Gukurahundi
- International Day of the Disappeared
- Missing person
- Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an Argentine activist group formed by mothers of desaparecidos
- North Korean abductions of Japanese
- Nacht und Nebel
- Police encounter
- Secret police
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Selective assassination
- Unperson
- Unexplained disappearances
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- ^ Jean-Marie Henckaerts; Louise Doswald-Beck; International Committee of the Red Cross (2005). Customary International Humanitarian Law: Rules. Cambridge University Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-521-80899-6.
- ^ "Enforced Disappearance as a Crime Under International Law". Papers.ssrn.com. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Algeria: Amnesty Law Risks Legalizing Impunity for Crimes Against Humanity (Human Rights Watch, 14-4-2005)". Hrw.org. 13 April 2005. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ a b c Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (September 2005). "Anthropology at War?: What Argentina's Dirty War Can Teach Us". Anthropology News. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ^ Gandsman, Ari (16 April 2009). ""A Prick of a Needle Can Do No Harm": Compulsory Extraction of Blood in the Search for the Children of Argentina's Disappeared". The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 1 14: 162–184. doi:10.1111/j.1935-4940.2009.01043.x. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ Long, WIlliam R (13 March 2013). "Death Flight Tale Rekindles Memories of 'Dirty War' : Argentina: Ex-officer describes throwing leftists out of planes into sea. Thousands believed victims of this policy.". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ Hernandez, Vladimir (23 March 2013). "Painful search for Argentina's disappeared". BBC Mundo. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ "Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo awarded UNESCO peace prize". UN News Centre. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia; Ignacio Leiva, Fernando (2003). Democracy in Chile. Sussex Academic Press. p. 22. ISBN 1-84519-081-5.
- ^ "Report of Conadep, Conclusions". nuncamas.org. September 1984. Archived from the original on 19 October 2003. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/19780715%20%5BReport%20on%20Argentina%27s%20dissappeared%5D%20A0000514c.pdf
- ^ Pinochet Is History: But how will it remember him? National Review Symposium, 11 December 2006
- ^ a b Stern, Steve J. Remembering Pinochet's Chile. 30 September 2004: Duke University Press. pp. 32, 90, 101, 180–81. ISBN 0-8223-3354-6., accessed 10-24-2006 through Google Books.
- ^ Eduardo Gallardo, Pinochet Was Unrepentant to the End, ABC News (Associated Press), 11 December 2006 (English)
- ^ Ex-Chilean leader 'was murdered', BBC, 23 January 2007
- ^ Capítulos desconocidos de los mercenarios chilenos en Honduras camino de Iraq, La Nación, 25 September 2005 – URL accessed on 14 February 2007 (Spanish)
- ^ Su revolución contra nuestra revolución: izquierdas y derechas en el Chile, Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate, p. 179, LOM Ediciones, 2006. Books.google.com. 2006. ISBN 978-956-282-853-6. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ "Aterradora cifra de desaparecidos por paramilitares y guerrilla". www.canalrcnmsn.com. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (26 October 2007). Mission to El Salvador (Report). United Nations Human Rights Council. pp. 8–9. A/HRC/7/2/Add.2.
- ^ Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak UNHCR
- ^ Execution of four men in Equatorial Guinea condemned Amnesty International
- ^ (McClintock 1985: 82–83; CIIDH and GAM 1998
- ^ "New Arrests And "Disappearances" Of Iranian Students". Hrw.org. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "UN experts urge Iran to observe human rights norms in case of dead journalist". Hrea.org. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "BBC report". BBC News. 28 February 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Clashes at Iran teachers protest". BBC News. 26 January 2002. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ "WAN protests disappearances in Iran". Ifex.org. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Finally tackling the threat of 'disappearance' – Radio Netherlands Worldwide – English". Radionetherlands.nl. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
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- ^ "Genocide investigations into Morocco's Sahara occupation". Afrol News. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ^ [2] (Spanish)
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-says-north-korea-is-like-a-nazi-state-main-findings-1.2540881
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/world/asia/un-panel-says-north-korean-leader-could-face-trial.html?_r=0
- ^ "The Disappeared". Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ Maillot, Agnes (2005). New Sinn Féin: Irish Republicanism in the Twenty-first Century. Routledge. pp. 162–165. ISBN 978-0-415-32197-6. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ a b Maillot (2005), p. 165.
- ^ "'Disappeared' families put lives on hold". BBC News. 20 July 1999. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Funeral for Disappeared victim". BBC News. 22 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Funeral for Charlie Armstrong – 'Disappeared' victim". BBC News. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Body found in 'Disappeared' search for Peter Wilson". BBC News. 2 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Remains were 'Disappeared' Crossmaglen man Gerry Evans". BBC News. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains: Home page". Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ Forsythe, David P. Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Volume 1. Harvard University Press, 1971, p. 200.
- ^ Russia censured over Chechen man BBC
- ^ European Court Rules Against Moscow Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 2 March 2005M
- ^ "Sri Lanka's disappeared thousands". BBC News. 28 March 1999. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ^ "SRI LANKA: Registers on entry and leaving of internally displaced persons needs to be created urgently to prevent forced disappearances". Ahrchk.net. 16 June 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Red Cross tackles war missing". BBC News. 19 February 2003. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ^ Sengupta, Somini (23 April 2009). "U.S. Faults Sri Lanka on Civilian Woes". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ^ Wasted Decade: Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad's First Ten Years in Power, Human Rights Watch, 2010 Report
- ^ Govt urged to tackle 'state killings'
- ^ "Turkey Begins Dig for Missing Kurds". Voice of America News. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
- ^ "USA: OFF THE RECORD. U.S. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN THE "WAR ON TERROR"". Amnesty International. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ^ "USA: TORTURE, WAR CRIMES, ACCOUNTABILITY: VISIT TO SWITZERLAND OF FORMER US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND SWISS OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S MEMORANDUM TO THE SWISS AUTHORITIES". Amnesty International. 6 February 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
External links[edit]
Look up disappearance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Amnesty International: Day of the Disappeared
- International Committee Against Disappearances
- Familylinks.icrc.org Website for people looking for family members missing due to a conflict or natural disaster. International Committee of the Red Cross.
- UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
- Video Reports from Argentina: The trials of those who carried out disappearances
- Human Rights First; Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions (2005)
- Kidnapped and Raised by a Argentine Military Family, a "Recovered Grandchild" Finds His Way Home – video report by Democracy Now!


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English Education A Readings, 2005, Deakin University Press, Burwood.
Gwynne, P 1998, Deadly Unna, Penguin, Ringwood.
Sawyer, W & Gold, E 2004, Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Education, Melbourne.
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Sealing O-Ring for Eheim 1048 pump front cover (Eheim Part # 7264400). Includes two O-rings
Replacement pump housing complete with sealing ring and 4 screws for Eheim Compact+ 3000
Replacement pump housing complete with sealing ring and 4 screws for Eheim Compact+ 2000
1" x ½" Sea Swirl Bushing
1/2" MPT 3" Riser
OCEAN CURRENTS—1/2 IN COUPLING (FPT). 1/2 inch Coupling FPT.
Replacement pump housing complete with sealing ring and 4 screws for Eheim Compact+ 5000
The ring controls shape and size of the fan-shaped flat stream outlet on the Pulser and the Rotating/Pulser. Three selectable options: 4 discreet holes in a fan shape A narrow slot A wide slot