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Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube have informed the government that inflammatory contents uploaded on their pages originated from Pakistan.

"The initial response from international social networking sites indicates that such contents have been hosted from outside the country and to a large extent from a neighbouring country (Pakistan)," Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT) said in a statement.

The response of these websites came after the government ordered ban of more than 250 pages charging that morphed images and videos were uploaded displaying alleged atrocities on Muslims. The government also said that these led to the fear psychosis among the people of the North-East and their mass exodus from different parts of the country.

However, one of the intermediary sites has conveyed to the DEIT that uploaders of the inflammatory and hateful contents were outside the jurisdiction of the country, "thereby implying that they are not obliged to take any constructive step to deal with it".

The DEIT said most of the contents were taken from events "unrelated to the incident occurred in Assam. Hosting of such morphed image and video led to a lot of inciting comments from users on the blogs...and circulation of hate SMSes".

"The DEIT has been working with international social networking sites on this issue. However, a lot more and quicker action is expected from them to address such a sensitive issue which concern restoring peace, harmony, public order and national security," the statement said.

It said proxy servers and virtual private network services which hide the user identity appear to have been used for uploading the content. The agencies are continuously monitoring hosting of such inflammatory and harmful content.

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By: Agence France-Presse August 20, 2012 11:42 PM

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JOHANNESBURG -- The black farmworker convicted of killing Eugene Terre'Blanche believes the white supremacist leader gave him HIV, a psychologist said at his sentencing hearing Monday.

Chris Mahlangu was convicted in May of bludgeoning Terre'Blanche to death in his farmhouse outside the small town of Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010.

During the trial, the court found no proof that Terre'Blanche had raped Mahlangu.

But as his sentencing hearing got under way Monday, clinical psychologist Hein Swanepoel told the court that Mahlangu believes Terre'Blanche raped him and gave him HIV, the virus that could lead to AIDS, according to the Independent Online.

"Mr Mahlangu says he is HIV positive and suspects he must have been infected by the deceased," Swanepoel said, according to the website.

"He alleges he was raped by the deceased three to four times and did not resist because the deceased was a powerful man. He did inform police about the rape and for fraudulent reasons that was not included in the statement," Swanepoel said.

The psychologist was testifying in mitigation, as Mahlangu's defense tried to convince the court to hand down a milder sentence than the possible life in prison.

Judge John Horn had rejected Mahlangu's claims to have acted in self-defense and accepted the prosecution's argument the killing had been triggered by a fight over wages.

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Chris Mahlangu, left, who was convicted of murdering South African white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche, says his victim raped him and infected him with HIV. Source: AP

THE black farmworker convicted of killing Eugene Terre'Blanche believes the South African white supremacist leader gave him HIV, a psychologist has said at his sentencing hearing.

Chris Mahlangu was convicted in May of bludgeoning Terre'Blanche to death in his farmhouse outside the small town of Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010.

During the trial, the court found no proof that Terre'Blanche had raped Mahlangu.

But as his sentencing hearing got under way, clinical psychologist Hein Swanepoel told the court that Mahlangu believes Terre'Blanche raped him and gave him HIV, the virus that could lead to AIDS, according to the Independent Online.

"Mr Mahlangu says he is HIV positive and suspects he must have been infected by the deceased," Mr Swanepoel said, according to the website.

"He alleges he was raped by the deceased three to four times and did not resist because the deceased was a powerful man. He did inform police about the rape and for fraudulent reasons that was not included in the statement," Mr Swanepoel said.

The psychologist was testifying in mitigation, as Mahlangu's defence tried to convince the court to hand down a milder sentence than the possible life in prison.

Judge John Horn had rejected Mahlangu's claims to have acted in self-defence and accepted the prosecution's argument that the killing had been triggered by a fight over wages.

Terre'Blanche, 69 when he was killed, co-founded the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) which violently opposed South Africa's all-race democracy and campaigned for a self-governing white state.

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Aug. 21, 2012, 3 a.m.

THE Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, famously has a death stare that can pulverise diamonds at 50 paces and crack the skulls of grown men.

Has she been offering private tuition to her leader? Yesterday, as the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, left the chamber, having been chucked from question time by the Deputy Speaker, Anna Burke, he threw Burke a look that could have split an atom.

Abbott, the sixth opposition leader to be ejected from Parliament, and the first since 1986 (that was John Howard, not a man known for his maverick behaviour, but we all have bad days), is usually quite affable, as long as you're not the Prime Minister or a tax on carbon emissions.

But yesterday Abbott grew incensed at Gillard's repeated assertions that he intended to rip money from public schools, her defence of the carbon tax, and her defence of government spending on policy measures including the National Disability Insurance Scheme and border protection. (The government would continue to invest in the ''instruments of fairness that Australians want'', Gillard said, somewhat opaquely.) ''That's a lie,'' Abbott said in response to Gillard's claims about his alleged hostility towards public school funding.

The L-word, of course, is classified as ''unparliamentary language'', a term for the collection of words and idiom that describe what everyone really thinks about politicians but which are impermissible inside the actual Parliament.

Therefore imputations of dishonesty and dishonour are out, as is profanity and, sadly, the term ''fuddle-duddle'' (which, according to Wikipedia, caused quite the scandal when allegedly mouthed by the Canadian prime minister in Canada's House of Commons in 1971).

Thus, while outside Parliament Abbott can refer to Gillard's lies (as he did in a quick-fire press release which landed in email inboxes directly following his ejection), inside Parliament he speaks of ''broken promises''.

Likewise, the Climate Change Minister's word of the month is ''mendacious'' - the adjective he uses to describe the opposition's fear campaign against the carbon tax.

Mendacious, of course, means lying, but the Deputy Speaker has said she is cool with synonyms for liar, just not the word liar itself. Perhaps she is just seeking to expand the nation's vocabulary.

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Tony Abbott becomes the first Opposition leader since 1986 to be thrown out of Parliament after he failed to make an unqualified apology for accusing Julia Gillard of lying about his education policy.

THE Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, famously has a death stare that can pulverise diamonds at 50 paces and crack the skulls of grown men.

Has she been offering private tuition to her leader? Yesterday, as the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, left the chamber, having been chucked from question time by the Deputy Speaker, Anna Burke, he threw Burke a look that could have split an atom.

Abbott, the fifth opposition leader to be ejected from Parliament, and the first since 1986 (that was John Howard, not a man known for his maverick behaviour, but we all have bad days), is usually quite affable, as long as you're not the Prime Minister or a tax on carbon emissions.

But yesterday Abbott grew incensed at Gillard's repeated assertions that he intended to rip money from public schools, her defence of the carbon tax, and her defence of government spending on policy measures including the National Disability Insurance Scheme and border protection. (The government would continue to invest in the ''instruments of fairness that Australians want'', Gillard said, somewhat opaquely.) ''That's a lie,'' Abbott said in response to Gillard's claims about his alleged hostility towards public school funding.

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The L-word, of course, is classified as ''unparliamentary language'', a term for the collection of words and idiom that describe what everyone really thinks about politicians but which are impermissible inside the actual Parliament.

Therefore imputations of dishonesty and dishonour are out, as is profanity and, sadly, the term ''fuddle-duddle'' (which, according to Wikipedia, caused quite the scandal when allegedly mouthed by the Canadian prime minister in Canada's House of Commons in 1971).

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