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Political leaders on Alpanipar indicted on charges of genocide:

In a move, today, which can only be described as completely unexpected, the Supreme Court of Arbitrators on Alpanipar agreed to indict the entire Presiding Cabinet. The five hundred page indictment lists the seventeen members as collectively responsible for the deliberate and secret extermination of in excess of forty-seven million of their own citizens. The Arbitrators accepted, what was later classified as "crucial evidence", a submission from a group of highly qualified environmental engineers, in which they claimed the government was guilty of using high flying drones to routinely disperse chemicals into the upper atmosphere, with the intention of causing fatal, genetic aberrations in the population at large.

While being interrogated at a preliminary hearing, the leader of the cabinet, Torao Gantaargh, claimed, without emotion, that the global population had long ago reached a 'critical' level. Since the rate of growth showed no sign of levelling off, let alone dropping off, a plan to deal with the situation had been developed. "Let us face it," he said, "something had to be done, for the greater good." When asked why it had been deemed necessary for the government to act in such a secretive manner, rather than undertaking an open and wide-ranging public discussion on the problem, Gantaargh fell silent. At length, and with the same lack of expression as before, he replied, "These are matters best left to those who would be unnaffected by the decision. In other words, the abilty to consider the problem, and its solution, objectivly would clearly be lacking in the population at large."

So, why did the court decide to break faith with the government and upset a cosy relationship which has endured for more than a hundred years? Well, no one is saying, at present, though the smart money is on the Arbitrators flexing their constitutional muscles, at last, after being largely sidelined for more than a decade. Several high profile cases, involving environmental protesters who had claimed, "the government was killing people", were dealt with under a hastily enacted piece of anti-terrorist legislation that removed the necessity of a public, or even private, hearing prior to sentencing and execution. It was this legislation that the Arbitrators eventually decided was "unconstitutional", though we think it is interesting to note than they have decided NOT to re-open any of the cases processed under this "flawed legislation". When pressed, a spokesperson for the Arbitrators insisted, "It wouldn't bring them back, would it?"