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August 23, 2009
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Prince Harry has been taken to wearing a Rastafarian disguise in an effort to go out in public without being recognised, it has been claimed.
The Prince is understood to have developed an alter-ego named Winston in a “light-hearted” attempt to disguise his identity.
However, his choice of dress could be seen as controversial.
Four years ago he was heavily criticised for wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party, and in January this year he was caught on camera calling a fellow Army officer a “Paki”.
The Prince has been seen wearing the “Winston” outfit on a night out at a warehouse party in East London and, friends say, he often wears it to mix in with the public at other clubs and on trips to the shops.
A source told the Daily Mail: “When his security guards suggested he wear a disguise to have more of a normal life, they didn’t think he would turn it into a Rasta, but that’s Harry for you.
“He’s a real joker and he thought this would give his friends a good laugh. It’s been the perfect way for Harry to go out without being the centre of attention.
“He even calls himself Winston when he wears his outfit. He doesn’t mean anything by it. It’s just a joke and he would never mean to offend anyone.”
A Palace insider said that many of the Royals adopt disguises so they can mingle unnoticed with the public. Prince William is said to wear a moustache and a flat cap when he wants to go incognito.
Prince Harry is also not the only Royal to have dressed as a Rastafarian. His father, the Prince of Wales, was pictured wearing a Rastafarian hat and wig during a Royal tour of Jamaica in 2000.
A spokesman for Prince Harry would not confirm if he regularly wears the disguise.
“We don’t comment on private matters”, he said.
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August 23, 2009
An Iranian lawmaker vowed Saturday to examine allegations that dozens of unidentified people killed in the recent post-election unrest were secretly buried last month in the country’s largest cemetery.
The reformist website Norooznews.org on Friday cited an unnamed employee of the capital’s Behesht Zahra cemetery as saying that 44 unidentified corpses were buried July 12 and 15 amid heavy security.
Majid Nasirpour, a reformist lawmaker who serves on the parliament’s Social Affairs Committee, filed a request for an inquiry, reported the website Parlemannews.ir.
“This news story needs to be verified,” he told the website Saturday. “I will ask the committee to investigate the allegations.”
The number of those killed during the weeks of violence that followed the disputed June 12 presidential election is a source of controversy: Iranian officials say that as few as 20 died, nine of whom were pro-government militiamen. Iranian opposition figures say that at least 69 have been killed, and Western officials in Tehran estimate the number of dead nationwide to be in the hundreds.
Norooznews, the online incarnation of a respected newspaper shut down by authorities in 2002, said it had obtained the registration numbers of the burial permits to back up its report. The website previously reported that bodies were piled up at a mortuary in southwest Tehran.
Iranian authorities have made a concerted effort to downplay the numbers and accounts of those killed during the unrest, pressuring families not to hang mourning banners on their homes and ordering mosques not to allow memorial services.
Nonetheless, mourners Thursday night marked the 40th-day burial anniversary of Sohrab Arabi, a 19-year-old who was apparently shot in the chest during a June 15 demonstration and whose whereabouts was unknown for almost a month.
They took to the streets and chanted political slogans in the expansive Tehran apartment complex where his family lives, videos posted to the Internet showed.
