As NowPublic reported yesterday, Radovan Karadzic, the accused mastermind of crimes of genocide in Bosnia during the mid 1990s, was able to evade capture for a decade, after growing a long white beard that made him...
""I was here in July. Now I came to pay respect to the victims and to talk to you," Boudewin Kok, one of the former UN peacekeepers, said in a meeting with survivors.
"I think that this should be the beginning of our joint search for some answers, including to why Radovan...
July 18, 2008, Lima, Peru: The remains of nine students and a professor who were murdered in 1992 at La Cantuta University were reunited with their families in Lima this week, bringing a symbolic conclusion to one...
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July 14, 2008, Washington, DC: A memorial quilt to those who were murdered at Srebrenica, Bosnia, thirteen years ago took center stage at the U.S. Capitol Friday as congressional staffers remembered the genocide in...
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Over 30,000 Bosnian Muslims gathered today to remember the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and bury the victims of over 300 newly identified victims."The funeral ceremony for the 308 Muslims, who were among...
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France deported a Rwandan genocide suspect today to the UN war crimes tribunal based in Tanzania.I say, good for them, although it seems strange to me that the suspect had a Tutsi wife, and yet he was deported for...
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If you are a big animal lover, it will be really hard for you to look at the photos and complete reading this story.............The Faroes "Bay Of Blood" are a group of about 30 islandslocated in the North Atlantic...
Krusha e madhe, KosovoNinth anniversary of the massacre of 241 mainly children and women by Serbian paramilitary forces, was commemorated in Krusha e Madhe in Rahovec municipality. Between 25 and 27th March 1999...
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With the smuggling in of almost 40 trucks of weapons from India, ordinary people’s concern for their life security has sharpened in Nepal. They had become quite happy when the Maoist insurgents entered the mainstream peace process about two years ago. But the status-quoist...
On the 5th August 2006, Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim, ACF) French aide agency’s 15 local staff were massacred in the Sri Lanka’s Eastern coastal town of Muthur. The killings were blamed on the Sri...
Eighteen years ago today, at L'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Marc Lepine opened fire and killed fourteen women and inured several others before turning the gun on himself. His reason seemed blunt and horribly...
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"Dutch court rules Srebrenica families can sue U.N.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Families of Srebrenica massacre victims have cleared a legal hurdle in their lawsuit against the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they argue allowed the killing of thousands of Muslims, their...
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MexicoReporter interviewed Salvador Martinez dela Roca, a student leader at the time of the Tlateloloco Massacre, about his thoughts on what the tradegy means today and why people march.
Watch the film below, and...
When I wrote Haditha: a Case Study in Traitorous Reporting yesterday I had no idea how bad the media's propaganda actually was. Now that I have read this piece from Nathaniel R. Helms I would have to say that my...