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Lithuania tries to whitewash its role in the Holocaust
In response to Ellen Cassedy's "We are here" (April 18), I offer a second opinion. Can there be hope for a country that claimed the highest percentage of Jewish deaths in all of Europe? More than 95 percent ofLithuania'sJews were annihilated — most...Tags: Hate Crimes, Massacres, Judaism, Vilnius (Lithuania), The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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DNA, Mladic and the science of justice in the former Yugoslavia
Despite his efforts to stave off his long-overdue date with justice, indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic appeared before a panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Friday. Soon he will stand trial for...Tags: Science, International Court or Tribunal, U.S. Military, Human Body, Suicide
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Muslim leaders have given us reason to be wary
Rachel Airey's letter to the editor ("Disgusted by anti-Muslim bigotry" May 16 ) says this "ignorance and prejudice sickens her and makes her ashamed of this country." She says "It's even more sad when polls proclaim that many citizens are wary of Islamic...Tags: Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Islam, Massacres, Judaism
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Don't call it 'genocide'
As a Turkic-American, I oppose efforts to secure a presidential proclamation designating April 24 as "Armenian genocide" day. Unlike many other tragedies and massacres, the Armenian allegations of Turkish genocide are hotly contested and have been...Tags: Islam, Hate Crimes, International Court or Tribunal, Turkey, United Nations
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Path of human destruction
Sun Foreign StaffMAJAMARY, Sudan - Before dawn one day in early January, the crackle of gunfire stirred Faloud Suleiman awake in his village in far western Sudan. Members of the Masaaleit tribe, Suleiman and his fellow villagers in Sudan's Darfur region were living in...Tags: Employees, Foreign Aid, Labor Legislation, Defense, Nature
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Obama's atrocities board keeps low profile on Syria crisis
Reuters* Obama sticks to more passive approach to Syria than Libya * Raises questions for president who touts rights record By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama used the Holocaust Memorial Museum as a backdrop to...Tags: U.S. Military, Syrian Uprising (2011-12), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Balkan Peninsula, Barack Obama
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Bosnia leader slams Serbia's Nikolic on Srebrenica
ReutersSARAJEVO, June 1 (Reuters) - The Muslim chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency criticised Serbia's new rightist president, Tomislav Nikolic, on Friday for playing down the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims, Europe's worst atrocity...Tags: Hate Crimes, International Court or Tribunal, Religious Conflicts, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Massacres
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Review: More questions than answer in 'U.N. Me'
A scathing takedown of the United Nations, "U.N. Me" focuses in on dishonorable episodes in the organization's recent history — the Oil-for-Food scandal, tragic inaction when faced with genocide in Rwanda and Darfur — as part of its larger...
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Symposium focuses on Holocaust, human rights
Staff WriterIrwin Cotler, vice chair of the Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, talked about the Holocaust, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, and Iran's incitement to genocide in a...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Hate Crimes, Lynn University, Massacres, Judaism
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Rwandan ex-minister jailed for life over genocide
ReutersDAR ES SALAAM, May 31 (Reuters) - The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda sentenced former minister Callixte Nzabonimana to life in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty of playing a key role in his country's 1994 genocide. The International...Tags: Hate Crimes, International Court or Tribunal, Massacres, Rwanda, Tanzania
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Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - For nearly 30 years, Efrain Rios Montt evaded trial for massacres carried out during his military rule in Guatemala's civil war - until a diminutive, soft-spoken woman entered his life. Since Claudia Paz y Paz became Guatemala'...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Murder, Lawyers, Trials, Guatemala
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Bosnian Serbs jailed for Srebrenica warehouse killings
Reuters* Convicted for the killing of 1,000 Muslims * Oversaw the separation of men from women and children * Two co-defendants acquitted By Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO, May 25 (Reuters) - Two former Bosnian Serb police chiefs were jailed for 35 and 30 years on...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Murder, Hate Crimes, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prosecution
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