tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89930782012-01-28T12:14:17.872-08:00International media coverage and commentary on genocide and crimes against humanity. Compiled by Adam Jones, Ph.D., author of <a href="http://www.genocidetext.net">"Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction"</a>, selected as one of <a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/Fifty-Key-Thinkers-on-the-Holocaust-and-Genocide-isbn9780415775519">"Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide"</a>.Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.comBlogger8291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-76632691983805565022012-01-28T12:13:00.000-08:002012-01-28T12:14:17.887-08:00

"A magazine supplement with an image of Adolf Hitler and the title 'The Unreadable Book' is pictured in Berlin. No law bans 'Mein Kampf' in Germany, but the government of Bavaria, holds the copyright and guards it ferociously." (Thomas Peter/Reuters) In Germany, Attitudes toward "Mein Kampf" Slowly Changing By Michael Birnbaum The Washington Post, January 27, 2012 "The city that was the center

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"Syrian army defectors patrol a street in Homs province, central Syria, on Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012." (AP ) Syria Activists: "Terrifying Massacre" In Homs By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam Associated Press dispatch in The Huffington Post, January 27, 2012 "Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled

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Poor, Abused and Second-Class: The Roma Living in Fear in Hungarian Village By Helen Pidd The Guardian, January 27, 2012 "The first snow of 2012 had fallen on the day Natasha Váradi invited us into the house she shares with her 10 children, mother and father-in-law in the Hungarian village of Gyöngyöspata. The two rooms were dark and dank: for four months the family had been living without

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Relatives of victims of Guatemala's civil war listened to proceedings on Thursday. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press) Accused of Atrocities, Guatemala's Ex-Dictator Chooses Silence By Elisabeth Malkin The New York Times, January 26, 2012 "Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s former military dictator, was ordered by a Guatemalan judge on Thursday to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against

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"A woman and her 18-month-old baby, displaced by ethnic violence, wait for aid at a UN food distribution center in Pibor, South Sudan, this month." (Hannah McNeish/AFP/Getty Images) Witnesses Give Graphic Accounts of South Sudan Ethnic Violence By Robyn Dixon The Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2012 "Neighbors found the 18-month-old boy crying alone in the bush outside his village of Wek in

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(Abdullah Doma/AFP/Getty Images) Libya: UN Alarmed over Failure to Stop Torture of Detainees By Damien McElroy The Telegraph, January 26, 2012 "The UN has expressed its alarm over the failure of the Libyan government to disarm militias and stop widespread torture of the thousands of people held in arbitrary detention. The warning that human rights abuses were rampant in Libya came as Medicins

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"Omer Chasib lost his father to the 2005 Marine assault in Haditha that claimed the lives of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians." (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press) In Iraq, Haditha Case is Reminder of Justice Denied By Raheem Salman and Patrick J. McDonnell The Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2012 "The teacher still keeps family photos of the dead, visual mementos of lives cut short in an unremitting hail

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"Prisoners during the Malayan Emergency: the Foreign Office has produced documents about the deaths of 24 Malaysian men in 1948." (Jack Birns/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Batang Kali Relatives Edge Closer to the Truth about "Britain's My Lai Massacre" By Owen Bowcott The Guardian, January 25, 2012 "Lawyers representing relatives of 24 unarmed victims who died at Batang Kali, Malaysia, in

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"Retired army Gen. Efrain Rios Montt arrives at the Guatemala City Human Rights office in December." (Saul Martinez/EPA) Former Guatemalan Dictator Rios Montt May Face Genocide Trial By Alex Renderos The Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2012 "Former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt will appear in a civilian court Thursday to face possible prosecution on genocide charges stemming from

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An interview (3 mins.) with genocide scholar Adam Jones about genocide as a global phenomenon, and Canada's role in genocide prevention. Aired on CHBC/Global TV evening news, January 20, 2012.

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(Photo: EPA) Hrant Dink: Thousands March in Istanbul After Controversial Verdict International Business Times, January 19, 2012 "Fifty thousand people marched in Istanbul on Thursday in commemoration of Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist who was assassinated exactly five years earlier. Holding up photos of Dink and signs reading 'We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian,' they walked to the

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"In Myanmar, about 15,000 displaced people live in camps in areas controlled by the government that often lack adequate food, health care and education facilities." (Adam Dean/The New York Times) Ethnic War Intensifies in Myanmar, Jeopardizing U.S. Ties By Adam Dean The New York Times, January 19, 2012 "Even as the Burmese government initiates political reforms in much of the country, it has

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Judge Who Arrested Pinochet Now Finds Himself in the Dock By Alasdair Fotheringham The Independent, January 18, 2012 "He tried to extradite General Pinochet, ordered the arrest of Osama bin Laden, put notorious members of the Argentinian junta, such as Adolfo Scilingo, behind bars and investigated the mass executions of nearly 150,000 Spanish Republicans under General Franco. But yesterday, in

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El Salvador President Apologizes for El Mozote Massacre, Marks 20 Years Since Peace Accords Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post, January 16, 2012 "El Salvador President Mauricio Funes apologized Monday for the 1981 El Mozote massacre of 936 civilians in an army counterinsurgency operation. Funes also commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 1992 peace accords that put an end to the

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"Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Homs." (Reuters) "Edging Toward Intervention in Syria" By Paul Mutter Salon.com, January 13, 2012 "On Monday, a unity agreement between Syria's two main anti-regime groups collapsed over the issue of foreign military intervention in the country's 11-month-old internal conflict. As anti-government demonstrations and police

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"A family with a wounded boy waited at a United Nations camp to be evacuated for further treatment." (Sven Torfinn/The New York Times) Born in Unity, South Sudan Is Torn Again By Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times, January 12, 2012 "The trail of corpses begins about 300 yards from the corrugated metal gate of the United Nations compound and stretches for miles into the bush. There is an old

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"Rafael Seligmann, publisher and editor of Jewish Voice from Germany, shows a copy of the first issue of his paper." (DAPD) "We Can Resume Our Common History": New Paper Covers Revival of German Jewish Life By David Crossland Spiegel Online, January 4, 2012 "An English-language Jewish newspaper was launched in Berlin this week with the aim of showing foreign audiences that Jewish life in

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"The wreckage of the plane that was shot down killing Rwanda's president Juvénal Habyarimana in 1994." (AP/Jean Marc Boujou) Rwanda: At Last We Know the Truth By Linda Melvern The Guardian, January 10, 2012 "Few events have been the subject of as many rumours and lies as the assassination on 6 April 1994 of Rwanda's President Juvénal Habyarimana. We may never know the identity of the assassins

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"Mr. Kagame has accused former French President Francois Mitterrand's administration of training and arming the Hutu militias responsible for the slaughter." (AFP) Paul Kagame Allies "Did Not Shoot Down Plane" That Sparked Rwanda Genocide The Telegraph, January 10, 2012 "A French investigation into what sparked the 1994 Rwandan genocide appears to exonerate current President Paul Kagame and his

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"Nhem En (above) was recruited at 17 to be photographer for Pol Pot." (Lindsay Murdoch) "Gentle, Intelligent" Man Turned Tyrant: Photographer Plans Pol Pot Memorial By Lindsay Murdoch The Sydney Morning Herald, January 7, 2012 "Many of the photographs taken at Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng interrogation centre are too gruesome to publish: a man shot in the head crawls through his own blood

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"Léon Mugesera, left, and lawyer Guy Bertrand ponder questions of a news conference on June 29, 2005 in Quebec City." (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) Accused Rwandan War Criminal Set for Deportation By Les Perreaux The Globe and Mail, January 5, 2012 "A Rwandan philosopher living in Quebec, who is accused of inciting the 1994 genocide with a venomous speech, may be about to test whether

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Accounts Emerge in South Sudan of 3,000 Deaths in Ethnic Violence By Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times, January 5, 2012 "More than 3,000 villagers were massacred in the recent burst of communal violence in South Sudan, local officials said Thursday, with the fledging South Sudanese government, which just won its independence six months ago, seemingly unable to stem the bloodshed. If the death

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(Bernat Armangue/Associated Press) Holocaust Survivors Outraged at Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Use of Nazi Imagery at Jerusalem Protest Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post January 1, 2012 "Israeli Holocaust survivors and political leaders expressed outrage Sunday over a Jerusalem demonstration in which ultra-Orthodox Jews donned Star of David patches and uniforms similar to those the

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"In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, Argentina's last de facto president Gen. Reynaldo Bignone attends his trial at a court house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The former dictator was sentenced on Thursday Dec. 29, 2011 to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed in a clandestine detention center that operated in a public hospital during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983)." (

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Syria: Scores Dead as Arab League Expands Mission By Richard Spencer The Telegraph, December 29, 2011 "Syrian security forces shot dead dozens of protesters on Thursday, including at least 11 in the capital Damascus, as the presence of Arab League peace monitors encouraged hundreds of thousands to take to the streets against Bashar al-Assad's rule. As many as 40 demonstrators were said to have

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"Where Are Our Missing Sons?" Kashmiri Keep Asking By Humra Quraishi WeNews, December 26, 2011 "Parveena Ahangar hasn't known peace for years. 'I can't describe how each day passes. I keep taking medicines every single day to control my tension. At night, I'm awake. I just can't sleep,' Ahangar says. She's felt this way, she says, ever since the day 21 years ago when she lost her son. 'My

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Israeli Lawmakers Consider Recognizing Massacre of Armenians as Genocide Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post, December 26, 2011 "Over their prime minister's objections, Israeli lawmakers on Monday began debating a proposal to recognize the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Doing so would likely further strain already acrimonious relations with Turkey, which

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"Men look at the wreckage of a car following a bomb blast at St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a town outside the Nigerian capital Abuja on Sunday." (AFP/Getty Images) Dozens Die as Christmas Day Bombings Sweep Nigeria MSNBC.com, December 25, 2011 "Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a wave of Christmas Day bombings on Sunday, including an attack on a Catholic church that

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Bodies of Rwandans murdered in the 1994 genocide, washed up on the Ugandan shores of Lake Victoria. (Photo by David Blumenkrantz) by Adam Jones, Ph.D. John Pilger is one of my heroes. Indeed, reading Heroes, his classic 1986 book on resistance to mass violence and oppression worldwide, was a formative experience. Together with works by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, Pilger's book persuaded

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(Photo by Donald Weber/VII Network) Haunted By The Gulags' Ghosts By Owen Matthews Newsweek, December 19, 2011 "Spring 1989: a group of young students bends over their spades as they dig in a Siberian forest clearing. In shallow depressions, they quickly uncover human remains, the skulls all neatly pierced by bullet holes, the work of Stalin’s executioners. All around the small group of diggers

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"Hutu extremists targeted Tutsis and moderate Hutus in attacks that left up to 800,000 people dead." (EPA) Rwandan Politicians Jailed over Genocide AlJazeera.com, December 21, 2011 "The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has found two former ruling party officials guilty of genocide for their leading role in the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and sentenced them

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"Abdol-Hossein Sardari was a junior Iranian diplomat in 1940." "Muslim Schindler" Who Risked Life to Save Iranian Jews in Wartime Paris By Henry Samuel The Telegraph, December 21, 2011 "A Muslim "Oskar Schindler" saved the lives of thousands of Iranian Jews in wartime Paris, risking all to help compatriots escape the Nazis, a new book claims. Abdol-Hossein Sardari, a junior Iranian diplomat,

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"Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has hit out at French plans to prosecute people who deny the mass killings of Armenians was genocide." (Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images) Turkey Threatens France over Stance on Killing of Armenians by Ottomans Associated Press dispatch in The Guardian, December 19, 2011 "Turkey has threatened to denounce France's colonial past at international

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Netherlands Apologises for 1947 Rawagede Massacre in Indonesia Associated Press dispatch in The Guardian, December 9, 2011 "The Netherlands has apologised after six decades for a notorious massacre of up to 430 men and boys during Indonesia's bitter struggle for independence. Tjeerd de Zwaan, the Dutch ambassador to Indonesia, made the announcement in front hundreds of villagers in Rawagede, the

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"Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Ivory Coast, and his wife Simone are watched by republican forces in a hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Monday, April 11, 2011." (Aristide Bodegla/AP) Ivory Coast's Gbagbo in Custody at ICC By Mike Corder Associated Press dispatch on Time.com, November 30, 2011 "The International Criminal Court charged former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo with murder

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Chile Seeks Extradition of ex-US Military Officer in 1973 Death By Fabiola Gutierrez and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2011 "A Chilean judge is seeking the extradition of a former U.S. military officer to face murder charges in the 1973 slaying of freelance journalist and filmmaker Charles Horman, a case dramatized in the Oscar-winning film 'Missing,' court

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"Walter Littlemoon speaks to students at Colorado State University." (Mike Kalush, The Rocky Mountain Collegian / The Thick Dark Fog) New Documentary Tracks Cultural Genocide of American Indians By Rose Aguilar Truthout.org, November 24, 2011 "In 1892, US Army officer Richard Pratt delivered a speech in which he described his philosophy behind US government-run boarding schools for American

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"Libya's former rebels are holding thousands of people in makeshift detention centres, the UN says." (Ciro Fusco/EPA) Libyan Rebels Detaining Thousands Illegally, Ban Ki-moon Reports The Guardian, November 24, 2011 "Libya's former rebels have illegally detained thousands of people, including women and children, according to the United Nations secretary general. Many of the 7,000 prisoners have

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Three Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Go on Trial in Cambodia By Mark Magnier The Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2011 "Three top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of helping mastermind Cambodia's 'killing fields' in the 1970s went on trial in Phnom Penh on Monday as hundreds of victims and curious onlookers arrived at the court from around the country to witness the proceedings. The United Nations-backed

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"A protest against President Bashar al-Assad after Friday Prayer in Homs, Syria, last week. The city, a hot spot of resistance against the government, has recently been the scene of sectarian violence." (Reuters) Sectarian Strife in City Bodes Ill for All of Syria By Anthony Shadid The New York Times, November 19, 2011 "A harrowing sectarian war has spread across the Syrian city of Homs this

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"A relative of one of the Hindus on trial for the killing of dozens of Muslims in a fire breaks down on hearing the verdict in Mehsana, India." (Ajit Solanki/AP) India Jails 31 Hindus for Life for Killing Muslims Associated Press dispatch in The Guardian, November 9, 2011 "A court has sentenced 31 Hindus to life imprisonment for killing dozens of Muslims by setting fire to a building during one

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"Analysts said the Dalai Lama was seeking to avoid a political vacuum after his death, when Tibetans will have to identify his reincarnated successor." (Reuters) Dalai Lama Blames Suicide Protests on Chinese "Cultural Genocide" The Telegraph, November 7, 2011 "The Dalai Lama has blamed a recent wave of Tibetan self-immolations on a policy of 'cultural genocide' being carried out by the Chinese

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"In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, police officers armed with AK-47 rifles stand guard at sandbagged bunkers along a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation and is gaining prominence." (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) At Least 67 Dead in

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"A house near the Jewish cemetery in Sarajevo burns after being hit by a mortar shell in September1994." (Peter Andrews/PA) Bosnia Arrests War Crimes Suspect Reuters dispatch in The Irish Times, November 2, 2011 "Bosnian police today detained a Bosnian Serb ex-police commander suspected of having ordered the murder of 10 Muslim civilians at the start of the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo,

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Croatia's First Interior Minister Arrested over Accusations of Post-World War II Crimes Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post, November 2, 2011 "Croatia's former interior minister was arrested Wednesday over accusations that he ordered mass killings of anti-communists soon after the end of World War II, police said. Josip Boljkovac, 89, and two other former ranking Croatian officials

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"Former Argentine navy officer Alfredo Astiz, also known as the 'Blond Angel of Death' for his role in the1976-83 dictatorship and sought in France for the murder of French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, appears during a trial in Buenos Aires on Thursday." (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters) Argentina's "Blond Angel of Death" Convicted for Role in Dirty War By Sam Ferguson The Christian Science

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"Volunteers in Surt removed bodies of people apparently killed in reprisal by anti-Qaddafi militias. Many had their hands bound and had been shot in the head." (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times) In Libya, Massacre Site Is Cleaned Up, Not Investigated By Kareem Fahim and Adam Nossiter The New York Times, October 24, 2011 "In the parched garden of the Mahari Hotel, volunteers on Monday scrubbed

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"The entrance to the Mahari Hotel in Sirte, where at least 53 persons were apparently executed. At the time of their killing the hotel was apparently controlled by anti-Gaddafi fighters from Misrata. The red graffiti on the left states 'Tiger Brigade,' the name of a prominent Misrata fighting group." (Peter Bouckaert/Human Rights Watch) Libya: Apparent Execution of 53 Gaddafi Supporters By

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Genocide Claims Muddle Russian Olympics By Thomas Grove Reuters dispatch on MSNBC.com, October 13, 2011 "Muhammed Cherkesov remembers his grandparents whispering about the Russian soldiers who drove his forefathers at gunpoint from their mountain homes down to the Black Sea coast in the mid-19th century. The forced migration of the Muslim Circassians into the lowlands in and around Sochi where

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"Enma Orellana holds out hope she might one day find her daughter, who was 4 when seized by soldiers during El Salvador's civil war in 1982." (Alex Renderos) Court Orders El Salvador to Investigate Children's Disappearances By Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2011 "Human rights advocates are hailing an international court decision ordering the government of El Salvador to fully

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"Victoria Montenegro was abducted as a newborn by a military colonel. She testified last spring in the trial over baby thefts." (Joao Pina/The New York Times) Daughter of "Dirty War," Raised by Man Who Killed Her Parents By Alexei Barrionuevo The New York Times, October 8, 2011 "Victoria Montenegro recalls a childhood filled with chilling dinnertime discussions. Lt. Col. Hernán Tetzlaff, the

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"Accused former Nazi functionaries of the Treblinka death camp try to hide their faces at the beginning of the Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf, western Germany, on Oct. 12, 1964." (Associated Press file) Hundreds of Nazi Probes Reopened in Germany By David Rising Associated Press dispatch on MSNBC.com, October 5, 2011 "Prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi

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"The Namibian delegation attended a service in Berlin." (Associated Press) Germany Returns Namibian Skulls Taken in Colonial Era BBC Online, September 30, 2011 "Namibian tribal leaders have visited Berlin to collect the skulls of 20 compatriots who died under Germany's colonial rule in the early 1900s. German scientists took the heads to perform experiments seeking to prove the racial

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Rwandan Request to Extradite Widow from France Fails By Pierre-Antoine Souchard The Independent, September 29, 2011 "The widow of Rwanda's former President, wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide, has won her court appeal against extradition from France. Agathe Habyarimana has been sought by the Rwandan state prosecutor since 2009 on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. She

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"Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by bishop Pietro Marini, Master of Liturgical Celebration walks at the end of a Holy Mass in Ancona' s shipyard, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011." (Associated Press) Vatican Calls "Ludicrous" Attempts by Clergy Sex Abuse Victims to Seek Court Case against Pope By Mike Corder and Rachel Zoll Associated Press/Canadian Press dispatches,

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"Libyan rebels gather on armoured vehicles outside Sirte, one of the last strongholds of the fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi." (Ciro Fusco/ANSA) Murder and Torture "Carried Out by Both Sides" of Uprising against Libyan Regime By David Smith The Guardian, September 12, 2011 "The civil war that brought down Muammar Gaddafi has been marked by widespread atrocities on both sides, according to

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"President Sarkozy receives President Kagame at the Élysée Palace- Paris, 12 September 2011." (Flickr) Rwandan Leader, in Paris, Seeks to Ease Tensions By Steven Erlanger The New York Times, September 12, 2011 "President Paul Kagame of Rwanda met President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday in a fence-mending exercise on the Rwandan’s first visit to France since the genocide in his country in 1994.

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Shoot the Boer: "That's How a Genocide Can Start" The Mail & Guardian, September 12, 2011 "A South African court on Monday ruled that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was guilty of hate speech for singing an apartheid-era song that advocated the killing the white farmers. 'I find the words uttered by Malema constitute hate speech,' said Judge Collin Lamont. Malema was ordered to pay court

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"Gerd Honsik, center, sits in the court room in Vienna's main court, in Austria, on Monday, April 20, 2009." (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) Austrian Holocaust Denier, Gerd Honsik, Gets Parole Associated Press dispatch in The Huffington Post, September 8, 2011 "An Austrian court official says a far-right author who has questioned the Holocaust has been paroled after serving three years in prison for

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"Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations 'we don’t have homosexuals'." (Vahid Salemi/AP) Iran Executes Three Men on Homosexuality Charges By Saeed Kamali Dehghan The Guardian, September 7, 2011 "Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency. The men, only identified by their

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"Momcilo Perisic, former chief of staff of the Yugoslav army, under guard before hearing his sentence at The Hague." (Peter Dejong/Reuters) War Crimes Tribunal Jails Former Yugoslav Army Chief for 27 Years Associated Press dispatch in The Guardian, September 6, 2011 "The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years in prison for providing military

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Turkey to Return Confiscated Property By Suzan Fraser AP dispatch in The Guardian, August 28, 2011 "Turkey's government is returning hundreds of properties confiscated from the country's Christian and Jewish minorities over the past 75 years in a gesture to religious groups who complain of discrimination that is also likely to thwart possible court rulings against the country. A government decree

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"New recruits for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) train in a secret camp in the Nuba mountains of South Kordofan in preparation for what they call a long war against Khartoum." (AFP/Getty) Satellite Images Reveal Signs of Mass Graves in South Sudan The Telegraph, August 25, 2011 "A US monitoring group says satellite imagery had revealed the existence of two more mass graves in a

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"The hellish entrance at Auschwitz." The Death Camp Heroines By Caroline Moorehead Daily Express, August 21, 2011 "On an icy dawn in January 1943, 230 French women were herded on to four cattle trucks in the station of Compiègne. The eldest was a 68-year-old farmer’s wife, the youngest a 15-year-old schoolgirl. In between were teachers and shopkeepers, factory workers and students.Arrested

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Mass Graves Hold Thousands, Kashmir Inquiry Finds By Lydia Polgreen The New York Times August 22, 2011 "Thousands of bullet-riddled bodies are buried in dozens of unmarked graves across Kashmir, a state human rights commission inquiry has concluded, many of them likely to be those of civilians who disappeared more than a decade ago in the brutal insurgency in the troubled region. The inquiry, the

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"A stone engraved with the names of the six Jesuit priests killed during El Salvador's 1980-92 civil war." (Luis Galdamez/Reuters) Salvadoran Ex-Soldiers Face Extradition over Murder of Priests By Stephen Burgen The Guardian, August 9, 2011 "In one of the worst atrocities of El Salvador's dirty wars, members of the military murdered six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old

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"Mevludin Oric, in tears as he recounts the Serb genocide. Captured by the Serbs two days into the Death March, he miraculously survived a brutal mass execution by pretending to be dead." Death March: The Extraordinary Story of the Bosnians Who Marched 70 Horrific Miles to Escape Genocide By Charlotte Eagar Daily Mail, August 6, 2011 "The walkers come marching resolutely down the dusty track

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"Kompleks logora Omarska." (BIRN) Omarska: A Monument to Savagery and Resistance Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, August 6, 2011 "Several hundred former detainees from Prijedor and their families have gathered in Omarska to commemorate August 6th, the day when the disassembly of this camp began 18 years ago. Representatives of victims and families of the killed once more reminded of the

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"Representative Chris Smith (pictured in June), who heads the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa, on Friday urged the immediate deployment of peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn border region of Southern Kordofan, warning of a risk of 'genocide' by government forces." (AFP/File/Jim Watson) US Lawmaker Seeks Peacekeepers on Sudan "Genocide" Agence France-Presse dispatch on Yahoo! News,

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Sudan Needs to Stop Harassing UN Peacekeepers To Death By Lauren Jenkins UNDispatch.com, August 5, 2011 "UN peacekeepers had just arrived in Abyei, Sudan earlier this month to monitor the withdrawal of warring northern and southern Sudanese forces when their convoy hit a landmine. One died instantly, ten more were wounded. The UN called for a Medevac helicopter to get the others emergency medical

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"Markac, left, and Gotovina were sentenced in April to prison terms of 18 and 24 years respectively." (EPA/Getty) Croatian Prime Minister Hails Convicted War Crimes Generals The Telegraph, August 5, 2011 "Jadranka Kosor, the Croatian prime minister, has hailed two ex-generals jailed by a UN war crimes court for their role in the offensive that ended the 1991-1995 Croatian war on the operation's

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"Rwandan president Paul Kagame is accused of ensuring that the so-called gacaca courts did not threaten the existing politcal order." (Reuters) Genocide Courts Attacked for Failure to Heal Rwanda's Scars By Daniel Howden The Independent, August 5, 2011 "Rwanda's widely praised community genocide courts, due to wind up later this year, have done nothing to 'heal ethnic divisions' and have been

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UN Commander Expects Charges over Srebrenica By Peter Cluskey The Irish Times, August 5, 2011 "The military officer who commanded Dutch UN peacekeepers at the time of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 has said he believes he may soon face criminal charges -- 16 years after Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN 'safe haven', killing almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Retired colonel Thomas Karremans --

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Rights Groups Ask Swiss to Press War Crimes Case against Sri Lankan Diplomat Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post, August 4, 2011 "Two advocacy groups asked Swiss authorities Thursday to pursue war crime charges against a former Sri Lankan army commander now serving as a European diplomat, reflecting still-simmering Western concerns about the South Asian island nations' [sic] human

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Death Toll Rises Sharply in Center of Syrian Revolt By Nada Bakri The New York Times, August 4, 2011 "The Syrian military forces that rolled into the rebellious city of Hama and occupied its central square have killed more than 100 people over the past 24 hours, according to rights activists in satellite telephone contact with a witness in the city. The ominous new toll raised the rough count of

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"A woman celebrates outside the court at the end of a trial in Guatemala City on Tuesday. The court sentenced three former special forces soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each for the massacre of more than 200 men, women and children." (Rodrigo Abd/AP) Soldiers Sentenced to More Than 6,000 Years in Guatemala Massacre Associated Press dispatch on MSNBC.com, August 3, 2011 "A Guatemalan court

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UN Condemns Syrian Attacks on Civilians Associated Press dispatch on MSNBC.com, August 3, 2011 "The UN Security Council has condemned Syrian authorities for attacking civilians and committing widespread human rights violations. After more than three months of deadlock and silence on the escalating violence in Syria, the council adopted a presidential statement Wednesday afternoon condemning

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"L-R: Ndiku Mutua, Jane Muthoni Mara and Wambugu Wa Nyingi claimed they were tortured." Mau Mau Kenyans Allowed to Sue UK Government By Dominic Casciani BBC Online, July 21, 2011 "Four elderly Kenyans have been told they can sue the Foreign Office for their alleged torture by British colonial authorities 50 years ago. The High Court said the group could seek damages over their treatment during

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Cambodia's Muslims Seek Justice for Genocide By International Justice Tribune Radio Netherlands Worldwide, July 18, 2011 "Zakaria Bin Ahmad cannot forget the years of horror under the brutal Khmer Rouge when even praying was to risk death for Cambodia's persecuted minority Muslims. Many others in his community did not survive the late 1970s reign of terror by the hardline communist regime, which

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"A handout photograph of Serbian war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic being arrested in Fruska Gora national park, west of Belgrade. He was the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes tribunal." (Politika newspaper) Goran Hadzic Capture a Milestone for Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal By Ian Traynor The Guardian, July 20, 2011 "The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal crowned 18 years of operations

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"Dying of shame: a Congolese rape victim, currently resident in Uganda. This man's wife has left him, as she was unable to accept what happened. He attempted suicide at the end of last year." (Will Storr/Observer) The Rape of Men By Will Storr The Observer, July 17, 2011 "Of all the secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a rumour. It is usually denied by the

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Argentine Torture Trial Ends with Life Sentences for Ex-military Leaders of Notorious Prison Associated Press dispatch in The Washington Post, July 14, 2011 "Two former military officers were convicted Thursday of murder, kidnapping and torture at one of the most notorious prisons run by Argentina's former dictatorship. Both got life sentences for crimes against humanity. There were very few

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"Telmo Hurtado is accused of killing 69 peasants in the 1980s." "Butcher of the Andes" Faces Trial in Peru The Telegraph, July 15, 2011 "A Peruvian ex-army officer known as the 'Butcher of the Andes' and accused of killing 69 peasants in the 1980s, was extradited to Peru from the United States late on Thursday to face charges, police said. Telmo Hurtado is accused of commanding a military

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"Comparison: 17 June - 4 July 2011." Clooney's Satellites Capture Piles of Bodies, Mass Graves in Sudan By Mark Benjamin Time.com, July 14, 2011 "George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project set up to monitor the spiraling violence in Sudan has a stunning report out today with convincing evidence showing ;a campaign of systematic mass killing of civilians in Kadugli, South Kordofan' in the

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"Syrian forces enter a village near the town of Jisr al-Shughour, north of Damascus." (Associated Press) Syrian Forces May Have Committed Crimes against Humanity The Telegraph, July 6, 2011 "Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity when they crushed protests in the town of Tel Kelakh in May, Amnesty International have claimed. Urging the United Nations to refer Syria to the

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"Dutch UN peacekeepers watch while Muslim refugees from Srebrenica gather in the village of Potocari in 1995." (Associated Press) Dutch State Responsible for Three Srebrenica Deaths, Says Court By Ian Traynor The Guardian, July 5, 2011 "Relatives of the victims of Europe's biggest massacre in decades won a landmark case, immense satisfaction, and the likelihood of substantial damages when a

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British Settlement of Sydney an "Invasion" By Jonathan Pearlman The Telegraph, June 28, 2011 "The British settlement of Sydney in 1788 has been officially declared an 'invasion', following strong pressure from the Aboriginal contingent of the city council. The City of Sydney voted 7-2 to remove the words 'European arrival' from documents and rejected a compromise plan to describe the First

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"Former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan, ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary, former social affairs minister Ieng Thirith and 'Brother Number Two' Nuon Chea went on trial for war crimes on Monday." (Reuters) Alleged Architects of Cambodia's "Killing Fields" Go on Trial Reuters dispatch on MSNBC.com, June 27, 2011 "Now old and infirm, the four top surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer

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Silence Lifted: The Untold Stories of Rape during the Holocaust By Jessica Ravitz CNN.com, June 24, 2011 "The soldiers came for her at night. They took the girl to a barrack and forced her to watch a woman get raped. The drunken men then set loose a dog to rip off the raped woman's breasts. Blood was everywhere. The woman passed out. The young witness was next. Five soldiers held her down and

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"The skulls of Rwandan victims rest on shelves at a genocide memorial inside the church at Ntarama just outside the capital Kigali." (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters) Rwandan Ex-Minister Becomes First Woman Convicted of Genocide Associated Press dispatch in The Guardian, June 24, 2011 "A former Rwandan minister became the first woman to be convicted of genocide when she and her son were given life

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In Sudan, Genocide Anew? By Eric Reeves The Washington Post, June 18, 2011 We are, once again, on the verge of genocidal counterinsurgency in Sudan. History must not be allowed to repeat itself. By early 2004, it was clear that the ideologically Arabist and Islamist regime in Khartoum was waging a genocidal counterinsurgency war throughout the western region of Darfur. Yet months passed before a

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Guatemala Arrests Ex-General in 1980s Killings Associated Press dispatch, June 17, 2011 "Guatemalan police on Friday arrested a former military chief of staff in the mass killing of government opponents during the country's 36-year civil war, the highest-ranking official yet detained for massacres in the 1980s. Retired Gen. Hector Mario Lopez, 81, was allegedly involved in about 200 massacres

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"Refugees from the Southern Kordofan region of Sudan gathered at a United Nations headquarters last week after ethnic clashes drove them from their homes." (Paul Banks/United Nations Mission in Sudan, via Associated Press) UN Officials Warn of a Growing "Panic" in Central Sudan as Violence Spreads By Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times, June 15, 2011 "United Nations officials warned on

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"The British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said he was shocked after seeing footage of attacks on civilians shown in the Channel 4 documentary." UK Calls for Sri Lanka to Probe "Killing Fields" War Crimes AllegationsBy Andrew Buncombe The Independent, June 16, 2011 "The British Government has renewed calls for an independent investigation into allegations of war crimes against Sri Lanka

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Left and Libertarian Right Cohabit in the Weird World of the Genocide Belittlers By George Monbiot The Guardian, June 13, 2011 "[...] [G]enocide denial is just as embarrassing to the left as it is to the libertarian right. Last week Edward Herman, an American professor of finance best known for co-authoring Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky, published a new book called The Srebrenica

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Sudan: Is a New Wave of Mass Crimes Underway? By Eric Reeves The New Republic, June 14, 2011 "As the July 9 date for the secession of South Sudan approaches, something very ugly is happening in Sudan. Northern Sudan has initiated a series of violent affronts on contested regions: the border region of Abyei last month, and now, South Kordofan, a northern state whose inhabitants mainly identify

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A "Toxic Mistrust" at Cambodia's Dysfunctional Genocide Trial By Andrew Buncombe The Independent, June 13, 2011 "It's increasingly clear that the genocide tribunal in Cambodia -- a court set up to investigate and prosecute senior members of the Khmer Rouge regime who were responsible for the deaths of unknown numbers of people -- is in nothing less than a state of utter crisis. At the heart of

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"Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi gives a speech in Rome in this August 30, 2010 file photo. International Criminal Court investigators have evidence linking Qaddafi to a policy of raping opponents and may bring separate charges on the issue, the ICC prosecutor said Wednesday." (Max Rossi/Reuters) ICC: Evidence Shows That Qaddafi Ordered Rape of Hundreds By Ariel Zirulnick The Christian Science

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"Adolf Hitler with fellow army dispatch runners in 1916. He was still working for the army in 1919 at the time of the 'Gemlich letter.'" (Beverly Grant/PA) Hitler's First Draft of the Holocaust: Unique Letter Goes on Show By Ed Pilkington The Guardian, June 7, 2011 "A document understood to be the only existing written statement by Adolf Hitler in which he set out his belief in a systematic

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"Vahidi is understood to have left Bolivia on Tuesday night." (Associated Press) Iran Defence Minister Forced to Leave Bolivia over 1994 Argentina Bombing By Robin Yapp The Telegraph, June 1, 2011 "Iran's defence minister was forced to leave Bolivia during a diplomatic trip after Argentina demanded his arrest in connection with the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires. Ahmad

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