Monday, December 31, 2012

Rwanda / United Nations / United States

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Rwanda's Rampaging Rebel Force By Philippe Bolopion The New York Times, December 28, 2012 "Few countries dare challenge the Sec...

United States / Macedonia / Torture / The "War on Terror"

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"The European court of human rights has ruled German citizen Khaled el-Masri was tortured by CIA agents, the first time the court ha...

Syria / Gendercide

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Dozens of Tortured Bodies Found in Damascus Agence France-Presse dispatch on Yahoo! News, December 31, 2012 "Dozens of tortured bo...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Nigeria / Gendercide

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In Nigeria, Trapped between Islamist Radicals and Security Forces By Sudarsan Raghavan The Washington Post, December 30, 2012 "The ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

India / Rape as Crime against Humanity

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"Protesters shield themselves as Indian police beat them with sticks during a violent demonstration near the India Gate against a ga...
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Chile / National Tribunals

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(Victor Jara Foundation / via Reuters) Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer's 1973 Murder After Military Coup By Pascale Bonnefoy...
Friday, December 28, 2012

France / Algeria / Colonialism

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"French President François Hollande delivers a speech at a university in Tlemcen on the last day of his two-day official visit to Al...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Bahrain / United States

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Bahrain, A Brutal Ally By Zainab al-Khawaja The New York Times, December 25, 2012 "Earlier this month, Aqeel Abdul Mohsen, 19, was ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Burma-Myanmar / Rohingya / United Nations

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"A Muslim woman, displaced by recent violence in Kyukphyu township, cries after arriving at the Thaechaung refugee camp outside of S...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Canada / Indigenous Peoples / Apartheid

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"Chief Theresa Spence has been on hunger strike in a teepee across from parliament since 11 December." (Chris Wattie/Reuters) ...

Kenya / United Kingdom / Torture

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"From left: Wambugu Wa Nyingi, Jane Muthoni Mara and Paulo Muoka Nzili outside the high court in London." (Peter Macdiarmid/Get...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Indonesia / Genocide and Memory

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Indonesia's Killing Fields AlJazeera.com, December 21, 2012 "It was one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century, well h...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Syria / United Nations / Genocide Prevention

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"Syrian rebels stand in position near to road blocks and obstacles along a main though fare in Tel Abyad, Syria, Friday, Oct. 5, 201...

Rwanda / Genocide Tribunals

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"Former Rwandan Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware, right, sits next to his lawyer Cecil John Maruma during his first appearanc...

Kenya

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"Kenyan medics treat a woman and child injured in violence between the Pokomo tribe and the semi-nomadic Orma people." (Joseph ...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Algeria / France / Colonialism

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"France's President Francois Hollande gives a speech at the Palais des Nations in Algiers on the second day of a two-day officia...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Serbia / Rape in Genocide

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Bosnian War Rape Victims Suffer in Silence, Wait for Justice By Maja Zuvela Reuters dispatch in The New York Times, December 19, 2012 ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Iraq / United States

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(Christian Werner/Der Spiegel) Are US Munitions to Blame for Basra Birth Defects? By Alexander Smoltczyk Spiegel Online, December 18,...

D.R. Congo / International Criminal Court

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"Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui in the courtroom during his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Tuesday." (Reuters...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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"A member of the Congolese M23 rebel group slept in the back of a truck as the rebels waited to withdraw on Dec. 1 from Goma, in eas...