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Published: Thursday October 16, 2008
Spain’s leading judge agreed on Thursday to investigate the disappearances of tens thousands of people during the 1936-39 civil war and the ensuing Franco dictatorship, many of whom are believed to be buried in mass graves.
Baltasar Garzon ordered the opening of mass graves in 19 locations, including one near the southern [...]
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently became the first Bush administration official to admit that high-level discussions of the use of torture had taken place in 2002 and 2003.
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Nick Juliano
Published: Monday September 22, 2008
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the Bush administration to hand over photos depicting abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing the American Civil Liberties Union a victory in an ongoing public records lawsuit filed against the Pentagon.
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A Bosnian Muslim said she felt she still could not return home
By Allan Little
BBC News, Bosnia
In the old days we would trot along to see Radovan Karadzic often. He would see us at the drop of a hat.
He was affable, jocular, hugely confident that what he was doing was right.
From time [...]
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Stephen C. Webster
Published: Monday September 15, 2008
On Saturday morning in Andover, Massachusetts, as about 120 activists, adademics, constitutional scholars, public officials and legal experts gathered in the Wyndham hotel, the building suddenly went dark.
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· Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells
· No money to improve conditions, says ministry
Jonathan Steele in Baghdad
The Guardian,
Monday September 8 2008
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, [...]
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For weeks, the U.S. military has denied charges that its Aug. 22 attack on Azizabad, Afghanistan killed scores of civilians, despite the fact that Afghan witnesses, the United Nations, and other human rights and international officials all say roughly 90 villagers were killed. Yesterday, the military reversed course and requested an investigation into the [...]
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) — U.S. officials say the 11-year-old American son of a suspected Pakistani militant is being held by authorities in Afghanistan.
Among the many oddities of the U.S.’s first war crimes trial since World War II is this: The war crime for which Salim Hamdan was convicted, material support of terrorism, has never before been considered a war crime.read more | digg story
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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his “deal”, the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
The newspaper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for keeping a low profile.
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order…John V. Lindsay
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