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TIMELINE-Serbia's troubled path to EU accession talks
ReutersApril 22 (Reuters) - The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, recommended on Monday that the bloc begin membership negotiations with Serbia, a milestone in the country's transformation from pariah state under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic. If...Tags: Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, War Crimes, Police Arrests
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Armenian billboards put touchy topic on the road
Four striking billboards, crowded in among beer and cosmetic surgery ads along two South Florida highways, contain one sentence starkly lettered in white on a black background: "Thank you for officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide — April 24,...
Tags: Pompano Beach, Human Rights, Murder, Christian Orthodoxy, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Armenian genocide commemoration events scheduled citywide
Several events commemorating the anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be held in Glendale over the next several days. The genocide resulted in the murder of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1918. The main local...Tags: Genocide, Human Interest, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey
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Protests follow judges' rulings in Guatemalan war crimes trial
MEXICO CITY – Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations. On Friday, Judge Jazmin...
Tags: Human Rights, Justice System, International Law, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Guatemala war crimes trial rulings spur protests
MEXICO CITY — Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations around the world. On Friday,...
Tags: Human Rights, Justice System, Witnesses, International Law, Politics
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Rios Montt genocide trial up in air as Guatemalan judges squabble
ReutersBy Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY, April 19 (Reuters) - The genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was mired in uncertainty on Friday as judges squabbled over who should hear the case following an order to annul nearly a year-and-a-...Tags: Lawyers, Human Rights, Yasmin (drug), Justice System, International Law
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Halt to genocide trial in Guatemala is blow to victims - UN
ReutersBy Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, April 19 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office voiced alarm on Friday at the suspension of the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, calling it a blow to victims of atrocities who have...Tags: Lawyers, Human Rights, Criminals, Justice System, International Law
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Ex-Marine charged with hate crime in beating outside gay bar
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.An ex-Marine accused of committing a hate crime outside a gay bar in Long Beach will be extradited from Illinois to face prosecution in L.A. County, officials aid. John Kelly O’Leary, 21, was arrested Monday night in the Chicago suburb of...Tags: Evergreen Park, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Trials
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...Tags: Lawyers, Human Rights, Book, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Again, Rep. Schiff urges Obama to officially recognize Armenian genocide
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Wednesday once again called on President Obama to officially recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 – a request that for years has gone unfulfilled amid political pressure from a key NATO ally, Turkey. The...
Tags: Barack Obama, Adam Schiff, World War I (1914-1918), Genocide, NATO
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Armenia, Tourism and Leisure, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yerevan (Armenia), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Walk to End Genocide to be held Sunday in West L.A.
A charity walk to raise money and awareness for survivors of genocide around the world will take place Sunday in the Fairfax district. The seventh annual Walk to End Genocide will start at Pan Pacific Park in the 7600 block of Beverly Boulevard....Tags: Auction Service, Genocide, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Meningitis
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