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Europe remembers Sinti, Roma murdered under Nazi rule
Genocide survivors described the horrors. Deutsche Welle To this day, many of their descendants are refused compensation. “Dear Banetla, I…
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How Australia’s global gold standard on gun control is being eroded
It was a Sunday, and gun control advocate and expert Rebecca Peters was at home listening to the radio when…
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‘A specific kind of racism’: Atlanta shootings fuel fears over anti-sex-work ideology
On Tuesday night, a 21-year-old man named Robert Aaron Long allegedly went on a deadly rampage at three Atlanta spas,…
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How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
It is a fictionalised story, inspired, says director Stephen Maxwell Johnson, by “true history”. Authors: The Conversation At times, the…
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Years after a deadly massacre, these Yazidi survivors are finally burying their loved ones
They had waited years to bury the remains of their husbands, sons and brothers. Cradling fresh earth draped in Iraqi…
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Nigeria’s police: The lingering effects of a colonial massacre
When the ikoro sounded on the afternoon of 18 November 1949, schoolboy Godwin Aniagbo knew something was wrong. BBC In…
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Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians
Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing…
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Bosnia marks 25th anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide
SREBRENICA, Bosnia Herzegovina Anadolou Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, bidding…
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In 2020, sexual violence is still being used as a weapon of war – but there is a way to end it
On 19 June, we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict – a day set…
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New Zealand leader says nation changed after mosque attacks
Ardern was in Christchurch attending events to mark the anniversary of last year’s March 15 massacre, which she has described as one…
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More than 6,000 remains discovered in six mass graves in Burundi
It is the largest discovery since excavations were launched last month to find victims of ethnic violence. KIGALI – Anadolu…
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Surviving a Mass Shooting, the Capital Gazette Journalists Refuse to Be Silenced
No longer did any little sound—the buzz of a cell phone, a door opening—cause her, to twitch. Sean Gregory TIME…
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Mormon Family Massacre Stuns Mexico, Laying Bare Government’s Helplessness
The women and their children were taking a drive along a familiar rural road in northern Mexico when the gunmen…
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Justin Welby prostrates himself in apology for British massacre at Amritsar
The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when…
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East Timor and Australia: a Loveless Affair at Twenty
During the course of its history, the state has been pillaged and bombed, its residents massacred and its politicians spied…
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Wounds opened by Islamic State are still healing in Sinjar, five years after their terror began
The then 15-year-old was at home in Sinune in northern Iraq when her father arrived shaken, shouting that Islamic State…
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