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News Harvard report concludes Myanmar officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity
Harvard report concludes Myanmar officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity
Emelina Perez
November 7, 2014 02:18:23 pm

An investigation conducted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School determined three Myanmar Army commanders committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Thandaung Township, Kayin State, between January 2005 and December...

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ICC prosecutor: no charges in Israeli flotilla raid
Emelina Perez
November 6, 2014 02:39:30 pm

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda, said Thursday there is no reasonable basis to continue the investigation of a 2010 raid by the Israeli Defense Forces on flotilla vessels headed for...

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News UN experts: investigation of enforced disappearances tests Mexico’s capability to respond to human rights violations
UN experts: investigation of enforced disappearances tests Mexico’s capability to respond to human rights violations
Emelina Perez
October 11, 2014 07:57:21 am

Members of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said Friday that Mexico's investigation of the forty-three missing Guerrero students and the deaths of six other students in the state is a test of the...

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Twenty-sixth Amendment made US voting age 18

On June 30, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, making the legal voting age 18.

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On June 30, 1960, the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Soon afterward, the Congolese military mutinied, touching off the Congo Crisis that would compel UN and Belgian intervention and concluded with the installation of Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator of the country, which was renamed Zaire.

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