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The other residential school runaways
Two boys escaping a [”]residential school[”] followed tragically in the footsteps of Chanie Wenjack. Their story was forgotten. Until now. By Michael Friscolanti.
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Life on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation
Where life expectancy is the second-lowest in the western hemisphere and 80 percent of people are unemployed. By Patrick Strickland. (Nov. 2, 2016)
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Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi still refuses to address Rohingya Muslim 'genocide'
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has vowed to work towards "peace and national reconciliation" but has refused to address accusations Rohingya Muslims in her country may be the victims of crimes against humanity. Ms Suu Kyi gave no specific details on how her government intends to resolve the violence and discrimination the long-persecuted Muslim minority face.
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The World’s Youngest Country Is ‘on the Brink’ of Genocide, Says U.N. Commission
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says that the country, which has been in a state of civil war for the duration of its three-year existence, is now “on the brink of catastrophe.” In a statement released on Dec. 1, the group said that following a visit in late November, it had observed the stage “being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda” in 1994 when 800,000 people were killed in a three-month period.
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75 people killed in renewed fighting and drone strikes in Yemen
The attacks included the first suspected US drone strikes under the Trump administration, according to Yemeni officials. By Lara Rebello. [Autoplay]
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Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for church's role in Rwanda genocide
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the Catholic church’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days of violence. The “sins and failings of the church and its members” had “disfigured the face” of Catholicism, he said. Speaking after meeting the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, the Vatican acknowledged that some Catholic priests and nuns had “succumbed to hatred and violence” by participating in the genocide.
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World Food Program 'horrified' as South Sudan workers killed
The World Food Program said Friday it is "horrified" to learn that three of its South Sudan workers were killed this week in violence in the western town of Wau, as the country's civil war continues under warnings of possible genocide. A statement from the U.N. agency said the three men had been contracted to work as porters and appear to have been killed Monday on their way to a WFP warehouse.
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Donald Trump recognizes slaughter of Armenians, avoids terming it ‘genocide’
President Trump paid tribute Monday to more than one million Armenians killed during the Ottoman Empire, but followed his predecessors in stopping short of calling the century-old killings a genocide. Mr. Trump called the deaths “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century,” with about 1.5 million Armenians “deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths” beginning in 1915.
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Will Donald Trump have the guts to call the Armenian genocide what it was?
There were thousands of eyewitness testimonies to these atrocities, including the burning of babies by Turkish gendarmes. And Trump, as we all know, cares very much about ‘beautiful babies.’ By Robert Fisk.
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A desperate escape
A closer look at the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, and their exodus to Bangladesh. By Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Wen Foo and Jin Wu.
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Brazil promises backing for beleaguered indigenous people
Brazil’s government brushed off criticism Wednesday that it is failing to protect vulnerable indigenous tribes in the wake of a bloody attack that left 13 people wounded.
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“Catastrophic”
Saudi Arabia’s expected military assault on major Yemen port will almost certainly cause mass starvation. By Peter Salisbury
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Donald Trump just put the US on the Sunni Muslim side of the bitter sectarian war with the Shias
It was crude stuff. President Trump called on 55 Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to drive out terrorism from their countries. He identified Iran as a despotic state and came near to calling for regime change, though Iran held a presidential election generally regarded as fair only two days previously. He denounced Hezbollah and lined up the US squarely on the side of the Sunni against the Shia in the sectarian proxy war that is tearing apart the Middle East. By Patrick Cockburn.
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In the Grand Canyon, uranium mining threatens a tribe’s survival
The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source. By Joanna Walters.
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Who Said It: Donald Trump Or Rwandan Hate Radio?
It’s fun genocide quiz time! By Alex Ruthrauff.
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Haunting Photos Of History’s First Concentration Camps, Forty Years Before The Holocaust
More than 100,000 were dragged into these camps. Many never made it out alive. By Mark Oliver.
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America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide
The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere. For years, violent Tutsi rebels, backed by Uganda in full knowledge of the CIA, had been preparing for war. By Helen C. Epstein.
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The odd, complicated history of Canadian Thanksgiving
Canada and America may argue over who was the first to hold a harvest festival, but both countries’ approaches to the national holiday are similar. By Christine Sismondo.
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 157 The mass grave for 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee
This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I will lay it out. The short version is that the United States has committed unspeakable genocide against indigenous …
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What America Taught the Nazis
In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States. By Ira Katznelson.
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