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"Price Tag" Escalation Timeline: Jan 1 - present -

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

peacenow.org - By Lara Friedman - Feb. 14 (News Report) - The following is a timeline of major "Price Tag" attacks (as reported by Israeli sources). It documents a clear escalation in attacks, and the increasing spread of attacks inside the Green Line. Italics indicate so-called "triggers" - events or developments that appear to be linked to subsequent attacks. A recent Haaretz report noted: "According to the Shin Bet, the right-wing extremists no longer appear to need a 'trigger' to take action, while the targets of the violence are also widening..."

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Genocide-Linked General Otto Pérez Molina Poised to Become Guatemala's Next President

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - Human rights groups have accused Pérez of being directly involved in the systematic use of torture and acts of genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s. Pérez has run largely on a platform of using "an iron fist" to crack down on drug cartels. Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Mayan activist, Rigoberta Menchú, is one of nine other candidates challenging Pérez.

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Guatemalan Soldiers Sentenced to 6,060 Years in Prison for Role in 1982 Massacre

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 04 (News Report) - a Guatemalan judge has sentenced four of the soldiers who carried out the Dos Erres attack to 6,060 years of prison each, 30 years per person they killed. The court also found the soldiers guilty of crimes against human rights, adding another 30 years to their sentences. It is the latest step in a process to end impunity for those involved in the deaths or disappearances of more than 200,000 people in the 1980s and 1990s. However, human rights groups allege General Otto Pérez Molina, now a leading presidential candidate in Guatemala, was directly involved in the systematic use of torture and acts of genocide in the 1980s and could block pending cases if he is elected.

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Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Nazi Death Camp | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Southern Poverty Law Center - Sep. 24 (News) -

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The Holocaust

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wikipedia - Sep. 01 (Special Report) - The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος [holókaustos]: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[2] also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, Romanized HaShoah, "calamity"; Yiddish: חורבן, Romanized Churben or Hurban,[3] from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany.[4] The genocide of these six million people was a genocide of two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust.[5] Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including Romani, people with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents.[6] By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.[7] The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Romani were confined in overcrowded ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were systematically killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state".[8] Opinions differ on how much the civilian German population knew of the government conspiracy against the Jewish population. Most historians claim that the civilian population was not aware of the atrocities that happened in the camps. Robert Gellately however claims that the German government openly announced the conspiracy through the media, and that the German people were aware of every aspect of the conspiracy, except for the use of gas chambers.[9]

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Draft UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Peter Erlinder - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Rwanda is facing explosive allegations from the United Nations of committing war crimes and possibly even genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A leaked report from the UN high commissioner for human rights says that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Tutsi-led Rwandan troops and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group inside the Congo.

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Israel Fired On Gaza-Bound Ship Before Boarding (VIDEO)

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jun. 04 (News Report) - A reporter and producer for the Arabic news organization Al Jazeera who was on board the Gaza-bound aid flotilla during Monday's deadly raid gave a firsthand account of the grisly scene aboard the ship to the network Thursday. According to Jamal ElShayyal's account of the raid, the Israeli military had fired on the Mavi Marmara before boarding the ship. "It was evident there was definitely fire from the air, because one of the people who was killed was clearly shot from above -- he was shot, the bullet targeted him at the top of his head," ElShayyal said. "There was also fire coming from the sea as well." This account differs from the one given by the Israeli military. The reporter also describes being mistreated by officials alongside other civilians before his Thursday release.

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Walking With The Comrades

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

outlookindia.com - By Arundati Roy - Mar. 29 (Special Report) - There are many ways to describe Dantewada. It’s an oxymoron. It’s a border town smack in the heart of India. It’s the epicentre of a war. It’s an upside down, inside out town. In Dantewada, the police wear plain clothes and the rebels wear uniforms. The jail superintendent is in jail. The prisoners are free (three hundred of them escaped from the old town jail two years ago). Women who have been raped are in police custody. The rapists give speeches in the bazaar.

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Israeli War on Gaza: New Year Reopens Wounds of the Old

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Eva Bartlett - Dec. 30 (Special Report) - "Even now, I'm still so afraid for my children, afraid that another war will come. The UAVs (unmanned drones) are always over us, and often at night the helicopters come." In northern Gaza's Ezbet Beit Hanoun, families and friends of the Abd al- Dayem and Abu Jerrad families gather on Dec. 26, holding a candlelight vigil in remembrance of their sons, wives and husbands killed during a series of Israeli flechette (dart-bomb) attacks a year back.

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Rachel Was All, WTF Is Going On In Uganda? | Out in America Features

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

features.outinamerica.com - By Out In America - Dec. 01 (News Report) - Oh hey, Rach, we were wondering when Obama and Afghanistan would let up to give you some time to squeeze in some Uganda gay coverage! Like explaining how America’s leading faith-based bigots are shaping possible genocide of Uganda’s queers.

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Israel Authorizes 455 New Settlement Units

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Sep. 07 (News) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the construction of more than 450 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, his ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alexander Zaitchik - Jul. 08 (Investigative Report) - the time is nigh to accept that a massive culling of the human race is around the corner.

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Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Gregor MacLennan, Amy Goodman - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.

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The Storm Widens

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Dahr Jamail - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Just days after the aforementioned detention, Iraqi forces arrested two more Sahwa guards in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, which is controlled by their forces. In an article for Truthout last week, I voiced my concerns of these government attacks against Sahwa forces spreading. I am surprised at the rapidity at which this is occurring now, as this trend, if it continues, appears almost certain to spark a dramatic flare of sectarian violence in the capital city.

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Iraqi Army Turns on 'Sons of Iraq'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Leila Fadel - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-backed Iraqi government has struck against the “Sons of Iraq,” Sunni paramilitary fighters who have taken U.S. money to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq and who now believe they are being betrayed as the Americans prepare to withdraw.

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Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sundayherald.com - By Gabriel Ronay - Mar. 22 (News Report) - THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region.

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As Chinese Troops Seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama Warns Tibetan Identity 'Near Extinction'

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Antoaneta Bezlova - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In the run-up to the anniversary, Beijing launched a blitz propaganda campaign designed to drum up support for its policies of heavy investment and tight political control in Tibet. An exhibit showcasing the "democratic reforms" brought by China into Tibet opened at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on Feb. 24, while the China Central Television (CCTV) aired a three-part documentary featuring Tibet’s evolution from "autocracy to democracy," according to the People’s Daily.

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An Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir, Could Bush Be Next?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The court's decision grimly spelled out the suffering of the people of Darfur, a history full of murder, torture, rape, pillage and deliberate attacks on civilians. Could the ICC's decision set a precedent?

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A Handy Guide To What the Hell Just Happened in Darfur

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

humanitarianrelief.change.org - By Michael Kleinman - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Exciting past few days in Darfur-land, if by excitement you mean the very real possibility of millions of people suddenly starving. A quick guide to what happened, and what it means.

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Crisis Worsens for Civilians in Gaza

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Real News - Jan. 14 (News Report) - (VIDEO) Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, gives a first-hand report about the worsening humanitarian crisis, which includes shortages of water, food, gas and other fuels, amid fears that Israeli bombs will hit any vehicle that moves.

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Gaza officials: Massive sewage flood imminent

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

imemc.org - By Saed Bannoura - Jan. 10 (News Report) - Due to the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza, nearly 700,000 Palestinians have gone without water for days, and sewage pumping systems have stopped. In many places, raw sewage is running through the streets, and officials have warned that a massive sewage flood, like the one in 2007 that killed 5 people, could occur at any time.

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From Burma's Mountains to Carolina's Piedmont

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Project Report - By Eileen Mignoni - Jan. 07 (Special Report) - The Karen are an ethnic minority group from Myanmar. The Karen, and much of the world, know their homeland as Burma. Beginning in 1984, the military dictatorship has been systematically eradicating the Karen minority. Some of the Karen have bonded together into the Karen National Union, with a military branch called the Karen National Liberation Army dedicated to battling Myanmar's military and fighting for an independent Karen state.

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Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - If you see Palestinians as something less than civilized human beings: as "barbarians" -- just as if you see Americans as infidels warring with God or Jews as sub-human rats -- then it naturally follows that civilian deaths are irrelevant, perhaps even something to cheer. For people who think that way, arguments about "proportionality" won't even begin to resonate -- such concepts can't even be understood -- because the core premise, that excessive civilian deaths are horrible and should be avoided at all costs, isn't accepted. Why should a superior, civilized, peaceful society allow the welfare of violent, hateful barbarians to interfere with its objectives? How can the deaths or suffering of thousands of barbarians ever be weighed against the death of even a single civilized person?

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U.S. Branch of Amnesty Calls on Rice to Drop "Lopsided" Stance

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Jim Lobe - Jan. 04 (News Report) - The U.S. section of Amnesty International sent an "urgent" letter Friday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling on her to end what it called Washington's "lopsided response" to the ongoing Israeli air strikes on Gaza that have reportedly killed more than 400 Palestinians, including scores of unarmed civilians.

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Rafah - Report from the ground

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

therealnews.com - Jan. 01 (News Report) - Fida Qishta of Rafah, Gaza describes the past few days as Israeli bombing kills hundreds

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