All describe, not rumours of massacres heard on social media, but actual massacres that they saw with their own eyes.
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But the Peterson incident also makes the opposite case—that even people who are trained to respond to massacres react in unpredictable ways when those massacres are actually underway.
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What can we do to prevent massacres in the future?
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It's the guns -- not mental disability -- that leads to massacres.
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She has tallied body counts after massacres in Sudan before.
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Massacres and fighting have driven thousands from their home villages.
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"At the end, all massacres are savage," Mirazón Lahr said.
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The fight to prevent future massacres is just getting started.
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Mr. Giraldo was arrested as a mastermind of the massacres.
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Still, the country has generally been safe from gun massacres.
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However, they are unlikely to end massacres or school shootings.
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But he ruled out wars or massacres as the cause.
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Massacres are routine again and no one can go back yet.
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Massacres are expected, and civilians have no obvious place to flee.
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But he offers no hope that future massacres can be averted.
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While Logan is passed out, William massacres every single Confederate solider.
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"Real massacres" are seen in the city, the war monitor reported.
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If our leaders continue to make excuses, these massacres will continue.
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The massacres led to a renewed focus on gun control laws.
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The Communists responded with military force, and there were terrible massacres.
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But men with similar profiles committed massacres in Nice and Munich.
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But what about equipping teachers with firearms to prevent school massacres?
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I saw so many massacres, rapes, and homes set on fire.
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An impressive chapter explains the buildup to the 21995-96 massacres.
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Indian courts have consistently acquitted most perpetrators of massacres of Dalits.
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In Syria, it massacres hundreds of members of the Sheitaat tribe.
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I flew into both cities in the aftermath of the massacres.
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When it comes to gun massacres, the US is an anomaly.
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The month began with gruesome massacres in El Paso and Dayton.
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And the massacres, well, they feel like a death in the family.
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Democratic leaders have moved cautiously since the Dayton and El Paso massacres.
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But when it comes to gun massacres, the US is an anomaly.
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Massacres of civilians are sadly common in Pakistan, but not in Punjab.
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That may make it harder to prevent similar massacres in the future.
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No one wants to spend their year covering a series of massacres.
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We have recently seen massacres in Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Baghdad and Dhaka.
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After massacres of Aboriginal Australians, police officers sold body parts to museums.
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No other advanced nation experiences frequent massacres the way we do. Why?
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Egypt suffered one of the worst civilian massacres in its modern history.
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Some told her of massacres by the security forces and allied mobs.
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Take Genghis Khan, best known for his rapid conquests and bloody massacres.
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That is a historical fact, recounted by people who survived the massacres.
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Instead, they say, the massacres were carried out by the Nigerian military.
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Indeed, the massacres in Ha My and My Lai were closely connected.
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Watak was just one of thousands killed in the massacres in Logar.
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It's possible that the relentless tide of recent massacres stayed their hand.
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His grandfather escaped the massacres by hiding in a hole for years.
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We cover wars, massacres and famines but are less focused on progress.
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A Hamas spokesman called the allegations "lies aimed at justifying the massacres".
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The wave of massacres comes in the context of a jump in homicides.
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Peterloo, in 1819, was one of the worst peacetime massacres in British history.
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It is engulfed by shooting horrors including school massacres and shopping mall atrocities.
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Tragic bookends in American history Two high school massacres, two communities changed forever.
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Authorities said both shooters used assault-style high-powered rifles in the massacres.
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Globally, restrictive gun laws have proven to make a difference in curbing massacres.
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The list of massacres the West swore would never happen again is long.
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Since 1991, over 90 percent of massacres have been in gun-free zones.
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State officials certainly applauded the massacres and often funded or rewarded the killers.
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The war's horrors have included mass rape, civilian massacres and killings at hospitals.
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The pair of massacres left at least 29 people dead and many injured.
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It is now "triggering" language and, according to Glaude, may actually cause massacres.
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There are few references to the accusations of ethnic cleansing or alleged massacres.
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Part of our agony is that so many of these massacres are preventable.
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Direct U.S. support for the massacres is by now a well-established fact.
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So, the lynching, the massacres of Muslims were all airbrushed out of the
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There are no references to the accusations of ethnic cleansing or alleged massacres.
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"Massacres are the narco-dictatorship's state policy," he said, accusing the security forces.
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Larger cells carried out massacres and skirmished with local militias and federal troops.
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A number of massacres in recent decades have gone largely or completely unexplained.
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The Sinaloa cartel has been at the center of several massacres this month.
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News of the massacres spread quickly as survivors streamed out of the countryside.
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A normal country is one that would not perpetrate terrorist massacres in Argentina.
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"British massacres … became highly effective assets in the Patriots' moral war," Hoock writes.
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African Union investigators have detailed accounts of massacres, mass rapes and forced cannibalism.
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Assault weapons were used in at least 11 of the 15 gun massacres since 2014; at least 234 of the 271 people who died in gun massacres since 2014 were killed by weapons prohibited under the federal assault weapons ban.
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A brief phase of Yugoslav command in 1945 included massacres that are still disputed.
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Allegations of massacres after Iraq's reconquest of Fallujah in June did little to reassure.
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Guns continue to be sold at the same stores where gun massacres have occurred.
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The language used to report and commemorate these massacres is sickeningly celebratory and familiar.
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Never a news photographer, Goldblatt did not capture the massacres at Sharpeville or Soweto.
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Congolese authorities have blamed the ADF for nearly all the massacres between 2014-2016.
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When she starts to look into her the massacres, she puts herself in danger.
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The group carried out massacres and documented them with slickly produced videos circulated online.
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There are still massacres today, but there are no more kidnappings of business people.
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For actress Kyra Sedgwick, America's regular gun massacres are a wrenching call to action.
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Mr. Barahira is accused of organizing and leading a meeting that planned the massacres.
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Further massacres are commemorated in chilling place names: Butchers Creek, Skull Creek, Slaughterhouse Gully.
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He presided over forces that carried out a string of massacres in opposition strongholds.
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We knew that 2017 would not mark the end of conflicts, massacres and terrorism.
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You've documented the massacres of Tibetans in the Chinese provinces in the late 1950s.
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Seventy-five people lost their lives in those massacres, and another 92 were injured.
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This story is the Chernobyl of European anti-Semitism: pogroms, persecutions, inquisitions, massacres, Holocaust.
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She reflected, too, on her typical response to the nation's litany of gun massacres.
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Human rights groups have recorded numerous examples of evidence of torture, mutilation and massacres.
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Organized criminal groups and drug cartels were suspects in each of these recent massacres.
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The massacres and the mass exodus from rural Djugu barely registered outside the region.
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Police departments stocked up on them after a string of massacres in the 22016s.
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The army carried out some of its deadliest massacres under the presidency of Gen.
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It has led to countless expulsions, murders, massacres and pogroms throughout Europe and elsewhere.
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It has also acquired a new mind-set that normalizes, even glorifies, mini-massacres.
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The tragedy drew calls for gun control, as such massacres have in the past.
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Take the case of Australia, which used to experience occasional American-style gun massacres.
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In the wake of church massacres in Charleston, S.C., and in Sutherland Springs, Tex.
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"It seems that under this deal they want to commit more massacres," he said.
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Yet such slow-motion massacres — concentrated in poor, minority neighborhoods — receive little national attention.
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Cabinet massacres of that scale are usually a sign of instability, even failing leadership.
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The groups ruled through terror in many areas, committing massacres, rape and mass displacements.
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His death is the third suicide in the past week related to school massacres.
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Between 1978 and 1996, there were 13 massacres in Australia; 104 people were killed.
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The army has also been implicated in several high-profile massacres in recent years.
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Clarification (June 27th): Some commenters have criticised our failure to term the Ottoman massacres "genocide".
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Of course, I know that the Colony has been a stage for disputes and massacres.
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The generals who ordered the massacres remain on the payroll and have faced no consequences.
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As a commander of Kuomintang (or Nationalist) troops, he was involved in massacres of Communists.
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Yet the people with mental disabilities in those countries are not committing gun massacres. Why?
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Americans could be forgiven for becoming numb to the swarm of stories reporting gun massacres.
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Beheadings, bodies burned in drums, mass graves, and massacres like the one ProPublica recently exposed.
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The ADF has been blamed for a wave of attacks and massacres in the area.
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Such massacres can spur debates about gun control, but they also increase demand for guns.
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Ryan is building an interactive map that shows where massacres have occurred across the country.
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It is inevitable that some will follow massacres like political carpetbaggers to make easy gains.
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Among them was a string of massacres in opposition strongholds, in which thousands were killed.
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They would represent a meaningful precautionary step, which the public favors after too many massacres.
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He ordered a violent crackdown that led to a string of massacres in opposition strongholds.
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He knows firsthand how Brett Kavanaugh's extreme views on guns could lead to more massacres.
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He is tainted by accusations of his involvement in the Matebeleland massacres in the 1980s.
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If the regime manages to enter this area, we are expecting massacres against the civilians.
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No large-scale massacres had occurred in the cities that his forces had recently recaptured.
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Look, I would love to not talk about gun massacres, but we can't ignore them.
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Massacres of members of that group, the Rohingya, are being reported in Myanmar, not Malaysia.
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Those names, the group said, were offensive because they referred to massacres of Indigenous people.
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My parents escaped the Soviet and Afghan Communist massacres in Logar in the early '80s.
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The recent massacres in El Paso, Midland and Odessa were very much on their minds.
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However, hundreds of people have died or been injured by gun massacres in our country.
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Subsequent UN reports about the body's handling of the massacres were critical of Annan's leadership.
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Political violence had become deadlier; at least 18 people were killed in two separate massacres.
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Such massacres have prompted debates about gun control, but they also increase demand for guns.
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We must find the courage to imagine a country where these massacres do not occur.
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Tens of thousands of refugees were streaming into Austria, fleeing terror, rape, massacres and starvation.
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Even hearing stories about massacres, a common currency in refugee camps, brings its own distress.
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Massacres, rapes, displacement of populations and other atrocities ensued, many in "ethnic cleansing" campaigns against Muslims.
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As a result, pogroms, rioting and massacres erupted in the provinces of Bengal and the Punjab.
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Is it his Counselor, who is willing to make up whole massacres to advance his agenda?
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Massacres in the capital of Juba sparked violence across the country, fracturing it along ethnic lines.
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An official Rwandan statement repeated the government's long-standing accusation of Catholic complicity in the massacres.
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In the days after the Paris terrorist attacks last November, world leaders denounced the shooting massacres.
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Since then the conflict has been punctuated by gruesome massacres of civilians and extreme sexual violence.
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"No one here has any idea about the massacres committed during the revolution," Mr López laments.
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Michael Stone, a forensic psychiatrist who studies mass shootings, references significant massacres in 1857 and 1900.
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As that might suggest, America is running out of superlatives to describe its frequent gun massacres.
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By "events," I mean more than the massacres at Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher and the Bataclan.
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Similar massacres are expected once the regime and its Russian allies focus their attention on Idlib.
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It was the deadliest school shooting and one of the deadliest gun massacres in U.S. history.
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Its statement said the authorities referred to Stearns' report about the massacres, without giving further detail.
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Death—whether in the form of the Holocaust or earlier, English, massacres—continued to obsess him.
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But the aftermath of Parkland and other massacres shows the double-edged sword of this power.
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The guns used in those massacres were purchased legally by other individuals from traditional gun sellers.
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The president's response to the massacres in Louisiana was to blame whites who supported black suffrage.
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When the war finally ended in 1996, the military had committed 626 massacres against the Maya.
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Meanwhile, many members of Indonesia's political, economic, and religious elite have direct ties to the massacres.
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During some massacres, sources told CRG, soldiers secured the perimeter so that victims could not escape.
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"People had been scared of the bombing on the markets the most, the massacres," he said.
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These bizarre cases, whether they be massacres or unusual crimes, are covered up every day now.
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After 2000, however, when paramilitary troops reportedly committed at least 1800 massacres, Washington shifted its perspective.
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Sadly, gun massacres account for but a small fraction of gunfire deaths in the United States.
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The FARDC deployments and operations by MONUSCO seemingly halted the massacres, but the damage was done.
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However, after Nkomo's death in 1999, Mugabe referred to the massacres as a "moment of madness".
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Last year, gang wars in prisons led to massacres that resulted in at least 125 deaths.
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Some have asked aid workers where they were when militias were carrying out massacres of civilians.
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In the early 19813s, military and paramilitary forces razed whole communities in massacres of untrammeled brutality.
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Thousands of people died in massacres that have stained the country's collective memory to this day.
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No other affluent country can match our massacres or, in the face of them, our paralysis.
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Soviet and government troops were accused of mass rape and massacres that wiped out whole villages.
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The massacres were largely ignored in the West, where a red scare was in full swing.
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Our only aim is to stop the Syrian regime's massacres, radical groups, the displacement of civilians.
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The tiny East African nation has suffered colonial occupation, civil war and decades of intermittent massacres.
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"The language used to report and commemorate these massacres is sickeningly celebratory and familiar," Hanif wrote.
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Government repression of its opposition worsened, and some incidents were condemned by international observers as massacres.
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Just letting Assad keep trying to restore control over all of Syria will mean endless massacres.
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Since the ban was lifted in 2004, gun massacres involving military-style weapons are way up.
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He condemns all massacres and human rights violations, and, in hindsight, has no discernible factional loyalty.
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"How many massacres until somebody says it's not worth it anymore?" asked the families' attorney, Josh Koskoff.
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Today, Iran is one of only two countries in the world that back Assad's massacres in Syria.
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The ban comes after the subreddit re-hosted videos of the recent mosque massacres in New Zealand.
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Thousands of Yazidis, a religious minority that lives mostly in northern Iraq, were killed in genocidal massacres.
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The reported massacres were a savage show of force as the coalition tightened its noose around Mosul.
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But since it is often the government carrying out the massacres, permission is often refused or delayed.
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There were numerous fights in the area surrounding us — battles and massacres and that sort of thing.
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And in no way are the horrific massacres happening to our children and in our schools acceptable.
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Two governments, two massacres In 20003, Taiwan was still, like today's PRC, under one-party authoritarian rule.
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The massacres have reignited the debate over what to do about the frequency of mass of shootings.
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Militia sometimes separates terrified residents by ethnicity and massacres those from rival tribes, the United Nations said.
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She noted that most presidents — including Clinton and Obama — face midterm massacres but then win re-elections.
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Read up on any number of historical massacres or medieval torture devices, and you'll get the point.
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There were lots of battles being fought at this time throughout the frontier, massacres all the time.
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Some of the bloodiest massacres happened in Java and Bali, but violence scarred most of the archipelago.
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They have been used in massacres in Orlando, Florida; San Bernardino, California; Newtown, Connecticut; and Aurora, Colorado.
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Often the massacres erupted as indiscriminate retribution after some starving Indians killed and ate a few cattle.
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But the massacres around the town of Beni were the most macabre and mysterious in recent memory.
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" France's former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner recently said, "The massacres did not take place only in 85033.
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What's easier to ascertain is that assassinations, massacres, and intimidation by the Klan and other groups worked.
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The violence in Logo Takpa was typical of the rolling wave of massacres that emptied Djugu territory.
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The military has a record of abuse, including indiscriminate massacres, in its hunt for Boko Haram members.
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Some of the tens of thousands who fled to Bangladesh told us of massacres by security forces.
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The vast majority of gun possessors, and many of those involved in massacres, would pass background checks.
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This is what it's come to — there are now Americans who have lived through two gun massacres.
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While ethnic Rakhine have been implicated in massacres of Rohingya, they are also among Myanmar's poorest populations.
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Mary González of Clint, who condemned Cain's remarks in the wake of recent massacres in the state.
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In recent days, Trump has pointed to mental health as the primary response to preventing future massacres.
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"Guns become doubly and triply deadly in these massacres because of these high-capacity magazines," said Sen.
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We must never accept that massacres, like the tragedy in Las Vegas are the price of freedom.
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Far-right massacres are actually leftist hoaxes, but Antifa will bludgeon any conservatives who dissent into submission.
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The massacres have led to renewed calls from Democrats for Congress to reform the nation's gun laws.
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Dianne Feinstein voiced frustration at a system that cannot agree to do anything after regular gun massacres.
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In recent days, Trump has pointed to mental health care as the primary response to preventing massacres.
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Most of those massacres were carried out with guns purchased legally by gunmen who passed background checks.
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Furthermore, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them; they're not school shootings or other public massacres.
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We do think that these massacres constituted genocide, and have used the term many times in the past.
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And, again, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them — they're not school shootings or dance-floor massacres.
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Its last known practitioner was the vicious Queen Raina, known for perpetrating massacres and killing her own sister.
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This, he said, would be "a policy that would invite massacres, not the stabilization of post-IS Syria."
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But a series of massacres and corruption scandals quickly put a stain on Peña Nieto's carefully crafted image.
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In Beni, a city in North Kivu, massacres of civilians and attacks on UN bases have killed hundreds.
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Jihadist terrorists, using semi-automatic rifles, have also carried out massacres in the United States in recent years.
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And subsequent massacres in the United States and abroad have shown how deadly their ideology continues to be.
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There have also been a number of non-gun massacres in the years since the Port Arthur massacre.
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And, again, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them — they're not school shootings or dance floor massacres.
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Others are reluctant to revisit the place where they were forced to witness massacres, sexual violence, or torture.
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Authorities have also accused the ADF of carrying out nearly all the massacres of the past three years.
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The guerrillas were unpopular after years of militant posturing, massacres, kidnappings, land mines and the recruitment of children.
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But before long, a series of massacres, mass disappearances and corruption scandals dashed Peña Nieto's carefully crafted image.
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What had happened between his arrival and the massacres that earned him the title "the butcher of Gippsland"?
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"There have been no massacres and no slaughters in our history," Mr Erdogan said a few years ago.
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It is the organization ensuring that massacres like the ones in El Paso and Dayton will happen again.
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In several past emergencies, United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan have been outnumbered and did not stop massacres.
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The historical evidence that terrorist attacks become blueprints for random massacres is slim, Dr. Gould and others said.
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They arouse human care and protectiveness even for a species that massacres songbirds and poses other environmental threats.
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On Wednesday, Amnesty International issued a travel advisory for the U.S. in the wake of the two massacres.
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In July, Ntaganda was found guilty of atrocities including ordering massacres, rape, sexual slavery and conscripting child soldiers.
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An ethnically driven civil war, accompanied by mass rape, massacres and now starvation, has left 50,000 people dead.
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In January, five mass graves were discovered in Myanmar, and reports of brutal civilian massacres continued to surface.
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The man accused of committing the New Zealand mosque massacres flashed this sign during his first court appearance.
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Survivors have recounted massacres in their villages in Rakhine State, both by government security forces and allied mobs.
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" Characters in García Márquez's novel, she points out, "die alone, en masse, in wars, massacres, executions, drownings, suicides.
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When will we decide that we can't accept massacres in our places of worship, schools, or at concerts?
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In the process, soldiers searching for Boko Haram militants have killed unarmed civilians in massacres described by survivors.
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Ethnic militias, some with government support, carry out massacres, which have pushed more people into the militants' arms.
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Other displays detail massacres carried out by Zionist and Israeli forces, like at Deir Yassin and Kafr Qassem.
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He was deposed in August 1983, and although the pace of the massacres slowed under his successor, Gen.
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A suicide in a Pennsylvania school hallway doesn't grab national attention the way those brutal, unthinkable massacres do.
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If you see the highlights of 2016, it's mostly European massacres, not the things that are happening in Syria.
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The candidates discussed gun control, referencing the recent infamous massacres in Florida at a nightclub and a high school.
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The report said massacres took the lives of thousands who were bound and executed or fatally shot while fleeing.
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"We promised that the day would come that arrests would be made in the Pike County massacres," DeWine said.
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A truth commission appointed by the UN spent eight months investigating claims of massacres, forced disappearances, rapes and torture.
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It follows a similar bill in Guatemala that could lead to the release of former soldiers convicted of massacres.
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What can we learn from the similarities between the massacres -- and that the KMT eventually apologized for 2/28?
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Calls for tighter restrictions on guns rise after U.S. shooting massacres but rarely lead to legal changes in Washington.
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Indeed, a decade that began with the promise of an "Arab Spring" has ended up spawning tyranny and massacres.
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That the Republican Party cannot see the wisdom of common-sense guns laws is just begging for bigger massacres.
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It was among the most shocking massacres in the American-led war in Afghanistan, and certainly the most baffling.
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It legitimized Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East and funded massacres and terror through sanctions relief and business contracts.
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Fighting over grazing land in central Mali this year has led to massacres and the displacement of 50,000 people.
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The incident sparked a spate of gang-related prison massacres that have killed at least 130 people this month.
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White supremacists are emboldened to spread and act on hate and increasingly commit assaults, murders and massacres of Jews.
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In both, the Chinese Communists used military might to crush popular uprisings, and both involved egregious massacres of civilians.
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Further massacres took the lives of tens of thousands of Jews, Romani (Gypsies), Ukrainians and members of others nationalities.
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Take, for example, jurisdiction: What happens if a Guatemalan mercenary massacres an Afghan family while on an American contract?
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"I've been here for a number of these massacres and Congress does not act," King told The Hill Monday.
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As career military officers, they have rarely given interviews and are not known to have commented on the massacres.
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The intervention ended with a decades-long civil war, a repressive dictatorship, and massacres of the country's indigenous populations.
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Trump has been a target of criticism in the wake of the massacres, particularly the shooting in El Paso.
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Suu Kyi does not control the army, which committed the massacres, but she has helped keep aid groups away.
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Although jurors condemned men for massacres in Charleston, S.C., where nine churchgoers were killed, and at Fort Hood, Tex.
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But it used its NRATV channel to argue to its members that more guns in schools could prevent massacres.
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So America, with its lax laws and abundance of firearms, makes it uniquely easy for people to commit massacres.
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Alex Jones makes a splash by claiming that school massacres are fake news, and the victims are really actors.
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Several Democratic 2020 candidates back gun control, calling for change after massacres in El Paso and Dayton this month.
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However, the Indonesian Communist Party remains banned in Indonesia, and discussion of the 1965-66 massacres is still taboo.
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The British retreated in 1842 after suffering 4,500 killed, amid massacres that preceded the invention of the roadside bomb.
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There may well be slaughters, massacres and abuses in the battle between Turkey and the Kurds in northern Syria.
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But it ran into controversy after several recent school shootings, including massacres at high schools in Santa Fe, Tex.
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The East African nation of 11 million people has suffered colonial occupation, civil war and decades of intermittent massacres.
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Using the Mother Jones mass shooting database, we identified the number of gun massacres over a 35-year period.
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Mass shooters don't commit massacres in the NRA's name, or for the purpose of advancing its particular political agenda.
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A figure of 50 bodies would make it one of the largest-ever massacres committed by the armed forces.
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Soldiers pillaged indigenous communities, raped women and girls, and stole children who survived massacres, putting hundreds up for adoption.
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The FBI issued a statement warning of the potential for copycat attacks by domestic extremists "inspired" by the massacres.
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Most enjoyable is the gusto with which everything is thrown into her story, from massacres to zombies to djinns.
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Democratic leaders might be supportive but view action on that issue alone as a tepid response to the massacres.
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There have been no gun massacres in Australia, and also a massive decline in suicides, since the legislation passed.
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A spree of massacres in Beni territory since 2014, most carried out with hatchets and machetes, killed about 1,000 people.
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The tit-for-tat massacres reached a peak as Uganda, under international pressure, withdrew its troops from Bunia in 2003.
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" So declares a character defending the Serbs (and their attendant massacres) in author Peter Handke's war play "Voyage by Dugout.
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Many of the dogs that live there today are descendants of those that survived massacres, long winters, and wild animals.
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The invitation is a sharp turnaround for Modi, who was once barred from the United States over massacres of Muslims.
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She realized, once she'd started researching massacres, how many of her peers were still deeply in denial about the past.
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More than 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the massacres — neighbors killed neighbors, there were even stories of husbands killing wives.
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But neoliberal America, it's worth noting, produces a lot more Isla Vista–style massacres than most other rich countries do.
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Native American tribes survived on bison by following herds, and massacres of the animals helped push Indian cultures into collapse.
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The massacres in Paris and Brussels occurred in jurisdictions which have quite strict gun regulations – no nefarious NRA negligence there.
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And Yaweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all.
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The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, was stacking the security forces with loyalists who carried out sectarian massacres.
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Since massacres including the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, more than 100 copycat plots and attacks have taken place.
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In the nearby city of Igdir, Turkey built a monument in 20133 to commemorate Turkish victims of 20th-century massacres.
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The area has been the scene of repeated massacres and at least 26 people died in an ambush in October.
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The troops "contributed to bringing stability and preventing massacres," Hollande said in a New Year's speech to the armed forces.
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The group has a history of cross-border fighting with the Ugandan army, attacks on peacekeepers and massacres of civilians.
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Myanmar's ethnic cleansing became impossible to hide with the exodus in August of Rohingya bearing stories of massacres and pogroms.
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The wave of massacres was ignored by the world, and the humanitarian crisis that followed was amplified by international neglect.
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Trump promised shortly after the back-to-back El Paso and Dayton massacres to push for universal background check legislation.
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Some Sri Lankan officials speculated that the attacks had been retaliation for the mosque massacres in New Zealand last month.
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We Syrians asked for help to end the massacres, to provide safe havens for civilians and to prosecute war criminals.
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Long before all that, I covered perhaps the first school shooting of our era of gun massacres — in Stockton, Calif.
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There's been minimal movement by Republicans in support of increased gun control in the wake of the most recent massacres.
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Alas, idealism is now a recessive gene in me after so many crushed hopes and covering one-too-many massacres.
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There are more than 30 million Kurds in the Middle East who have repeatedly faced persecution, discrimination and horrendous massacres.
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Asked at the Monday news conference by a Malian journalist why the French couldn't stop the massacres, Mr. Macron bristled.
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In November 2015, the African Union issued a harrowing report that documented massacres, rapes and a sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation.
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The Islamic State claimed credit, just as it did after the massacres at the Bardo museum and the Sousse resort.
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Jews have lived here for 3,700 years, despite repeated massacres, expulsions and occupations — by the Romans, Arabs, Crusaders and Ottomans.
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The Tunisian authorities have stepped up security at tourist resorts and say they have taken measures to prevent more massacres.
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The Evidence: 1988 Massacre in Iran Political prisoners were incarcerated, and eventually killed, at Evin Prison in the 1988 massacres.
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The tragedies were not due to a guns versus no guns or Republicans versus Democrats failure to prevent the massacres.
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Colombia's civil war was raging and leftist rebels roamed the countryside, committing massacres and extorting money from local ranch hands.
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"The consequence when they go in is massacres," said Keymer Ávila, an investigator with Provea, a Venezuelan human rights organization.
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With 40 children, the orphanage was overextended, and Peru's Maoist rebels, the Shining Path, were staging massacres in nearby cities.
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His team has deployed "alternative facts" about the crowd size at his inauguration, and terrorist massacres that never took place.
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They entered the drug business, and committed horrific crimes, including massacres, kidnappings, rapes, forced recruiting of child soldiers and much more.
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What am I supposed to say to a man who loafs around the apartment, day after day, watching rapes and massacres?
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Human rights organizations reported rampant government-approved executions, acts of torture and massacres from his rise to power until his fall.
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It was one of the deadliest U.S. school shootings in United States, where dozens of massacres have occurred in recent years.
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In other, so far unpublished research, Klarevas looked at whether clips holding more than 10 bullets were used in these massacres.
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In 2016, the systemic persecution of the Rohingya, the majority of whom are Muslim, escalated into wide-scale rapes and massacres.
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Victims of violence and slaughter, such as those attacked in anti-communist massacres in Indonesia in the 1960s, receive little justice.
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From there, the pope travels to the Ardeatine Caves, the site of one of the worst massacres of Nazi-occupied Rome.
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It's not mental disability that leads to our gun massacres as the NRA would have us believe -- it is the guns.
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Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah's leader, piled on the rhetoric against the Al Sauds on March 1st, accusing them of crimes and massacres.
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The Islamist ADF has long been active along the Congo-Uganda border and has been blamed for a spate of massacres.
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Killer Drone massacres icicles; gets taken out by balloons However, this maniacal creation probably isn't as dangerous as you might think.
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Along with the killings, this unraveling of daily life is his job - that's another attribute that makes these massacres like war.
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But in fact for years the West connived in the silence: America, Britain and other countries were aware of the massacres.
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Similarly, investigations into the massacres in Parkland, Florida, and Sutherland Springs, Texas, have turned up no connections to radical Islamist ideology.
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And then the ban expired and-- we have seen a rash of terrible-- killings and massacres-- using these weapons of war.
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Victims' families and survivors of massacres — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Tucson, Sandy Hook, Charleston, San Bernardino — traipse up to Capitol Hill.
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No, as the official version would have it, the political movement that authored the massacres also comprised their most notable victims.
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Among countless examples, the country's previous president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is a retired army officer who took part in the massacres.
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Villages burned The Rohingya who have arrived in Bangladesh have told harrowing stories of massacres, rape and widespread torching of villages.
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"Government forces discovered pre-existing plans for killings and responded by co-opting these groups and continuing the massacres," it said.
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But then the regulatory measures they propose, even when they poll well, often lack any direct connection to the massacres themselves.
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Many scholars believe it to have been a Jewish response to the massacres of Jews of the Rhineland during the Crusades.
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To be sure, homegrown terrorist massacres of recent years have driven home the message that it can happen to anyone, anywhere.
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He is believed to have played a key role in the Gukurahundi massacres of the Ndebele ethnic group in the 1980s.
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Massacres of Christians in Africa and the Middle East, for instance, often go relatively unnoticed or under-reported in the West.
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Often, they posted sham photos of corpses that they said were evidence of Rohingya-perpetrated massacres, said one of the people.
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But mass shootings are an issue that Obama has long been frustrated by, including multiple massacres during his time in office.
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In the 1970s, the Turkish government stepped in to prevent massacres of ethnic Turks by the Greek Cypriots despite Washington's objections.
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White supremacist mobs forcibly repressed black political activity, as seen in major "race riots" — white massacres of black people — in 1866.
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He echoed claims by Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister, that there will be "massacres" of civilians once the lockdown is lifted.
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According to ample testimony in American newspapers and private letters, the American troops in Mexico committed numerous massacres and other atrocities.
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By that stage, the two sides had fought to a stalemate in a bush war characterized by massacres, rape and looting.
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Western Europeans continued to largely shun the small North African country in the wake of two massacres of tourists in 2500.
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ISIS last year claimed responsibility for a number of high-profile massacres, including major attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
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The president voiced support in the days after Parkland for arming teachers with guns as a way to prevent further massacres.
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These school shootings — even if they don't look like the massacres that make national headlines — are inseparable from the larger crisis.
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In an exchange that's gotten much less attention, Swisher asked Zuckerberg how he felt about Facebook's role in the Rohingya massacres.
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Paramilitary groups in Colombia - originally funded by landowners to protect themselves from rebels - became violent organizations connected to drug trafficking and massacres.
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Even for this country that has suffered decades of war, accompanied by massacres, rape and pillage, the Kavumu events shock the conscience.
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Sales of the AR-15 surged after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban ended, and Klarevas found that gun massacres have since skyrocketed.
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"There are massacres taking place, people's throats are being slit ... villages are being burnt out, there's a scorched-earth policy," she said.
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Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich fled from the Khmer Rouge's regime's massacres and fled to the US with his family as a teenager.
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He had turned against the president after witnessing massacres of the Ndebele people, the country's second-largest ethnic group, in the 1980s.
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The conflict, which has spilled into other areas and involves regular massacres of civilians, undermines Mr Sisi's claim to have stabilised Egypt.
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They try to protect the integrity of old clothing, while Sophia massacres it with her alterations, and Gail wants her to stop.
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Some of these shootings, as in the Islamic State–inspired massacres in San Bernardino, California, and Orlando, Florida, are classified as terrorism.
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But as with massacres in Europe, it seems likely that the culprits were inspired by IS's propaganda rather than following direct orders.
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Likewise, the recent terrorist massacres in Belgium and Paris proved ISIS' ability to cross through Turkey into Europe to carry out attacks.
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The attacks by Palestinians have also been less deadly and less sophisticated than the suicide bombings or gun massacres in other places.
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Its violent crime rate, while the source of horrific massacres and mass disappearances, is lower than those of Venezuela, Brazil, or Colombia.
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He was accused of ordering a string of massacres in the early- to mid-1980s in opposition strongholds to consolidate his power.
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She had fled the thirteen-year-long civil war that tore her country apart, a series of revolts, coups, massacres, and betrayals.
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It is worth noting that the two biggest massacres in the last 40 years of Canadian history have been explicitly misogynist attacks.
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"To me, it didn't make sense to be in the same army that invades your country and massacres your people," he said.
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He has spoken sympathetically of the Chinese government's massacres of pro-democracy protesters in 1989, and of Saddam Hussein's approach to counterterrorism.
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The pattern of the violence was stark and offered the clearest indication that ethnic cleansing had been the motive behind the massacres.
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The N.R.A.'s practice is to keep a low profile after mass shootings, as it did after the massacres in Newtown, Conn.
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Poles would be "exposed to every horror that modern conflict could devise", including indiscriminate aerial bombing, and massacres of civilians and POWs.
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It returned toward the end, with the obliteration of King's Landing, to the idea that missions of liberation can become messianic massacres.
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He who occupies northern Cyprus, encroaches on Kurdish territory and massacres civilians in Afrin cannot preach to us on values and morals.
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The group has a history of cross-border fighting with the Ugandan army, attacks on United Nations peacekeepers and massacres of civilians.
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The nightmare scenario is for the Syrian government to take back control and reimpose its brutal regime of massacres and mass detentions.
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THE SURGE in terrorist attacks by white nationalists includes, this year, the massacres in Christchurch (51 dead) and El Paso (22 dead).
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He denied that the military was responsible for the massacres, contending that insurgents, "criminal elements" or cult members could be to blame.
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And despite what critics of gun control may assert, mental illness is not driving the alarming growth in fatalities from gun massacres.
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Such a journey would allow an exploration of this country's troubled past, of migrations and massacres and cultural treasures lost and rediscovered.
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The L.R.A. is notorious for its use of child soldiers but has also carried out massacres, sexual violence, mutilations, pillage and abductions.
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The massacres in San Bernardino and Orlando have ignited a push to deny firearms to those who are suspected of terrorist sympathies.
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And, yes, gun legislation under those circumstances should have been considered because there'd been a lot of massacres up to that point.
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Clinton has found her political groove by denouncing injustices like shooting massacres across the nation and the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich.
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And yet even after acknowledging that entire communities are being systematically murdered en masse, no one has been able to stop the massacres.
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Shop windows bore the phrase #VBStrong, a hashtag that has become commonplace after our American massacres, with just the sites of carnage changed.
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More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since August to escape persecution and massacres at the hands of Myanmar's security forces.
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Her efforts to end massacres by gangs in prisons have made her famous; she is sometimes tipped as a contender for the presidency.
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The president's first substantial remarks since the attacks over the weekend cited mental health issues, video games, and the internet for the massacres.
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So on Sunday — after massacres not quite 22020 hours apart in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio — John Hickenlooper's mind drifted to 2012.
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Al-Shabab have carried out massacres elsewhere in Kenya, but breaching the gilded suburbs of the enemy's citadel is particularly satisfying for them.
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Americans have good ideas to end these massacres and save lives; their conservative representatives have done nothing substantial to show that they care.
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A year later, Beni suffered the first of dozens of massacres that have killed up to 1,000 people over the past five years.
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After shooting massacres last weekend killed 31 people and wounded dozens, some politicians are once again turning to a familiar scapegoat: video games.
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We know this because in our own communities, Jewish and Muslim constituents have joined hands in solidarity and denounced these hate-filled massacres.
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"We know that previously such acts have been carried out in retaliation for massacres in Kurdistan," Cemil Bayik told a Kurdish news agency.
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You might say Congress gave voice to the American people, who have been horrified by massacres, decapitations, crucifixions and enslavement in the region.
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She had "intergenerational guilt", a sense that she was somehow implicated in the "Gippsland massacres", and a desire to understand what inspired them.
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Not only that, but the massacres and violence mean that people constantly enter and leave the region, making it hard to track disease.
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Saddam's literary side is often overlooked—an understandable omission when discussing someone responsible for horrific massacres—but it speaks to his divided character.
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In the 1980s, he oversaw the Gukurahundi massacres, a civil conflict during which thousands of Zimbabweans from the ethnic Ndele group were killed.
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In a recent email he sent out to those interested in his ideas, he listed numerous instances of massacres of African-American people.
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After Congress let a 1994 ban on assault weapons expire in 2004, gun massacres increased by 183%, and associated deaths went up 239%.
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The massacres together racked up a death toll of 31 and reignited a national debate about the role of guns in American life.
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In the wake of massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the president said Congress needed to pass "strong background checks" legislation.
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As with other school massacres, the students had much more to learn and accomplish, the teachers more to impart to their young charges.
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It was, in many ways, just another weekend in America, the only nation in the developed world where horrific gun massacres regularly occur.
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Sunni families and Shia families came to see one another as threats, and the militias committed massacres to drive out the other side.
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But in the years since the massacres at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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"The act of somebody who goes out and massacres a bunch of strangers, that's not the act of a healthy mind," Swanson said.
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My mother would tell me that her friends in college were arrested for reading a statement condemning massacres committed by the Iraqi dictator.
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But several recent prison massacres have been attributed to gangs battling to control drug-trafficking routes in the multibillion-dollar Amazon drug trade.
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They had been hired as contract workers by the United Nations to investigate rapes, massacres and the exploitation of Congo's vast natural resources.
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Meanwhile, Iranian citizens and human rights activists are increasingly calling for the perpetrators of massacres, past and present, to be brought to justice.
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They happened in America, a country where gun massacres are disturbingly common and where the government has done shockingly little to curb them.
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On Tuesday, Pashinyan led thousands of people through the capital Yerevan to a hilltop memorial dedicated to the victims of the 1915 massacres.
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Reports of civilian massacres have emerged in recent weeks as residents from areas previously sealed off by Boko Haram start to stream out.
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The poorly trained, unmotivated and badly led armies of these countries are subjected to repeated massacres by the jihadists who roam the desert.
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The massacres, the theft of land, the removal of children, the attempted assimilation and the mass imprisonment all trace back to this date.
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Kurdish civilians have endured multiple crackdowns and massacres over the last century, including in Saddam Hussein's Iraq and during the Syrian civil war.
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He documents a string of gratuitous massacres of Native Americans, much to be deeply regretted, but insists that official Washington never contemplated genocide.
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Zamani, like Zimbabwe, is a product not only of independence but of the Gukurahundi massacres and the decades of cover-up that followed.
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In their consolidation of power in the 1990s, they resorted to massacres and scorched-earth tactics as they wiped out pockets of resistance.
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Though assault weapons equipped with high-capacity magazines are not used in the majority of gun massacres — incidents where six or more people are shot to death — massacres that do involve them tend to be much deadlier, Rampage Nation author Louis Klarevas told VICE News in February, after a federal court upheld Maryland's ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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Yes, gun massacres happen, and suicides, and accidents, but the evil and sickness that drive people to homicide will find their outlet without guns.
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"These massacres occur almost daily in Brazil," said Father Valdir Silveira, director of Pastoral Carceraria, a Catholic center that monitors prison conditions in Brazil.
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Some of the ugliest massacres were committed in churches, missions and parishes where Tutsis who took shelter were hunted down by extremist Hutu militias.
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While Obama and his aides have cited group gains against ISIS, the massacres in Europe have shaken the American public's confidence in Obama's plans.
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He is best known for his rapid conquests and bloody massacres but the leadership lesson that the author draws relates to Genghis's meritocratic approach.
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In 2005, Durant created "Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington DC," which reproduced monuments around the country commemorating Native American massacres.
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He reportedly said he would issue presidential pardons for himself and all who helped with the civic cleanup or massacres, whichever term you prefer.
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The Baghdad bombing came after massacres at a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and security targets in Yemen.
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More than 220,0003 people have died on the battlefield or in massacres during the struggle between leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and government troops.
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U.S. President Donald Trump suggested during a meeting on Wednesday with surviving students that arming teachers and other staff could help prevent school massacres.
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Municipal elections would not usually cut much ice in a city that has seen it all; massacres, assassinations and a 15-year civil war.
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A national bookstore in New Zealand has pulled the self-help book written by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, following the Christchurch mosque massacres.
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So did many of the high-profile massacres, including a wild shootout between Texas biker gangs that left nine people dead and 18 wounded.
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The migrations and massacres of the day were accompanied by mass plundering of the evacuees' properties, and many fortunes were made through false claims.
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It was spared the scale of atrocities that befell Juba, where the conflict began, and Bor, where territorial battles led to massacres of civilians.
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These are but a few of the much larger number of human-rights-violating war and hate crime massacres committed here on U.S. soil.
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These two massacres rightfully garnered national media attention, but this is not always the case for gun violence and hate crimes in our country.
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Another rationale behind No Notoriety is that by denying coverage to the gunman and his ideas, journalists and public officials can prevent copycats massacres.
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He told of massacres and fires, of streets and roads littered with bodies, of forced marches that turned the city overnight into a graveyard.
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In between, Wendy Warren, an assistant professor of history at Princeton, scatters massacres, a rape, beheadings, brandings, whippings and numerous instances of forced exile.
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A small number of people with strong personal grievances appear to be mining massacres for methods and potential targets to plan their own rampages.
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Massacres — like one in 2002 in the town of Bojayá, where rebels killed 119 civilians while fighting paramilitaries — have been seared into Colombian memory.
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His candidacy has drawn warnings from both the left and the right about the potential rise of fascism in the U.S. • Resolutions on massacres.
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In 2007, Blackwater contractors killed 17 civilians in Baghdad, Iraq, in one of the most controversial massacres in the American war in that country.
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Jeffrey Winters, a political scientist at Northwestern University who has written about global oligarchy, is a leading expert on Indonesia and the 1965 massacres.
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Known as "The Crocodile" for his political cunning and longevity, Mnangagwa has been accused of orchestrating massacres in the 1980s, an allegation he denies.
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In the wake of the massacres, U.N. peacekeepers set up 12 short-lived "standing combat deployment" bases and five temporary military bases in Djugu.
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While Germany has previously acknowledged "moral responsibility" for the killings, it has avoided making an official apology for the massacres to avoid compensation claims.
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In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban stormed an army-run school, killing 140 people in one of the worst massacres in the country's modern history.
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When they read about massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Army, American editors and readers were apoplectic and demanded that Washington threaten military action.
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The most up-to-date map of the country's colonial violence, from the University of Newcastle, shows 383 massacres occurring from 1788 to 1930.
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Ms. Feinstein's claim that the ban drastically reduced gun massacres comes from analysis by Louis Klarevas, a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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The president also met with student survivors during a meeting at the White House, where the students pushed for action to prevent further massacres.
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The president's tweets Thursday morning came amid growing outcry among parents of shooting victims and survivors of massacres who want to tighten gun laws.
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Further, these massacres are are inexorably robbing us of our freedom to assemble in public places without the fear of being murdered or maimed.
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President Trump on Wednesday will hold a listening session with both students and teachers to discuss gun violence and how to prevent future massacres.
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But witnesses had few such doubts about the massacres last year in Marte, a dangerous region where military officials say operations against insurgents continue.
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And every single time it is traumatic to go over the massacres, racism, and genocide carried out against the people indigenous to this country.
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In the decade after the ban, there was a 347 percent increase in fatalities in gun massacres, even as overall violent crime continued downward.
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The simplicity of the question being raised by the Florida survivors about massacres is the key to its eventual political potential, according to Mukhopadhyay.
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Dingell said the background check bill, HR 1112, would provide additional time that would help prevent more massacres like the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
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I realize asking for rules in a world of alternative facts is naive, but here goes: Can we at least not make up massacres?
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It was already on the cusp of extinction, between population loss from Portuguese massacres and disease, and missionaries forbidding Manoki to speak their language.
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Recent arrests of two Reuters journalists who were uncovering information about massacres of Rohingya signaled a chilling throwback to practices under the military junta.
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My colleagues and I documented Myanmar Army-led massacres of civilians in all three townships of northern Rakhine State in August and September 2017.
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After a rash of massacres in schools and public spaces in recent years, congressional Democrats and some Republicans have pushed for stricter gun rules.
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There were the Sandinistas, the contras, El Salvador, Panama, massacres in Haiti, drug lords threatening the stability of Colombia and the Latin American debt crisis.
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The deeper reason is that critics of "politicizing" massacres actually are getting the government to act in a certain way — by not acting at all.
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"Often, they posted sham photos of corpses that they said were evidence of Rohingya-perpetrated massacres," the New York Times reported, according to a source.
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The massacres also amplified the scope of judicial and police control over French society, and created a far more receptive climate for tough police repression.
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Sales of semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 went through the roof, and so did the number and frequency of massacres committed with them.
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Mr Klarevas debunks the claims of John Lott, a conservative gun researcher, that laws allowing citizens to carry guns openly reduce the number of massacres.
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In his book Rampage Nation, published last year, Klarevas focused on what he calls "gun massacres" — shootings in which six or more people were killed.
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Starting in the 1950s Turkey's deep state sponsored killings, engineered riots, colluded with drug traffickers, staged "false flag" attacks and organised massacres of trade unionists.
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With gun laws tightening as a result of more Hungerford-style massacres, business drying up, and an increasingly nosy press, Ranger decided to go international.
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O have surged in recent years in part due to massacres like December's shooting in San Bernardino, California that have increased calls for gun control.
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"Those who carried out history's most merciless, bloody, vicious massacres during the first and second world wars should not lecture us on humanity," Erdogan said.
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This would create a blended plot that was both inspired and directed by ISIS, incorporating elements of the San Bernadino attack and the Paris massacres.
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Haneski and Cech, who each have two adult children, said the only way to stop such massacres was for Congress to tighten gun control laws.
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A series of nighttime massacres that began in October 2014, mostly carried out with hatchets and machetes by unidentified assailants, has killed hundreds of civilians.
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You've got to hand it to Kellyanne — despite her chronic deceitfulness, imaginary massacres, and full-on, multi-agency ethics investigations — this lady has hung on.
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The vast majority of scholars, as well as nearly 30 countries, agree that the massacres and forced deportations of the Armenians did amount to genocide.
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Such massacres were entirely the fault of women "and their thoughtless, stupid devotion to 'style,' " the conservationist William Hornaday wrote in the Times , in 1913.
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"He is a criminal who committed massacres against the Palestinian people and justified wars in Gaza," Hazem Qasem, a spokesman for Hamas, said by telephone.
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The cyberattack shocked France, coming on the heels of jihadist massacres at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket that left 17 dead.
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I visited refugee camps filled with desperate people displaced by war, and shook with fury and sorrow at news of massacres in Sarajevo and Srebrenica.
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The Crocodile is tainted for many Zimbabweans because of his alleged role in massacres committed by the North Korean trained fifth brigade in the 1980s.
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More than two decades after the massacres, the pain is still raw for many, especially for the 127 families who buried loved ones this year.
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Investigate the Loss of Land and Wealth ■ In the context of United States history, Native Americans have experienced great losses — broken treaties, massacres and deprivations.
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The International Criminal Court sentenced a former Congolese warlord guilty of ordering massacres, sexual slavery, and conscripting child soldiers to 30 years in prison Thursday.
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Over the course of the past week, I made a number of appearances on CNN, and attempted to explain causality in these two recent massacres.
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A new online map is documenting the massacres of Indigenous Australians by European colonists in the frontier wars, shedding light on the country's bloody past.
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It took four years for researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia to compile the map, which provides details on individual sites and massacres.
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In the wake of the weekend massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are pushing proposals to curb gun violence.
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In the past, it's almost always ended horribly, and nothing we can do now will erase a history of massacres, stolen land and broken treaties.
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Traces of indigenous culture are also notably harder to find, the result of massacres and mass resettlements; Tasmania's history in that regard is particularly bleak.
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Community leaders, local journalists, human rights activists, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) provided information on nearly 62 more massacres that fit the pattern of attacks.
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The back-to-back massacres are raising questions about the role of social media platforms in spreading content that promotes violence and white supremacist ideologies.
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Europe's is also a pedestrian culture, founded on squares and small streets, usually named after scholars and statesmen, famous for their works and their massacres.
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In 2009, Mr. Fujimori was sentenced for his role in two massacres that killed dozens of Peruvians in its effort to quash the Shining Path.
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The Pakistan Foreign Ministry and the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, deplored the violence against Rohingya refugees and called for an investigation of the reported massacres.
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Of note: We're now in the third week since the El Paso and Dayton shootings, and cable news coverage of the massacres has largely dissipated.
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More than two dozen people have been arrested over threats to commit mass attacks since massacres this month in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
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Doing so enables me -- and potentially many others -- to absorb the extent of the tragedy and the importance of preventing similar massacres from occurring again.
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While working on an article on civilian massacres by the Nigerian military, the photographer Ashley Gilbertson and I heard reports that soldiers were burning villages.
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Teresa Tyntalla Contreras, a 62-year-old candy vendor, said she lost a child in one of the massacres for which Mr. Fujimori was convicted.
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Most of the Burundians in Canada came in the 1990s, fleeing ethnic massacres between Hutus and Tutsis that spilled over from the genocide in Rwanda.
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Universal had canceled the release of "The Hunt" after shooting massacres in Ohio and Texas in August killed 31 people and wounded dozens of others.
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Among the cases that may be investigated are numerous massacres of civilians, the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero and the killing of six Jesuit priests.
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The bombing was the Shining Path's bloodiest attack in Lima and followed massacres in indigenous villages in the Andes and Amazon that resisted the group's control.
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"At other sites, where [other] chaotic massacres occurred, injuries are usually spread out over all areas of the skulls," Meyer told Live Science in an email.
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"This site provides a clearly differing pattern to other known massacres, representing a previously unknown practice of large-scale, male-targeted execution," Dyer told Live Science.
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The lawsuit comes as numerous states across the country are cracking down on firearm regulations in a purported effort to decrease the number of gun massacres.
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Not just the massacres carried out by the Roman legions in subduing Gaul, in which an estimated one million were killed, and a million more enslaved.
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Two decades later, it has proven not to be an isolated incident, but simply a larger entry in an ever-growing list of US gun massacres.
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To these will be added, as required, the Shia popular militias -- gangs drawn from Iraq's southern regions, hell-bent on revenge for the massacres of 2014.
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The Baghdad assault came just days after massacres at a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and security targets in Yemen.
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Paramilitary groups in Colombia - originally funded by landowners eager to protect themselves from rebel fighters - became violent organizations connected to drug trafficking, massacres and sexual violence.
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It has refused, for example, to allow it to send troops to stop massacres (often because it is the government that is carrying out those killings).
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Few free-speech advocates, even in Silicon Valley, are zealous enough to want to permit beheading videos from Islamic State or the live-streaming of massacres.
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Universal Pictures has canceled the release of "The Hunt" after shooting massacres in Ohio and Texas last weekend killed 31 people and wounded dozens of others.
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The massacres, torture and rape he inflicted on the Ndebele were on a larger scale than anything that occurred during the long war against white rule.
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President Donald Trump said Friday he is talking to congressional leaders about "meaningful" background checks in the wake of two shooting massacres that rocked the country.
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Mr Assad's next target is rebel-held Idlib, where thousands of civilians are hunkered down—and where new chemical massacres are likely if nothing is done.
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Thousands of civilians were killed in massacres, especially in rural areas, as the warring sides sought to prevent people from collaborating with or supporting enemy forces.
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One shooter massacres dozens in a gay nightclub; another kills African-Americans during a church Bible study; a third enters a Sikh temple, leaving members dead.
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Two other suspected Einsatzgruppe C members currently under investigation — 94-year-old Kurt Gosdek and 96-year-old Herbert Wahler — also deny participating in wartime massacres.
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Besides the Orlando attack, in the US there have also been the massacres by Muslims in San Bernardino, Ft Hood in 2009, Orlando, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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He visited the French capital weeks later for a climate summit and laid a white rose at the Bataclan theater, where one of the massacres occurred.
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Rwanda and Burundi, two small countries with Hutu majorities and Tutsi minorities, have seen large-scale ethnic massacres in 1959, 1963, 193, 1988, 1993 and 1994.
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They've grown up with a fear of terrorism and of school massacres, and have been drilled since a young age on how to survive such events.
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The Newtown killings and other deadly mass shootings have prompted national discussions about gun control, mental health and the possible legislative efforts to prevent future massacres.
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I've covered massacres in South Sudan, concentration camps in Myanmar and widespread stunting in India, but it's also important to acknowledge the backdrop of global progress.
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He said that Jews living in Europe had suffered massacres "every 10 to 15 years in some country since the 11th century and until the Holocaust".
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Trump's position on new gun laws has been murky in the aftermath of the violence, and he has reversed course following other massacres during his presidency.
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He has been accused of orchestrating a string of massacres in the early 1980s to consolidate Mugabe's power, when he served as the leader's spy chief.
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Disciples swore fealty to Mr. Kony, who became known for ordering village massacres, mutilating victims, kidnapping children for soldiering, and keeping a harem of prepubescent brides.
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That was the line that connected massacres in Sarajevo to atrocities in Sierra Leone to the systematic persecution of dissidents in places like Iran and Russia.
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President Donald Trump started off the week by mocking one of the worst Native American massacres in US history in order to score some political points.
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Fourteen Republicans opposed the legislation, the first major firearms-related bill Congress has voted on since the massacres in Las Vegas and Texas earlier this year.
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I hope they are right, but I am reminded of the massacres during Partition in 1947, when we didn't have bombs and had few automatic guns.
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L'assassinat d'Audin remonte à si loin, à avant la guerre civile algérienne des années 90, avec ses propres tortures, disparitions, massacres collectifs et ses 150,000 morts.
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Our South Asia bureau chief, Jeffrey Gettleman, recently spent time in the camps documenting what many there describe as massacres and atrocities targeting women and children.
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Prince Mohammed, for instance, could serenely supervise massacres in Yemen so long as he, exchanging his robes for blue jeans, promised to let Saudi women drive.
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But, in the decades during which he had presided over Libya, he had typically suppressed uprisings by killing their leaders, rather than by mounting wholesale massacres.
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Facebook: The company put restrictions on live-streaming, in its strongest response yet to the live video of the mosque massacres in New Zealand in March.
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Some young people, however, appear to have closely followed past massacres and concluded that they cannot wait for a teacher or security officer to protect them.
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A few days before the massacres in June, witnesses said, soldiers and local vigilantes surrounded the village of Ngubdori, a small farming community in the area.
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JUDITH MATLOFF Over three decades as a foreign correspondent, whether I was writing about rebellion or drug cartels or massacres, I invariably found myself in mountains.
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The Congolese government has blamed the ADF for attacks going back years, including dozens of night-time massacres since 2014 that have killed hundreds of civilians.
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Editorial Republican lawmakers and the National Rifle Association often attribute gun massacres to the country's inadequate mental health system, rather than the easy availability of firearms.
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One of the worst massacres of the 20th century, the killings in 1965 and 1966 have never been officially investigated and perpetrators have never faced justice.
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But the attack, he said, could be an answer to "massacres in Kurdistan", referring to the Kurdish region spanning parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
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With uncertainty about whether Congress will do anything this fall in response to the massacres, the private sector has started taking action to address gun violence.
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Site of a massacre One of the massacres detailed in the UN report occurred at Inn Din, which was the first stop on the media tour.
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By averting major disasters — defaults or massacres — the administration hopes that mere incremental declines, however rapid, will not trigger a backlash capable of bringing it down.
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We are at the point where there are enough school names to fill a memorial wall in D.C. And this only includes the schools with massacres.
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Beginning in 1999, Ku helped bring evidence of alleged South Korean massacres to light as a Vietnam-based correspondent for the weekly news magazine Hankyoreh 21.
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Born in 1903, Vartan survived waves of slaughter in his hometown — first the 1909 Adana massacres, then the Armenian Genocide — and died when I was 7.
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We witnessed this firsthand days later when we were escorted by the Congolese army back from Maze village, the site of one of the worst ethnic massacres.
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There were similar massacres in other villages in the area, hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children killed in the midst of the larger bloodbath sweeping Europe.
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A U.N. tribunal convicted Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war and sentenced him to life in prison.
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No one told me Halle would not be remembered on a list of synagogues massacres only because the terrorist lacked access to weapons capable of mass murder.
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Homicides reached a record high in 13, a foreseeable outcome after several years marked by mass disappearances and massacres committed by state forces alongside ubiquitous drug violence.
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By late 217, which saw massacres at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Santa Fe high schools, the pistol emoji had, with a few exceptions, been almost completely recast.
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One of Hussein's massacres stood out for its brutality: In 1988 some 5,000 people were killed in a sarin gas attack in the Kurdish town of Halabja.
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But the perpetrators of gun massacres cannot be deterred (most already plan to die); anyone can be a target, and protecting everyone all the time is impossible.
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To celebrate Christopher Columbus is to annually commemorate how European settlers wiped out indigenous peoples throughout the entire continent — through the spreading of diseases, slavery, and massacres.
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Mr Campbell argues that this was a methodical effort to wipe out Ethiopian resistance to Italian rule, more like later Nazi war crimes than earlier colonial massacres.
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The White House's plan is largely NRA-friendly — but the administration did not take similar action in the wake of massacres in Las Vegas or Sutherland Springs.
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Why it matters: Conventional wisdom was that such massacres would prompt gun aficionados to buy lots of new weapons and accessories, fearful of new federal firearms regulations.
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So what I'm trying to do is go, 'here's the evidence I've found, here's the number of massacres that I can stand up in court and defend.
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"We promised that the day would come when arrests would be made in the Pike County massacres," said DeWine, who won the Ohio governor's race last week.
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The rebels softened their stance in the original negotiation, publicly admitting for the first time they trafficked drugs, recruited minors and committed human rights violations, including massacres.
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And, should the Orlando and San Bernardino massacres be treated differently from other mass shootings because the shooters expressed their allegiance to ISIS — and if so, how?
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The pivot came just weeks after two back-to-back massacres in Texas and Ohio left dozens dead and reignited a national debate over gun-control measures.
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"He was saddened by the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Algiers, then a horrified witness to the massacres in Lubumbashi in the '90s," the family said.
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But many students -- including current Columbine students -- say their lives have been shaped by sporadic school massacres, and not enough has been done to help prevent them.
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The perpetrators of massacres in El Paso, Texas; Christchurch, New Zealand; and Poway, California, all posted to the site before going on to collectively murder 76 people.
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While he eventually restored laws and was re-elected in 1995, his government came increasingly under suspicion for corruption, attacks on political opponents and massacres of civilians.
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All too often more immediate crises such as school massacres, Russian hacking and North Korea push the planet-altering impact of climate change out of the news.
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Also on that dire list are massacres in 2016 at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando and in 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Instead, he boasted of "the love for me" among the people he visited in hospitals in El Paso and Dayton after the August massacres in those cities.
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A rebellion that resulted from persecution led to military massacres by Milosevic's forces and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the territory, precipitating the intervention by NATO.
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Soldiers and military-backed civilian, paramilitary and religious groups carried out the massacres, which came on the heels of a failed uprising within the Indonesian armed forces.
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Cruz, whose state witnessed two massacres over the past month, sidestepped questions Tuesday on whether he'd support a bill to mandate universal background checks on gun sales.
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Even though the Quinnipiac poll found that 97% of Americans support universal background checks, the momentum after gun massacres has a way of waning in subsequent weeks.
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The tiny East African nation is struggling to come to terms with a violent past, characterized by suffered colonial occupation, civil war and decades of intermittent massacres.
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In another decision, he ruled that massacres, torture and other atrocities committed by a government or a group could constitute crimes against humanity, even without a war.
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The White House's plan is largely NRA-friendly — but the White House did not take similar action in the wake of massacres in Las Vegas or Sutherland Springs.
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That band is all rhythm, all the time; and Thumper, aptly for its name perhaps, massacres any mellifluous melodies with percussion that pounds like jackhammers at the temples.
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Paramilitary groups in Colombia - originally funded by landowners eager to protect themselves from rebel fighters - became dreaded death squads linked to rural massacres, drug trafficking and sexual violence.
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In the 14th century, as plague swept across Europe, false accusations that Jews were responsible for the disease by deliberately poisoning wells, led to massacres of Jewish communities.
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"The president did not deny the massacres the Jews were subject to, including the Holocaust," Erekat said in a statement published on the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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Survivors of village massacres were forced to dance on their neighbours' mass graves, singing praise to the ruling party, Zanu-PF, in the language of the Shona majority.
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Trump travels to El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday to salute first responders to the weekend shooting massacres and spend time with survivors and grieving families.
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No atrocity -- whether it's the massacres at Sandy Hook and Aurora or the terrorist shooting at San Bernardino -- will jolt Congress into action or stop gun lobby obstructionism.
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A resulting seven decades of tension between Assamese speakers, indigenous tribes, and Bengali speakers over land, forest and language have led to horrific massacres and toxic identity politics.
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He and his former chief of intelligence were charged with responsibility for massacres in 15 Ixil Maya villages in which 1,771 unarmed men, women, and children were killed.
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Trump returns to the powerful lobby group's gathering Friday with national gun politics evolving after recent massacres but with the status quo of federal gun laws largely intact.
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A mass shooting in Virginia Beach left a dozen dead earlier this year, while massacres in Ohio, Texas and California also emboldened groups calling for tougher gun laws.
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At an excruciating meeting with parents who have lost children in school shootings, Donald Trump put forward a proposal he believed would help prevent massacres: Give teachers guns.
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Omar is one of two Democrats who voted "present" on a House resolution recognizing the systematic massacres of Armenian Christians that took place in the early 20th century.
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Massacres and ethnic cleansing on both sides ensued, killing more than 20,000 people and displacing about a million, mostly Azerbaijanis, before a cease-fire took hold in 1994.
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The massacres, carried out by soldiers and by military-backed civilian, paramilitary and religious groups, came on the heels of a failed uprising within the Indonesian armed forces.
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When it comes to limiting people's access to such weapons, he said, the US lags far behind its western peers in how they're working to prevent major massacres.
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Trump expressed no interest in limiting gun rights in the wake of shooting massacres like the one over the weekend at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Those who survived the massacres were turned into nonpersons; until 1967, the Constitution barred the counting of "aboriginal natives" for the census, erasing them from the public record.
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If we want to reduce these types of massacres in the future, we need a total ban on civilian ownership of assault weapons — lock, bump stock and barrel.
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A Times examination of mass shootings since the Virginia Tech attack in 22018 shows how credit cards have become a crucial part of the planning of these massacres.
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The two massacres have reverberated across the political arena, with Democratic presidential candidates calling for stricter gun laws and accusing President Donald Trump of stoking anti-immigrant tensions.
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The road from the border with Albania, which runs through the city of Gjakova and onto Prizren, is itself like a scar, a poignant reminder of wartime massacres.
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"People who are crazy should not be able to get firearms," she said, insisting that enforcement of mental health laws, not new gun restrictions, would prevent future massacres.
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Today, we can add a grim corollary to that definition: Insanity is staring at a decade of massacres across multiple continents while refusing to recognize the underlying cause.
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Ditto jihadist terrorist attacks, like the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January of that year and the massacres at the Bataclan theater and other locations around Paris in November.
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On Monday, Trump delivered an address at the White House, calling on the country to condemn white supremacy and vowing to take action to prevent further gun massacres.
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New Zealand Just weeks after the Christchurch mosque massacres in March, which left 50 dead, New Zealand's parliament voted almost unanimously to ban military-style semi-automatic weapons.
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We spoke on television, wrote articles, acted as fixers for foreign journalists, helped humanitarian organizations document massacres and critiqued shoddy international news coverage of Yemen on social media.
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Refugee experts say the situation in Ukraine pales in comparison with massacres and persecution of Yazidis, Kurds, Christians and Shiite Muslims in territories held by the Islamic State.
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From A.D. 900 to 1500, the fight for political, economic and religious control of the region caused warfare and massacres across Peru's northern coast as the state expanded.
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Special spirit Meet the 95-year-old World War II vet who took multiple buses to attend a solidarity march against racism after the New Zealand mosque massacres.
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In Montana, where gun ownership is deeply ingrained in the state's culture, Kathleen Williams won her Democratic primary and made prevention of gun massacres central to her platform.
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A truth commission investigated some of the worst massacres of the war, but El Salvador's Congress passed the amnesty law that impeded the prosecution of alleged war crimes.
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The Lebanese-born Phares has also been the subject of controversy over his past membership in a Christian militia with a record of massacres during Lebanon's civil war.
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"We can't count the massacres of the US and Israel," he scoffs, repeating what is a standard line of reasoning for many in this part of the world.
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Other than training cops to be more efficient killers, Grossman also tours the country to lecture schools on why video games are the real cause of school massacres.
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"The 26th of January is the day that the British came to invade, which led to massacres, the loss of land and the destruction of Aboriginal societies," Mundine said.
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Monitor Accuses Russia and Syria of 'Revenge Massacres' After Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 164 Back at the hospital, Arab-speaking translators are on hand to assist the Syrians pouring in.
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Grisly footage of fleeing refugees, the possibility of civilian massacres, and a US withdrawal that hands new regional clout to Russia and Iran could come back to haunt Trump.
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"The massacres committed by the US imperialist aggressors in Sinchon showed that they are cannibals seeking pleasure in slaughter," Kim said during a visit to the museum in 2014.
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Trump offered a frank admission after ISIS-inspired massacres in France and San Bernardino, California, last year that acts of terrorism and his strong response help his poll numbers.
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We counted all conflicts involving national armies in which at least 100 people per year were killed, excluding deaths from terrorism, massacres of civilians outside combat, starvation or disease.
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Forgetting is inextricably tied to endings, to forgiveness, and to death, and the book is at times wrenching: victors obscure inhuman massacres; Hyde's elderly mother has forgotten his name.
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Both Hasan and Mateen had been on the radar of the FBI for their militant views, yet both legally purchased the weapons they used to carry out their massacres.
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At the same time, Egypt also has a sizeable jihadist threat in the Sinai region, where an offshoot of Islamic State massacres Christians and Sufis (a minority Muslim sect).
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The White House plans to host technology companies on Friday for a discussion about the rise of violent online extremism days after the weekend massacres in Texas and Ohio.
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The Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar's western Rakhine state, have been subjected to decades of persecution in the Buddhist-majority nation, culminating in massacres in 2012.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Rainer Breul called for an investigation of reports of massacres and looting, and urged a return to a political process of ending the war in Syria.
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"You can call it genocide ... it was decades of attacks, massacres and epidemic deaths," said Stephen Baines, a University of Brasilia anthropologist who studied the group in the 1970s.
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"We have collected matching testimonies on the involvement of (army) soldiers in certain massacres and also several general testimonies of (army) officers that confirm this complicity," the report said.
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"This is the single most important thing I think we can do in the gun control area to stop these massacres from happening in the first place," he added.
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The ADF is an Islamist group that has long been active along the border and has been blamed for a wave of massacres there over the past two years.
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With such a long history of carrying out gun massacres, crazed brutality and hate crimes, why is anyone shocked by the same still being carried out by today's perpetrators?
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An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the political entity that was allied with the German Empire during the time of the Armenian massacres in 1915-16.
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The massacre, in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, was the last straw for Australians, following a decade of gun massacres which had left more than 100 people dead.
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There is no question that there were many atrocities, including rape, deportation and massacres of civilians, carried out by the Pakistani Army, aided at times by pro-Pakistani militias.
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The massacres of two world wars, the atrocities of the Holocaust and the gulags, have occurred despite the supposed existence of a divine source of love, truth and compassion.
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Moreover, while red flag laws could deter some violence, they would not necessarily have prevented many of the recent massacres by shooters who did not show such red flags.
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The FBI fielded more than 38,000 phone and online tips during the week after the shootings in the week after twin massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
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He has denied any involvement in the massacres, and did not offer fresh comment; but in the eyes of many voters he is still too tarnished to be electable.
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For that matter, was President Obama wrong two years ago when he ordered airstrikes near Mount Sinjar on the Iraq-Syria border, apparently averting genocidal massacres of Yazidi there?
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In the next few years, Peccerelli and the team got a clearer sense of how many massacres like Cuarto Pueblo had taken place — and how much work lay ahead.
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The grass-roots movement, dubbed "Never Again," has kept an extra layer of pressure on members to enact stricter gun laws and take other steps to prevent future massacres.
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Steve Kerr says he's legitimately fearful a shooter could walk into Warriors practice and start "spraying" him and the team ... after the latest massacres in Dayton and El Paso.
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Yet it is certain that the absence of inter-European help was deeply harmful not only in Brussels but also in staving off the massacres in Paris in November.
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A few Natives avoided getting shot by US soldiers, but between 30 and 40 drowned in that lake in what would become one of numerous massacres in the era.
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Chanuong led Kiir's presidential guard, known as the Tiger Battalion, and is under U.N. Security Council sanctions for his alleged role in massacres of hundreds of Nuer in 2013.
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But experts say the bombing was more likely carried out by a Salafist group like the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which have a long history of sectarian massacres.
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He went on to commit one of the deadliest school massacres in American history last month, killing 22016 people and wounding 83 more using a gun he bought legally.
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Changes in the killer's methods of mutilation remind Commissioner Roosevelt, who is present when the team examines the corpse, of massacres he witnessed during his time in the Dakotas.
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Ultimately, Islamist massacres transform the narrator's own city into "a lake of blood," which he flees for Italy to write the book we've just read and to go swimming.
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Then in 2015, two massacres of foreign tourists captured international attention — one at a museum in Tunis and the other at the beach resort of Sousse on the Mediterranean.
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The biggest of the dozen or so paramilitaries are the Rapid Support Forces, which grew out of the infamous janjaweed militia responsible for massacres in Darfur 15 years ago.
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Some argue that the recent massacres, serving as a reminder of the toll weapons like the one used in Newtown can have, could lend credence to the lawsuit's claims.
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"I'm angry because it seems like none of these murders or massacres hit close enough for anyone in a position to do something about this madness," Mr. Fischer said.
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The murder of Audin goes back so far, to before the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, with its own use of torture, disappearances, massacres and its 150,000 deaths.
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Pointing to massacres, including the most recent mass shooting that occurred in West Texas last weekend, the board pleaded with McConnell to take up legislation to address gun violence.
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Vocal gun advocates also worry about being tarred by association with fringe elements, such as those who commit massacres, and the regulatory backlash that often follows in their wake.
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Last month, my organization joined with eight Mexican NGOs to reveal widespread collusion between public officials and drug cartels, resulting in massacres, forced disappearances, torture and other brutal violence.
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After one of the 8chan-inspired massacres — I can't even remember which one, if I'm being honest — I struck up a conversation with a stranger at a coffee shop.
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Ms. Catalán and Mr. Sharp belonged to a panel of six experts authorized by the Security Council to investigate rapes, massacres and the exploitation of Congo's vast natural resources.
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Together we've covered massacres, genocide, sex trafficking and other tragedy and heartbreak around the globe, but these struggles hit so close to home because Yamhill and America are home.
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All sensible Americans agree that we must put an end to the massacres that have invaded our schools, airports, nightclubs, movie theaters, and anywhere else where innocent people gather.
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In response to the massacres of Shiites by Sunni insurgents, the Shiite militias unleashed death squads of their own and planted roadside bombs that killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers.
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Under his leadership, the group became known for macabre massacres and beheadings — often posted online on militant websites — and a strict adherence to an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
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His mercenaries, while paid to fight, were largely motivated by anti-communism and lust for adventure, crushing larger, less well-armed Congolese forces and sometimes saving civilians from massacres.
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When she told him Lahore, he was shocked and told her about the massacres that were taking place on trains going to Pakistan — my mother and father hadn't known.
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Nothing seemed to affect Clinton's standing, while in Nixon's case any number of significant events—Saturday Night Massacres, indictments, and press stories—had no incremental effect on public opinion.
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It has been pointed out, for example, that the great majority of gun crimes in America have nothing to do with schoolroom or movie-house massacres or the like.
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High-profile massacres can summon our attention, and galvanize demands for change, but in 20143 fatalities from mass shootings amounted to just two per cent of all gun deaths.
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Ted Cruz, whose state witnessed two massacres over the past month, sidestepped questions Tuesday on whether he'd get behind a bill to mandate universal background checks on gun sales.
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The Guatemalan authorities have arrested 210 retired army officers on charges of involvement in massacres and hundreds of forced disappearances at the height of the country's bitter civil war.
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"The detainees are alleged to have participated in 214 events related to massacres carried out between 21982-1986 in the context of internal armed conflict in Guatemala," Aldana said.
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"The detainees are alleged to have participated in 88 events related to massacres carried out between 1981-143 in the context of internal armed conflict in Guatemala," Aldana said.
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The theme is harder to avoid, however, in the wake of a major wave of prosecutions for massacres and forced disappearances that was launched just a week before the inauguration.
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted that Abbas had "reached a new low in attributing the cause of massacres of Jewish people over the years to their 'social behavior'".
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But the beard is a weapon, and he wields it like one, howling like a wounded animal out for blood as he massacres his enemies and revels in their demise.
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But though witches, ghosts, zombies, chainsaw-massacres, and Trump masks make for adequately scary symbols of the season, they pale in comparison to the frightfest offered by the wider universe.
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So maybe that's the answer: Starbucks launches StarBucks, its own branded cryptocurrency, and it just massacres Libra because we like and trust Starbucks, and we don't like or trust Facebook.
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The fighting, which began this weekend, is a fresh outbreak of violence for a region plagued by ethnic tensions and massacres that killed more than 800 people between 2014-2016.
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NATO helped end the Bosnian War after the Srebrenica massacres — when Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,000 Bosniaks — but the West hasn't really helped Bosnia get on its own two feet.
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" Murad, a Yazidi survivor and UN Goodwill Ambassador, said: "I am very happy to receive this positive news just one day after the third anniversary of the massacres in Kocho.
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The Roman persecution of the Christians, the Turkish massacres of Armenians, the extermination of millions of Jews and Poles by the Nazis are outstanding examples of the crime of genocide.
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Syrian opposition: 58 massacres of civilians by Russia The upheaval in northern Syria stems in large part from a major Syrian government offensive, backed by Russian air power, on Aleppo.
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The Lebanese-born Phares, who previously advised 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was also a high-ranking official in a Christian militia tied to massacres during Lebanon's civil war.
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The agreement exonerates from jail and prohibits extradition of FARC members responsible for atrocious crimes — massacres, kidnappings, and narcotrafficking — and also grants them the right to run for political office.
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The coalition has repeatedly clashed with Seleka groups and led frequent massacres against Muslim populations in the country over the course of its ruinous civil war, according to Amnesty International.
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The war in Colombia, the longest in the Americas, killed about 220,000 people and was marked by kidnappings, massacres and rapes that prompted five million Colombians to flee their homes.
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Sudan's former intelligence chief, Salah Gosh, former U.S. officials told me, had authority in 2005 over units carrying out massacres in Darfur, and could sometimes halt them at Washington's request.
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I am not the only one on this tragic reporting circuit, and I join my colleagues who have covered Charleston, Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech and so many other American massacres.
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The 1965 massacres, measured by the speed by which they metastasized and their number of fatalities, mark one of the most brutal and unfathomable reigns of political terror in history.
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Hundreds of civilians have died in inter-ethnic violence and a series of massacres by armed groups in Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-ravaged east, which borders Rwanda and Uganda.
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The Stockholm District Court found that the man, Claver Berinkindi, a Rwandan who obtained Swedish citizenship in 250, had participated in five massacres between April 215 and May 31, 1994.
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The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has poured resources into this campaign with the explicit intention to improve Israel's image abroad and silence outrage over its massacres and war crimes.
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Why it matters: The Rohingya people have been terrorized by their primarily Buddhist neighbors and elements of the military, with entire villages burned and reports of massacres and mass graves.
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"Legally exported US firearms have been used in massacres, disappearances, and by security forces that collude with criminal groups in Mexico on a broad scale," according to the Intercept report.
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We are not moved to write polemics against paganism when Homer has Odysseus slaughter Penelope's suitors, such massacres being as much a part of Homeric time as banquets and bards.
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The catastrophic crackdown by Myanmar's military that followed the attack saw the Rohingya flee en masse, arriving in Bangladesh with chilling accounts of massacres, systematic rape and torching of villages.
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VICE News traveled to New Zealand and met with police, a gun retailer, and gangs to assess the ongoing impact of the mosque massacres and the law reform that followed.
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In the past, Ms. Feinstein has referenced an analysis by Louis Klarevas, a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston, that found the assault weapons ban drastically reduced gun massacres.
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"The scenes of the massacres in the two mosques should wake up those who were fooled, and should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion," he said.
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The march ended at the Martyrs Cemetery near the Shatila camp, a reminder of one of the worst massacres of Lebanon's civil war — a mass killing of Palestinians by Lebanese.
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Roméo Dallaire, heading a modest force of 2,500 United Nations troops, sought permission from Mr. Annan's office to raid an arms cache that he believed would be used in massacres.
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The development also comes as the N.R.A. has been buffeted by challenges, among them the proliferation of mass shootings, including recent massacres at a Pittsburgh synagogue and a California bar.
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The Old Testament has its Noahs and Lots, figures that God spares so their tales of floods, plagues, famines and massacres can be told, their lessons absorbed by the living.
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There was also a series of photographs and videos depicting migrants walking in a line with their hands behind their heads, like hostages, and scenes from a number of massacres.
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There were 36 massacres - defined as the killing of more than four people - in Colombia last year, the highest figure in the last five years, the U.N. rights office said.
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That force is under increasing criticism in some of the countries for failing to halt recurring massacres of local armies' troops, and there have been calls for it to leave.
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Rwandans living in France who are suspected of perpetrating the genocide — including the then-president's wife, thought to have been a mastermind of the massacres — have also largely escaped prosecution.
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On Thursday night, at an event with Bangladesh's president, he crept up to the word Rohingya, talking about Rakhine State where massacres, systematic rape and burning of villages have occurred.
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"The only common denominator in all these tragic massacres that have plagued our country has been exposure to violent video games," he wrote in an editorial for The Daily Beast.
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His remarks, betraying his frustration at the failure of lawmakers to act, had more in common with his response to gun massacres than his more intellectual approach to talking about terrorism.
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The artists performed the hit song "1-800-273-8255" during the In Memoriam program, which featured tributes to late stars including Tom Petty, Chuck Berry and victims of concert massacres.
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But the massacres perpetrated by al-Baghdadi's foot soldiers — roughly 1,700 French citizens joined the Islamic State, of whom perhaps 700 were fighters — exacerbated the split between France and its Muslims.
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In quiet ways far too complex to hold Trump's interest, Muslims in the United States and around the world are helping every day to prevent massacres such as Orlando from happening.
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In the city of Villavicencio, Francis will hold a prayer meeting with 6,33 survivors of a brutal conflict that has left millions scarred by kidnappings, massacres, rape, land mines and displacement.
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American politicians have historically been wary of angering Turkey, a NATO ally that has never acknowledged the full extent of the massacres — and has emphatically denied that what happened was genocide.
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"To this terrorist group, they also give impunity, and political legitimacy to all its actors, including those responsible for massacres [and] the most severe offenses, and crimes against humanity," Uribe said.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida Atlantic University has dismissed a professor who said massacres at a Connecticut elementary school and a county office building in San Bernardino, California, were staged, the university said.
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In 1983, Mugabe launched a brutal campaign against Nkomo&aposs supporters in the southern provinces that became known as the Matabeleland massacres in which 10,000 to 20,000 Ndebele people were killed.
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Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003, was accused by an Iraqi court of committing numerous massacres during his rule.
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And while the Commission's concern was extended to include investigations of all massacres, the Security Council could not agree on the Commission's proposal to refer the Syrian case to the ICC.
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A survivor of the mass shooting Friday morning at a Texas high school says the tragedy was not surprising to her given the prevalence of gun massacres in the United States.
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The country's military was fighting the Marxist "FARC" guerrillas, but turning a blind eye both to cocaine trafficking by paramilitary groups and to massacres and torture they committed to gain ground.
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The comments from Ryan and other top Republican lawmakers are significant because efforts to pass new gun control measures following massacres in Orlando, Florida, Newtown, Connecticut, and elsewhere failed in Congress.
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PARIS — Two former mayors from Rwanda went on trial in Paris on Tuesday for their suspected role in massacres of ethnic Tutsi in the early stages of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Shiri is known to many Zimbabweans as the former commander of the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, which played a major role in massacres in western Zimbabwe's Matabeleland in the 1980s.
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There are no known instances in the last 15 years of American-led forces deliberately targeting noncombatants or allied troops in airstrikes (though there have been massacres by American ground troops).
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In June, Germany's Parliament passed a resolution declaring the mass deportations and massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians and Assyrians in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire a genocide.
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Hundreds of civilians have died over the past year in inter-communal violence and a series of massacres by armed groups in Congo's North Kivu province, which borders Rwanda and Uganda.
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Congo government spokesman Lambert Mende said a number of high-ranking officers had been convicted for their roles in the massacres but criticized CRG for "trying to revive an old affair".
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