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

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

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

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

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

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

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US Congress passed "starve or sell" bill pressuring Sioux to give up Black Hills

On August 15, 1876, two months after the Battle of Little Big Horn, the US Congress passed a "starve or sell" bill providing that no further appropriations would be made for the subsistence of the Sioux Indian nation unless they gave up the Black Hills, where General George C. Custer had found gold in 1874.
Learn more about the US seizure of the Black Hills and Sioux legal efforts to have the land returned.

Liberia and South Korea established

On August 15, 1824, a group of freed slaves from the United States founded Liberia. South Korea was also established on August 15 in 1948.
Read the constitutions of South Korea and Liberia.

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