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163 'killed' in clashes with rebels in South Sudan
Africa Review
At least 163 fighters have been killed in the latest offensive against rebels in South Sudan, the military has said. ... As the 2011 referendum approached, Yau Yau signed a peace deal with the government and returned to the fold. He defected to ...

Toronto Star
Human Rights First Lauds US Support for Arms Trade Treaty
Human Rights First
Perhaps the most significant is the treaty text prohibiting transfers of heavy weapons and light arms to those countries where they would be used to attack civilians, commit genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes. “The U.S government is to be ...
Swiss Regret Arms Trade Treaty ImpasseEurasia Review
Optimism in UN over 1st global arms trade treatyR & D Magazine
Iran, NKorea try to block arms trade treatyCt Post

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Bombings in Sudan kill Christians, destroy church building
ChristianToday
"The government's Russian-made Antonov airplanes dropped bombs that killed six Christians on Jan. 9 and destroyed a church building on March 11, sources said. Since South Sudan split from Sudan in a 2011 referendum, Nuba people in Sudan's South ...

Times of India
Reflecting on Myanmar's religious strifes on Good Friday
Burma News International
The violence against Muslims in Meiktila, which then spread to Naypyitaw, Bago and threatened Yangon, is so serious it has drawn the attention of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. If it spreads and is not stopped, it could result in ...
Muslim homes ransacked in MyanmarUPI.com
Muslims Of Myanmar On The Edge Of Ethnic CleansingEurasia Review

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Salem-News.Com
Martyrdom Does Not help Sri Lanka's Tamils
Salem-News.Com
Genocide is a much abused word in protests and rallies in Tamil Nadu on Sri Lanka. In the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, it is explained in Article II: “...acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or ...

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Cambodian youth confront 'historical forgetting'
California Watch
Many of the girls' parents arrived in Long Beach in the early 1980s after fleeing the “killing fields” of the Khmer Rouge regime, a genocide that resulted in an estimated 1.7 to 2 million deaths. Survivors of unimaginable horror, many have kept their ...

Toronto Star
Swiss regret arms trade treaty impasse
swissinfo.ch
The treaty would – for the first time ever – set international standards for the sale of conventional weapons, tie trade to respect for human rights, the prevention of war crimes and the protection of civilians. Every year more than 500'000 people fall ...
Optimism in UN over 1st global arms trade treatyAlpena News
Iran, NKorea, Syria block adoption of UN arms trade treatyNewser

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InSerbia News (press release)
Hague tribunal jails 2 Bosnian Serb ex-officials
InSerbia News (press release)
In his initial appearance before the ICTY he pleaded not guilty to any of the charges. Zupljanin was a member of the four most wanted officials by the Hague tribunal, along with Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, his military chief Ratko Mladic ...

Over 100 prisoners awaiting trial in Lakes state
Sudan Tribune
South Sudan's president is also being criticised for having undermine the constitution as 60 days has elapsed since Dhuol replaced the previous governor and a new election has not been held. Sudan Tribune's sources indicate that Kiir will travel to ...

Mizzima News
Reflecting on Myanmar's religious strifes on Good Friday
Mizzima News
The violence against Muslims in Meiktila, which then spread to Naypyitaw, Bago and threatened Yangon, is so serious it has drawn the attention of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. If it spreads and is not stopped, it could result in ...
Muslim homes ransacked in MyanmarUPI.com
Muslims Of Myanmar On The Edge Of Ethnic CleansingEurasia Review

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UN authorizes offensive operation in Congo
Pioneer Press
JUBA, South Sudan -- A battle between South Sudan soldiers and rebels allegedly backed by neighboring Sudan killed 163 people, most of them rebels, government officials said Thursday. South Sudan's military spokesman, Col. ... BOSTON -- An at times ...

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Editorial: Europe must remember Bosnian Serb savagery
Arab News
There remain however the two big cases, the prosecution of the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic over atrocities committed during the conflict, including the Srebrenica massacre of 1995.

My Moinfo
South Sudan military says 163 killed in clashes
WGCL Atlanta
Yau Yau first rebelled against South Sudan after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in the 2010 general elections. He accused the ruling party of rigging the vote. In 2011 he accepted an amnesty offer and was promoted to a general. But last year he ...
South Sudan: 160 Killed in Border Clashes With RebelsRigzone
150 killed in S. Sudan battleEyewitness News
Bombings in Sudan kill Christians, destroy church buildingChristianToday
AllAfrica.com
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