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Jun 02, 2010	New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say QUOTE: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to ensure Israel’s security while allowing more supplies into the impoverished Palestinian area....Since the botched raid that killed nine activists on Monday, the Israeli government has said that the blockade was necessary to protect Israel against the infiltration into Gaza of weapons and fighters sponsored by Iran.	New York Times
Apr 01, 2010	Serbia’s Honest Apology QUOTE: The resolution, therefore, is a political landmark. And even if it fails to mention “genocide,” it makes it still harder to insist that the massacre never happened or that the number of victims has been grossly inflated. Yet the Serbian government finds itself caught in a position of being damned if you do, damned if you don’t.	New York Times
Sep 12, 2009	In Africa, Courts Shape Views on AIDS: Rulings Hold Power To Ease or Deepen Stigma of Disease QUOTE: As African countries still struggle to control the deadly AIDS epidemic, they are also grappling with debates over what rights and duties to give those living with the disease...	Washington Post
Sep 04, 2009	NATO Strike Magnifies Divide on Afghan War QUOTE: A NATO airstrike on Friday exploded two fuel tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban, setting off competing claims about how many among the scores of dead were civilians and raising questions about whether the strike violated tightened rules on the use of aerial bombardment.	New York Times
Sep 03, 2009	Korea Investigates Atrocities in Race Against Time QUOTE: It is a race against time. The investigators, from the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, are tapping into the memories of a dwindling number of survivors as they pursue their mission of examining some of modern Korea’s most traumatic moments. They also face the possibility that their mandate, which expires next year, could be ended or drastically curtailed under the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak.	New York Times
Mar 19, 2009	Soldiers’ Accounts of Gaza Killings Raise Furor in Israel QUOTE: In the two months since Israel ended its military assault on Gaza, Palestinians and international rights groups have accused it of excessive force and wanton killing in that operation, but the Israeli military has said it followed high ethical standards and took great care to avoid civilian casualties.	New York Times
Jan 21, 2009	Obama Orders Halt to Prosecutions at Guantánamo QUOTE: the order came from the Secreatary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, “by order of the president.” It described the halt in all proceedings as designed “to permit the newly inaugurated president and his administration time to review the military commission process, generally, and the cases currently pending before the military commissions, specifically.”	New York Times
Jan 15, 2009	Gaza War Generates Debate on Civilians: Questions Reflect Asymmetry of Fight QUOTE: The Israeli military blames Hamas for using Gazans as human shields and for retreating to densely populated areas to fight the war. But Palestinians and human rights groups say that Israel has been reckless and that in pursuing Hamas, it has employed tactics that unnecessarily drive up the civilian toll.	Washington Post
Jan 12, 2009	In Israel, a Consensus That Gaza War Is a Just One QUOTE: “Almost 100 percent of Israelis feel that the world is hypocritical. Where was the world when our cities were rocketed for eight years and our soldier was kidnapped? Why should we care about the world’s view now?”	New York Times
Dec 28, 2008	Israeli Attacks in Gaza Strip Continue for Second Day QUOTE: Israeli airstrikes against Hamas facilities in Gaza continued for a second day on Sunday and the death toll rose to more than 280....A military operation had been forecast and demanded by Israeli officials for weeks, ever since a rocky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas fully collapsed a week ago, leading again to rocket attacks in large numbers against Israel and isolated Israeli operations here.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2008	Call Off Your Drones: Negotiating with Pakistan over remote-controlled killing. QUOTE: The tricky question is whether the drone attacks are directly alienating too many people or whether the Pakistani government is asking to Petraeus to call off the drones for more complicated reasons....If suicide bombs in hotels can force us to call off the drones, then terrorism is trumping remote-control technology.	Slate
Sep 02, 2008	American Inquiry Disputes Afghan Deaths QUOTE: An American military investigation concluded Tuesday that 5 to 7 civilians and 30 to 35 Taliban were killed in an airstrike operation in western Afghanistan last month, many fewer than the 90 civilians that the Afghan government and the United Nations found in their preliminary investigations.	New York Times
May 08, 2008	Faith groups mount campaign against torture: They're protesting Bush administration policies. But polls show Americans are split on the issue. QUOTE: More than 175 religious organizations have joined the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT). Their aim is to build a moral consensus among Americans on the issue and to bring government policies in line with US law and international norms.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 06, 2008	A 2nd Case on Detainees Complicates Deliberations QUOTE: ...[the first case] the Supreme Court heard on Dec. 5, challenges Congress’s withdrawal of the federal courts’ jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions from detainees contesting their open-ended confinement. [The new case]...is as deep in the weeds of Congressional intent as the [first] case is high up in the realm of constitutional principle.	New York Times
Dec 17, 2007	Old U.S. Allies, Still Hiding Deep in Laos QUOTE: Four decades after the Central Intelligence Agency hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight Communists on the western fringes of the Vietnam War, men who say they are veterans of that covert operation are isolated, hungry and periodically hunted by a Laotian Communist government still mistrustful of the men who sided with America.	New York Times
Dec 15, 2007	Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War QUOTE: The Ethiopian government, one of America’s top allies in Africa, is forcing untrained civilians — including doctors, teachers, office clerks and employees of development programs financed by the World Bank and United Nations — to fight rebels in the desolate Ogaden region, according to Western officials, refugees and Ethiopian administrators who recently defected to avoid being conscripted.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2007	Effort to Censure Lawmaker for a Comment Falls Short QUOTE: Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California, escaped a censure Tuesday for incendiary remarks he made last week about President Bush and the war in Iraq.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2007	Atrocities in East Congo Attributed to All Parties: Fighters Routinely Terrorize Civilians, Report Says QUOTE: A variety of armed groups, including the Congolese military, have routinely terrorized civilians across eastern Congo in the past year, with killings, massacres, rapes, abductions, looting and other brutalities perpetrated by all parties in the conflict, according to a report released Tuesday by New York-based Human Rights Watch.	Washington Post
Oct 06, 2007	Turkish Premier Tells Bush Genocide Bill Would Hurt Ties QUOTE: "The president has described the events of 1915 as 'one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century' but believes that the determination of whether or not the events constitute a genocide should be a matter for historical inquiry, not legislation," Johndroe said.	Washington Post
Oct 01, 2007	Report Depicts Recklessness at Blackwater QUOTE: The report, based largely on internal Blackwater e-mail messages and State Department documents, depicts the security contractor as being staffed with reckless, shoot-first guards who were not always sober and did not always stop to see who or what was hit by their bullets.	New York Times
Sep 17, 2007	Iraq battle was self-defense, security firm says QUOTE: The weekend's incident raised concerns in the U.S. Congress about the use of private security guards. Rep. Henry Waxman, whose House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings on contractor operations in February, said he will hold new hearings into the issue in light of Sunday's shootings.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Sep 05, 2007	Marines Dispute Accounts of Excessive Force in Afghans’ Deaths QUOTE: In interviews with The New York Times, the lawyers offered the first public account by the marines, giving what amounts to a preview of any legal defense. They said that their clients and other platoon members had responded appropriately to what they described as continual small-arms fire after the bombing, and that they had fired only at people who had fired at them first or posed a legitimate threat under the unit’s rules of engagement.	New York Times
Aug 31, 2007	Spy plane video to be evidence in Haditha killings case QUOTE: CNN has learned that the Scan Eagle's video -- obtained exclusively by the network -- will be introduced as evidence by lawyers for Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who is facing 17 murder counts and charges of making a false official statement and trying to get another Marine to make a false statement. The video appears to show that, throughout that day, Marines engaged in fierce firefights and called in air strikes to level buildings -- often with no definitive idea of who was inside.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Aug 28, 2007	Rights Group Documents Brutality Of Insurgents in Southern Thailand QUOTE: Separatist militants in Thailand's mostly Muslim southern provinces have stepped up a decades-long, low-intensity insurgency into a wave of brutal bomb attacks, assassinations, machete hackings and, in some cases, beheadings and mutilations in the past 3 1/2 years, an extensive Human Rights Watch report said today.	Washington Post
Aug 23, 2007	Collateral Damage: Gravely injured in an Israeli missile attack, a 5 year-old Palestinian girl is at the center of a fight over whether Israel should continue to provide treatment. QUOTE: Although it has never formally accepted responsibility, the Israeli government has largely sponsored her complicated medical rehabilitation for the past 15 months. But now her father has been told by the Israeli Ministry of Defense that his daughter must leave Israel and return to the territory of the Palestinian Authority. "Sending her away from this hospital, out of Israel, is like sending her to hell," says Aman, 30.	Newsweek
Aug 09, 2007	Did Soldier Fake Iraq Story for Magazine? The New Republic is standing by a disturbing account written by a GI in Iraq, even as the Army says the stories are not true. QUOTE: while the Army announced this week it found no evidence to substantiate the misdeeds… The Weekly Standard, for its part, says most or all of the article is fabricated and accuses TNR editors of letting their bias against the war impair their judgment.	Newsweek
Aug 08, 2007	Restrictions on Palestinians Decried QUOTE: An Israeli human rights group charged Tuesday that Israel has used concrete barricades, fences, checkpoints and other measures to impose restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank that are "unprecedented in scope and duration."	Washington Post
Aug 06, 2007	For Tutsis of Eastern Congo, Protector, Exploiter or Both? QUOTE: U.N. officials blame the general [Laurent Nkunda] for forcing an estimated 230,000 people from their homes since January and creating the worst humanitarian disaster Congo has experienced since the peak of its decade of civil war…But Nkunda… says he is fighting for a cause greater than himself…	Washington Post
Aug 03, 2007	In Iraq, death tolls often in dispute: Disparities between official and eyewitness tallies lead some Iraqis to charge the government with downplaying attacks. QUOTE: The disparity in official numbers and the ones posted in the market... leaves many Iraqis feeling that the government is intentionally downplaying or trying to cover up the numbers of dead.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 21, 2007	No Time in Prison for Marine Convicted of Kidnapping Iraqi QUOTE: Military law experts said Corporal Thomas’s sentence was an unusually lenient punishment for crimes as grave as those the same jury convicted him of committing.	New York Times
Jul 18, 2007	Japan Warns U.S. House Against Resolution on WWII Sex Slaves QUOTE: [Japanese Ambassador Ryozo Kato] said that since 1993 Japan has repeatedly and officially apologized for its harsh treatment of "comfort women," the term used for the estimated 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women forced by the Japanese government into brothels before and during World War II.	Washington Post
Jul 18, 2007	Witness Testifies Marine Knowingly Shot Children in Haditha QUOTE: One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, a squadmate testified Tuesday.	Washington Post
Jun 13, 2007	Yemeni Languishes at Guantanamo Long After U.S. Approved Release: Dispute over Citizenship Leaves Saudi-Born Detainee in Legal Limbo QUOTE: In the legal netherworld that the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has represented since it was opened in 2002, Mohammed, once a cook for the Taliban in Afghanistan, remains stuck in a limbo of mistaken identities, bureaucratic inertia and official neglect. In the eyes of his lawyers, the young Yemeni's case is an indictment of a system...in which a man who faces no charge and no sentence remains deprived of the freedom he was granted more than a year ago.	Washington Post
Jun 12, 2007	Civilian Toll in Iraq At 'Higher Levels': U.N. Report Cites Rise Since Troop Buildup QUOTE: Despite the recent U.S. military buildup in Baghdad, insurgent and militia attacks persist and "civilian casualties continue to mount" in Iraq as a whole, according to a report released Monday by U.N. Secretary General.	Washington Post
Jun 11, 2007	Darfur's aid lifeline in danger: Bandits from all factions are increasingly targeting relief convoys and aid workers in Sudan's conflict. QUOTE: With three rebel groups splitting up into more than a dozen groups – many of them based on personal or tribal loyalties – armed groups have taken to robbing the relatively soft target of aid workers, who have many of the vehicles, money, and communications equipment that an armed movement needs.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 10, 2007	Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo QUOTE: The men, Muslims from western China’s Uighur ethnic minority, were freed from their confinement in Cuba after they were found to pose no threat to the United States. They have now lived for more than a year in a squalid government refugee center on the grubby outskirts of Tirana, guarded by armed policemen .... Many American officials privately describe the Uighurs’ plight as one of the more troubling episodes of the Bush administration’s detention program.	New York Times
Apr 26, 2007	U.N. Report on Human Rights in Iraq Draws U.S. Denunciation QUOTE: The United Nations said that by the end of March, 37,641 people were being detained throughout Iraq, including 17,898 in U.S. custody and 17,063 spread across the Iraqi ministries of Justice, Interior and Defense. It expressed concern about the U.S. military's "indefinite internment of detainees" and people "held for prolonged periods effectively without charge or trial."	Washington Post
Apr 15, 2007	'Deletion' of Images in Afghanistan: Attempt to Cover Up Civilian Killings? QUOTE: Gaining much less coverage are the report's comments on a nearly-forgotten aftermath of the apparent crimes, carried by E&P and other media outlets at the time: the U.S. military's forced "deletion" of images taken by Associated Press cameramen and others.	Editor and Publisher
Jan 30, 2007	Israel May Have Misused Cluster Bombs, U.S. Says QUOTE: The State Department notified Congress yesterday that Israel may have violated U.S. rules prohibiting the use of American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas during last summer's war in Lebanon.	Washington Post
Jan 26, 2007	Kosovo Wins Support For Split From Serbia: U.S., European Allies Agree to Secession With Ongoing International Supervision QUOTE: Nearly eight years after NATO warplanes intervened in a bitter ethnic conflict between Serbs and rebellious Kosovo Albanians in the former Yugoslavia, the United States and its European allies have agreed to support Kosovo's permanent secession from Serbia under continuing international supervision, according to senior U.S. and European officials. The decision is likely to lead, possibly as early as this summer, to the formal creation of a new Connecticut-size country in southeastern Europe with membership in the United Nations and, eventually, its own army	Washington Post
Jan 07, 2007	Marines' Photos Provide Graphic Evidence in Haditha Probe QUOTE: Capturing images of war on their digital cameras, as many troops in Iraq have done, Marines took dozens of gruesome photographs of the 24 civilians who were killed in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005. The images -- which investigators tracked down on several laptop computers and digital media drives, some in the United States -- provide visual evidence of a series of shootings outside a taxi and inside three homes that military criminal investigators have alleged were murders.	Washington Post
Dec 22, 2006	'Atrocity' cases test US military justice: Charges against eight marines in the Haditha case refocus attention on how the military handles the abuse and killing of civilians. QUOTE: basic questions about how the US military-justice system proceeds against alleged atrocities: What constitutes a "war crime"? What is the responsibility of officers of enlisted soldiers and marines who are found guilty? What punishments are being meted out?	Christian Science Monitor
Dec 15, 2006	Israeli High Court Backs Military On Its Policy of 'Targeted Killings' QUOTE: Israel's high court upheld Thursday the military's right to assassinate members of groups the state defines as terrorist organizations, but cautioned that such operations should always be weighed first against the potential harm to civilian bystanders and the human rights of the target.	Washington Post
Dec 11, 2006	Darfur crisis crosses borders QUOTE: The crisis in Darfur has exploded in recent weeks, and now threatens to drag fragile neighboring countries into a regional war. Both Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) have become engulfed in fighting that involves a toxic mix of rebel groups, government forces, armed militias, and civilians.	Christian Science Monitor
Dec 05, 2006	Offering Video, Israel Answers Critics on War QUOTE: Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video images and prisoner interrogations to buttress its accusation that Hezbollah systematically fired from civilian neighborhoods in southern Lebanon and took cover in those areas to shield itself from attack.	New York Times
Nov 29, 2006	Land claim unsettles Israeli settlers: Peace Now says 40 percent of West Bank settlements sit on private Palestinian land. QUOTE: a report by the dovish Peace Now group stated that Palestinian private land accounts for more than one-third of the settlements, and that for Maaleh Adumim the proportion is a startling 86 percent. That's at odds with decades-old government and settler statements that only public lands were being used for building in territory captured during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.	Christian Science Monitor
Nov 13, 2006	In Vietnam, Old Foes Take Aim at War's Toxic Legacy QUOTE: For decades, the United States and Vietnam have wrangled over the question of responsibility for the U.S. military's deployment of Agent Orange. But officials say they are now moving to jointly address at least one important aspect of the spraying's aftermath -- environmental damage at Vietnamese "hot spots" such as Nguyen's city, Da Nang -- that are still contaminated with dioxin 31 years after the fall of Saigon.	Washington Post
Oct 20, 2006	Tougher stance on crimes of US troops? The Army and Marines each refers troops to courts-martial for three separate atrocities in Iraq. QUOTE: Decisions by both the Army and Marines to court-martial troops accused of atrocities in Iraq, announced almost simultaneously on Wednesday, could reflect a new, tougher attitude by the US military in such cases. A perception in Iraq that US troops convicted of atrocities against Iraqis have received lenient treatment - especially in the notorious Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse case - has led to weakened support for the US-backed government...	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 10, 2006	Rules of engagement: What were they at Haditha? If marines are charged with killing as many as 24 Iraqi civilians, defense lawyers will argue the soldiers followed the rules. QUOTE: The rules stem from the Joint Chiefs' Standing Rules of Engagement, which are based on laws of war...firing on a car that contains civilians yet fails to slow or stop for a checkpoint - something US troops have done often in Iraq - is justified if those firing have a "reasonable" belief the car is a threat, he adds. During the November 2004 battle of Fallujah, marines - including some from the unit under suspicion in Haditha - tossed hand grenades into houses or rooms where they believed insurgents to be. That's the tactic that was used in Haditha, too...	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 20, 2006	Sudan Rejects Request To Allow U.N. Troops: Bush Calls for Assistance From NATO QUOTE: Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday dismissed pleas from President Bush, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and other Western leaders to allow a force of 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers into the violence-wracked Darfur region.	Washington Post

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