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The Purge
"Christians in Iraq are being hunted, murdered, and driven from their homes in a wave of ethnic cleansing perhaps more brutal than any in the community's 2,000-year history. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was home to more than a million Christians- a small but thriving minority, which Saddam Hussein protected. Under the American occupation, Iraq's Christian community, one of the oldest in the world, has been driven towards extinction."
Tags: Iraq; ethnic; religion; Christianity; military; Islam; militants; Middle East
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Searching For Jacob
While individualizing the story by centering on the search for a refugee named Jacob Arga, "whose village was destroyed as part of the ethnic 'cleansing,'" CBS News tells the story of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The reporters did find Jacob "in a refugee camp on the Chad border."
Tags: ethnic cleansing; Darfur, Sudan; refugees; genocide
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The Untold Story of Tulia, Texas
The author investigated the outcome of FBI and Department of Justice investigations into a 1999 drug bust that caught 10 percent of the town's African American population and was labeled as racially motivated. The author found several inconsistencies in what the media published and what the FBI and DOJ said happened in their reports. Settlements were handed out but the reports were never released.
Tags: racism; FBI; Department of Justice; drugs; Tulia; Texas; unlawful arrest; FOIA; Tom Coleman; ethnic cleansing
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Massacre at Cuska
"'Massacre at Cuska' documents the direct connections bewteen Serbian security forces committing atrocities in the field, and the regime of Serbia's leader, Slobadan Milosevic." Serbian fighters and surviving Albanian villagers offer their observations in this radio documentary.
Tags: war crimes; violence; murder; ethnic cleansing; cassette; radio
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Shame of Srebrenica
CBS News reports about "the single worst war crime of the Bosnia war: the Serb massacre of approximately 8 thousand Muslims after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. It was the Serbs who murdered the Muslims, but our troubling story focuses on the shame that has fallen on a group of Dutch soldiers sent to Srebrenica as peacekeepers. They were sent by the UN to stop the threat of an attack by the Serbs, ... but when Srebrenica fell.. the Dutch handed over the Muslim people of the town to Serb troops commanded by General Ratko Mladic..."
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"A Family's Terrifying Odyssey," "Eyewitness to Terror," "The Fire This Time," "The Missing Men of Djakovica"
This series of stories, reported by Newsweek's Berlin bureau chief over a six-month period from Kosovo, attempts to put a human face on the tragic events unfolding in the region, both during and after NATO involvement.
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Arkan: Wanted and the hitman
CNN looks at the rise of Arkan from international thief, Yugoslav government hitman and formenter of nationalism to a paramilitary leader responsible for carrying out a madness of murder, torture, expulsion and looting in many of the ethnic cleansing campaigns in the war that wrecked Yugoslavia.
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Bosnia: What the CIA Didn't Tell Us
The investigation finds that American intelligence, in its monitoring of the war in former Yugoslavia, had gathered abundant evidence of ethnic cleansing and related abominations from the earliest hours of the conflict, but the American government did nothing to make this information public. (May 9, 1996)
Tags: Lane Shanker Bosnia: what the CIA didn't tell us Contest entry Central Intelligence Agency 10 pgs.
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Rights and Wrongs features an extended excerpt from "The Yellow Wasps," a documentary film directed by Ilan Ziv and produced by Rory O'Connor. It tells the story of Serbian paramilitary groups killing Muslims as a means of ethnic cleansing in the town of Zvornik. Because the Muslims had no organized army in Zvornik the Yellow Wasps had free reign to do as they pleased. (May, June 1995)