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Search results for "mass graves" ...
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The Case Against Saddam
This documentary delves deep into the war in Iraq, gathering evidence against Saddam Hussein alongside investigators and judges. The investigation focuses on Hussein's 1988 chemical attack on the Kurds, known as "Anfal." Under the command of Saddam's cousin, Ali Hasan al-Majid, the campaign consisted of eight chemical attacks over a period of six months and left behind a mass grave in Al-Hatra.
Tags: Saddam Hussein; Iraq; Ali Hasan al-Majid; Kurds; Anfal; Al-Hatra; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; Baathist Rule
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Morbid Obesity: Eating our way to the grave
The Evansville Courier & Press five-part series on morbid obesity and its effects on the community. Stories looks at Overeaters Anonymous, the growing number of overweight children, gastric bypass surgery and health risks.
Tags: obesity; health; gastric bypass surgery; diet; food; fat content; Overeaters Anonymous; calories; overweight children; body mass
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The War Crimes of Afghanistan
Newsweek reveals that, in Nov. 2001, "America's Afghan allies suffocated hundreds of surrendering Taliban prisoners in sealed cargo containers." Although surrendered fighters were killed by a regional warlord, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the investigative team finds evidence that American soldiers had advanced knowledge of the killings or participated in them. The story has been mostly based on a confidential U.N. report on the killings, as well as investigations into a mass grave site.
Tags: international relations; war on terrorism; Pentagon; CIA; intelligence; diplomacy; human rights; United Nations
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Burning the evidence
Minnesota Public Radio investigates the incineration of the remains of thousands of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces under the command of Slobodan Milosevic during the 1999 war in Kosovo. The secret operation was part of a highly-organized effort by Serbia's leadership to conceal evidence of possible war crimes from international investigators. Documentation shows that the operation was carried out by an elite unit of the Serbian security service.
Tags: AUDIO TAPE; TRANSCRIPTS; mass graves; war crimes; tribunals; ethnic Albanian; Slodbodan Milosevic; Serbia; Kosovo
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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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Evidence indicates Bosnia massacre
The Christian Science Monitor exposed Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust. The CSM visited four of the six suspected mass graves around the fallen UN safe area of Srebrenica, found nine credible survivors of the mass executions, and exposed those responsible for the tragedy and the Clinton administration's inconsistent record on the issue.