| 2010-10-10 |
2006-03-08
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Russia violates human rights.
Human rights failures in Russia include: abductions in the rebel republic of Chechnya, arbitrary arrests and detentions, police corruption and occasional harassment of nongovernmental organizations monitoring human rights.
-- According to United States State Department 2005 (annual)Human Rights report.
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| 2010-10-10 |
2006-03-08
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The United States State Department published its 2005 (annual)Human Rights report.
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| 2010-10-08 |
1996-04-11
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Israel starts the so-called “Grapes of Wrath” operation.
Israel conducts bombing attacks in Baalbek and down south in Tyre at the Lebanese army base and, for the first time since 1982, attacks on Dahiyeh in South Beirut. Israel bombed a wider area than in 1993, over a period of 16 days. This invasion became known among some in South Lebanon as the “ Four Massacres aggression”: Suhmor on 4/12/96; the bombing of the Al-Mansouri ambulance on 4/13/96; Nabatieh on Day 7; and the Qana massacre on the same day when 118 civilians were slaughter and 127 injured. Hundreds of thousands were displaced with 7,000 homes completely or partially destroyed. Total civilian casualties exceeded 250.
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| 2010-10-08 |
1993-07-31
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“Disarm Hezbollah or watch Israeli do it.”
-- Ehud Barak, Israeli Chief of Staff told the Lebanese government
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| 2010-10-08 |
1985-01-14
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Israel begins withdraw from Lebanon
Israel began withdrawing from 168 villages, being 55 per cent of South Lebanon or 11 per cent of Lebanon including Sidon, Tyre, Nabatieh and parts of the Western Bekaa.
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| 2010-10-08 |
1984-03-05
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An important Hezbollah political victory against Israel was achieved with the Lebanese Council of Ministers’ cancellation of the the 1983 U.S.-Israel created agreement that would have yielded significant Lebanese sovereignty and territory to Israel.
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| 2009-10-16 |
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.†-- Sir Winston Churchill
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| 2009-10-12 |
1902-05
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“You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration camps. Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing sheaves with them, in the shape of other thousands of sick and wounded and insane to drag out miserable lives, wrecked in body and mind. You make the American flag in the eyes of a numerous people the emblem of sacrilege in Christian churches, and of the burning of human dwellings, and of the horror of the water torture. â€
-- Senator George Hoar’s famous denunciation of Roosevelt on the floor of the US Senate
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| 2009-07-17 |
2009-07-17
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Two high explosive bombs rocked two luxury hotels of Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott in central Jakarta Friday morning, killing at least 9 people and wounding more than 50.
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| 2009-07-17 |
2005-10-02
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In Indonesia, a string of explosions on Indonesia's resort island Bali have killed 20 people, including some foreign tourists, and injured more than 120 others
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