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Rights group charges Spain blocked probes of civil war disappearances
Madrid :: Spain | 3 days ago
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Spain has blocked investigations of the deaths and disappearances of tens of thousands of people during its civil war, Amnesty International charged Monday. The lack of official interest in determining if war crimes were committed during the war and
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Videla Dies in Prison – a Victory Against Impunity
Santa Fé :: Argentina | 1 month ago
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IPS Articles The executive director of Amnesty International in Argentina, Mariela Belski, told IPS that Videla will be remembered for the (dictatorship's) most brutal and appalling excesses. But the most important thing here is that justice was done,
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Top party to announce stand on amnesty law
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 2 months ago
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Noppadol Pattama said the party would definitely come up with a stand on the issue after the meeting. Earlier, a group of Pheu Thai MPs proposed that the House deliberate on Thursday a bill that would grant blanket amnesty to demonstrators. Noppadol
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Uruguay: Justice or democracy?
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 3 months ago
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The dark days of the dictators FOR most of the past 180 years, Uruguay has been a model democracy. But it did not escape the wave of military dictatorships that swept through South America in the 1970s, at the height of the cold war. After power
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Guatemala judge denies ex-dictator's amnesty claim
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 3 months ago
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A court has denied an amnesty for a former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war, allowing his trial to continue. The Center of Legal Action in Human Rights, which is a plaintiff in the case,
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Amnesty law could free many convicted for arson attacks
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 months ago
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Hundreds of people, apparently acting on orders from red-shirt leaders in Bangkok, stormed into the provincial hall premises in the four Northeast provinces of Udon Thani, Ubon Ratchathani, Khon Kaen and Mukdahan on May 19, 2010, and set fire to the
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Government unlikely to push forward with amnesty law
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 months ago
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However, because it wanted to please the red-shirts, the government had to act as if it was serious in pushing for the enactment. As part of efforts to please red-shirt people, who are now losing their patience, Deputy House Speaker Charoen Jankomol
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Army ready to join amnesty talks
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 months ago
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However, there must be representatives from all the armed forces, not only the Army, he said. "If we can have reconciliation, that's good...Before granting amnesty we have to look into what the laws say what to do about wrongdoing," he said. The
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Amnesty Law back on Pheu Thai party's agenda
Bangkok :: Thailand | 4 months ago
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One issue that coalition-leader Pheu Thai paused over, for fear it would affect its gubernatorial candidate, was finding a solution to the calls for an amnesty law...The proposed drafts were sent to the Council of State for consideration. So far, the
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Pheu Thai changes its focus
Bangkok :: Thailand | 4 months ago
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Some 21 Pheu Thai MPs said yesterday that they would submit an amnesty bill to House Speaker Somsak Kiartsuranon this afternoon. According to this draft, amnesty should cover everybody involved in political rallies from September 19, 2006 to May 10,
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