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Back in Blackwater
21Sep07
Officials in Iraq have resumed travel under the protection of the U.S. private security firm Blackwater. The move may come as a shock to Iraqis, considering that this morning’s headlines reported that the Iraqi government had concluded that deaths caused by the agency a few days ago were unprovoked.
The New York Times comments that [...]
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Normalizing Justice
21Sep07
Several news agencies have reported that former Peruvian head of state Alberto Fujimori now faces extradition to Peru on human rights abuse charges. Based on evidence of a direct link between Fujimori and death squads that murdered and disappeared Peruvian students and other citizens during the early 1990s, Chile’s Supreme Court has ruled to [...]
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