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Fatally Flawed UN Goldstone Report Could Come Back to Bite America For Fighting Terrorists

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza, President Obama, Judge Richard GoldstoneUnited Nations, Tehran, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, UN General Assembly, Israel, Libya, UN Security Council, Hezbollah, Human Shields, Terrorism, World News, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Goldstone's report, in effect, equates Israel with Nazis and other tyrants of history by accusing the Jewish State of deliberately targeting civilians.

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The Graveyards of Sri Lanka's War Zone

Amnesty International | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Science, Sri Lanka Civil War, Human Rights, Technology, Sri Lanka, Satellite Imagery, Sri Lanka War, Human Shields, World News
Amnesty International

New satellite images reveal two new alarming features of an inaccessible Sri Lankan conflict zone: Large gravesites and evidence of mortars used in and around the so-called civilian save zone.

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In Sri Lanka: A Poem of Commemoration

Jim Luce | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Ramya Chamalie Hirasinghe, Human Shields, Tamil Refugees, Poetry, War, Tamils Tigers, Into This Water Let Us Sow, Sri Lanka, World News
Jim Luce

The 26-year conflict between the Sri Lankan government and terrorist forces known as the Tamil Tigers has just ended ten days ago in Sri Lanka's Northern Province. Already there is art being created about its dramatic conclusion.

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In Sri Lanka: Reconciliation and Reconstruction

Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Sri Lanka, European Union, Times of London, China, Human Shields, Japan, Tamil, Tsunami, Sri Lankan Military, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sinhala, Orphans International Worldwide, Reconciliation, World News
Jim Luce

Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.

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Tamil Tigers Use Civilian Shields For Sri Lankan Army Shelling

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka Civil War, Sri Lanka Rebels, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger Human Shields, Civilian Casualties, Tamil Tigers Suicide Bomber, Human Shields, Sri Lanka Civilian Deaths, Advocacy, World News
Human Rights Watch

100,000 civilians held hostage by Tamil Tiger rebels on a stretch of land just twice the size of New York's Central Park have come under repeated indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan armed forces.

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Operation Human Shield

Daniel Kohn | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas Human Shields, Gaza, Gaza War, United Nations, Hamas, Israel, Human Shields, Conventional War, Israel Gaza Blockade, World News
Daniel Kohn

Israel's Gaza operation is not a war in conventional terms. When terrorists use schools to teach hatred and use places of worship to hide and store weapons, it is impossible to keep civilians safe.

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Iraq Torture Lawsuits OKed By House, White House Threatens Veto

AP | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

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Former POWs and civilians who were tortured or held hostage during the 1991 Gulf War could pursue lawsuits against Iraq under legislation the House ha...

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