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The Srebrenica massacre

human remnants found in common graves

Update 30 August

The remains of 120 people, victims of the Srebrenica slaughter, were exhumed from 8 mass graves in Zalazje, not far from the scene of the murder.

11 July
The Srebrenica slaughterhouse
15 years after ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia
On 11 July 1995, in the area protected by the blue helmets, Bosnian Serb forces carried out the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
In the fifteenth anniversary of the bloodshed a historic verdict of the Hague Court condemns the executioners.

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Moral Resistance to totalitarianism

at the Meeting of Rimini

In its 2010 edition the Meeting of Rimini features many events concerning figures of moral resistance to Soviet totalitarianism.

Among them we mention:
Presentation of the book Solzenicyn, by Ljudmila Saraskina. Edited by Adriano Dell’Asta, author of the introduction. Speeches by: Camillo Fornasieri, Mara Dell’Asta and Gabriele Nissim.

Danzig 1980. Solidarnosc. Exhibition curated by Sandro Chierici, Annalia Guglielmi, Daria Rescaldani.

and also...
a book and a documentary film about Marija Judina, the pianist who moved Stalin.

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First conviction for the Khmer Rouge regime

Big Brother Duch condemned to 35 years

Thirty years after the end of the dictatorship comes the first landmark sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, the director of the S-21 camp where more than 12,000 people were killed. The defendant was condemned by the Extraordinary Chambers of the UN-backed Courts of Cambodia on accounts of murder, torture, rape and crimes against humanity.

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Tortures and rapes in Iran

against Nobel Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi's aides

Narges Mohammadi, just released, was hospitalized for the tortures undergone in jail. Appeal by Ms. Ebadi and Amnesty International for the liberation of Abdolreza Tajik, detained in inhumane conditions in Evin.

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Natalia Estemirova’s murder

one year later

On 15 July 2009 Natalia Estemirova was abducted and killed. She had reported human rights violations in Chechnya. One year after her death Memorial holds a press conference and appeals to the Russian government and the International community asking for nothing similar to ever occur again to the Chechnian colleagues.
On 15 July in Moscow to remember Natalia: a picket under Griboedov monument and a meeting at Memorial House.

BREAKING NEWS
Russian President Mr. Medvedev announced: «Estemirova’s killer was identified».

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