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Prosecutor blames Karadzic for Srebrenica massacre
Guinea strike marks 1 month since bloody massacre
Group: Massacre, rapes in Guinea were premeditated
Karadzic boycotts opening of his war crimes trial
CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s leader, who seized power in a coup nine months ago, said Friday that elections will continue as planned even as his military junta prepared to bury 57 people who died when troops fired live ammunition into a pro-democracy rally.
KIEV, Ukraine — Jewish groups condemned Thursday a plan by authorities in the Ukrainian capital to build a hotel on what a leading scholar said was a killing field in the Babi Yar massacre, a horrific chapter of the Holocaust.
ARUSHA, Tanzania — A Rwandan businessman went on trial Monday for allegedly ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter, and watching as they were crushed or hunted down by armed gangs.
PUTIS, Peru — Victims of the worst military massacre during Peru’s war with Maoist rebels were laid to rest Saturday, a quarter century after the slaughter in this remote Andean village.
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Speaking in a soft, sometimes labored voice, the only U.S. Army officer convicted in the 1968 slayings of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he was court-martialed.
MUNICH — Gino Massetti was only 15 when Nazi troops rounded him up with 10 other Italian civilians and forced them into a barn in Tuscany before blowing it up — a massacre carried out in revenge after partisans killed two soldiers.
— August 2009: Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former officer in the Nazi army, is convicted of murder for ordering the massacre of 10 civilians in a 1944 reprisal killing in Italy; sentenced to life. Scheungraber plans to appeal.