Four Marines have been charged with murder in the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians (including unarmed women and children), and four officers are accused of failing to investigate and report the deaths properly.
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Brits were planning famine in 1956 Egypt
The British colonialists were planning to “cut off the Nile” during the 1956 invasion of Egypt, newly de-classified documents reveal.
Mexico’s Dirty War
New findings about Mexico’s dirty war against leftist activists during the 1960s to 80s are emerging:
Mexican authorities released a groundbreaking report over the weekend on the government’s use of violent repression to crush its opponents during the 1960s-80s…
The report by the Office of Special Prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo Prieto, named by President Vicente Fox in 2002 to investigate past human rights crimes, accuses three Mexican presidents of a sustained policy of violence targeting armed guerrillas and student protesters alike, including the use of “massacres, forced disappearance, systematic torture, and genocide.” The report makes clear that the abuses were not the work of individual military units or renegade officers, but official practice under Presidents Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970), Echeverría (1970-1976) and López Portillo (1976-1982).
