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  • And the horrors of Canadian War Atrocities is but one of many levers to open the purses of the taxpayers.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Top U.N. Official Accuses U.S. of Inhuman 'Atrocities' in Iraq, Afghanistan

    Latest Articles 2009

  • As long as nothing bad happens to them, people they know, or anyone who agrees with them" "Atrocities" only happened to your own land.

    The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Other Atrocities include child and adult slavery and prostitution, "by name" kidnapping of movie starlets and girls that catch a wealthy foreign predator's eye, and murder for body parts.

    Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010

  • Other Atrocities include child and adult slavery and prostitution, "by name" kidnapping of movie starlets and girls that catch a wealthy foreign predator's eye, and murder for body parts.

    Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010

  • Atrocities arise when the combatants are neighbors.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Atrocities were committed by members of all three contending ethnic groups -- Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks -- but, as reflected by the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague ICTY, overwhelming responsibility for attempted genocide rested with the Serb side.

    Stephen Schwartz: Bosnian Cultural Heritage Under Peacetime Threat Stephen Schwartz 2012

  • Other Atrocities include child and adult slavery and prostitution, "by name" kidnapping of movie starlets and girls that catch a wealthy foreign predator's eye, and murder for body parts.

    Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010

  • Atrocities were committed by members of all three contending ethnic groups -- Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks -- but, as reflected by the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague ICTY, overwhelming responsibility for attempted genocide rested with the Serb side.

    Stephen Schwartz: Bosnian Cultural Heritage Under Peacetime Threat Stephen Schwartz 2012

  • Earlier this year, President Obama issued a Presidential Directive on Mass Atrocities, declaring that preventing such crimes is "a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility."

    Calling for Action on North Korean Crimes Benedict Rogers 2011

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