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Tulsa massacre: The search for victims, 100 years on
June 8, 2021 · By Rebecca Jones, Arts correspondent, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Tulsa massacre: The search for victims, 100 years on A hundred years after white mobs rampaged through an affluent black neighbourhood, the search for bodies is a deeply personal mission for one scientist. “My job,” says Dr Phoebe Stubblefield, “is to let the bones speak.” Now the forensic anthropologist is at the forefront of the […]
Read More...Canada-wide search urged as children’s remains found
June 8, 2021 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Canada-wide search urged as children’s remains found Indigenous groups in Canada have demanded a nationwide search for further graves after the discovery of the remains of 215 children. The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced last week that remains were found at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The find sparked […]
Read More...Three Irish children sexually abused by parents and relatives
June 8, 2021 · By Vivienne Traynor, RTÉ Courts Reporter for www.rte.ie
Three Irish children sexual abused by parents and relatives The jury in the trial of seven people accused of the sexual abuse of three children has heard that they were seriously neglected and were sexually abused by their parents and relatives over a number of years. The parents of the three children also face charges […]
Read More...Germany officially recognises colonial-era Namibia genocide
June 7, 2021 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Germany officially recognises colonial-era Namibia genocide Germany has officially acknowledged committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Namibia, and announced financial aid worth more than €1.1bn (£940m; $1.34bn). German colonisers killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people there in early 20th Century massacres. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said his country was asking Namibia […]
Read More...The Mercenary
June 4, 2021 ·
The Mercenary You may despise me with disgust for the arms I bear and the wars I wage, For the payment that I earn for the killings and the rage. I carry anger and hate of those who did me wrong, I was beaten and abused and suffered until I was strong. Then with hardened […]
Read More...Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
June 2, 2021 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978. The discovery […]
Read More...The schools that had cemeteries instead of playgrounds
June 2, 2021 · By Sian Griffiths for www.bbc.com
The schools that had cemeteries instead of playgrounds Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its findings into more than a century of abuse in Indian Residential Schools. Between the 1880s and 1990s 150,000 aboriginal children were sent to institutions where they were stripped of their language and culture. Many faced emotional, physical and sexual […]
Read More...Shocking report claims as many as 850,000 pedophiles active in the UK, possibly more
June 2, 2021 · By RT.com for www.rt.com
Shocking report claims as many as 850,000 pedophiles active in the UK, possibly more There may be 850,000 child sex offenders lurking in the UK, a new report claims. The number is three times higher than previously thought, but may still fall short of the true scale of the threat. In its annual National Strategic […]
Read More...Coalition backs SF motion that building on Palestinian land ‘de facto annexation’
June 1, 2021 · By Marie O'Halloran for www.irishtimes.com
Coalition backs SF motion that building on Palestinian land ‘de facto annexation’ The Government has backed a Sinn Féin motion describing the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories as de facto annexation. Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said during a Dáil debate on the motion that “we need to be honest with what is happening […]
Read More...Convicted of blasphemy, Christian couple endure death row misery in Pakistan
May 31, 2021 · By Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore for www.ucanews.com
Pressure from rights groups and European Parliament does little to improve the prospects of a disabled man and his wife Convicted of blasphemy, Christian couple endure death row misery in Pakistan Saiful Malook was disturbed after seeing Shafqat Emmanuel, a Christian convicted of blasphemy, in Faisalabad’s District Jail. “The whole flesh on his backside has withered […]
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