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Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed - NYTimes.com
Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness.
South Korea Admits Civilian Killings During War - NYTimes.com
In the opening months of the Korean War, the South Korean military and the police executed at least 4,900 civilians who had earlier signed up — often under force — for re-education classes meant to turn them against Communism, the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission announced Thursday. Documents showed that the police kept surveillance on the league members’ relatives as late as the 1980s to ensure that their children did not get government jobs, the panel said.
Australian Apologies to British Migrant Children Open Imperial Wounds - NYTimes.com
From the late 1940s until 1967, when Australia halted the child migration program, 7,000 to 10,000 British children were sent to Australia, buoyed by the promises of happy new lives in Australia that were dashed by an institutionalized system of heartless, Dickensian repression, often without parental consent, with certificates bearing wrong names and birth dates, and falsely noting that they had no living parents or siblings.
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Rendition Suit by Maher Arar - NYTimes.com
Maher Arar was held under harsh conditions in New York for 13 days,
interrogated and then sent to Syria, where he spent a year in confinement
and, he says, was tortured. He was released in 2003, and Canadian
officials later concluded he had no involvement with terrorism.
Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists seeking to demonstrate innocence of wronfully convicted- NYTimes.com
Prosecutors are asking grades and other overreaching information on
students working on cases of wrong convictions
Nicholas Thompson Unearths His Grandfather�s Cold War Secrets - NYTimes.com
Paul Nitze orchestrated the leak of misleading information
about Soviet soldiers in Cuba at a critical moment in the
debate over an agreement that Mr. Warnke negotiated.
The Senate failed to approve the treaty, known as SALT II.
Thirty years later, Gen. Nikolai Detinov, one of the Soviet
arms negotiators, told Mr. Thompson that the failure to ratify
SALT II in the summer of 1979 hardened the Kremlin’s
position; if it had been approved, the general said, “we would
not have gone into Afghanistan.”
An Apology for My Lai, Four Decades Later - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Last week, William Calley, the only American soldier to be held legally responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in and around the village of My Lai in March, 1968 by a platoon under his command, apologized for the first time.
Disabled Students Are Spanked More - NYTimes.com
More than 20 states do not prohibit physical punishment at
schools
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
The National Security Agency's intercepts of Americans'
phone calls and e-mail messages are broader than previously
acknowledged, officials said.
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