The police officials were among 13 who stood trial for a prison massacre that occurred a week after the 2010 earthquake.

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8 Haitian Policemen Convicted in 2010 Prison Killings

TAIPEI, Taiwan — At the 228 Memorial Museum, a shrine to the victims of a 1947 massacre by Chinese troops, staff members were in mourning Sunday over the reelection of Ma Ying-jeou , a president they think wants to turn Taiwan over to China. Read full article > >

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Taiwan unlikely to move to reunify with China, despite Ma Ying-jeou’s reelection

The Murle attacked the Nuer, then the Nuer massacred the Murle, and now the Murle are striking back: the unity that accompanied South Sudan’s independence has given way to violence.

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BEIRUT — French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the Syrian regime is committing massacres and he is calling on President Bashar Assad to leave power. Sarkozy’s comments came during a New Year’s address at a Navy airbase in Lanveoc-Poulmic, France. He says the “massacres being committed by the Syrian regime” have aroused disgust around the world. He says Assad should allow Syrians to decide their own future. Read full article > >

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France’s Sarkozy says Syrian president must quit after ‘massacres’ committed by his regime

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic cross-examines a survivor of the Srebrenica massacre during his war crimes trial in The Hague.

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Karadzic hears Srebrenica witness

For all its quirks, the trial of 13 police officers on charges of murder, attempted murder or other crimes stemming from a prison massacre last year is remarkable given Haiti’s history.

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Trial of Officers in Haitian Prison Massacre Is Test of System

UTVIKA, Norway — Survivors of the massacre of 69 people at a youth camp on a Norwegian island on Saturday revisited the scene of the killings to grieve their lost friends. Up to 1,000 survivors and relatives were expected on Utoya island, accompanied by police and medical staff, to face the painful memories of the shooting spree by a right-wing extremist. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said he too would visit Utoya, “to take part in their mourning and be there for them (the survivors).” Read full article > >

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Norway massacre survivors return to island of 69 killings by extremist gunman

Police in Guatemala arrest two men suspected of involvement in the 1982 massacre of 268 people during the country’s civil conflict.

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Guatemala holds massacre suspects

The lawyer for 69-year-old former Serb General Ratko Mladic has filed an appeal against his detention-a move that will probably delay his extradition for at least a day. Mladic, whose men notoriously massacred nearly 8,000 Muslim boys and men in a bout…

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Ratko Mladic’s Lawyer Files Appeal

Even though his men slaughtered nearly 8,000 Muslim boys and men in a bout of “ethnic cleansing” during the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and established “rape camps” in eastern Bosnia for women, thousands of supporters of accused war criminal Ratko…

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Thousands Protest Arrest of Ratko Mladic

Officials will try again Friday to conduct a deportation hearing for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic who was in a jail near Belgrade facing charges that he presided over Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.

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Extradition hearing for Mladic

WITH THE arrest of Europe’s most notorious living suspected war criminal , the Balkan nation of Serbia has struck a big blow for justice, greatly advanced its hopes of joining the European Union — and demonstrated that concerted and sustained pressure by Western governments can produce results on human rights. Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb army commander who is accused of overseeing the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, was seized in an early-morning raid on Thursday, just before the arrival in Belgrade of E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Read full article > >

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Making amends in Serbia

Before he went into hiding, Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army who was arrested on Thursday in connection with the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica, embraced the spotlight.

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The Lede: A Bosnian Serb General Who Loved the Cameras Returns to the Spotlight

Ratko Mladic, wanted for the Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims, is arrested in Serbia and moves to extradite him to The Hague tribunal begin.

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CANNES, France — Everybody at Cannes is talking about “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” and director Lynne Ramsay is not surprised at the strong reaction. It is, after all, about a teenager who commits a school massacre, and his mother’s bottomless grief. Some are calling it wrenching, or bleak, or poetic. But Ramsay can’t understand why anyone would call it violent. Read full article > >

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Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton set Cannes abuzz with ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’