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Human rights advocates in Indonesia, for example, used the crisis to argue for political prisoners to be released, for East Timor to be given its independence, and for provincial human rights violations to beinvestigated.

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All western Indians at that point in time were now prisoners of war.

On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.

Prisoners are still born into prisoner of war camps, long after the guards are gone.

Teachers were prisoners.

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