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The
massacre
was prepared in detail and took place over the course of six days (between July 13 and 19).
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale
massacre
of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
It is not surprising that the Soviets denied for decades that Stalin ordered the Katyn
massacre
of tens of thousands of Polish officers in 1940.
A former adviser to Deng Xiaoping and confidante of former President Jiang Zemin (whose political influence is now waning), Li was among the first to invest in China after the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of 1989.
For years, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina escalated, alongside a “diplomatic process” marked by a series of broken promises, culminating in the
massacre
at Srebrenica of thousands of civilians supposedly under United Nations protection.
After a Rwandan woman spontaneously declared before the tribunal that she and other women had been raped before the massacre, a female judge followed up and revealed the enormous scale of sexual violence against women.
Though some hawks called for only muted criticism of the regime, the US had no choice but to condemn the
massacre
and be expelled.
The Disunited States of American Gun ControlLONDON – The Las Vegas
massacre
and its aftermath are pure Americana.
After a week of televised, heart-wrenching funerals, American life will go on until the next
massacre.
Las Vegas will suffer not only from the trauma of the recent massacre, but also from a diversion of tourism and conferences, at least until Nevada cracks down on assault weapons and can guarantee visitors’ safety.
The Polish government delegation was traveling to a commemoration of the 1940
massacre
in Katyn, where Stalin ordered the murder of 22,000 Polish army officers, police officers, and intelligentsia and blamed Hitler for the crime.
When the Cold War ended, the truth about the
massacre
finally came out, and was officially recognized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
It was the beginning of a historic massacre, in which as many as 1.5 million of the two million Armenians living in the empire were killed.
Turkey has long portrayed the
massacre
of the Armenians as uncoordinated and unfortunate acts resulting from the chaos of World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
The
massacre
of some 500,000 members or sympathizers of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) during 1965-1966 is the least talked-about genocide of the last century.
I traveled to Beijing to participate as an activist in Tiananmen Square, where I narrowly escaped the
massacre
and was able to make my way back to the US.
Despite this rosy picture, China could be the cause of a major transatlantic row if Europeans make good on their intention to lift the arms export embargo in place since the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of 1989.
Another is the massacre, examined by the journalist Anna Bikont, of at least 340 – and, according to other authors, as many as 1,600 – Jewish men, women, and children in the town of Jedwabne.
The divisions are no less marked in another transatlantic quarrel, this one over whether to lift the European Union’s embargo on arms exports to China, imposed following the Tiananmen Square
massacre
15 years ago.
Nepal fleetingly made headlines after the 2001 palace
massacre
of the previous monarch and his family.
Finally, rather than protesting the way Japan's WWII activities are described in US textbooks or squabbling over the number of people murdered during the Nanjing massacre, Japan should seek to help its own citizens understand and process their country's wartime record.
When Liu learned that he had been awarded this year‘s Nobel Peace Prize, his first reaction was telling: “This prize is given to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre.”
But, on the morning of June 2, a virtual
massacre
occurred, as local Internet service providers were ordered to block Jordanians’ access to hundreds of news Web sites, including AmmanNet.
If this was not caused by simple aggression on the part of Serbia, then the only grounds for intervention would be to prevent a
massacre.
China's search for an alternative social and economic arrangement became urgent with the student revolt of 1989, the subsequent Tienanmien massacre, and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.
So is this the time to end the arms ban imposed by both Europe and America after the Tiananmen Square
massacre
in 1989?
In the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, however, individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were again committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis.
Remember Angola’s civil war, the Khmer Rouge’s
massacre
of millions of Cambodians, Rwanda’s tribal wars, the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the extermination of Christians in Southern Sudan.
Some critics have faulted him for not supporting the national aspirations of Soviet republics like Ukraine in 1991 (when he delivered his infamous “Chicken Kiev” speech warning against “suicidal nationalism”); for failing to go to Baghdad to unseat Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War; or for sending Brent Scowcroft to Beijing to maintain relations with China after the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of 1989.
On many such occasions in the past, from the Boxer Rebellion to the May 4 th Movement (which culminated in the
massacre
at Tiananmen Square, Chinese patriots angrily accused their own government of betraying the country by colluding with foreign imperialists.
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