Families of Algeria's 'Disappeared' Search for Truth
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Fatma Zohra Boucherf has looked for her  son at police stations, prisons, morgues and cemeteries since  he was taken away by policemen in 1995 at the height of  Algeria's Islamic militant uprising.
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Algerian security forces members are  believed responsible for the deaths of 5,200 civilians who  disappeared during a decade-long struggle with Islamic rebels  and should face justice, a government-appointed official said.
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Dozens of people who have vanished after allegedly being detained by the US in counter-terror operations named in report by human rights groups.
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.
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Â· New sketch based on holidaymaker's sightingsÂ· Family call for worldwide effort to trace suspect
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Parents of missing Madeleine McCann take search for their daughter to north Africa.
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Paris: The widow of Yasser Arafat has questioned the right of his nephew to receive a copy of the medical file of the late Palestinian leader.
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Pakistan says it has traced 20 out of 41 missing people whose families allege are being held by intelligence agencies.
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In the six months since truck driver William Bradley disappeared in Iraq, his relatives say they're frustrated by their countless efforts to find out what happened to him.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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KATHMANDU : Relatives of 12 Nepalese workers missing in Iraq were desperately seeking information after an Islamist website showed alleged pictures of them in captivity.
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The family of a young girl who disappeared during a vacation in Portugal called Tuesday for an end to the rampant speculation surrounding the case and said the focus should return to the search for her.
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Officials investigate the plight of Britons left in legal limbo after their relatives went missing in the Asian tsunami.
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Newly discovered documents reveal the Frank familyâs desperate efforts in 1941 to get to the U.S. or Cuba.
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The parents of the British girl who went missing in Portugal are now under suspicion, but much about the case remains a baffling mystery. A look at the chief unanswered questions
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Missing girl's aunt urges Portuguese investigators to focus on finding four-year-old.