Does Macedonia Need A New Amnesty?
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A debate is under way in Macedonia about a new amnesty for crimes linked to the 2001 interethnic conflict between the Macedonian authorities and ethnic Albanian insurgents of the National Liberation Army (UCK). ...
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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Is the country better prepared to prevent a repeat of last August's deadly crisis?
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Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Saturday voted into law a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter century of fighting, but also recognizing the rights of victims to seek justice.
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Macedonia's three-year peace process faces one of its biggest hurdles as voters go to the polls in a referendum called by opponents of EU-backed laws designed to empower the ethnic Albanian minority.
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4 November 2004 -- Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski today praised the United States for recognizing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia by its disputed name, &quot;Macedonia.
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If there is one thing President Bush has been clear about regarding the immigration bill before the Senate, it is that the measure does not amount to amnesty. More than most people, Bush knows that "amnesty" has become a radioactive term.
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Paul Binder, TARGET International Executive Search director for central Europe (PB): Most of the fears of a mass migration from the new EU member states were not justified and I think they will not be fulfilled ...
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It has taken us about 20 years of nonenforcement of immigration law -- since the 1986 amnesty -- to get into our current untenable situation. It may take a period of time to correct the problem.
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The Afghan parliament passed a revised bill on Saturday that called for amnesty for groups involved in war crimes but also recognized the victims' right to seek justice, lawmakers said.
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For the Record: 8 November 2004, Monday. In Macedonia, a referendum aimed at blocking plans to grant more local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanian minority has failed due to low voter turnout.
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Malaysia has extended an amnesty for illegal immigrants to leave the country until Jan. 31, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday, in a gesture of sympathy to Asian nations ravaged by a tsunami. More than 69,000 people have been killed in the region and thousands left homeless after a powerful undersea earthquake off Indonesia's island of Sumatra triggered the weekend tsunami.
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PETALING JAYA: Amnesty International has condemned armed political groups in Sudan for violating international humanitarian laws. Criticising the Sudanese government for being slow in resolving
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Politics: 24 October 2004, Sunday. A new road will connect Bulgaria and its western neighbour Macedonia.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Parliament has voted for an amnesty for leaders accused of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, arguing that it would help heal the deep divisions in Afghanistan.
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ATHENS (Der Spiegel) - According to recent reports resulting from October fact-finding missions conducted by the German Working Group on Refugees, Pro Asyl, and the Greek Group, Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers on the Aegean coast.  Refugee organisations are demanding a response at the European level. ...refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food... It is hardly a secret that Greece has shown reluctance recently to accept refugees and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, the Mediterranean country was lampooned for the fact that it turned down almost all of the asylum applications it received from Iraqis fleeing violence back home.  But now it looks as though Greece may be in blatant violation of human rights norms. Reports released this month by Greek and German refugee organisations suggest that the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea has been systematically maltreating and obstructing asylum seekers arriving on their shores. Fact-finding missions conducted in summer and October of 2007 by Pro Asyl and Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants found that refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food.  The investigative missions visited three detention centers on Greek islands and found the conditions to be "degrading and inhuman." In one case, on the island of Chios, there were reports of electric shock treatments, mock executions and beatings. In an independent report, the Greek branch of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the detention center on Samos, an island less than two kilometers from the Turkish coast, as being "deplorable" and demanded that the government close it down. Fully 391 people were found living in a room designed for 120. The staff consisted of one doctor, one social worker and a caretaker. Read more...
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Parliament has voted for an amnesty for leaders accused of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, arguing that it would help heal the deep divisions in Afghanistan.