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Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib ON THE morning of March 16, 1968, as many as 500 unarmed civilians were massacred by American forces in My Lai in Vietnam. It was the single worst act of atrocity committed by the U.S. military on foreign soil after World War II. The response by ... Preventive detention an anachronism INDIA IS one of the few countries in the world where laws allowing preventive detention enjoy constitutional validity even during peacetime. In contrast, the European Court of Human Rights has long held that such laws are illegal under the ... On seeking the right question A QUOTE from a recent op-ed column in NY Times by Barbara Ehrenreich on July 15, 2004 set me thinking : "Our standardised-test-driven schools reward the right answer, not the unsettling question." She was of course commenting on the role ... |
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