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Civilian Casualties

                   

Turkish warplanes attack rebel hideout in northern Iraq

dw-world.de
Oct 6, 2008 163 related
        

The Turkish military says it has carried out air strikes on a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq. The military said in a statement that its warplanes had taken precautions in an effort to avoid civilian casualties. This was...

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Lankan envoy summoned

hindustantimes.com
Oct 6, 2008
        

National Security Adviser MK Narayanan summoned Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner and expressed India’s “grave concern and unhappiness at the growing casualties of unarmed Tamil civilians as a result of military action”.

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Sri Lanka: Attacks against civilians must cease

amnestyusa.org
Oct 6, 2008 6 related
        

In the wake of this morning's suicide bombing, Amnesty International calls again on all parties in the conflict in Sri Lanka to comply with their obligations under international law to protect civilians.

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Somalia deaths climb, insurgents reject aid groups

iht.com
Oct 3, 2008 18 related
        

Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been left without basic health care after Islamic insurgents forced one western aid group to suspend some operations and threatened another on Friday, as the war-devastated country's...

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Q&A: Nansen Award winners clear South Lebanon of clusterbombs

alertnet.org
Oct 3, 2008 2 related
        

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. For the past two years, as programme manager of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre – South Lebanon (UNMACC-SL), he...

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FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq

alertnet.org
Oct 3, 2008 7 related
        

Source: Reuters Oct 3 (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle south of Amara in southern Iraq, 350 km (180 miles) southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military ...

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Palin And Her Critics

amconmag.com
Oct 3, 2008 4 related
        

Conor Friedersdorf notes the irony that Palin’s fans are thrilling over a single appearance on television (just as they thrilled to her earlier convention speech when it was broadcast on television), even though their main...

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Fighting Taliban, Pakistan finds itself at war

iht.com
Oct 3, 2008 167 related
        

Fighting Taliban, Pakistan finds itself at war : War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on...

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MIDEAST: Breaking the Silence

ipsnews.net
Oct 2, 2008 1 related
        

By Cherrie Heywood RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 2 (IPS) - Earlier in the year the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) decided that their presence in the city of Hebron, 30km south of Jerusalem in the Palestinian West Bank, constituted a...

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Counting Casualties In South Ossetia

washingtonpost.com
Oct 3, 2008
        

President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia rightly cast doubt on the initial figures cited by the Russian government for civilian deaths in the South Ossetia conflict in his Sept. 23 op-ed, "Answering Russian Aggression." But Mr....

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