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27 Farmworkers Beheaded in Guatemala

Police link killings to Mexican drug cartels

(Newser) - Some 200 gunmen yesterday morning attacked the workers on a small Guatemalan coconut farm on the Mexico border, decapitating 25 men and two women, reports the Los Angeles Times . Authorities do not have a motive, although they suspect the massacre could be related to the killing of a man linked...

'Mouthy' Mom: Gun Waiting Period Will 'Delay Massacre'

Julie Schenecker notes show calculated plans to murder kids

(Newser) - Before she allegedly shot her teenage son and daughter in the head for being "mouthy," Julie Schenecker detailed her plans with pen and paper. Referencing Florida's three-day waiting period to take home a firearm, Schenecker chillingly wrote in a note that it would "delay the massacre,"...

15 Killed in Mexico Car Wash Massacre
 15 Killed in Car Wash Massacre 
Oct 28, 2010 2:44 AM CDT

15 Killed in Car Wash Massacre

Most victims were drug rehab center clients

(Newser) - Suspected drug cartel gunmen opened fire at a car wash in Tepic, western Mexico, killing 15 people in the violence-wracked nation's third massacre in less than a week. Ten of the victims are believed to have been clients of a drug treatment center, the New York Times reports. Thirteen people...

Gunman Hitched Ride With Doomed Medics

Militants 'had a plan,' lone survivor says

(Newser) - The doomed team of medics stopped to pick up three hitchhikers in the unforgiving Afghanistan terrain. When they came to a river, two jumped off the four-wheel-drive vehicles and went on their way, while the third, a man with a patchy beard, "quickly disappeared." The team crossed the...

Bosnians Mark 15 Years Since Srebrenica

775 coffins from mass graves will be reburied today

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of people are expected in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury hundreds of massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era. A whole hillside was dug out with graves this morning waiting for the 775 coffins to...

10 Kids Gunned Down in Mexico
 10 Kids Gunned Down in Mexico 
Mar 30, 2010 6:41 AM CDT

10 Kids Gunned Down in Mexico

Students were on way to receive scholarships

(Newser) - Ten students were gunned down on their way to pick up scholarships in Durango, Mexico, officials said yesterday. The victims ranged in age from 8 to 21, with half under 16. Their pickup truck appears to have been hit with guns and grenades Sunday, after failing to stop at a...

US General Blames 'Gay Dutch' in Bosnia Slaughter

Netherlands minister slams 'utter nonsense'

(Newser) - Creeping gayness among Dutch forces and an increasing interest in peacekeeping rather than fighting was partly responsible for NATO soldiers' failure to stop the Bosnian massacre at Srebrenica, a retired US general has charged. A Dutch government spokesman has dismissed as "complete nonsense" former NATO commander John Sheehan's statement...

After Nigerian Riots, 150 Bodies Found in Wells

Total death toll in religious violence is reportedly near 400

(Newser) - Nearly a week after the outbreak of violence between Nigerian Muslims and Christians, aid workers have found up to 150 more bodies stuffed into wells and sewage pits. In the central village of Kuru Karama, many victims had been shot, hacked to death, or burned alive, reports the BBC .

Philippine Massacre Death Toll Hits 57

Government declares emergency rule in Maguindanao province

(Newser) - Another 11 bodies have been found in the mass grave where dozens were killed in election related slaughter in the Philippines. The death toll now stands at 57, including 24 women, Reuters reports. The government has imposed emergency rule on the southern province, sending in 500 soldiers, and disbanding a...

Filipino Gunmen Kidnap, Kill 21 Filing Election Papers

Political rivals blamed for massacre in country's violent south

(Newser) - Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country's restive south today, after dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections, officials said. The victims, 13 women and eight men, were found in southern Ampatuan township, three miles from where they were...

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army
Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army
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Nov 6, 2009 5:30 PM CST

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to San Antonio hospital

(Newser) - Nidal Malik Hasan considered himself a victim of anti-Muslim bias and had been trying for 6 months to quit the Army, his cousin says. "I think because he’s a Muslim he didn’t want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn’t want to expose himself...

12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Fort Hood Shootings

Soldier gunman is dead; two other suspects are in custody

(Newser) - Twelve people are dead and 31 wounded after a shooting spree at Fort Hood, the Texas Army base. One shooter is among the dead and two more suspects are in custody. All are US soldiers, said an Army official. All the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center,...

17 Massacred at Mexican Rehab Clinic

(Newser) - Hooded gunmen killed 17 people after storming a Mexican drug and alcohol rehab center in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, Sky News reports. The men, believed to be hitmen from a drug cartel, forced the patients to line up in a corrider before gunning them down. Gangs have targeted rehab clinics in...

Turkey, Armenia Move Toward Diplomatic Ties

Talks won't touch WWI-era massacre at root of ill feelings, however

(Newser) - Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for a century, took a step toward reconciliation today by announcing they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic ties. But they won't discuss the deepest source of their enmity: the World War I-era massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The sides say they...

Killer Nazi, 90, Jailed for Life

(Newser) - A former commander in Adolf  Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in Italy he ordered 65 years ago, the BBC reports. In what is expected to be one of the very last Nazi trials, a Munich court found Joseph Scheungraber guilty of murder in the...

How China Rewrote Tiananmen History
 How China Rewrote 
 Tiananmen History 
OPINION
May 27, 2009 2:59 PM CDT

How China Rewrote Tiananmen History

Recalling Tiananmen 20 years later

(Newser) - The Tiananmen Square massacre isn’t something the Chinese government wants the world to remember, and it's doing a good job keeping the matter quiet, writes Terrence Cheng in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In China, “those who dare to speak about it are swiftly silenced,” he writes....

20 Years On, Chinese Youth Forget Tiananmen

Democracy recedes for today's student generation

(Newser) - It's now been 20 years since the Chinese army rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of students in the final push to put down a growing democracy movement. Beijing is anxious as the June 4 anniversary of the massacre approaches; Google "Tiananmen" in Beijing and you'll likely find pages...

Royal Murders Continue to Haunt Nepal

New regime reopens probe into 8-year-old palace massacre

(Newser) - In an effort to cover up their own difficulties, the Maoist rebels-turned-rulers who govern Nepal have relaunched a probe into the royal massacre that helped bring them to power, Time reports. The incident 8 years ago—the crown prince killed the king and nine other relatives before taking his own...

Letter Indeed From NY Gunman: Police

Message's authenticity backed up by photos, driver's license

(Newser) - A letter allegedly from the gunman who killed 14 last week in Binghamton, NY, is likely authentic, the Press & Sun-Bulletin reports. Police said today they had “no reason” to doubt the letter’s authorship despite a claim from the gunman’s sister he lacked the vocabulary to write...

Binghamton Victims 'Died Seeking Better Lives'

Victim of civic center massacre hailed from 8 different countires

(Newser) - The immigrants gunned down in Binghamton on Friday were from all corners of the world, the New York Times reports; they came together in the classroom where they, along with the killer, had been studying English. Two Americans—a teacher and a receptionist—were killed in the rampage. Four of...

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