A shutdown was observed in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated Northern and Eastern regions on Friday (28) with the minority community demanding a credible investigation into an alleged mass grave in the northeastern district of Mullaithivu
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An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three possible mass graves beneath a present-day beach resort
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They were following the call of Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a former taxi driver turned televangelist who, declaring that the world was about to end, marketed Shakahola to his followers as an evangelical Christian sanctuary from the…
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Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a Kenyan cult have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said Tuesday (9) as another 21 bodies were found
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The death toll of last week’s deadly floods and landslides in Congo climbed to more than 400 people, the government said Monday (8), as rescue workers and family members searched through debris and mud for victims and survivors of the…
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Heartrending scenes of a newborn plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter's hand have laid bare the human cost of violent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday (8) had claimed 8,300 lives
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A Supreme Court judgement, a new US law, Canadian sanctions and United Nations evidence gathering are making it increasingly hard for Sri Lanka’s past and present rulers to avoid accountability for large scale violence and abuse of power
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Torture chambers in the basements of police precincts and school buildings. Witness testimony of abuse, humiliation and murder. Seven foreign medical students from Sri Lanka held captive found alive and freed. A forest filled with graves
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A mass grave site uncovered in the city of Izium in northeastern Ukraine could hold the bodies of more than 400 people who died during the six months of Russian occupation, Ukrainian officials say
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KYIV -The remains of thousands of people believed to be victims of Stalin's Terror have been discovered in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa, local authorities said on Wednesday (25). The bones of between 5,000 to 8,000 people were found…
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