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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Human Rights Watch: This Week in Rights - June 2, 2016

Human Rights Watch
  • Chad's Ex-Dictator Sentenced to Life for Atrocities
  • China Should Tell the Truth About Tiananmen
  •  Deadly Week in the Mediterranean
  • ISIS Advance Traps 165,000 Syrians at Closed Turkish Border
  • How Afghan Classrooms Became Bunkers
  • “The Harvest is in My Blood”
  •  Turkey: Syrians Shot, Beaten, and Killed at Border
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