Obama remembers ‘Dirty War’ victims
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – As many Argentines paused to remember loved ones killed during their country’s brutal dictatorship, President Barack Obama said Thursday that America was slow to speak out for human rights during that painful period and promised an honest accounting going forward.
Obama’s comments, sure to reverberate in Argentina and beyond, came 40 years to the day that a 1976 coup opened a period of military rule in Argentina that continues to have repercussions today.
Obama paid tribute to the victims of Argentina’s “Dirty War” by visiting Remembrance Park and tossing a wreath into the Rio de La Plata river near a memorial bearing thousands of names.
“We’ve been slow to speak out for human rights, and that was the case here,” said Obama, standing alongside Argentina’s new president, Mauricio Macri.
Ex-leader sentenced for Serb war crimes
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A United Nations court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia’s 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead.
As he sat down after hearing his sentence, Karadzic slumped slightly in his chair, but showed little emotion. He plans to appeal the convictions.
The UN court found Karadzic guilty of genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust.
Associated Press
