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...causes on Monday in her home in Detroit, Mich. She was 92. When Rosa Parks refused to move, a whole movement began. Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus sparked the influential 1960s civil rights movement. Her arrest in 1955 provoked the 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks has long been remembered in history as one of the pioneers...
...Genocide Avenger Known as the Nazi hunter who pursued war criminals for more than 50 years, Simon Wiesenthal [MILESTONES, Oct. 3] helped with the arrest of 1,000 people charged with killing Jews. Wiesenthal, who was himself imprisoned in several concentration camps, became the conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...
...exodus, some 40,000 children walked into Gulu every night, according to Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization. Five of the LRA commanders were indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on July 8—the first-ever arrest warrants that the ICC has issued. Despite several reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even a U.S. congressional bill condemning this situation, news coverage of the two-decades-long conflict and the children it endangers continues to be sparse. Dinesha said her interest in the matter came from...
...crime or just a tragic mistake? A Spanish judge opted for the former when he issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers alleged to be responsible for firing a 120-mm tank shell into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on April 8, 2003, killing Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and José Couso from the Spanish network Telecinco. Judge Santiago Pedraz's order charged that the Americans had committed a possible "crime against the international community." He said he issued the warrant because his court had received no response to its request for information about legal proceedings under...
...says Allen. "We fly every day. We respond to oil spills every day." Also, since the Coast Guard is the only military branch allowed to perform law-enforcement duties, it is accustomed to engaging with civilians. In one day, a Coast Guard boat crew off of California might arrest as many people as it saves...