Word: gunmen
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...decade since, massacres perpetrated by deranged gunmen have continued - including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and wounded many others. But something odd has occurred. Whatever momentum the Columbine killings gave to gun control has long since petered...
...brain hemorrhage, but he is expected to survive," Chaiwan said. Sondhi was wounded, along with his driver and bodyguard, when his car stopped at a gas station about 5AM, according to a PAD member. News reports quoted police as saying Sondhi's car was sprayed with bullets from gunmen in another vehicle. (See pictures of the Bangkok protests...
...sold assault weapons including Kalashnikov and AR15 semi-automatic rifles are responsible for the vast majority of drug related killings in Mexico. With gangs of gunmen using them to spray hundreds of bullets at their targets in ambushes, the weapons are also linked to the deaths of more than 100 civilians last year, many of whom simply had the misfortune of driving or walking close to a hit. However, in 2004 a U.S. ban on sale of assault weapons was repealed and a 2008 Supreme Court decision reinforced the second amendment, making a future ban even more difficult...
...March, when gunmen blasted their way into a Darfur compound of MSF Belgium and kidnapped five aid workers, shortly after prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague had handed down a war-crimes indictment to Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - its first for a sitting head of state. Enraged at what he claimed was a Western attack on his presidency, Bashir expelled 13 aid organizations operating in conflict-ravaged Darfur in Western Sudan, perhaps the world's most complex humanitarian disaster at the moment, with millions dead or driven from their homes. MSF Belgium was permitted...
...week to go before national elections, snarled logistics and accurate voter rolls could spell disaster for the more remote regions of Indonesia. But Aceh, a province of four million people on the northern tip of Sumatra, is facing security challenges as well. After a string of attacks by unidentified gunmen over the past three months, the central government is planning to send an additional 1,000 soldiers and 260 national police to join an estimated 9,000 local police officers to help stabilize the restive province. At least 16 people have been killed in shootings and grenade attacks that have...