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...addition to positive gun control efforts, Congress is considering troublesome Republican measures that would punish juvenile criminals more severely for their crimes. These bills, if passed, would make it easier to try juveniles as adults and impose longer sentences for juveniles in adult prisons--most notably a mandatory sentencing of 20 years for bringing a gun to school...
...good move for Liu, and for Hong Kongnewspaper readers. [It is] odd that Nieman wouldwant to punish him for it," Seymour wrote...
...atrocity even more insidious than annihilation of a people. Turkey's denials of the Armenian Genocide began 80 years ago and continue to this day. Its strategic geographical location allowed it to avoid compliance with the points of the Treaty of Sevres (1920), which was intended to punish Turkey has attempted to annihilate both a people and a memory. Turkey for humanitarian crimes and to secure the freedom and independence of Armenia. Today, the Republic of Armenia is less than one-tenth the size of historical Armenia, and Armenian churches and homes built on the Anatolian plateau have been destroyed...
...bombing once Yugoslavia withdrew its military forces from Kosovo and allowed the return of refugees. It also would have required an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's withdrawal. Annan's proposal is sound; it makes clear that the aim of the NATO intervention is not to punish Yugoslavian civilians but to protect the civilians violently uprooted in Kosovo. Without the return of refugees and the removal of Yugoslav Army units, those who wish to see an Albanian-free Kosovo will have triumphed...
...Colombian rebels who once promised to execute those responsible for the slaying of three U.S. citizens near the Venezuelan border seem unlikely to punish the real killers. A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) claimed at the time that the three U.S. humanitarian workers--Terence Freitas, 24, from California; Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, from Hawaii; and Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, from Wisconsin--were abducted and killed by a local squad leader acting without higher orders. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered March 4. But Colombian military intelligence intercepted a radio conversation between the squad leader...