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83-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Finally Celebrates Bar Mitvah
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsWhen he was just 11 years old, Morris Glass's childhood was ripped away from him when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. This past Saturday, the 83-year-old Glass was able to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah, an important Jewish rite of passage that was denied him because at 13 years old he was living in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto. "In the ghetto, I had no chance for a bar mitzvah," Glass told CNN. "We were not allowed to have any books." Now a resident of Raleigh, N.C., Glass has made it his mission to speak about his experiences during the Holocaust to schools and community ...
NATO to Libya: What Seems to Be the Problem?
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Holocaust Survivors: France's Train Company Owes Us 'Blood Money'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France -- Some survivors of the French trains used to deport 76,000 Jews to the death camps during World War II are angry about what was billed this week as the first public apology to them by the SNCF, France's national railway company. They believe that SNCF President Guillaume Pepy did not take true responsibility for the train company's role in Jewish deportations when he spoke at a ceremony Tuesday. Boris Horvat, AFP/Getty Images SNCF President Guillaume Pepy appears Tuesday at a ceremony organized by France's state-owned rail company to launch a project to transform an ...
Study: Genghis Khan's Mass Killings Cut Carbon Footprint
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsGenghis Khan's bloodthirsty, bow-wielding horsemen conquered vast swaths of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, destroying countless civilizations that stood in their path. But a new study suggests that the Mongol tyrant's empire wasn't just the largest and most brutal the world has ever seen -- it was also, in its own perverse way, the greenest. According to research published in The Holocene journal, the Mongol invasions of the 13th and 14th centuries shrank humanity's carbon footprint, scrubbing some 700 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That's roughly equivalent to the ...
Armenians Decry Kobe Bryant's Deal With Turkish Airlines
By Justin Vela - AOL NewsISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kobe Bryant probably wishes he'd kept to the basketball court. Armenians in the U.S. and abroad are crying foul against the NBA superstar and want him to drop his deal with Turkey's premier airline to serve as its new "global brand ambassador." Bryant's two-year contract with Turkish Airlines "is wrong because Turkey denies the Armenian genocide," Karine Ter-Sahakian, an editor of the PanArmenian news agency, said in an interview with AOL News. "Bryant talks about Darfur and says nothing about the Armenian genocide." The opposition to Bryant's deal, which calls for him to ...
Germany Donates $80 Million to Preserve Auschwitz Memorial
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Germany has pledged to donate $80 million toward the restoration of the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious Nazi death camp in Europe. The barracks and gas chambers -- physical evidence of the Holocaust -- are on the verge of collapse. "Germany acknowledges its historic responsibility to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and to pass it on to future generations," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement. Valery Hache, AFP / Getty Images The entrance to Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, ...
Can Curtailing Hate Speech Prevent Genocide?
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News
UNITED NATIONS (Nov. 7) -- Can laws against so-called hate speech help prevent incidents of genocide like those that claimed millions of lives in recent decades in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and the Congo? Githu Muigai, a Kenyan lawyer and the U.N.'s special rapporteur on racism, said Monday that even though "xenophobic and racist action" leads to "death and destruction," many domestic legal systems are not equipped to handle such cases. "It is not the norm, even when hate speech is in the statute book, that judges and magistrates and judicial officers are sensitized to the special problem of ...
Clinton Urges Human Rights Progress in Cambodia
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Oct. 31) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s. Clinton was in the capital, Phnom Penh, where she visited the main Khmer Rouge prison and torture center before appealing to Cambodian officials to overcome a legacy of impunity for abuses. The government has refused to allow a U.N.-backed court trying top Khmer Rouge leaders to prosecute lower-ranking members. Clinton toured the infamous S-21 prison where as many ...
'Hotel Rwanda' Hero Accused of Funding Terrorism
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- Rwandan authorities have accused the man who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide, and whose heroic deeds were later depicted in the 2004 Hollywood movie "Hotel Rwanda," of funding terrorism. That Oscar-nominated film told the true story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, who in 1994 risked his life to provide shelter and protection to hundreds of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus fleeing murderous Hutu militias. The refugees inside the Hôtel des Mille Collines were saved from almost certain death -- outside their sanctuary's walls, more than 800,000 people ...
Opinion: Can George Clooney Help Prevent Genocide in Sudan?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- George Clooney has certainly had more lavish accommodations than the hut where he stayed recently on a fact-finding tour in south Sudan. The Academy Award-winning actor returned with a stark warning: An agreement must be negotiated now about the fate of south Sudan after a Jan. 9, 2011, referendum or Africa could see another genocidal conflict on the order of Rwanda, Congo and Darfur. There is "an opportunity to prevent atrocities," Clooney told the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Tuesday night. "Not mopping up afterwards. ... If we do nothing, hundreds of ...
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