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Posts Tagged with "extra-judicial killings"

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Kagame has immunity in U.S. courts

March 16, 2013

The widows of the assassinated presidents of Rwanda and Burundi have petitioned the Supreme Court in Habyarimana v. Kagame to reject Obama administration claims of unreviewable executive power to strip federal courts of jurisdiction for money damages for “extra-judicial” murders and other violations of international law committed by Paul Kagame, the current president of Rwanda.

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Cynthia McKinney: Justice for Trayvon Martin also means joining the international struggle against U.S. lawlessness

March 31, 2012

As the mother of a young Black man whom I pray for nightly and worry daily about his life being violently ended senselessly either by someone marginalized by the unjust social structure of U.S. life or by some rogue officer of the law or one pretending to be a policeman, I offer my sincerest condolences to the Martin family and friends over the loss of their son Trayvon.

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