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This law might or might not have prompted the parents of the Colorado killers to intervene before the massacre.
Mithridates VI, King of Pontus (on the Black Sea), resisted Roman occupation, temporarily occupied Pergamum, and ordered the massacre of all Romans.
President Clinton's apology-strewn tour of Africa is Issue 1: He's sorry about slavery; he's sorry about the Rwanda massacre.
The child of Hungarian World War II refugees, he started his career as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer . He won fame by obtaining photographs of the My Lai massacre, then caught the eye of Rolling Stone with his bold crime stories.
Jiang dismissed Chinese political prisoners as criminals, likened China's treatment of Tibet to Lincoln's liberation of the slaves, and defended the Tiananmen Square massacre as being necessary to preserve "state security."