Panama searches mass graves for victims of 1989 US invasion
Panama City, PanamaReuters Several bags with human remains have been exhumed from a mass grave in Panama amid searches for the victims of the US invasion of Panama in 1989, officials said this week. The military operation took the lives of some 300 civilians and marked the end of the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega. […]
Veteran cleric and Hong Kong democrat keeps up quest for “historical truth” of Tiananmen
ReutersHong Kong Veteran Hong Kong democracy campaigner and Baptist cleric Chu Yiu-ming was in his mid-40s when he joined demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, just before a bloody crackdown that roiled China. Thirty years later, the political landscape appears even bleaker to Chu, who helped smuggle out dissidents after the bloodshed, and helped […]