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December 12, 1991
East Timor: The November 12 Massacre And Its Aftermath
On November 12, 1991 in Dili, the capital of East Timor, anywhere from 75 to 200 people are estimated to have been killed when Indonesian troops opened fire on a demonstration. The demonstrators were calling for the independence of East Timor, the former…
December 10, 1991
Ciskei, South Africa: Ten Years on Human Rights and the Fiction of "Independence"
A decade ago, on December 4, 1981, the South African government declared that the Ciskei, an arbitrarily defined area in the south east of the country, had joined three other "national states" in receiving "independence." No other state recognizes the…
November 1, 1991
Prison Conditions in the United States
The United States imprisons more than a million of its citizens at any given time, a larger number than anyother country. After visits to more than twenty institutions in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including state, INS, and federal prisons as well as jails…
November 1, 1991
Haiti: The Aristide Government's Human Rights Record
The government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide compiled a record on human rights which showed much promise but which was also marked by certain troubling practices. His administration began to pay close attention to much-needed structural reforms in some of the…
October 1, 1991
El Salvador’s Decade Of Terror
The most comprehensive account now available on human rights violations in El Salvador, A Decade of Terror documents the civil war between an armed insurgency and the military-backed government, and explains how it has led to a decade of ferocious…
September 16, 1991
Out of Sight
Hidden under the reforms initiated by President de Klerk since February 2, 1990, human rights violations continue unabated in Bophuthatswana, one of South Africa's four so?called "independent" homelands. In the past 18 months political violence has…
September 2, 1991
The Coward's War: Landmines in Cambodia
The impact of landmines in Cambodia and call for a ban
Published as Cambodia emerged from decades of conflict, The Coward's War documents how antipersonnel landmines were used by all warring factions. As internally displaced persons were preparing to return from the Thai border, the report describes the…