# Dictatorship

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# War On Drugs

Philippine lawmakers vote to slash annual funding for human rights commission to just €16

“This leads us on a direct path to dictatorship,” Senator Francis Pangilinan said.

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Sep 13th 2017, 1:13 PM

# dictatorship fears

Activist shot dead as protesters storm government building in Paraguay

Offices were ransacked and 30 people were injured as a demonstration turned violent.

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Apr 1st 2017, 3:10 PM

# Dirty War

Grandmother finds stolen grandson after 35-year search

The 83-year-old woman is the head of the Argentinian organisation which tracks down babies stolen during the military dictatorship.

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Aug 5th 2014, 10:33 PM

# Dictatorship

Argentina want to try a Spanish Fascist-era policeman accused of torture, but Spain won't extradite him

Jesus Munecas is accused of torturing a prisoner during the country’s 36-year Franco-led dictatorship.

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Apr 25th 2014, 6:21 PM

# one man one vote

It's election day in North Korea and people have one option: 'Yes'.

In the absence of any competing candidates, voters are simply required to mark “Yes” next to the name on the ballot sheet.

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Mar 9th 2014, 9:37 AM

# globetrotters

Matt Cooper describes 'outpouring of joy' from crowd upon appearance of Kim Jong-Un

The broadcaster spoke to The Last Word on Today FM from Beijing after spending four days in North Korea.

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Jan 10th 2014, 6:18 PM

# Missing

Identifying victims of Argentina's 'Dirty War'

This month marks 30 years since the end of the bloody dictatorship – but thousands are still missing.

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Dec 15th 2013, 11:30 AM

# Dictatorship

Nobel peace laureate says Pope Francis was not complicit in 'Dirty War'

“He was not complicit with the dictatorship, he did not collaborate,” says human rights activist and Nobel laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

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Mar 21st 2013, 3:47 PM

# Dictatorship

Pinochet will leaves everything to his family

The family had requested the document remain private, but investigators are trying to find what happened to around €20 million the dictator had hidden away before he died.

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Jul 4th 2012, 7:30 PM

# Belarus

Belarus clamps down on access to ‘blacklisted’ websites

President Alexander Lukashenko formalises laws which bar the country’s businessman from using outside online resources.

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Jan 6th 2012, 2:55 PM

# Chile

Chile accused of airbrushing history as textbooks drop Pinochet 'dictatorship'

The country’s education minister has ruled that the rule of Augusto Pinochet is not a “dictatorship” but a “military regime”.

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Jan 5th 2012, 10:18 PM

# North Korea

The 10 strangest photographs from Kim Jong-Il's funeral

The funeral of the North Korean dictator has been taking place in Pyongyang today. Here’s a round-up of the 10 most grabbing photographs from it.

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Dec 28th 2011, 6:06 PM

# North Korea

What's going to happen at Kim Jong-Il's funeral tomorrow?

The funeral of the former leader of North Korea, who has been lying in state since he died on 17 December, is expected to see mass grief from mourners.

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Dec 27th 2011, 7:01 PM

# Chile

Remains of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to be exhumed

The poet and politician died in 1973 at the age 69 in a clinic in Santiago – but now Chile’s Communisty Party is asking for his remains to be exhumed to see if he has been poisoned.

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Dec 6th 2011, 9:40 AM

# Argentina

Argentina's Angel of Death sentenced to life in prison over 'dirty war' crimes

The former navy spy is one of a dozen former officers jailed for life over crimes committed during military junta of the 70s and 80s.

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Oct 27th 2011, 9:49 AM