Sentences with phrase «victims of the massacre in»

Let us remember the victims of death squads in El Salvador and Haiti, the victims of massacres in Guatemala, the victims of paramilitary and guerrilla violence in Colombia, the victims of rightwing and military violence in Chiapas, the victims of the military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.

Not exact matches

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

The school district is facing potential lawsuits from the families of 17 people killed during the massacre, and from 17 victims who were injured in the shooting.

This number is only the beginning of the problem: students across the country battle fear every day when boarding the bus in case we are the next victims in America's ongoing epidemic of school massacres.

The inspirational power - ballad is called «Shine,» and the students said on their YouTube page that it «is dedicated in loving memory of the 17 victims» of the Feb. 14 massacre.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

The bill is sponsored by Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, D - Orlando, who knew some of the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando that claimed 49 lives in June 2016.

Before going into that White House listening session with classmates and parents of the latest mass school massacre victims in Florida, President Donald Trump had a brief cheat - sheet from an aide advising him to tell them: «I hear you.»

While Tutsis were mainly the victims of the genocide, their rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Force, committed its own crimes during its campaign to overthrow the Hutu government in 1994, while after 1994 the Tutsi government's army, according to reports of the U.N. and human - rights groups, massacred thousands of Hutu civilians in exile in the DRC.

Years later in Beijing, I met the Tiananmen Mothers, a group of Chinese democracy activists made up of the parents, relatives, and friends of victims of the massacre.

Dr Hood first visited Srebrenica in 2013, when she visited the location of the massacre and met the mothers of some of the victims.

In 1994 Florida paid $ 2.1 million to descendants of the African - American victims of the 1923 Rosewood massacre.

The colonists who massacred native peoples in the name of God, claiming that their victims were savage subhumans devoid of the image of God, were wrong.

How about coming up with some dates and numbers of victims in massacres perpatrated by the RCC.

The Daily News condemned those comments, as did family members of victims who lost their lives in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, as well as several prominent Connecticut Democrats who have endorsed Clinton.

Governor Andrew Cuomo conceived of the memorial for the victims in the Pulse massacre to «stand as an international symbol against ignorance, hate, bigotry, and gun violence,» read the executive order that created the commission.

Front of Queens Museum to Illuminate in Orange Now Through June 30 in Solidarity QUEENS, NY — Families of victims of gun violence, joined by elected officials, leaders and advocates, gathered this evening in a borough - wide inter-faith vigil for the victims of the Charleston hate crime massacre, and to illuminate the front exterior of the -LSB-...]

While some of the victims including soldiers, Civilian JTF Volunteers, and staff from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) were massacred, few others were paraded in a video to attract public outrage and compel further negotiations with the terrorists (Link: https://goo.gl/ky5hyD.)

Though Malcolm and the families of the victims of the Newtown Massacre lost their loved ones in vastly different contexts, at the root of each tragedy is a gun.

A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, delivering a blow to an ambitious effort to hold accountable the makers of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre before the case ever went to trial.

Marco Rubio had a rough night last week in Sunrise, where he faced a lion's den of hostile voters during a CNN live town - hall meeting featuring family members and friends of the victims of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland the week before.

Two weeks after the Orlando massacre, and just days after Congressman John Lewis's sit - in on the House floor highlighting Congressional inaction on gun safety, hundreds of GAGers marched in the NYC Pride Parade, 49 of them shrouded in white veils and carrying signs with the names and faces of each Orlando victim.

QUEENS, NY — Families of victims of gun violence, joined by elected officials, leaders and advocates, gathered this evening in a borough - wide inter-faith vigil for the victims of the Charleston hate crime massacre, and to illuminate the front exterior of the Queens Museum in orange, the official color of New York State Gun Violence Awareness Month.

It's also close in feel to Brett Morgen's 30 for 30 documentary on OJ Simpson's famous Bronco chase, and, like that film, Berg slowly pieces together the action of the day — a minute's silence for the Newtown massacre's victims, the Red Sox's home game — to give a sense of a calm before the chaos.

Children perform at a war memorial dedicated to the victims of the My Lai massacre in the village of Son My during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the massacre on March 16, 2018.

An oral history as a visual poem, the movie expands and collapses time to place the viewer alongside the victims of sniper Charles Whitman's UT Tower massacre on that hot August morning in 1966.»

In Evidence, «When the police arrive at an abandoned desert gas station after a brutal massacre, they find no evidence at the crime scene except for some of the victim's personal electronics, which include a video camera, a Flip - cam, and two cellphones.

Each funeral for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre is different, yet the same: the mourning relatives, teens walking in clutches wearing black, politicians paying their respects, media cameras pointing at the entrance from across the parking lot.

Marco Rubio had a rough night last week in Sunrise, where he faced a lion's den of hostile voters during a CNN live town - hall meeting featuring family members and friends of the victims of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland the week before.

At Palm Beach Lakes High in West Palm Beach and Spanish River High in Boca Raton, the students staged what might be called a walk - in, to voice solidarity with victims of the Parkland massacre.

Lori Alhadeff, mother of Alyssa Alhadeff — one of the 17 victims killed during the Stoneman Douglas massacre — held a tennis fundraiser in honor of her daughter for a non-profit organization to end gun violence and help fund schools with better security measures.

«The families of the victims killed in the Parkland massacre are deeply saddened that today another group of families, those from Santa Fe, TX, have suffered the loss of a loved one at school... We ask that the media covering this event refrain from using the shooter's name thereby preventing him from gaining the notoriety that many of his kind desire,» the statement said.

At the American soldiers» first engagement in California, they massacre an encampment of Yurok people, so caught up in bloodlust they hardly notice their victims are all women and children.

Relatives of Bloody Sunday victims demand removal of soldiers» names from museum Relatives of people killed in the 1972 «Bloody Sunday» massacre have demanded that the names of murdered police officers and soldiers be removed from Derry's Bogside Museum, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

In support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, where a riot in 1969 helped launch the gay rights movemenIn support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, where a riot in 1969 helped launch the gay rights movemenin Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, where a riot in 1969 helped launch the gay rights movemenin New York, where a riot in 1969 helped launch the gay rights movemenin 1969 helped launch the gay rights movement.

He's the co-founder of the Association for Development for the Maya - Achí Victims of Violence (ADIVIMA), a human rights group dedicated in part to bringing those responsible for the Chixoy massacres to justice.

This number includes the 49 victims of the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando.

As our nation continues to mourn the victims of the senseless Virginia Tech massacre, many bloggers» thoughts turn to the question of whether this tragedy could have prevented or whether others like it can be prevented in the future.

A week after the last victim of February's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was released from the hospital, Anthony Borges made it known in a press conference Friday he and his family were not pleased with several circumstances around the massacre.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. - On «This Week in South Florida» with Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg, Andrew Pollack, the father of one of the victims of the Stoneman Douglas massacre, talks about the fight he took to Tallahassee to get that school safety bill passed.

-- Survivors of previous massacres offer advice: Parents who lost children in previous mass shootings have advice for the friends and family members of victims in the Parkland massacre.

PARKLAND, Fla. - Eden Hebron was in class when Nikolas Cruz used an AR -15-style semiautomatic rifle to shoot and kill her best friend, Alyssa Alhadeff, 14, who was among the 17 victims of the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Each funeral for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre is different, yet the same: the mourning relatives, teens walking in clutches wearing black, politicians paying their respects, media cameras pointing at the entrance from across the parking lot.

On «This Week in South Florida» with Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg, Andrew Pollack, the father of one of the victims of the Stoneman Douglas massacre, talks about the fight he took to Tallahassee to get that school safety bill passed.

WESTON, Fla. - About 100 people came together Saturday in Weston to remember the victims of the Stoneman Douglas massacre.

The Miami Dolphins have stepped up in a big way to help the victims of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

They never imagined he would one day become the victim of a school massacre in Parkland.

The national walk out was also in honor of the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that occurred on Feb. 14.