disappearances

Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On

During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause.  In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting.  Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets […]

UAE Forces Accused Of Kidnapping And Torture In Yemen

Emiratis wave the national flag as a convoy of UAE military personnel return from fighting in Yemen, Nov. 7, 2015. (Ryan Carter-Crown Prince Court/AP)
An armed force run by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has kidnapped hundreds of men in Yemen, according to relatives and local human rights activists, fueling concerns about the United States’ choice of partners in its war against Islamic extremism.