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1972: US-Backed Dictator Stroessner Continues Genocide of Aché Indians in Paraguay
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Stroessner's genocide: "The Paraguayan Episcopal Conference, in a press communiqué on 29 June 1972, explains the high death figure by the fact that the new captives were brought to the Reservation in April, when an influenza epidemic was already raging there. Taking a large number of forest Indians there at this time, without providing for their health requirements, was indirect mass murder."

Source: Münzel (1973), The Aché Indians: Genocide in Paraguay. International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), p. 56
2015: US Resumes Arms Sales to Bahrain Four Years After Civilian Massacres
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"U.S. Resuming Arms Sales to Bahrain’s Military: Ban had been in place since Bahrain cracked down on protesters in 2011 during Arab Spring uprisings. By Felicia Schwartz, June 29, 2015 7:05 pm ET.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. is lifting restrictions on military aid to Bahrain despite ongoing human rights concerns, the State Department said Monday."

"In 1996, Bahrain became the headquarters for the USN’s 5th Fleet, and it is today one of the most important USN bases in the world, home to thousands of US personnel."

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