Category: massacre

The Unchanging Chinese Communist Party

Commentary Le Figaro editor Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote in 1849 that “the more things change, the more they remain the same thing.” This is a phrase that today’s China watchers would do well to keep in mind as Beijing strives to present itself to the world as a new kind of “superpower” uninterested in altering…


Motive for Florida Family’s Massacre May Never Be Known: Investigators

Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley outside the Lakeland, Florida, home where he allegedly killed a couple, their 3-month-old son, and the boy’s grandmother, he told them, “You know why I did this.” But they say they don’t and, in fact, may never know why Riley launched an attack against a…


Child Soldiers Carried out Burkina Faso Massacre, Says Government

OUAGADOUGOU—A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried out mostly by children between the ages of 12 and 14, the government said. Armed assailants raided the village of Solhan on the evening of June 4, opened fire on residents, and burned homes. It was the…


Hundreds Deported Under Biden, Including Witness to Massacre

HOUSTON—President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of immigrants in its early days despite his campaign pledge to stop removing most people in the United States illegally at the beginning of his term. A federal judge last week ordered the Biden administration not to enforce a 100-day moratorium on deportations, but the ruling did not…


Watchdog: More Than 80 Dead in New Massacre in Ethiopia

NAIROBI, Kenya—The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday it has received information that over 80 civilians were killed early Tuesday in the latest massacre in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region. “These harrowing killings have to stop,” senior adviser Aaron Maasho said. “For the umpteenth time, we call on authorities at the federal and regional level to…