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| | Permanent Council of the OAS / Commitee on Hemispheric Security |
 | | This category includes all sorts of homicides (genocide, war crimes, massacres of civilians, murders) as well as all types of coercive or brutal actions involving physical or psychological suffering (forced removal of populations, imprisonment, kidnapping, hostage taking, forced labour, torture, rape, maltreatment). |
 | | The history of the Soviet regime is indeed filled with tales of terror, massacres, mass executions, deportation of entire population groups, purges and concentration camps, reflecting unprecedented levels of institutionalised state terrorism. |
 | | The frequency of school massacres, such as the Stockton massacre in January 1989 or, more recently, the Columbine High School killings in Colorado in April 1999, has increased in dramatic proportion. |
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