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Nancy Wake 30 Jun 2013 | 05:07 am
A short biography and background note on Nancy Wake. Updated 30 June 2013 to confirm the information that, in accord with her wishes, Nancy Wake's ashes were scattered at the village of Verneix near M...
Efraín Ríos Montt 23 Jun 2013 | 07:07 am
A short biography and background note on Efraín Ríos Montt. Updated 23 June 2013 to provide further biographical details and update information about Ríos Montt's trial on charges of genocide and war ...
Rigoberta Menchú Tum 23 Jun 2013 | 07:06 am
A short biography and background note on Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Updated 23 June 2013 to provide further details about operation 'Victoria 82' (Victory 82) and to update information about Efraín Ríos Mo...
Augusto Pinochet 8 Jun 2013 | 08:12 am
A short biography and background note on Augusto Pinochet. Updated 8 June 2013 to include note that, following his cremation, Pinochet's ashes were placed inside the chapel of a private family estate ...
Lech Walesa 5 Jun 2013 | 09:27 am
A short biography and background note on Lech Walesa. Updated 5 June 2013 to report on Walesa's recent comments about homosexuals in the Polish parliament and to edit the "comment" at the end of the p...
Rosa Parks 25 May 2013 | 06:50 am
A short biography and background note on Rosa Parks. Updated 25 May 2013 to note the unveiling of a bronze statue of Parks in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol on 27 February 2013, and to add a 'Mor...
United States Presidents 15 May 2013 | 10:47 am
Background notes on United States presidents and their advisers. Updated 15 May 2013 to note the Reagan administration's effort to prevent Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from sabotaging a vote that...
Pol Pot 12 May 2013 | 10:32 am
A short biography and background note on Pol Pot. Updated 12 May 2013 to report the death of Ieng Sary on 14 March 2013 and to note that the secret bombing raids on Vietnamese communist sanctuaries an...
Ho Chi Minh 12 May 2013 | 10:10 am
A short biography and background note on Ho Chi Minh. Updated 12 May 2013 to revise down to 700,000 the figure for the number killed in Cambodia and Laos as a consequence of the spread of the Vietnam ...
The Duvaliers 12 May 2013 | 09:56 am
Short biographies and background notes on François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Updated 30 April 2013 to note Jean-Claude Duvalier's appearance at a pre-trial hearing in a Haitian appeals court ...
