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| December 18, 2011 |
Vaclav Havel on Kim Jong-il
(originally published June 17, 2004)
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| December 18, 2011 |
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011
"Truth and love must prevail over lies
and hate"
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| December 12, 2011 |
Welcome to the Gulag, and give up all hope
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| November 21, 2011 |
Long-awaited justice for victims of the Khmer Rouge
When the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia begin
opening statements on Monday [Nov. 21, 2011] , it will mark the
first time the international community has held senior leaders of
the Khmer Rouge to account for the system of torture, starvation,
forced marriage and execution.
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| November 9, 2011 |
Checkpoint Charlie Museum
One man's heroic determination to fight tyranny with truth
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| October 16, 2011 |
US Representative and former Latvian President Win Truman-Reagan Awards
This year, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation honored
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL18) and Vaira
Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia.
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| October 13, 2011 |
How Much Do Western Europeans Know About Communist Crimes?
Anders Hjemdahl of the Stockholm-based Institute for Information
on the Crimes of Communism talked to RFE/RL correspondent Charles
Recknagel about why Western Europeans seem to know so little about
the communist past.
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| September 8, 2011 |
Remarks by Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in accepting the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
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| July 20, 2011 |
52 Years of Captive Nations
The presidential proclamations commemorating National Captive
Nations Week-the third week of every July-are a revealing
reflection of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years and
America's sometimes hard, sometimes soft attitude toward those who
suppress the basic human rights of peoples and nations.
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| July 8, 2011 |
Sufferings on Canvas: The Gulag Collection
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| June 15, 2011 |
Memorial Ceremony for Victims of Communism in Washington (Embassy of Estonia)
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| June 15, 2011 |
Ambassador of Ukraine Olexander Motsyk laid wreath to the Victims of Communism Memorial
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| June 15, 2011 |
The Embassy of Hungary placed a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial Ceremony
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| June 15, 2011 |
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation 4th Annual Commemoration Ceremony (Laogai Research Foundation)
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| June 15, 2011 |
Fourth Annual Commemoration Ceremony & Wreath Laying (Albanian-American Freedom House)
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| June 15, 2011 |
Never Forgetting
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| June 15, 2011 |
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation 4th Annual Commemoration Ceremony (Embassy of Poland)
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| June 15, 2011 |
BORN UNDER COMMUNISM (The Washington Times)
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| June 14, 2011 |
Three Concerned Chinese Citizens Will Embark on a 3000 Mile Human Rights Cycling Tour
These men will be taking a cycling tour of over 3,000 miles
(10,000 Chinese Miles) across the US. This tour is called
"Cycling Tour For Human Rights of
China". They will start in New York City, New
York and end in San Francisco, California.
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| June 9, 2011 |
Remarks by Annette Lantos
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| June 9, 2011 |
Remarks by Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky
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| June 9, 2011 |
Remarks by Thomas Marsh at the Victims of Communism Memorial
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| June 9, 2011 |
Remarks by Ambassador Aldona Wos
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| June 9, 2011 |
Our Fourth Anniversary - Remarks by Lee Edwards
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| May 4, 2011 |
Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Awarded CEPOS Freedom Prize in Denmark; Forbidden to Leave Cuba--Ceremony To Take Place May 5 in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (May 4, 2011) - Cuban blogger Yoani
Sánchez was denied permission by the Cuban government to
travel to Denmark and collect the CEPOS Freedom Award-a $50,000
prize that she was granted by the independent Danish think tank,
CEPOS-at the official award ceremony tomorrow night in Copenhagen.
Sánchez, author of the world-renowned blog Generación
Y and a speaker at the 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum, was nominated for
the award by HRF president Thor Halvorssen, who will give the
keynote speech at the ceremony in Copenhagen.
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| March 31, 2011 |
Liu Xianbin Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Liu Xianbin, a noted Chinese political activist from Sichuan Province, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on March 25, 2011.
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| February 22, 2011 |
Jan Karski, a Man Who Soldiered for Human Rights
Jan Karski [nee Jan Kozielewski in Lódz, Poland] is known
to history as the man who tried to stop the Holocaust.
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| February 18, 2011 |
Dr. Lee Edwards Appears on Estonian Television
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| February 18, 2011 |
Dr. Lee Edwards Meets with Estonian President
On his recent trip to Estonia, VOCMF Chairman Dr. Lee Edwards
met with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
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| January 13, 2011 |
On this day in 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
At least 13 people [were] killed and more than 140 injured by
the Soviet military in the capital of Lithuania as Moscow
continue[d] its crackdown on the Baltic republic and its drive for
independence.
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Obituaries
| December 19, 2011 |
Vaclav Havel, RIP
Vaclav Havel was a great champion of liberty whose rhetorical
blows shattered the Iron Curtain and brought about the collapse of
communism in Eastern and Central Europe.
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| June 20, 2011 |
A Champion of Freedom Passes
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