The Buddhist monks of the ‘Tiger Temple’ have been accused of abusing the tigers at their temple. Authorities raided the temple under allegations that the monks were abusing the tigers and selling their parts for profit. The monks and the people that work with them have denied the allegations saying that they don’t have any evidence of the mistreatment. One […]
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“How did we end up with a military like this?” asked The Hankyoreh in an editorial. Hazing in South Korea’s conscription army is shockingly brutal—and increasingly deadly. Within weeks before this writing, two soldiers have hanged themselves to escape bullying. And just months before that, one young recruit snapped after military hazing In South Korea and killed five soldiers at […]
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The parents of a 7-year-old boy decided to leave their son in a forest to teach him a lesson about throwing rocks at cars. They said that they were only gone for a few minutes and when they came back the boy was gone. The boy was all alone for almost a week. He found an old military hut that […]
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Juba, South Sudan Army rapes, murders: South Sudanese soldiers have been gang raping young girls and then burning them alive, according to a new United Nations report. The army is trying to terrify the entire civilian population into fleeing rebel-held areas so that the rebels will have no support base. One survivor described how he hid in a river when […]
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