Galloway testimony report [US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations] News
Galloway testimony report [US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations]

Report Concerning the Testimony of George Galloway before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Majority Staff, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Investigations, October 25, 2005 [saying that Galloway profited from the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program and misled Senators in testimony before the Subcommittee]. Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Alabama governor Wallace deployed National Guard to stop integration of Tuskegee High

On September 2, 1963, then-Alabama Governor George Wallace surrounded the Tuskegee High School with Alabama National Guard troops in an effort to prevent its integration pursuant to a federal court order in Lee vs. Macon County. In response, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Guard and sent it back to its barracks.

Former Rwanda politician convicted of genocide

On September 2, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted the former mayor of Taba, Jean-Paul Akayesu, on nine counts of crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. A month later, Akayesu was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. Read ICTR documents from the trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu.