The news is overwhelmingly about atrocities of one form or another-and that's not even counting the Cathy comics or the box score for a Laker game-but race issues are especially distressing, since the heart of the matter is that some people don't like other people because they look different.
Ironically, this atrocity is one of the best known examples of war crimes committed against American soldiers, yet O'Reilly claimed Americans had slaughtered Germans.
His story of how he uncovered the My Lai atrocity is one of old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism and doggedness.
"One billion women violated is an atrocity," reads one of their outreach postcards, "one billion people rising is a revolution!" One Billion Rising is V-Day's 15th anniversary campaign.
This atrocity was one of many crimes against humanity perpetrated by Serbian paramilitary forces under Seselj's command, and is compelling proof that the Serbian regime's vision of a Greater Serbia was a "criminal project" as prosecutors alleged and not a mere "political project" that the court ruled.
In his book on artists under communism, The Captive Mind, Czesław Miłosz identifies one of the exceptional elements of Borowski's stories: "In the abundant literature of atrocity of the 20th century, one rarely finds an account written from the point of view of an accessory to the crime".
During his closing arguments, public prosecutor Christian Ritscher said the two men were guilty of "the full range of atrocities that one can imagine in a civil war".
The denial of "victimhood" to those who have suffered atrocities is one of the reasons Carson has traction with a particular group of voters rooting for him – and those who advocate for unfettered, unregulated gun ownership are just one part of that constituency.
And of all the drawings in the wake of the atrocity, one in particular captures the point, by Jean-Yves Ferri, in the magazine Les Inrockuptibles.
"Culpability for Khmer Rouge atrocities is one of the real electric wires of Cambodian politics," Robertson says.
