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. With innocent smile she presides over new reports she was unable during her own brief life to comprehend. Her name is now entwined with terms like “decaying” “serial killer’s victim” and “shallow grave”. What did she live through between the smiles and the moment of her death? What desires not yet professed were by
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. Criminal Lawyer: Vancouver We sit alongside a long court table: the prosecutor to the right – solitary, silent, unsmiling; my client on edge to the left. We’re nationals all of the same land. Yet within these walls there’s no family of man. Government lawyers, lawmakers and police work here hand in hand, a self-governing
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. Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot of 2011: (“For reasons I can’t really explain, I went from being a spectator to becoming part of the mob mentality that swept through many members of the crowd …. I am truly ashamed of what I did.” Nathan Kotylak, aged 17, reflecting on his role in setting a police cruiser
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. Death Penalty in China: (Dedicated to those working for the abolition of the death penalty in the Peoples Republic of China, a country where thousands are executed each year for crimes ranging from the most heinous offences, such as murder, to lesser crimes such as tax fraud, theft of cultural relics, corruption, and small-scale
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. Forced Abortion in China: (For Hui Qing) In my eighth month Auntie Number Three informed on me to the Family Planners. Told them I was with child again. At night three Planners came to my hiding place. Tied me up like a felon as my man and our son looked on, to prevent escape.
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