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Ruslan Nimchynskyi writes of the horrors committed by the Soviet Union and their millions of victims Every year on the fourth Saturday of November...
UN backed court rules Khmer Rouge leaders committed genocide
A U.N.-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide on Friday, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the...
Myanmar generals had “genocidal intent” against Rohingya – UN
Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for...
House hears speech on Armenian Genocide
It was inconceivable that 103 years after the Armenian Genocide there were civilised states that succumbed to Turkey’s pressure not to recognise the ‘extinction plan’...
Film on Armenian genocide to be shown in Cyprus
The Promise, a 2016 film set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, is coming to Cyprus, and with it a chance to get...
Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis – UN
Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and...
Turkey’s reaction to Germany genocide vote tempered by politics, trade
Turkish outrage over Germany’s decision to label the 1915 massacre of Armenians as an act of genocide was swift, but like the symbolic Bundestag vote...
Germany angers Turkey with Armenian genocide resolution
German lawmakers declared the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a ‘genocide’ in a symbolic resolution on Thursday which risks hurting relations with Ankara...
Defiant Bosnian Serbs honour Karadzic before Hague genocide verdict
By Daria Sito-Sucic Bosnian Serb officials opened a student dormitory on Sunday named after their wartime leader Radovan Karadzic in a show of defiance before...
Russia blocks UN condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide
By Michelle Nichols Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark...