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...
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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...
Burundi protesters gather in capital, defying threat of crackdown
By Ed Cropley More than 100 protesters chanted slogans against Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term in office on Tuesday...
Burundi army officer says sacks president, crowds celebrate (Update 3)
By Njuwa Maina A Burundi army general said on Wednesday he had sacked Pierre Nkurunziza as president for seeking an unconstitutional third term in office,...
As Armenia marks 1915 killing, Berlin calls it genocide (Updated)
By Margarita Antidze and Hasmik Mkrtchyan Armenia marked the centenary on Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying...
On 100th anniversary, German president condemns Turkish ‘genocide’ against Armenians
By Erik Kirschbaum German President Joachim Gauck on Thursday condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as “genocide”,...
Cyprus criminalises denial of 1915 Armenian genocide by Turks
Cyprus on Thursday made it a crime to deny that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenian Turks a century ago. The Cypriot parliament passed a resolution penalising denial...
Serbia makes first arrests of suspected Srebrenica gunmen (Update 3)
By Aleksandar Vasovic Serbia arrested eight men on Wednesday suspected of taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, the first such arrests in...
UN’s highest court absolves Croatia, Serbia of genocide (Update 2)
By Thomas Escritt The United Nations’ highest court ruled on Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other’s populations during the...
UN Security Council OKs peacekeepers for CAR
By Michelle Nichols, Crispin and Dembassa-Kette The United Nations Security Council authorized on Thursday the creation of a nearly 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic in a bid...
Mladic refuses to testify for old ally Karadzic at UN tribunal
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic refused on Tuesday to give evidence in support of one-time ally Radovan Karadzic, denouncing the UN war crimes tribunal as “satanic” and saying he...
Judges reinstate second genocide charge for Karadzic
By Thomas Escritt Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic must stand trial on two counts of genocide, appeals judges at a war crimes court in...