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Dutch MPs recognise Armenian 'genocide'
AFP, Published on 23/02/2018
» THE HAGUE - Dutch lawmakers Thursday overwhelmingly voted in favour of recognising the early 1900s massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as "genocide", in a move likely to worsen already-strained ties with Turkey.
US Congress recognizes Armenian genocide
AFP, Published on 13/12/2019
» WASHINGTON - The US Congress on Thursday formally recognized the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.
US Congress recognizes Armenian genocide
AFP, Published on 13/12/2019
» WASHINGTON - The US Congress on Thursday formally recognized the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.
Xinjiang genocide allegations are unjustified
Asia focus, Jeffrey Sachs and William Schabas, Published on 10/05/2021
» The US government has needlessly escalated its rhetoric against China by claiming that a genocide is being mounted against the Uighur people in the Xinjiang region.
Pope calls Canada abuse ‘genocide’
Published on 30/07/2022
» Pope Francis said on Saturday that decades-long abuse of Indigenous schoolchildren across Canada amounted to “genocide”, as he warned upon his return to Rome that he needed to slow down his pace of travel — or resign.
Rohingya mark ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since they fled a military offensive in Myanmar.
France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'
AFP, Published on 16/05/2020
» PARIS - French police on Saturday arrested one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, describing him as its "financier" and one of the world's most wanted fugitives.
South African data counter ‘genocide’ claims
AFP, Published on 23/05/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - South Africa does not face a “white genocide” and claims that most victims of murders on farms are white are a distortion of statistics, the police minister said on Friday, dismissing statements by US President Donald Trump.
Rwanda remembers, quarter century after genocide
AFP, Published on 05/04/2019
» KIGALI - Rwanda on Sunday commemorates the 25th anniversary of the genocide in which at least 800,000 mainly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked or shot to death in 100 days of slaughter.
Is ICJ genocide case legitimising junta?
Oped, Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan, Published on 23/02/2022
» Following the military-led "clearance operation" that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee neighbouring Bangladesh, the West African nation of Gambia brought a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November 2019 accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.