Tag Archives: Genocide

They are standing in the way of the Ben Gurion Canal Project, an alternative to the Suez Canal through Gaza ANALYSIS | YVONNE RIDLEY | I hate conspiracy theories and fake news. They degrade my profession as a journalist and incite fear, hate and tribulation with the deliberate intention of causing …

How the annual events fan the flame of ethnicity | GRETCHEN BALDWIN | Each year, Rwandans at home and in the diaspora remember those killed in the 1994 genocide. In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | The U.S. “genocide” allegation is a lie of the century, which fully exposes its sinister intention of politicizing the Winter Olympics and maliciously smearing China with Xinjiang-related issues, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily …

  United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for an end to identity-based discrimination, among other measures, to prevent genocide. Today, genocide remains a very real threat. The international community has repeatedly failed to respond collaboratively, swiftly and decisively to prevent genocide and related atrocity crimes, …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The UN secretary-general’s special adviser on genocide prevention, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, on Monday warned of the risk of commission of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia amid an escalation of the military conflict in the north. Nderitu is gravely concerned at the deterioration of the situation in Ethiopia, …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Sudan’s Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdelbari said Sudan will expand cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure trial of those accused of war crimes in the Darfur region, including former President Omar al-Bashir, official SUNA news agency reported on Thursday. Sudan signed six months ago …

Why they are infused with political and diplomatic agendas RWANDA | ANDRÉ GUICHAOUA | Created in 2003, the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide is responsible for Rwanda’s genocide remembrance policy. It is a programme that has, over time, influenced all aspects of politics across all sectors. Each year, …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killing against Armenians more than a century ago as a “genocide,” a move that could further worsen relations between the United States and Turkey. “The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that …

France “bears significant responsibility” for enabling the genocide in Rwanda and still refuses to acknowledge its true role in the 1994 horror, said a report commissioned by Kigali that was released Monday. Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua | France “bears significant responsibility” for enabling “foreseeable” genocide against ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda that …

Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua | A Rwandan woman charged with crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi arrived in Rwanda on Friday following her deportation from the United States. Beatrice Munyenyezi, a genocide suspect who was arrested in 2013 in the United States and sentenced to 10 years …