Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities amount to ‘genocide’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute "crimes against humanity" and a "genocide."…
Investigators build case for ISIS crimes against Yazidis
Investigators with the Commission for International Justice and Accountability is amassing evidence to show the involvement of IS leadership in organizing the trade of Yazidi women, and identifying top IS architects to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, war crimes…
German gunman calling for genocide kills 9 people
Authorities say a 43-year-old German who posted a rant calling for the "complete extermination" of various races and cultures shot and killed nine people, most of them Turkish.
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Why is a Nobel-winning human rights activist defending Myanmar on Rohingya atrocities?
In 2017, the Myanmar military unleashed a reign of terror on Rohingya Muslims. According to the U.N., soldiers tortured, raped and killed civilians, driving hundreds of thousands to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Now the International Court of Justice is trying…
It’s a horrific byproduct of the Rohingya flight to Bangladesh: babies who are the product of rape, born to refugees who were assaulted by the Myanmar military. Compounding the trauma, their community views the women as dishonored. Special correspondent Tania…
Serbian men raped tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim women during the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, a genocidal tactic to terrorize and destroy Muslim communities. Now, the people conceived by those assaults are adults and finding ways to…
The new discovery is being called the most significant in a long time in this East African nation that is still recovering from the 1994 killings of more than 800,000 people.
Former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić was convicted today on 10 counts of genocide and other war crimes committed during an ethnic cleansing campaign helped lead from 1992 to 1995 in the former Yugoslavia. A UN tribunal sentenced Mladić to…
World leaders have chosen their words carefully when describing the mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, so far largely avoiding the legally specific and politically charged term "genocide."…
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