Monday 27 June, 2022
Retired Colonel Colm Doyle, who served with the EU in Bosnia, looks at the recent horrors in Bucha and what can be done to bring perpetrators to justice.
The declaration is intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action.
A spokesperson for the UK government said it is “toughening measures” for online platforms that don’t tackle harmful content.
Berlin will spend £918 million on development projects in Namibia.
The French president stopped short of an apology but recognised that France bears ‘an overwhelming responsibility’ for the killing of 800,000 people.
If convicted, Paul Rusesabagina faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Simon Coveney said Irish people should “remember this event for what it was: an appalling act of genocide”
The false message being shared on Facebook claims they are due to appear before a human rights tribunal next week.
The Armenians say the mass killings of their people from 1915 to 1917 amounted to genocide, a claim recognised by some 30 countries.
187 million people were killed through genocide and state-sanctioned mass murder, in the 20th century, writes Cian Matthew Kearns.
The killing lasted for almost three months.
The “reign of terror” left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions.
Myanmar has rejected accusations that its military committed atrocities in a crackdown last year.
The Myanmar military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of 700,000 to camps in Bangladesh.
The 13 are suspected of “murders, torture, rapes, persecutions and expulsions” of civilians.
Suad Mujkić, who lives in Blanchardsown, was nine years old when the Bosnian Serb Army, led my Ratko Mladic, invaded Srebrenica in 1995.
Timeline in pictures and video: on the day Ratko Mladic is imprisoned for life, TheJournal.ie takes a look back at the events of July 1995 – the UN and Europe’s darkest hour.
The murders are alleged to have happened during the summer months.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
TD Mattie McGrath says that he and other deputies have been trying to get the Dáil to issue an explicit motion on the issue.
Josiane is now working for the charity in Rwanda.
From TheJournal.ie
The Bóthar ‘Ark’ will fly from Shannon Airport to mark its 25th anniversary
As IS territory shrinks the grim process of recovering the dead can begin.
The former Bosnian Serb leader was sentenced to four decades in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
Claims that French soldiers ignored Rwandans pleas in 1994 killings.
Oskar Gröning looks like he could be a kindly grandfather. He probably is. But he also volunteered to serve in one of the greatest murder camps ever constructed.
More than 1,000 of the bodies of those killed are yet to be recovered.
The Kardashians have helped to make today’s commemorations newsworthy – but, after the circus, Armenia will continue to suffer from miserable poverty.
Pope Francis referred to the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago as a “genocide”.
The case was heard at the International Court of Justice.
The international community is pouring its efforts into containing the criminal militancy of Isis, but we should turn our attention to funding Ebola emergency relief.
US forces said they had “successfully (conducted) four airstrikes to defend Yazidi civilians being indiscriminately attacked”.
Air strikes began yesterday and don’t look like ending any time soon.
Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture.
Anne Frank never lived to tell her tale but we can honour her memory, and that of all the murdered, by challenging anti-Semitism where we find it.
Ratko Mladic faces 11 charges for his role in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 conflict in which 100,000 people died.
In marking the 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, we should also look to conflicts in Central African Republic and South Sudan, writes Joe Costello TD.
The atmosphere in Rwanda as it remembers its horrific genocide of 20 years ago has been equal parts sombre and hopeful, writes Karen Power.
The humanitarian aid community learned its lessons, but what about the political world?
