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WPSU
April 27, 2018
I believe we must remember the past so it doesn't repeat itself. My father was a survivor of the first genocide in the 20th century: the Armenian genocide. He died at 96, having come to this country at the age of 10 as a refugee. He was traumatized from sleeping in the trees with his eyes open, hiding from theÃâà...
NPR
April 27, 2018
Four mass graves that concealed thousands of victims of the Rwandan genocide for 24 years have been discovered. The first bodies were found on Sunday at a depth of 80 feet and the excavation continues, according to The New Times in Rwanda. Of the more than 800,000 people who were killed in theÃâà...
Gatestone Institute
April 26, 2018
"General Buhari is presiding over a low-grade genocide perpetrated by his Fulani Herdsmen tribe. He must be told to fish out the murderers of Rev Fathers Joseph and Felix and bring them to justice. The killings must stop. US should halt aircraft sales to Nigeria until these attacks are halted and theÃâà...
TIME
April 26, 2018
Four mass graves believed to date back to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been discovered in the east African country, the BBC reports. More than 200 bodies have been disinterred from the sites, which were found in the the Gasabo district near the Rwandan capital of Kigali. “The exercise is ongoingÃâà...
The Root
April 26, 2018
They walked 2.5 miles to the site of her assassination, all the while dancing, chanting and crying. On that hot and muggy night on April 14 in Rio de Janeiro, more than 3,000 people gathered at the center of Rio to demand police action in the murder of Afro-Brazilian politician Marielle Franco and to mark theÃâà...
Armenian Weekly
April 25, 2018
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Chicago Tribune
April 25, 2018
Praises to Dahleen Glanton for encouraging African-Americans to emulate Ida B. Wells and do more to promote the habits on which prosperity and liberty depend. In her April 24 column, however, Glanton commits a semantic mistake worthy of comment. She refers to the black-on-black violence thatÃâà...
BBC News
April 25, 2018
Four mass graves have been unearthed in Rwanda, which are believed to date from the 1994 genocide. The sites were found in the Gasabo district, outside the capital Kigali, and about 200 bodies have been exhumed. Around 3,000 people from the area went missing during the massacres, and localÃâà...
The Independent
April 25, 2018
Thousands of people have marched around the world to commemorate the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks and demand recognition for the atrocity as a genocide. Armenians and many historians consider the killings during the First World War to be a genocide. AlthoughÃâà...
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
April 20, 2018
BOSTON — Peace of Art has created a new billboard in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. continues its annual Genocide awareness campaign, by honoring the memory of the innocent victims of all genocides. Since April 10, 2018, digital billboards have been displayed in different cities andÃâà...
New Haven Independent
April 20, 2018
That is why I believe it is time to require all Connecticut public school students to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides that have taken place in recent history. A bill in front of the Connecticut General Assembly –- Senate Bill No. 452 — would make Holocaust and genocide studies a requirement ofÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
April 19, 2018
Pardew was at the center of the U.S. diplomatic intervention in the former Yugoslavia from the time of the 1995 Dayton peace accords, which ended the Bosnian war and the accompanying genocide, to Kosovo's independence, in 2008. As a diplomat, he played a key role in rebuilding the Bosnian militaryÃâà...
Armenian Weekly
April 19, 2018
WASHINGTON—Director of the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights, Kate Nahapetian joined panels of genocide scholars to speak on the importance of justice and accountability in the struggle for genocide prevention, reconciliation and lasting peace at the University of California LosÃâà...
Daily Californian
April 19, 2018
As part of April's Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, UC Berkeley professors honed in on the intricacies of genocide to a full classroom during “A Panel on Genocide” event Tuesday. Co-hosted by the Armenian Students' Association and Amnesty International at Berkeley, the panel consisted ofÃâà...
Anglicannews
April 19, 2018
The recently discovered bodies of 157 victims of the Rwandan Genocide have been laid to rest in a former Anglican Church, alongside the bodies of 36,700 victims already buried there. On 15 April 1994, more than 25,000 people seeking refuge and sanctuary at the Ruhango Episcopal Anglican ChurchÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
April 18, 2018
The marchers will then head for the Monument of the Armenian Genocide at the Armenian Church, where at 7:30pm there will be a Memorial Event, with the main speaker House President, Demetris Syllouris. Also attending the event will be the Armenian Archbishop of Cyprus and the representative of theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 18, 2018
Two events commemorating the Armenian Genocide are coming up as the 103rd anniversary of the tragic event will be remembered on Tuesday. The Armenian clubs of Crescenta Valley, Clark Magnet, Glendale and Hoover high schools will hold an Armenian Genocide Remembrance Assembly at 7 p.m.Ãâà...
The Independent
April 17, 2018
Groening came to attention in 2005, after giving interviews about his work in the camp as an attempt to persuade Holocaust deniers that the genocide of around 6 million Jewish people had taken place. It comes after a study released on Holocaust Memorial Day found two-thirds of American millennialsÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 3, 2018
With tensions between Israel and Turkey on the rise, Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize the mass murders of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman government in 1915 as genocide. In the past, the Foreign Ministry had assessed thatÃâà...
MassisPost
April 3, 2018
LOS ANGELES—The Armenian Genocide Committee (“AGC”), a broad-based, unified, coalition of the major ecclesiastical, political, social, youth, and cultural organizations of the Armenian community of Southern California, has announced that on April 24, 2018 beginning at 12 noon, the March for JusticeÃâà...
Dhaka Tribune
April 3, 2018
Speakers at an international conference in Dhaka have urged the international community to “comprehensively investigate the ongoing acts of genocide, mass atrocities, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar's Rakhine state. They have also demanded prosecution and punishment ofÃâà...
New Statesman
April 3, 2018
Gregory H. Stanton of Genocide Watch describes in detail the process of how casual racism and discrimination can lead to mass murder in his Ten Stages to Genocide model. The message is that this process is not particular to any country or culture: under the right conditions, it can happen anywhere.
Armenian Weekly
April 3, 2018
Rhode Island educators who have been successfully offering instruction on Holocaust and Genocide will also be exhibiting, along with some of their students. They will provide best practices and testimony to course benefits, as well as their experiences. Teachers who attend the exposition will return to theÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 3, 2018
At the time of his death, the former general was on trial for genocide for the second time. In 2013, he was convicted and sentenced to 80 years' imprisonment for ordering the murder of 1,771 members of the Ixil Maya indigenous people during his rule in 1982-1983. It was the first time a former head of stateÃâà...
Portsmouth Daily Times
April 3, 2018
“Bystanders to Genocide” is a 2001 article by Samantha Power featured in The Atlantic. A three-year investigation involving 60 interviews puts the puzzle pieces together. She asked disturbing questions: Why did the United States not do more for the Rwandans at the time of the killings? Why didn't otherÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
April 2, 2018
Genocide and purposeful deportation policy against Azerbaijanis conducted over 19th and 20th centuries was engraved in the Azerbaijani history as sorrowful pages, said a statement released by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Qatar on the 100th anniversary of genocide against Azerbaijanis. From theÃâà...
KCUR
April 2, 2018
He teaches history and public humanities and specializes in the history of everyday life with a focus on modern Germany, and he directs the Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He says it's important for students as well as community members to hear details of genocides straight from survivors'Ãâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
March 30, 2018
YEREVAN. – On Friday morning, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Armenia's capital city of Yerevan, informed the Armenian News-NEWS.am reporter. The Lemoyne-led delegation laid aÃâà...
AZERTAC News
March 30, 2018
A memorial event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the March Genocide against Azerbaijani people was held at the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles on March 27. The event, organized by the Consulate General, was attended by members of the Azerbaijani community, Consuls GeneralÃâà...
NPR
March 30, 2018
And for centuries, the 4,800-foot-high Mount Sinjar has served as a refuge for Yazidis fleeing possible genocide. Down at the base of the mountain, entire neighborhoods in the town of Sinjar were destroyed in the U.S.-backed fight against ISIS. Halo's house was one of those left too damaged to live in.
New York Times
March 30, 2018
In 2011, after international criticism, the museum added a single room, in a small K.G.B. interrogation cell in the basement, devoted to the genocide of Jews. But it stuck to describing what Russia did as “genocide” in the rest of its three floors of exhibits, in a building that takes up much of a city block.
Bend Bulletin
March 29, 2018
Unlike the Holocaust museums Haupt had visited in Europe, most of the genocide memorials she saw in Rwanda were just small churches or former village schools tended by a single guide — usually a local woman whose family had been killed during the conflict. Often, there were still bloodstains on theÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 29, 2018
Croatian Wikipedia has amended its entry on the history of the Polish city of Gdansk after daily newspaper Jutarnji list reported on its false claims about a 'Polish genocide of Germans'. Jutarnji list reported on Tuesday that the unattributed claim – with no supporting literature or sources cited – was made inÃâà...
Forward
March 28, 2018
In researching the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, Omer Bartov wanted to uncover his own family history. But only a few traces of that history remained. What “Anatomy of a Genocide” provides instead is perhaps more valuable: A searing portrait of how the Holocaust worked on the ground for ordinary men andÃâà...
denvercatholic.org
March 28, 2018
Genocide is a serious accusation. Many people have spoken of an ongoing persecution of Christians in the Middle East as genocide, a claim that has clear backing in international law. The United Nations defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,Ãâà...
KCET
March 27, 2018
In honoring the Remembrance Days for both the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide, KCET announced the following programs to commemorate these events that should never be forgotten. For more information, visit kcet.org/shows. KCET will broadcast TREZOROS: THE LOST JEWS OF KASTORIA onÃâà...
The Wire
March 27, 2018
New Delhi: Though India ratified the Genocide Convention in 1959, many have held it to be in breach of its obligations as has it refused to accept the 1984 anti-Sikh violence or even the 2002 Gujarat riots as acts of “genocide”. Further, the Narendra Modi government has even refused to answer whatÃâà...
bdnews24.com
March 27, 2018
Bangladesh missions abroad observe Genocide Day, Independence Day. Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com. Published: 2018-03-27 01:09:00.0 BdST Updated: 2018-03-27 01:31:59.0 BdST. Previous NextÃâà...
WTVA
March 26, 2018
July 1, 2002 - The International Criminal Court opens at The Hague, Netherlands, as the first permanent war crimes tribunal, with jurisdiction to try perpetrators of genocide. Previously, the UN Security Council created ad hoc tribunals to try those responsible for genocide in the former Yugoslavia and inÃâà...
Asia Times
March 26, 2018
A Rohingya man looking at Facebook onn his cell phone at a temporary makeshift camp after crossing over from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border, near Cox's Bazar's Palangkhali, September 8, 2017. Photo: Nurphoto via AFP/ Ahmed Salahuddin. It's not every day that a country of over 51Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
Speaking to supporters of the farmers outside Queensland's parliament in Brisbane on Sunday, the former One Nation senator, now an independent, said of the situation in South Africa: “This is the start of a genocide as far as I'm concerned, and it's only going to get worse because the genocide has justÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 21, 2018
An EFF councillor accused of inciting hate speech says he “loves” his white friends and that he will never call for the genocide of whites. “Why would I call for a genocide? It will never happen‚” Mampuru Mampuru from the EFF in Ekurhuleni said on Wednesday. “Without white people in the country‚ we areÃâà...
The Federalist
March 21, 2018
Ending Down Syndrome Means Killing People. That's why Iceland's attempts to wipe out Down syndrome through abortion are pure evil. You cannot wipe it out like a disease, with drugs and inoculation. Even genocide and sterilization cannot wipe it out. You can only wipe out individual people who have it,Ãâà...
KT Press
March 20, 2018
A portion of Memorial wall at Kigali Genocide memorial centre. When France Inter reads the list of victims and more from across the country, they just draw a conclusion 'bastards killed by bastards.' The Rwandan community in France is outraged over Genocide negationist comments aired on “French StateÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 20, 2018
The idea that the Ottoman government intentionally destroyed its Armenian population during World War I, in a series of massacres that amounted to a genocide, has become nearly universally accepted. Even the Turkish government, long the leading voice of denial, has softened its stance. While stillÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
Running across a person who had committed genocide was always a possibility in Argentina in the 1990s. The dictatorship had ended, but many people had walked free, thanks to the laws, pardons and cunning of later governments that refused to pursue full justice. Murderers bought groceries at theÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 16, 2018
WASHINGTON – Iceland must be pleased that it is close to success in its program of genocide, but before congratulating that nation on its final solution to the Down syndrome problem, perhaps it might answer a question: What is this problem? To help understand why some people might ask this question,Ãâà...
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
March 16, 2018
LOS ANGELES — University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation has received one of the largest collections of testimonies from survivors of the Armenian Genocide that were recorded over decades by Dr. Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar on the World War I-era genocide. The Richard G.
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
March 16, 2018
Social Media-Assisted Genocide: Myanmar security forces have been driving refugees into Bangladesh by allegedly committing acts of genocide, and UN investigators are investigating a link to hate speech proliferating on Facebook. UN Myanmar investigator Yanghee Lee said, "I'm afraid that FacebookÃâà...
Beckley Register-Herald
March 16, 2018
Iceland must be pleased that it is close to success in its program of genocide, but before congratulating that nation on its final solution to the Down syndrome problem, perhaps it might answer a question: What is this problem? To help understand why some people might ask this question, meet two children.
