genocide
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“The court could legitimately find its way to a genocide ruling against Myanmar without changing the ‘reasonable inference’ requirement,” says Alan Kessel, a former legal adviser to the government of Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A 65-year-old doctor has appeared in court, the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has been charged with offences relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“As Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The United Nations now defines genocide as an act, or acts, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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It also commemorates the millions of people outside of the Jewish faith who were murdered through Nazi persecution and those targeted in more recent genocides.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025
Simon said people may have misunderstood the center’s intention as it began work on developing curriculum to teach about other genocides.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
In addition to survivor testimony from the Holocaust, it has included personal accounts of the genocides that took place in Armenia in 1915-1916, in Cambodia in the 1970s and in Rwanda in the 1990s.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Monuments have long commemorated the loss of life from calamitous events: wars, genocides, terrorist attacks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
She said a local gallery in Rochester, called the Visual Studies Workshop, had been showing photography from genocides around the world, and perhaps we could do an exhibit there.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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