Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:16:47 +0000
“Today’s decision sends a message to Myanmar’s senior officials: The world will not tolerate their atrocities.”
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Credit to Author: Hilary Beaumont| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:21:02 +0000
The Organization of American States, which Canada is a part of, has asked Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to form an expert panel to clarify the issue.
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The Sudanese military on Friday swiftly replaced the country’s transitional leader linked to the Darfur genocide after street rallies
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A quarter-century after Rwanda’s brutal genocide, President Paul Kagame remains a constant figure atop the country’s politics.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:04:54 +0000
France will make April 24 a “national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide”, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday.
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GENEVA — Investigators working for the U.N.’s top human rights body said Monday that Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, taking the unusual step of identifying by name six of those it says were behind systematic crimes targeting the ethnic minority.
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But more than a dozen teachers, elders and religious leaders told The Associated Press that educated Rohingya — already subject to systematic and widespread harassment, arrests and torture — were singled out, part of Myanmar’s operation to drive the Muslim Rohingya from majority Buddhist Myanmar.
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