GENOCIDE popularity and GENOCIDE trends

A MAN accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country to face charges of genocide, a lawyer and US officials say.

A Bosnian court handed down stiff sentences against two former Bosnian Serb policemen for “aiding genocide.”

A former Syrian army general calls for foreign intervention in his country to end the "barbaric genocide" being committed by the regime.

The genocide trial of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is set to resume at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal on June 25th, four weeks later than initially planned, The Hague-based court said today.

Rwandan genocide suspect Leon Mugesera says he will appeal a court decision to refuse his request for a further delay of his trial.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Le procès de Ratko Mladic, poursuivi pour génocide,...

NEW YORK -- From a teenager who was a month old when her parents were killed in Rwanda's genocide to a young man inspired to become a doctor, hundreds of orphans have found hope for the future in a special village outside the Rwandan capital.Now, the South African-born, New York woman who founded Agahozo Shalom hopes the village can be a model for orphans around Rwanda and the rest of the world...

NEW YORK (AP) -- From a teenager who was a month old when her parents were killed in Rwanda's genocide to a young man inspired to become a doctor, hundreds of orphans have found hope for the future in a special village outside the Rwandan capital....

In New Haven, Connecticut, on the 12th of May, marking the day of Albright’s infamous broadcast (i) a banner was unfurled and a minute’s silence held as the Middle East Crisis Committee, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CT), the Tree of Life Education Fund and We Refuse to be Enemies, inaugurated the first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day.

The presiding judge has ruled that the trial of Ratko Mladic on genocide and war crimes charges will be delayed because of prosecutors' errors regarding the disclosure of evidence.

UN blunders created "ticking time bomb" that 'allowed Mladic to commit first genocide on European soil since Nazi Holocaust'.

RATKO Mladic was a shadow of his former swaggering self, when his genocide trial began in The Hague yesterday - only to be delayed.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troops under his command massacred more than 7,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men.

Former Serb commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a U.N. tribunal on 11 charges of genocide.

Former Serb general gives truculent display at Hague court as prosecution outlines case including 1995 Srebrenica massacre Ratko Mladic, the Serb military commander in the Bosnian war, has gone on trial for the worst crimes against humanity that Europe has witnessed since the second world war.Facing 11 charges including two counts of genocide, the 70 year-old former general app...

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial at The Hague on Wednesday for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1990s.

Bosnian Serb general faces possible life imprisonment for allegedly leading slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995.

Bosnian Serb Gen Ratko Mladic went on trial today at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Prosecutors begin proceedings by promising to link the former Bosnian Serb commander to atrocities committed by his forces in the 1992-95 war

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Bosnian Serb general goes on trial on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

FORMER BOSNIAN Serb general Ratko Mladic is set to go on trial today for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, after the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia rejected his appeal for a postponement.

Ratko Mladic now faces eleven charges including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The opening of the trial of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime military commander, is a salient reminder that justice catches up with those accused of atrocity crimes. Mladic’s trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is scheduled to begin on May 16, 2012, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the ...

DHAKA  - A Bangladeshi special court on Sunday indicted a former opposition leader for alleged atrocities including genocide and murder during the 1971 war. Ghulam Azam, 89, the former head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, is accused of creating and leading pro-Pakistan fighters. Wheelchair-bound Azam pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out to him for two hours by Judge Nizamul Huq, ...

For the second year in a row, JPMorgan Chase is recommending shareholders vote against a proposal calling for the bank to stop investing in companies that "substantially contribute to genocide or crimes against humanity."

LONDON singer tipped for superstardom reveals how she got Jay-Z as her boss

The controversial claim is made in the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper, L'Osservatore RomanO. It is signed by Lucetta Scaraffia, an Italian historian who is a frequent contributor to the Vatican paper.

« Il n'y a pas de judaïsme hors, d'une part, l'orthodoxie et, d'autre part, le peuple juif produisant un folklore et parlant yiddish », affirme Hannah Arendt dans une lettre du 7 septembre 1952 au philosophe allemand Karl Jaspers. Ce qui incite à se demander s'il est bien pertinent de lui attribuer des (...) / Génocide, Histoire, Idées, Judaïsme, Nazisme, Personnalités, Racisme, Seconde guerre...

President Barack Obama's creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board is an important step, but America can't prevent genocide alone.

Israel’s thwarting of the genocide plotted against its people is now presented as premeditated Israeli-instigated ethnic cleansing of Arabs

Nicolas Sarkozy et François Hollande ont réaffirmé mardi leur volonté de faire voter rapidement, en cas de victoire à la présidentielle, une nouvelle loi pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien après l'invalidation par le Conseil constitutionnel du texte adopté en janvier. Le président candidat...

President Obama outlined a series of policies Monday aimed at helping the U.S. government better respond to the threat of genocide around the world, declaring that “national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.” Read full article >>

Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States. Our security is affected when masses of civilians are slaughtered, refugees flow across borders, and murderers wreak havoc on regional stability and livelihoods.  America's reputation suffers, and our ability to bring about change is constrained, when we are p...

Work on the memorial to Operation Bluestar could start before what Sikhs call the "Genocide Day", observed every year on June 6 to mark the Army operation at Golden Temple.

President Obama marked Holocaust Remembrance Day (also called "Yom HaShoah") in a statement, saying that "we must do more than remember" the genocide that cost more than six million Jews their lives. "On this day, and all days, we must do more than remember.  We must resolve that “never again” is more than an empty slogan.  As individuals, we must guard against indifference in our hearts and re...

‘Those who dismiss the Iranian threat as a whim or an exaggeration haven't learned a thing from the Holocaust,’ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticised Western powers for not arresting or extraditing suspected killers in the countries 1994 genocide.

OPINION:THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court celebrates its first 10 years of existence in July. The court is the first permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute the most serious cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

One thing that puzzled me during the American health-care debate was all the talk about socialized medicine and how ineffective it’s supposed to be. The Canadian plan was likened to genocide, but even worse were the ones in Europe, where patients languished on filthy cots, waiting for . . .

The International Criminal Court convicts a Congolese warlord for his use of child soldiers

The longest and oldest aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet has set off on its final voyage. The USS Enterprise, which was featured in the film “Top Gun,” departed from Norfolk on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. Read full article >>

Angelina Jolie takes her role as United Nations Goodwill Ambassador to heart.  Thursday night, the 36-year-old actress spoke to the plight of Somali refugees at the Women in the...

Le Conseil constitutionnel disposait de plusieurs terrains juridiques pour déclarer contraire à la Constitution la loi réprimant la contestation du génocide arménien, récemment adoptée par le Parlement. Il a choisi le plus radical : « Le législateur a porté une atteinte inconstitutionnelle à...Articles en rapport« Je-ne-sais-quoi » en campagneLa fonte des idéesIncertaine SyrieLe test espagnolL'...

Le Conseil constitutionnel français a censuré ce mardi la loi pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien en 1915, à l’origine d’une crise diplomatique e...lire la suite

La Turquie accueille « avec satisfaction » la censure par le Conseil constitutionnel français d’une loi pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien, ...lire la suitehistoires liées18:05 Argentine : une compagnie ferroviaire sous tutelle17:44 52 mois ferme pour le chef de la bande Rolin17:50 Chambre : appels de décisions de juges de paix17:58 Tirs dans une école aux USA17:56 500 millions d’euros...

[[369287]] PARIS (AFP) : Le Conseil constitutionnel a censuré mardi la loi punissant la contestation du génocide arménien en 1915, à l'origine d'une brouille entre Paris et Ankara, jugeant qu'elle était contraire à la liberté d'expression, a annoncé la juridiction dans un communiqué. "Le Conseil a...

Survivors of Armenian genocide victims can't sue German insurance companies for failing to pay claims on their ancestors because only the federal government has the power to bring foreign entities to U.S. courts, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Jury selection is under way in federal court in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide....

The Hague on Wednesday pushed back the start of the long-awaited genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic to May 14 to allow Mr. Mladic’s lawyers more time to prepare.

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Relations Committee of Senate has condemned the occupation of Azerbaijan territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijan town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992 against civilian population.The Committee, which met with Chairman Senator Salim Saifullah Khan to discuss 'Pakistan's relations with Azerbaijan' passed a unanimous ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Relations Committee of Senate has condemned the occupation of Azerbaijan territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijan town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992 against civilian population.The Committee, which met with Chairman Senator Salim Saifullah Khan to discuss 'Pakistan's relations with Azerbaijan' passed a unanimous ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Relations Committee of Senate has condemned the occupation of Azerbaijan territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijan town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992 against civilian population.The Committee, which met with Chairman Senator Salim Saifullah Khan to discuss 'Pakistan's relations with Azerbaijan' passed a unanimous ...

An Armenian-American responds to a news article, “Genocide Bill Angers Turks as It Passes in France.”

Des députés et sénateurs de tous bords politiques ont saisi hier le Conseil constitutionnel contre le texte pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien, bloquant sa promulgation, à la grande satisfaction d'Ankara. Le Premier ministre turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a salué « une démarche conforme à ce...

Le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan se félicite de l'initiative de parlementaires français. Des députés et sénateurs ont saisi le Conseil…

Des députés et sénateurs français ont saisi le Conseil constitutionnel d’un recours contre le texte pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien. Une initi...lire la suite

Headline Title:  Guatemala: Genocide trial one more step against impunity 27 January 2012  A landmark ruling that Guatemala's former head of state will join other former high-ranking officers in facing trial for genocide is another step towards justice and redress for the wide...

Cloths embroidered with signs are seen in front of the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City January 26, 2012. Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled the country from 1980-1982 during a bloody civil war, went to the Supreme Court of Justice to declare for the genocide accusations committed during the armed conflict. [...]

L'indignation suscitée en Turquie par la loi réprimant la négation du génocide arménien ne peut se comprendre que si elle reste modérée. Les écarts de langage et les sanctions éventuelles ne feraient que confirmer les accusations de négationnisme portées à...

Turkey threatened the French president with retaliation after a controversial bill to make it a crime to deny the mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks moved a step closer to becoming law.

Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan attacked the French parliament on Tuesday for passing a 'discriminatory and racist' bill which makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide

A Canadian court rejects a final appeal against deportation by a man accused of helping to incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

L'issue du vote faisait peu de doutes. Le Sénat a adopté, lundi soir, la...

French senators are to vote on a bill that would outlaw denial of the Armenian "genocide," sparking tensions with Turkey.

Léon Mugesera, accused of inspiring the Rwandan genocide, is in the hospital as his 2 p.m. deadline for deportation nears

ISTANBUL (AFP) - The war of words between France and Turkey escalated dramatically on Friday, when the Turkish premier accused Paris of committing genocide in Algeria and of stirring hatred of Muslims.Furious that French lawmakers had voted on Thursday to outlaw denial of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back directly at France's President...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan claimed French colonialists massacred Algerians by burning them in ovens in the latest war of words after MPs in Paris passed a bill criminalising denial of the Armenian genocide by Turks.

L'adoption éventuelle par les députés français d'une proposition de loi pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien provoquera des "dégâts majeurs" dans les relations commerciales franco-turques, a prévenu dimanche un influent groupement économique turc.

La Turquie a attaqué la France sur son passé colonial à quatre jours du vote d'une loi sur le génocide arménien. Le 22 décembre, l'Assemblée…

Turkey's prime minister on Saturday sharply criticized France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass killing of Armenians was genocide. Saying France should investigate what he said was its own "dirty and bloody history" in Algeria and Rwanda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

The practically complete absence of rules or sanctions is nevertheless astonishing: civilians or protected objects such as churches or mosques can be attacked with impunity, in scenes portraying interrogations it is possible to torture, degrade or treat the prisoner inhumanely without being sanctioned for it and extrajudicial executions are simulated. — From a 2007 study [...]

Provides an overview of Rwanda, including key events and facts about this East African country that is still recovering from the genocide of 1994.

Dave Bidini: The African woman. Standing there, alone, in the room. At the festival. She was an invited writer, from Liberia, a survivor of the genocide