| October 15, 2007 | - After the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted for a resolution affirming that a genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I, General Yasar Buyukanit, commander of the Turkish armed forces, said that, should Congress pass the resolution, his country’s military alliance with the United States would never be the same. “We could not,” he said, “explain this to our public. The U.S., in that respect, has shot itself in the foot.”
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New York Times
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| June 24, 2007 | -
Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as “Chemical Ali,” was sentenced to death for his role in Iraq's Kurdish genocide.
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Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as “Chemical Ali,” was sentenced to death for his role in Iraq's Kurdish genocide.
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Reuters Canada
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| April 16, 2007 | - In Rio police clashed with drug gangs in a shootout that left at least 19 people dead. Brazilian Justice Minister Tarso Genro announced that the federal government would send hundreds more police officers to the city. “For young people,” said a spokeswoman for nonprofit Observatory of the Favelas, “this is a genocide. And I don't mean that as a metaphor. It really is a genocide.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| April 4, 2007 | -
Fidel Castro called American biofuel policy an “internationalization of genocide.”
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BBC News
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| February 26, 2007 | - Jurists in The Hague ruled that a genocide occurred when Bosnian Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims at Srebrinca in 1995. Serbia, said the court, was responsible for not preventing the genocide—but not directly responsible for the genocide itself—and is thus absolved of any obligation to pay reparations.
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New York Times
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| January 12, 2007 | - Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former dictator of Ethiopia who now lives comfortably in Zimbabwe, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on genocide charges.
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New York Times
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| December 13, 2006 | - Former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is said to have strangled Emperor Haile Selassie with his bare hands and buried him under a toilet, was convicted of genocide by an Ethiopian court.
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NYT
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| November 25, 2006 | - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet accepted responsibility for everything that occurred during his eighteen-year rule.
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BBC
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| November 11, 2006 | - In Beit Hanun, Gaza, Israeli forces accidentally killed 18 civilians, including seven children; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the killings as a “technical failure.” The U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution condemning the attack, but the United States, represented by Ambassador John Bolton, vetoed it.
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The Jerusalem Post
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BBC News
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| November 7, 2006 | - The Saddam Hussein
genocide trial resumed, even though Hussein was sentenced to death two days before the U.S. election.
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MSNBC
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ABC News Online
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News
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Al Jazeera
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BBC News
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Channel 4
Source 5:
ReviewJournal.com
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CBC News
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Al Jazeera
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ABC News Online
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Bloomberg News
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| February 1, 2006 | - The number of people who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence in South Darfur reached 70,000.
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AllAfrica.com
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| April 30, 2005 | - The bodies of around 1,500 Kurds, identified by their distinctive clothing, were found in a mass grave near the Iraqi town of Samawa.
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BBC News
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Cambodia
privatized the Killing Fields at Cheoung Ek; a Japanese firm will plant flowers near the tower of eight thousand skulls and will raise admission rates.
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Reuters
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| February 15, 2005 | -
Ariel Sharon announced plans to withdraw 8,500 settlers from Gaza and several hundred settlers from the West Bank. The Knesset ratified the plan, setting aside $870 million for resettlement, even though some Israeli parliamentarians compared the withdrawal to the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.
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New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | -
Darfur's violence and mass killings failed to qualify as genocide, according to a U.N. commission.
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The New York Times
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| January 15, 2005 | -
Rwanda said that it will attempt to try one-eighth of its population for genocide. Trials will be held in small village courts, called gacacas.
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The Guardian
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| November 6, 2004 | - Abilio Soares, the last Indonesian governor of East Timor, was acquitted on appeal of crimes against humanity.
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Agence France-Presse
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| September 19, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council passed another resolution asking the Sudanese government to prevent its proxies from slaughtering people in Darfur (China, Algeria, Pakistan, and Russia abstained). The resolution, which for the first time formally invokes the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, says that the council will "consider" sanctions if the genocide continues.
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New York Times
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| August 22, 2004 | - A Sudanese sheikh accused of being a leader of the Janjaweed militias that have been killing and raping black farmers in Darfur admitted that he had been "appointed" by his government to "defend their land."
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Telegraph
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| August 10, 2004 | - where the national police force has been recruiting members of the Janjaweed militia.
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The Scotsman
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| August 3, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling on Sudan to disarm its militias in Darfur but declined to use the word "sanctions" and made no mention of using force to stop the ongoing genocide; Sudan denounced the resolution as a declaration of war.
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Daily Times
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| July 25, 2004 | - Europe and the United States both continued to threaten Sudan with economic sanctions unless it stops the genocide in Darfur, where government-sponsored Arab militias have been slaughtering and raping black farmers.
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Reuters
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| July 17, 2004 | - The United Nations continued to issue warnings about the ongoing genocide in Sudan, where Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, have been slaughtering and raping black farmers in Darfur; more than one million people have fled their homes and hundreds of thousands of refugees could soon die of cholera and other diseases.
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Reuters, Associated Press
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| May 24, 2004 | -
Israel's justice minister, Yosef Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father and grandmother to the Nazis, denounced the Sharon government's latest round of home demolitions in the Gaza Strip and said: "When I saw a picture on the TV of an old woman on all fours in the ruins of her home looking under some floor tiles for her medicines — I did think, 'What would I say if it were my grandmother?'" The comment was criticized for its implied comparison of the Israeli army to the Nazis. "We look like monsters in the eyes of the world," Lapid said. "This makes me sick."
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New York Times
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| May 5, 2004 | -
Sudan, where government-sponsored Arab militias called Janjaweed have been slaughtering black farmers, was elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the objections of the United States. One Sudanese diplomat scoffed at the U.S. objection and pointed to the American atrocities in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| May 1, 2004 | -
Bosnian Serb officials revealed six new mass graves containing victims of the Srebrenica massacre.
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Reuters
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| April 23, 2004 | - Pro-government militias in Sudan continued to slaughter people in Darfur.
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BBC
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| April 8, 2004 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who as the U.N. head of peacekeeping failed to intervene to stop the Rwandan
genocide, said that the reports of massacres and rapes in Sudan "leave me with a deep sense of foreboding."
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New York Times
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| March 19, 2004 | - A United Nations official said that Sudan now has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and he compared the government's program of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, and murder to the Rwandan
genocide.
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BBC
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| February 26, 2004 | - The prosecution rested its case against Slobodan Milosevic in his genocide trial.
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New York Times
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| February 17, 2004 | -
Rwanda's prosecutor general said that thousands of genocide suspects would be released from prison if they simply confessed their crimes and begged forgiveness.
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Reuters
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| January 24, 2004 | - There were new massacres in Congo.
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Reuters
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| January 22, 2004 | -
Rwanda's former minister for higher education was given a life sentence for genocide.
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Al-Jazeera
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| December 3, 2003 | - Eighteen Rwandan Hutus were given prison sentences for orchestrating the slaughter of 20,000 Tutsis who were hiding in a church complex during the 1994 genocide.
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AllAfrica.com
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| September 5, 2003 | - Three Israeli F-15 fighter jets piloted by the descendants of Holocaust survivors flew over the Auschwitz
death camp in Poland during a memorial service.
The Auschwitz Museum had opposed the flyover, saying that a military display was inappropriate on such an occasion.
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Associated Press
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Rwanda said it was planning to release as many as 40,000 people who have been in prison for years for their role in the genocide of 1994.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic refused to undergo a psychiatric evaluation ordered by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal that is trying him for genocide.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
A psychiatric evaluation was ordered for Slobodan Milosevic, whose ill-health has repeatedly delayed his genocide trial.
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| November 5, 2002 | -
Kuwait agreed to exempt Americans from prosecution for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
A lawsuit seeking reparations from several American companies on behalf of all descendants of American slaves was filed in a Brooklyn federal court; the plaintiff cited recent Holocaust reparations lawsuits as a precedent.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense in his genocide and war-crimes trial.
“It is all lies,” he said.
“The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying me here.”
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was reportedly enjoying the novels of Ernest Hemingway and John Updike as he awaits his genocide trial at the Hague; he also enjoys listening to CDs by Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra.
He particularly favors Sinatra's song “My Way.”
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| December 4, 2001 | - Rwanda hosted a gathering of genocide survivors that included Tutsis, European Jews, American Indians, Cambodians, and Armenians.
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| November 27, 2001 | - The war crimes tribunal at The Hague handed down a new indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for genocide.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was issued a summons to appear before a court in Belgium in a lawsuit stemming from his role in the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon; Belgian law permits lawsuits concerning crimes against humanity and genocide no matter where the crimes occurred.
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| September 4, 2001 | -
Slobodan Milosevic berated a judge and others at The Hague after genocide was added to the charges he faces there.
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| June 19, 2001 | - A group of Holocaust survivors sued the French railroad in a Brooklyn court because its trains were used to carry Jews and others to the death camps.
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| June 19, 2001 | - The United States made clear its opposition to sending peacekeeping troops to Macedonia, preferring to wait until the conflict leads to a wider war and genocide of one kind or another.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Samuel Musabyimana, a former Anglican bishop in Rwanda, was charged with genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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| April 17, 2001 | - Rwanda issued an international arrest warrant for Pierre-Célestin Rwigema, the former prime minister, for his role in the 1994 genocide; Rwigema was said to be living in the United States.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Holocaust survivors filed suit against the United States because it did not bomb Auschwitz during World War II.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Turkey announced that it had killed 23,000 separatist Kurds in the last 15 years and threatened to get even with France if its parliament passed a bill recognizing the Turkish genocide of Armenians. The U.S. Congress almost passed a similar bill last year.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Islamic students demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, chanting “Kill All Jews.” Music by Richard Wagner was performed in concert in Israel for the first time; the “Siegfried Idyll” was protested briefly by a Holocaust survivor who stood up before the concert and made loud noises with a rattle.
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| October 3, 2000 | - A New York jury ordered Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb war criminal, to pay $4.5 million in damages for presiding over a policy of rape, torture, and genocide in Bosnia.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
Britain will join an international criminal court that will have jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity; the United States still refuses to join the court, which fifteen countries have joined to date.
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| August 8, 2000 | - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the rightist Israeli Shas Party, declared that the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust were reincarnated sinners who rightly suffered the wrath of God.
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