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1:16pm, 7th April, 2019

Rwanda honors those killed in genocide 25 years ago

Rwandan President Paul Kagame began a week of solemn ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during the Rwandan genocide, a three-month-killing spree that began 25 years ago.

Rwandan convicted of lying while seeking U.S. asylum after genocide

5:21pm, 5th April, 2019

US

Rwandan convicted of lying while seeking U.S. asylum after genocide

A Rwandan man who U.S. prosecutors said participated in the African nation's 1994 genocide was convicted on Friday of lying about belonging to the political party that led the killings in hopes of gaining asylum in the United States.

Now grown up: the Rwandan genocide orphans who found a bigger family

1:09pm, 4th April, 2019

World

Now grown up: the Rwandan genocide orphans who found a bigger family

Vincent de Paul Ruhumuriza was born in Rwanda just a few months before genocide consigned his father to an unknown grave and traumatized his mother so badly she still screams and shakes at any mention of that time.

Lawsuit against Germany over Namibian genocide is dismissed in New York

5:27pm, 6th March, 2019

World

Lawsuit against Germany over Namibian genocide is dismissed in New York

A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to require Germany to pay damages over genocide and property seizures by colonists in what is now Namibia more than a century ago.

Former Khmer Rouge officials found guilty of genocide

12:08am, 16th November, 2018

World

Former Khmer Rouge officials found guilty of genocide

Two top officials of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge were found guilty of genocide by a U.N.-backed court on Friday, almost four decades after the apocalyptic regime which oversaw the "Killing Fields" was overthrown.

Those responsible for Myanmar crimes could face genocide charges: U.S.

5:37pm, 27th September, 2018

World

Those responsible for Myanmar crimes could face genocide charges: U.S.

A U.S. government probe into Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority was not aimed at determining whether genocide or crimes against humanity had been committed, but those responsible could still be held accountable for those cri...

Lawmakers urge U.S. to call Myanmar's Rohingya campaign genocide

11:54am, 26th September, 2018

Politics

Lawmakers urge U.S. to call Myanmar's Rohingya campaign genocide

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Trump administration on Wednesday to declare the Myanmar military's campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide, days after a State...

Myanmar spokesman rejects U.N. genocide report

12:39am, 29th August, 2018

World

Myanmar spokesman rejects U.N. genocide report

A Myanmar government spokesman on Wednesday rejected a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making "false allegations".

U.N. calls for Myanmar generals to be tried for genocide, blames Facebook for incitement

5:40pm, 27th August, 2018

World

U.N. calls for Myanmar generals to be tried for genocide, blames Facebook for incitement

Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent", and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law, United Nations investigator...