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Rohingya insurgents massacred Myanmar Hindus in Rakhine: Amnesty
Amnesty International said Wednesday that Myanmar's army was not the only group that has slaughtered civilians in the country's volatile west. In a new report, it accused ethnic Rohingya insurgents of carrying out at least one brutal massacre when the long-running conflict in Rakhine ...
War crimes judges will hold closed-door talks next month to discuss whether to allow the launch of a probe into the forced exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. Only chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will appear before the three judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
Erdogan accuses Israel of 'genocide' over at least 55 Gaza protester deaths, recalls ambassadors
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of "state terror" and "genocide" after Israeli forces killed at least 55 Palestinians on the Gaza border. In one of his most vehement broadsides ever against the Jewish state, Erdogan also announced three days of national ...
Genocide alleged as four rights groups urge UNSC to refer Myanmar's handling of Rohingya to ICC
Four human rights groups urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, including targeting about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled military-led violence to Bangladesh. Matthew Smith, head of the Asia-based group Fortify Rights, ...
A showcase of humanity's vilest and noblest manifestations
Calling the Holocaust unfathomable is a moral flinch from facts that demand scholarship.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic to appeal war crimes conviction
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will appear in court again Monday when he contests his conviction for genocide and a 40-year prison sentence before U.N. appeals judges. Karadzic was convicted in 2016 for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia ...
A Polish campaign group is suing an Argentinian newspaper it says breached a new law that makes it a criminal offense to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. In what appeared to be the first legal action under the so-called Holocaust law, just hours ...
Gravediggers say Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers executed Rohingya after torching their homes
Bound together, the 10 Rohingya captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a grave. Soon afterward, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by soldiers, two of the ...
Seventy-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — the infamous Nazi death camp that has come to symbolize the Holocaust — Poles are still struggling to understand their own role in Germany's wartime genocide of European Jews on Polish soil. A bill passed this week ...
No institutionalized participation by Poland in the Holocaust: president
Poland's president said Monday that there was no institutionalized participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took "wicked" actions against Jewish neighbors. President Andrzej Duda said that he would never allow Poland and Poles in general to be ...
Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Tuesday to complete within two years the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled an army crackdown last year in Myanmar. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR), responding to the plan, said ...
When Rosa, now 14, asked her Islamic State captors about her younger sisters, Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving. "At that point, I didn't care about anything anymore. Even if I died," she said. "I never thought ...
