'Good news for peace': Congo troops shoot dead Rwandan Hutu warlord wanted by ICC
A Rwandan Hutu rebel leader wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges has been shot dead by the Congolese army, a DRC military spokesperson said on Wednesday in what Kigali called "good news for peace. Sylvestre Mudacumura, commander of the Democratic Forces ...
A top U.N. investigator said Tuesday "it's still an open-ended question" about how much Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be implicated in human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims. Marzuki Darusman said it was "probably the case" that Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace prize ...
Burundi plans to repatriate 200,000 refugees from Tanzania, sparking fears of forced returns
Burundi said on Tuesday it would start repatriating 200,000 of its refugees from neighboring Tanzania in October, sparking fears of forced returns among those who have crossed the border to escape violence. Hundreds of Burundians have been killed in clashes with security forces since 2015, ...
200,000 Rohingya refugees rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camp
Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. During the brutal August 2017 offensive, around 740,000 of the Muslim minority ...
Genocidal intent: U.N. report condemns sexual violence by Myanmar military targeting Rohingya
Sexual violence carried out by Myanmar's security forces against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority was so widespread and severe that it demonstrates intent to commit genocide as well as warrants prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a U.N. report charged Thursday. The U.N. ...
Five years on, Yazidis still live with Islamic State massacre and enslavement
Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved by the extremists. While the militants have since been defeated, Iraqi politicians ...
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi described bloodshed in a volatile northeastern province as an "attempted genocide" Tuesday, after a wave of violence that has killed scores of civilians and forced tens of thousands from their homes in less than a month. Tshisekedi has ordered the ...
Myanmar to send envoys to Rohingya camps in Bangladesh to tell refugees they can go home
Myanmar is sending a high-level delegation soon to camps in Bangladesh to explain to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims how they can return home, Myanmar's U.N. ambassador said Monday. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a crackdown by Myanmar's military in 2017 in Rakhine state and ...
Canadian inquiry calls deaths of indigenous women 'genocide'
The deaths in Canada of more than a thousand aboriginal women and girls in recent decades was a national genocide, a government inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women concluded in a report on Monday. The 1,200-page report, which resulted from an inquiry launched by ...
Warrant issued for Myanmar's 'Buddhist Bin Laden' firebrand monk Wirathu
Myanmar police issued an arrest warrant Tuesday evening for an ultra-nationalist monk known as the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his vitriol against Islam and particularly the Rohingya Muslim community. Wirathu has long been the face of the country's Buddhist nationalist movement, notorious for espousing hate ...
25 years after Rwanda massacre, remains of nearly 85,000 genocide victims finally laid to rest
The remains of nearly 85,000 people murdered in Rwanda's genocide were laid to rest Saturday in a somber ceremony in Kigali a quarter of a century after the slaughter. Mourners sobbed as 81 white coffins containing the remains of 84,437 victims of the 1994 mass ...
Actor and activist George Clooney said Thursday that the fall of Sudan's veteran strongman, Omar al-Bashir, was not enough and called for the dismantling of the military-led system. The Hollywood heartthrob, who has been arrested protesting Sudan's campaign in Darfur that the United States described ...
