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GENOCIDE 3

Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 11, 2016
World War II Nazis in their nineties may be the last to stand trial
A 93-year-old former guard at Auschwitz goes on trial in Germany on Thursday accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people — the first of four such court cases that could be the last due to the very old age of the defendants.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2015
Ex-dictator found mentally unfit for new Guatemala genocide trial
Guatemala's forensic authority declared on Tuesday that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt is mentally unfit to be tried again on genocide charges, two years after a historic conviction of the former strongman was thrown out on a technicality.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 1, 2015
Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gazes long into the abysses of Asia
In a world bent on looking only at the future, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer weaves his documentaries from memories and lives that are long gone. He astonished the film world in 2012 with his Oscar-nominated documentary "The Act of Killing," whose central character, Anwar Congo, was a death-squad leader during Indonesia's communist purge of 1965-66. At Oppenheimer's request, Congo reenacted the process of arrest, torture and mass murder of his many victims. Friends from his former paramilitary unit followed suit, and Oppenheimer gave them the option of further reenacting their executions in whatever cinematic styles they desired — he shows them producing an ostentatious musical and a classic Hollywood-style noir film. The resulting footage was more grotesque, absurd and explosively violent than anything a fictional movie could have conjured.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 14, 2015
South African court orders indicted Sudanese president not to leave
A South African court issued an interim order on Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country, where he was due to attend an African Union summit, until the judge hears an application calling for his arrest.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2015
Gallipoli and Armenian genocide shouldn't mix
All political leaders manipulate history, but the decision by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to shift the 100th anniversary commemoration of the allied landings at Gallipoli forward 24 hours to April 24 — the same day as the anniversary of the Armenian genocide — was unusually crass.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 25, 2015
Germany says 1915 massacre of Armenians genocide
Armenia marked the centenary on Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 16, 2015
1915 Armenian killings amounted to genocide, European Parliament votes
The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday calling the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians a genocide, days after Pope Francis used the same term.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2015
Turkish denial causes genocide issue to fester
The 1915 Armenian genocide will remain a contentious issue until Turkey comes to terms with its past.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2015
Chicago artist marks Armenian genocide with work the size of 'Guernica'
One hundred years after the mass killing of Armenians, a Chicago artist has created a monumental painting to honor the victims and celebrate a culture that nearly vanished.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 12, 2015
Yazidis take revenge as Islamic State atrocities unearthed
Some members of Iraq's Yazidi minority are turning on their Arab neighbors, staging deadly reprisals against Sunni villagers they believe collaborated in atrocities inflicted by Islamic State on their community.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2015
U.N.'s highest court absolves Croatia, Serbia of genocide
The United Nations' highest court ruled Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other's populations during the wars that accompanied the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Past horrors haunt a Polish town
Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Survivor detailed camp life in his book
In a little leather book, the kind some men used to use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 21, 2014
Bosnia buries 284 war victims unearthed from gruesome death pit
The remains of 284 victims of the Bosnian war were laid to rest on Sunday having been unearthed from what is believed to be the largest mass grave of Europe's worst conflict since World War Two.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2014
Spike in conflicts sees 'global peace' eroding fast
World peace has deteriorated steadily over the last seven years, with wars, militant attacks and crime reversing six earlier decades of gradual improvement, a global security survey reported Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 9, 2014
Aim for lasting peace in Africa
Sadly, 20 years after the start of the genocide in Rwanda, in some African countries conflict and suppression of human rights are all too commonplace.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2014
The terrible fate of Sochi's former inhabitants
A tragedy that happened in the vicinity of the 2014 Winter Olympics continues to be ignored. It's where hundreds of thousands of Circassians became victims of genocide in the 19th century.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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