Genocide Watch
- 12 hours ago
Armenian prime minister accuses military of attempted coup
Thu 25 Feb 2021 10.42 EST Andrew Roth Nikol Pashinyan addresses a rally of his supporters at Republic Square in central Yerevan on Thursday. Photograph: Stepan Poghosyan/Photolure/ÒÀÑÑ The Armenian prime minister has accused the armed forces of an attempted coup against his government after top military officers signed a letter calling on him to resign, in an escalation of the political crisis sparked by Armenia’s defeat in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Tensions betw
Al Jazeera
- 17 hours ago
Gunmen kidnap over 300 girls in Nigeria school raid: Police
Police confirm the abduction of at least 317 girls from school in Zamfara state, second kidnapping in more than a week. Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 schoolgirls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week. Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told Reuters news agency that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight raid on the Jangebe
Al Jazeera
- 17 hours ago
Guatemalan genocide survivors march for justice
Survivors of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war call on court to reverse closure of peace institutions. temalan survivors and relatives of victims of civil war-era crimes against humanity gather on February 25 to commemorate the dead and to demand justice [Sandra Cuffe/Al Jazeera] Al Jazeera By Sandra Cuffe
26 Feb 2021 Guatemala City – Survivors of genocide and other crimes against humanity during Guatemala’s civil war are calling for justice as pending trials against ex-military
Human Rights Watch
- 17 hours ago
Philippines Admits Police Role in ‘Drug War’ Killings
February 25, 2021 9:44AM EST| Stunning Admission Highlights Need for UN Inquiry Still image captured from video of Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra disclosing initial findings of a departmental review into the deaths of drug suspects during anti-drug operations in the Philippines to the UN Human Rights Council on February 24, 2021.© UN Web TV (Geneva) – The Philippine Department of Justice admitted police culpability in thousands of “drug war” killings, Human Rig
Amnesty International
- 18 hours ago
Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity
Amnesty International: 26 February 2021, 00:01 UTC Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in November Troops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread looting Satellite imagery analysis shows evidence consistent with new burial sites Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on 28-29 November 2020, opening fire in
Sarah Kane | Genocide Watch
- a day ago
Country Report: Cambodia
Country Report: Cambodia February 2021 Left to right: Senate President Say Chhum, President of National Assembly Heng Samrin, and Prime Minister Hun Sen commemorate Cambodia's National Independence Day, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 9, 2019. (Hul Reaksmey/VOA Khmer) The Cambodian Genocide caused the death of two million Cambodians. The targets of the genocide included officials of the former regime, intellectuals, former city dwellers, Cham Muslims, Vietnamese, Buddhist m
Genocide Watch
- 2 days ago
Pakistan: Christian couple on death row for ‘blasphemous texts’ must be released
Amnesty International 24 February 2021, 13:40 UTC The Pakistani authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a husband and wife facing death sentences after being convicted of sending ‘blasphemous’ text messages, said Amnesty International, ahead of an appeal hearing in the case at the Lahore High Court today. Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, who are Christians, have been in prison since 2013 and were convicted and sentenced to death in April 2014 by a Trial
VOA/Reuters
- 2 days ago
Gunmen Kill 36 in Attacks on Two Northern Nigerian States
ABUJA, NIGERIA - Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation, officials and residents said. The series of attacks by armed bandits occurred over the past 48 hours with 18 people killed each in villages of Kaduna and Katsina states and several others injured. The assailants burned down houses, displacing the villagers. Hundreds of peo
Mayeni Jones | BBC
- 3 days ago
Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri rocket attack kills 10
Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria by using rocket-propelled grenades, which local officials describe as a "new trend". Suspected Boko Haram militants fired from the outskirts of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri into densely populated areas, according to Borno state governor Babagana Zulumon. He said the use of these weapons "has to be stopped". It is the worst attack of its kind in Maiduguri in a year. The city is the birthplace of Boko Haram. The militan
Genocide Watch
- 3 days ago
Timestream: Srebrenica Genocide
Genocide Watch staff have published the fourteenth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream reflects on the genocide committed by Bosnian Serb Forces (VRS) during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) in the UN safe area of Srebrenica. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed during the week of July 11, 1995. Though the main perpetrators of the Srebrenica Genocide have been prosecuted, many Bosnian Serbs continue to celebrate these war criminals
Mujib Mashal | NY Times
- 3 days ago
Fading Sri Lankan Hopes for Justice Rest on U.N. Rights Council
The government, strongly tied to the military, is blocking inquiries into wartime atrocities, undermining efforts to learn the fates of thousands of missing people. The families of the missing hold small roadside sit-ins or canvass the scarred villages of Sri Lanka’s ravaged north, hugging photos of the tens of thousands who disappeared during the country’s brutal civil war. In each place, the parents and grandparents ask the authorities a simple question: Where are our child
Colum Lynch | Foreign Policy
- 3 days ago
State Dep't Lawyers Again Deny Genocide-This Time of Uyghurs
Pro-Uighur protesters demonstrate outside the White House in Washington, on Aug. 14, 2020. PHOTO BY CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES State Department Lawyers Concluded Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China Despite the Trump administration’s declaration of a genocide in Xinjiang, upheld by the Biden administration, some legal experts suspect China’s behavior may fall short of actual genocide. Foreign Policy February 19, 2021 BY COLUM LYNCH The U.S. State Department’s O
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