GENOCIDE  WATCH

A commemoration was held at the site of the Silos detention camp in Tarcin, where Serbs and Croats were imprisoned, beaten, and abused during the war. Former inmates at the Silos camp. Photo: BIRN. Former detainees on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the closing of the notorious Silos detention camp at a commemoration at the site of the wartime camp in Tarcin, a village west of the capital Sarajevo. Around 500 Serb civilians were detained at the Silos camp at various ti

A Special Report by the Genocide Watch Great Lakes Task Force Heirs to both sides of Rwanda’s brutal history working side by side on a drainage ditch in Mbyo, part of a broader effort toward reconciliation. Credit Megan Specia/The New York Times Reconciliation is a complex, often contentious, yet necessary element of the post-genocide process. During an active genocide, the main priority is to bring an end to mass killings and extermination. Once a fragile peace is establishe

By Reuters, August 5th, 2025. A graffiti is seen near the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Yiannis...

Kosovo Liberation Army veterans and others held a protest in Pristina against the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, accusing it of...

Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Global President, Isōko Centre for Humanity, Kigali, Rwanda. Former Special...

By Brendan Hughes, July 29th, 2025. Teresa Carson and William Marchant, ICRIR. An investigations body set up under the controversial...

By Edith M. Lederer, July 18, 2025. Birds fly behind a Turkish military guard post with a Turkish, left, and Turkish Cypriot breakaway...

First-instance verdict sentences two former members of the Bosnian Serb military police to a total of seven years in prison for inhumane...

In front of the former Hague Tribunal building, thousands of pieces of stones brought from Bosnia are going to be part of a provisional...

New exhibition of survivors' testimonies, organised by the Srebrenica Memorial Centre and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina at UN headquarters...

Timour Azahri, June 11, 2025 Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper is pictured in his office at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,...

The Bosnian state court sentenced Vojin Pavlovic, the head of a Bosnian Serb NGO, to two-and-a-half years in prison for inciting hatred...

Bangladesh demands genocide apology for 1971 atrocities as talks with Pakistan resume after 15 years. Foreign secretary says he raised...

Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, a Tutsi, greets Fredrick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide, in...

In Rwandan reconciliation villages, hope for forgiveness Associated Press April 6, 2024   By  RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA  ...

In Cambodian mine clearance, China Replaces USAID Newsweek February 8, 2025 A warning sign during a training session on demining in...