Tag: Genocide
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Genocide semantics
The crime of genocide has a strict legal connotation and has rarely been proven in court since it was cemented in international law after the Holocaust was carried out against Jewish people and other groups by Nazi Germany during World War II.
April 16, 2022 -
Lessons of the past
While Nixon and Kissinger adamantly supported the army rulers of Pakistan, the carnage in East Pakistan continued. The Nixon administration put considerable premium on its reliance on Islamabad for facilitating normalized relations with Beijing, as that was its top foreign policy concern. Kissinger was categorical, 'Yahya must be kept afloat for six more months'
October 5, 2020 -
Aung San Suu Kyi departs for Rohingya genocide hearings at International Court of Justice
Once lauded alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, Suu Kyi has become an apologist for a murderous military intent on wiping out the country's Rohingya Muslims.
December 9, 2019 -
Minority groups allege ‘worst kind of genocide’ in Pakistan, hold rally in US
Participants carrying posters and banners highlighting atrocities meted out to ethnic and religious minorities in Pakistan took out a rally to the White House
April 8, 2019 -
Rwanda mourns the dead, 25 years since genocide began
Rwanda on Sunday begins one hundred days of mourning for over 800,000 people slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began.
April 7, 2019 -
Myanmar generals must be prosecuted for genocide: UN report
The report - based on hundreds of interviews, research and analysis by a UN-mandated fact-finding mission - is the strongest condemnation by the UN.
August 27, 2018 -
Myanmar killings have hallmarks of genocide: UN official
The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar on Thursday repeated allegations that the killings of Rohingyas by the Myanmar Army bear “the hallmarks of a genocide”. At a press briefing in Seoul where she is based, Yanghee Lee described her visit to the refugee camps in Bangladesh and other areas in the region to discuss the...
February 1, 2018 -
2 Indian-origin women lawmakers inducted into Ontario Cabinet
Two Indian-origin women lawmakers, including a Sikh, have been inducted into the Cabinet of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, in an apparent move to woo the community ahead of a major provincial election. The Indian-origin ministers inducted are — Harinder Malhi and Indira Naidoo-Harris. The reshuffle was claimed by Premier Wynne as an effort “to make...
January 19, 2018 -
Bangladesh minister speaks of ‘genocide’ in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Bangladesh’s foreign minister said that genocide was being waged in Myanmar’s violence- racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 3,00,000 Muslim Rohingya to his country. “The international community is saying it is a genocide. We also say it is a genocide,” AH Mahmood Ali told reporters after briefing diplomats in Dhaka. Ali met Western...
September 11, 2017 -
UK says South Sudan violence amounts to ‘genocide’
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to “genocide”, according to Britain's International Development Minister Priti Patel. “It's tribal, it's absolutely tribal, so on that basis it's genocide,” Patel told reporters in Uganda yesterday, according to a ministry press officer travelling with her. Patel was returning from a visit to...
April 13, 2017