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.
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'
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.
Participants carrying posters and banners highlighting atrocities meted out to ethnic and religious minorities in Pakistan took out a rally to the White House
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.
The report - based on hundreds of interviews, research and analysis by a UN-mandated fact-finding mission - is the strongest condemnation by the UN.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar on Thursday repeated allegations that the killings of Rohingyas by the Myanmar Army bear…
Two Indian-origin women lawmakers, including a Sikh, have been inducted into the Cabinet of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, in an…
Bangladesh’s foreign minister said that genocide was being waged in Myanmar’s violence- racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly…
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to “genocide”, according to Britain's International Development Minister…
