• After reading about the 1921 assassination of Talat Pasha, the main architect of the Armenian genocide, by Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian, Lemkin asked his professor why there was no law under which Talat could be charged. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last year, Turkey cut military co-operation with France after the French parliament passed a bill to make denial of the Armenian genocide an offence - even though it never became law. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Kaag said the cabinet would 'continue to exercise restraint' in the issue and continue to discuss 'the question of the Armenian genocide. (rferl.org)
  • At a press conference in Ankara , Erdogan said, 'Whatever decision the European Parliament takes on Armenian genocide claims, it would go in one ear and out the other. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Dr. Kelikian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, saved Senator Dole's injured right arm from amputation after World War II. (csmonitor.com)
  • Mr. Dole is a longtime advocate for U.S. recognition of the Armenian genocide. (csmonitor.com)
  • For Alice Kelikian, a historian at Brandeis University, it's in the story of the three aunts she never knew and the memory of her father, Dr. Hampar Kelikian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. (csmonitor.com)
  • President Joe Biden is expected Saturday to fully recognize the Armenian genocide. (csmonitor.com)
  • For decades, Mr. Dole has been devoted to the cause of Armenian genocide recognition. (csmonitor.com)
  • For Dr. Kelikian's daughter Alice, April 24 - Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day - is as meaningful as ever. (csmonitor.com)
  • In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. (google.ca)
  • WASHINGTON , April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, over 100 Members of Congress signed a bipartisan letter circulated by the Armenian Caucus leadership to President Joe Biden , urging him to unequivocally affirm the Armenian Genocide and stand by his record and word on this important human rights issue, reported the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly). (prnewswire.com)
  • For decades, President Biden has been a staunch supporter of Armenian Genocide affirmation and has stated so time and again. (prnewswire.com)
  • In a September 2019 letter to the Assembly, he said that the "United States must reaffirm, once and for all, our record on the Armenian Genocide. (prnewswire.com)
  • Over 100 Members of Congress signed a bipartisan letter to President Biden urging him to affirm the Armenian Genocide. (prnewswire.com)
  • During the 2020 presidential race, the Biden-Harris campaign pledged that "Joe will recognize the Armenian Genocide and make universal human rights a top priority for his administration so that such a tragedy can never again occur. (prnewswire.com)
  • Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who spearheaded the letter, spoke on the House Floor on Tuesday, April 20 , to deliver an open letter to President Biden, calling on him to maintain his campaign promise to officially affirm the Armenian Genocide. (prnewswire.com)
  • Recognize the Armenian Genocide. (prnewswire.com)
  • U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide not only enhances America's credibility on human rights issues, but also helps prevent future genocides," Ardouny added. (prnewswire.com)
  • Turks demonstrate in Istanbul against a bill in the French to parliament to criminalize denial of the 'Armenian genocide. (rferl.org)
  • Many politicians are using the Armenian genocide to create their political platform in Armenia and it serves as a trump card, a way to manipulate people. (rferl.org)
  • Whereas the Armenian diaspora will not start a dialogue or a normalization of the relations unless Turkey unconditionally recognizes there is something called the Armenian genocide,' Cagaptay says. (rferl.org)
  • In May 2010, the United States' government was in a predicament regarding its official position towards the Armenian Genocide of 1915. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • The visitors have the option of entering a concrete spiral room underneath the existing structure that would become an open museum with a genocide map explaining the sequence of events, or visiting the main monument which contains a wall of respect, one that acknowledges the countries / governments that have recognized the Armenian genocide, as well as an open air amphitheater that would host any related events. (archdaily.com)
  • Armenian Genocide Memorial Winning Proposal / Etienne Bastormagi Architects" 03 Jan 2012. (archdaily.com)
  • Biden's Armenian Genocide Stance Pleases Christians, Anger. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Biden was following through on a campaign promise he made a year ago Saturday-the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day-to recognize that the events that began in 1915 were a deliberate effort to wipe out Armenians. (christianitytoday.com)
  • POGGIOLI: Well, he sees the Armenian genocide as a harbinger of today's persecution of Christians in the Middle East. (npr.org)
  • The victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. (armenian-genocide.org)
  • This thesis studies the phenomenon of modern genocide denial, focusing in particular on the Western denialist cultures surrounding the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide of 1915.While those denying, rationalizing or trivializing the Holocaust may be completely separated from those engaging in denial of the Armenian genocide, both cultures of denial have undergone similar historical phases and developments. (lu.se)
  • Ottoman Armenians were subjected to mass killings and deportations (also known as the Armenian Genocide) during the First World War, while the Greeks were forced out of Asia Minor following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 and the subsequent population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. (lu.se)
  • Ankara is becoming increasingly concerned about whether U.S. President Barack Obama will follow Pope Francis and the EU parliament in using the word 'genocide' on the 100th anniversary (April 24) of the start of the mass killings of Armenians. (voanews.com)
  • Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was dispatched to Washington to meet with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry to lobby against President Obama using the word 'genocide' in his annual address on the mass killings of Armenians during World War I. (voanews.com)
  • They look on the term genocide as a legal term and if its gains broad acceptance then fear is Armenians and Armenia will use this in international courts against Turkey,' said Idiz. (voanews.com)
  • Turkey has warned the US that bilateral ties will suffer if Washington adopts a bill recognising as genocide the Ottoman empire's killings of Armenians. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Ankara rejects Armenian claims that the deaths of some 1.5m Armenians in 1915-17 amounted to genocide. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Armenians have campaigned for the killings to be recognised internationally as genocide. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Several watchdog organizations are accusing Azerbaijan of committing genocide against the 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh. (wnd.com)
  • There is an ongoing Genocide against 120,000 Armenians. (wnd.com)
  • A woman is reflected in a Yerevan museum exhibit depicting 'tools of genocide' in reference to the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. (rferl.org)
  • Lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution recognizing as 'genocide' the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, a move certain to heighten tensions with Turkey. (rferl.org)
  • Kaag also said an official representative would be sent to the commemoration ceremony in Yerevan on April 24, but insisted that it was not a sign that the Dutch government recognizes the massacre of Armenians as genocide. (rferl.org)
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to the United States and warned of repercussions in a growing dispute over congressional efforts to label the World War I era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 'genocide. (cnn.com)
  • Turkey -- now a NATO member and a key U.S. ally in the war on terror -- accepts Armenians were killed but call it a massacre during a chaotic time, not an organized campaign of genocide. (cnn.com)
  • Three days after Pope Francis publicly labeled the brutal slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians as 'the first genocide of the 20th century,' Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, condemned the pontiff's remarks. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Armenians refer to this chapter in their history as genocide -- a term the Turks firmly reject. (rferl.org)
  • But even as the genocide debate has occupied international politics, some Armenians believe it's time for their country to move on. (rferl.org)
  • In fact, Armenians have always argued that it was the first genocide in the twentieth century. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • The difference in views of the Turks and the Armenians on the genocide is an objective of this research. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • Therefore, it is important to compare the conflicting views that Armenians and Turks have towards the genocide vis-à-vis impacts of these differences on the American official position regarding the same. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • It has been the policy of any government in Turkey that there had never been the genocide with regard to many Armenians who died in 1915. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • The systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was "genocide," the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today," Biden said in a statement . (christianitytoday.com)
  • The Pope used the word genocide to describe the deaths of some one-and-a-half million Armenians a century ago by the Ottoman Empire in the early days of World War I. The Pope used the highly charged term during a mass attended by Armenian leaders. (npr.org)
  • MONTAGNE: Turkey, which emerged from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, has long rejected the term genocide as applied to Armenians, and it quickly recalled its ambassador to the Vatican. (npr.org)
  • Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with soldiers when they were part of the Ottoman Empire, but claims the numbers are inflated and rejects the genocide label. (npr.org)
  • AINA) -- A new book has been published on the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey between 1915 and 1918, in which 750,000 Assyrians were killed (75%), one million Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians. (aina.org)
  • The Turkish government claims that the deportation of Armenians and Assyrians was a legitimate action that cannot be characterized as genocide. (aina.org)
  • The Armenians and Assyrians continue to ask for recognition of their Genocide from all countries in the world. (aina.org)
  • These five criteria were adopted by the 1948 Genocide Convention as its proof for the concept of genocidal intent. (wikipedia.org)
  • it was not until Lemkin coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg Trials that the United Nations defined the crime of genocide under international law in the Genocide Convention. (wikipedia.org)
  • The UN debated and adopted a Genocide Convention in late 1948, holding that genocide was the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part", a racial group. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Genocide convention is back. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Readers who were supporters of Liberty Lobby and its newspaper, The Spotlight , which was destroyed by agents of the federal government because it became too influential, will remember the Genocide Convention (GC). (americanfreepress.net)
  • It is clear that the worst offender against the principles of the Genocide Convention is Israel, which signed onto the treaty on March 9, 1950. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Under the terms of the Genocide Convention, Israel is guilty of uncountable crimes as clearly defined in article 2 of the GC. (americanfreepress.net)
  • It is appropriately called, Committee to Enforce the Genocide Convention. (americanfreepress.net)
  • by the Azerbaijani security forces impeding access to any food, medical supplies, and other essentials should be considered a Genocide under Article II, (c) of the Genocide Convention: 'Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction. (wnd.com)
  • DW explains the upcoming proceedings at the UN's top court over whether Russia violated the Genocide Convention. (dw.com)
  • Presented during the UN Genocide Convention, We Charge Genocide addressed issues like lynching of the black community in the United States, as well as legal discrimination, including unlawful arrests, police brutality and repeated instances of inequality when it came to issues of health care and quality of life. (hubpages.com)
  • Recent new parties to the Genocide Convention include Palestine on Jan. 2, 2014, San Marino on Nov. 8, 2013, Guinea-Bissau on Sep. (preventgenocide.org)
  • In addition, the United Nations established the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, or the Genocide Convention written by Raphael Lemkin, at about the same time as Zionists in Palestine declared the establishment of the state of Israel, which was foisted on the world by genocidal acts against the native Palestinians. (americanfreepress.net)
  • If the court finds there was no lawful justification under the Genocide Convention for Russia's acts, the decision can set up a future claim for compensation,' McIntyre said. (yahoo.com)
  • THE HAGUE: Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, will go on trial in The Hague on Sept 29 facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, a UN judge announced Thursday. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Szany is the author of "Teaching the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Through Stanton's 8 Stages," and "The Power of Story: Teaching About Genocide Through Literature Circles," in Teaching About Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors, Volume I and II (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018 and 2019). (illinois.gov)
  • When BBC journalist David Belton went to Rwanda on assignment in 1994, he didn't realize the impact that the country's widespread genocide would have on him, especially long term. (crosswalk.com)
  • After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, many scholars and politicians argued that a lack of political will was a key factor in the failure to effectively prevent and respond to genocide. (progressive.org)
  • The few number of medical practitioners (doctors and nurses) has been exaggerated by the genocide of 1994 during which many of them were killed, others flied away and we are watching now to a brain drain either retaining a growing number of those practitioners abroad or moving them from the public sector to the new demanding sector of NGOs. (who.int)
  • The 1994 genocide in Rwanda and persistent ethnic strife in Burundi since 1993 have caused severe economic decline and considerable loss of lives. (who.int)
  • On the other hand, the Turks and the subsequent governments have always stated that the event of 1915 was never considered to be the genocide. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ankara is becoming increasingly alarmed that there is a growing momentum to recognize the killings as genocide among its allies, says Semih Idiz, diplomatic columnist for the Turkish newspaper Taraf and the Al Monitor web site. (voanews.com)
  • At least 23 countries, including France and Germany, recognize the killings as 'genocide. (rferl.org)
  • Earlier on February 22, Dutch acting Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag said the government would not follow the lawmakers' lead in recognizing the killings as genocide. (rferl.org)
  • Today, the controversy has gone global, with a number of countries debating whether the killings can be called genocide -- the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. (rferl.org)
  • Many countries, including Russia, and Canada, have passed legislation recognizing the killings as genocide. (rferl.org)
  • In the United States, many members of Congress -- dominated by the opposition Democrats -- have voiced support for a bill to officially recognize the Armenian killings as genocide. (rferl.org)
  • Slavery in general and the Atlantic slave trade in particular was an archetypal example of a crime against humanity in the 19th century, a larger category of crimes that was expanded when genocide was included in it in the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • I personally am reluctant to use terms like genocide and ethnic cleansing to apply to the 18th century in the sense that to me, they have very particular meanings that are closely tied to more recent times, in particular to the second half of the 20th century,' he said. (cbc.ca)
  • The first, which is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century, struck your own Armenian people, the first Christian nation. (npr.org)
  • Preventing genocide is, on paper, a priority for the U.S. government, so why hasn't Biden done more to stop ethnic violence in Darfur? (progressive.org)
  • Biden on Tuesday accused Putin of genocide, while giving a speech about gasoline prices. (ndtv.com)
  • Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank -- none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away," Biden said at the event in Iowa. (ndtv.com)
  • Biden said it would ultimately be up to courts to determine whether Russia's actions in its ex-Soviet neighbor constitute genocide. (ndtv.com)
  • Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a letter to Biden that recognition of the genocide "is important not only in terms of respecting the memory of 1.5 million innocent victims, but also in preventing the repetition of such crimes. (christianitytoday.com)
  • On Tuesday, President Joe Biden made a striking declaration: Russia is committing "genocide" in Ukraine. (vox.com)
  • Most of the recognized authorities, including independent genocide watchdogs like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, have yet to join Biden in saying that such a campaign is happening in Ukraine. (vox.com)
  • The Political Instability Task Force estimated that 43 genocides occurred between 1956 and 2016, resulting in about 50 million deaths. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, through the literature review method, this work emerges, having as theoretical contribution: Nilson P. de Carvalho (2017) who researches about metaliterature and the theorist Abdias de Nascimento (2016) who researches about the genocide of the Brazilian black. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite having polio and fleeing the Rwandan genocide, Iris Mukeshimana teaches 'Cyclodance. (dw.com)
  • The Rwandan genocide was different from others," Belton wrote last year, in an essay for The Guardian . (crosswalk.com)
  • Justice Minister Christiane Taubira canceled her plan to attend the genocide commemoration in Kigali, but then the Rwandan government announced that they had canceled her invitation anyway. (sfbayview.com)
  • Armenia says it is one of the first examples of genocide in modern history, predating the Holocaust. (rferl.org)
  • Cohen was an inaugural appointee to the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission, he was a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal The Holocaust in History and Memory, he designed the pedagogical track of the inaugural docent training program of Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and he was a faculty fellow of the Auschwitz Jewish Center. (illinois.gov)
  • Kelley Szany is an award-winning Holocaust and genocide educator with over 20 years of experience in the field. (illinois.gov)
  • Turning to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website I discovered that the USHMM along with the US Institute for Peace and the American Academy of Diplomacy was sponsoring a joint Genocide Prevention Task Force. (opednews.com)
  • The charge of "genocide" is uniquely powerful in international public opinion, owing to the memory of World War II and the Holocaust. (vox.com)
  • A scholar of the Holocaust who was born in Ukraine, Finkel was skeptical of Ukrainian claims of genocide early in the conflict . (vox.com)
  • A death toll of 100 million figure has been documented by the authors D.E. Stannard, author of American Holocaust, D.E. Stannard has said, „The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. (rael.org)
  • in his testimony, [he] said that this latest genocide is being "perpetrated with U.S.-supplied weaponry and backed by Turkey, a member of NATO. (wnd.com)
  • I n Turkey, genocide is a fighting word. (christianitytoday.com)
  • It is out of the question,' Erdogan said, 'for there to be a stain, a shadow called genocide on Turkey. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The genocide is widely recognized the world over, but rarely by U.S. presidents , fearing repercussions from NATO ally Turkey. (csmonitor.com)
  • Officially, Turkey has said that to establish diplomatic relations it would require Armenia to drop its policy on seeking recognition of the genocide internationally. (rferl.org)
  • Turkey has been categorical that it would cut military ties with the United States if they voted to recognize the genocide. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • While previous presidents have offered somber reflections of the dark moment in history, they have studiously avoided using the term genocide out of concern that it would complicate relations with Turkey, a NATO ally and important power in the Middle East. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In Rwanda, genocide was everywhere. (crosswalk.com)
  • Filmed on location in Rwanda with numerous genocide survivors serving as cast and crew, the feature film tells the story of some 2,500 Tutsi citizens and sympathizers who take refuge inside a private school in Kigali, along with United Nations peacekeeping troops, schoolchildren and workers. (crosswalk.com)
  • I got into Rwanda after about three weeks after the genocide had begun. (crosswalk.com)
  • The claims of stopping genocide have become a powerful way to both delegitimize those out of favor with U.S. and to simultaneously hide and sanction atrocities committed by the U.S. and its clients, often against the party accused of genocide. (opednews.com)
  • The Armenian Foreign Ministry welcomed the parliamentary vote , saying: 'With this step, [the] parliament of the Netherlands once again reconfirmed its commitment to universal human values and the noble cause of prevention of genocides and crimes against humanity. (rferl.org)
  • The phrase "crimes against humanity" was first used to detail the carnage, which many scholars and historians label genocide. (christianitytoday.com)
  • He faces six charges including one count of genocide and three counts of crimes against humanity: persecution, extermination and murder. (bangkokpost.com)
  • For his part in the violence, al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. (progressive.org)
  • Based on the "in part" definition, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a group composed of African Americans with Communist affiliations, presented to the UN in 1951 a petition called "We Charge Genocide. (wikipedia.org)
  • We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People" was created in December of 1951 by the Civil Right Congress. (hubpages.com)
  • Although the document We Charge Genocide was written over fifty years ago, many claims made in it still ring true today. (hubpages.com)
  • By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul said targeting not just warriors, but all Mi'kmaq, push the actions into genocide or ethnic cleansing. (cbc.ca)
  • Investigators working for the UN's top human rights body said on Monday that Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, taking the unusual step of identifying by name six of those it says were behind systematic crimes targeting the ethnic minority. (smh.com.au)
  • UN leaders, foreign government officials, and human rights watchers have for months cited evidence of genocide in Myanmar, and the United States late last year said that 'ethnic cleansing' was occurring in Myanmar. (smh.com.au)
  • One is direct genocide, a deliberate campaign to kill all members of an ethnic group. (rael.org)
  • Racial and ethnic minorities, including African Americans and American Indians, whose histories in the United States are marked by severe trauma such as slavery, genocide, lack of human rights and loss of ancestral lands, and who today are often disadvantaged in terms of income and education, also experience higher rates of heart disease. (cdc.gov)
  • These structural patterns of denial regularly range from the type of hard denial that negates the very reality of the event, to softer versions aimed at rationalizing or trivializing either genocide. (lu.se)
  • Previous studies have emphasized genocide denial as a moral or political problem, first and foremost in need of combating or debunking. (lu.se)
  • Daniel Paul, a Mi'kmaq elder, says British actions against his people amount to genocide. (cbc.ca)
  • Do they amount to genocide? (vox.com)
  • In his book, The Broken Heart of America, Harvard professor Walter Johnson wrote that on many occasions throughout the history of the enslavement of Africans in the US, many instances of genocide occurred, instances which included the separation of men from their wives, effectively reducing the size of the African-American population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The bill would, among other measures, impose sanctions against individuals responsible for genocide and war crimes. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A reputed international human rights group at Yale Law school in Connecticut in the United States has concluded there was "strong evidence'' that the Myanmar government was "responsible for genocide against Rohingya Muslims'' and called for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry. (straitstimes.com)
  • The decades of lynchings and long-term racial discrimination were first formally described as genocide by a now-defunct organization, the Civil Rights Congress, in a petition which it submitted to the United Nations in 1951. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United Nations does not apply the word 'genocide' lightly. (smh.com.au)
  • In 1947 the term genocide was coined by the United Nations, defined as an intent to destroy a nation, a race, or a religious group, either in part or in whole. (hubpages.com)
  • Observers say there are numerous compensations claims in U.S. courts dependent on the recognition of the genocide. (voanews.com)
  • As many as one-sixth of the genocide survivors were widowed. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Two decades later, the organization's leaders have focused their efforts on constructing a senior care center to assist women like Niwemfite, aging genocide survivors whose families were wiped out in the genocide, leaving no children, or just one, to care for them in old age. (thedailybeast.com)
  • On behalf of hundreds of thousands of Armenian Americans, the children and grandchildren and great grandchildren of genocide survivors, I ask you to keep that promise. (prnewswire.com)
  • It started with a genocide, developed thanks to slavery, and maintained through imperialism. (rael.org)
  • The Genocide Convetion as found in Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines genocide as intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. (dw.com)
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday it was "right" to describe Russia's attacks in Ukraine as "genocide," repeating US President Joe Biden's accusation. (ndtv.com)
  • Biden's assessment, grounded in recently discovered horrors like the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians in the town of Bucha , is by far the most high-profile assessment to date that Russia is committing genocide. (vox.com)
  • Ankara vehemently denies the charge of genocide, saying the deaths occurred in a civil war, in which many Turks died, too. (voanews.com)
  • But political scientist Aktar says the growing momentum for recognizing the deaths as genocide is a sign of Turkey's growing isolation. (voanews.com)
  • What's being done is trying to cover the greatest genocide in human history that led to the deaths of 20 million natives, the disappearance of centuries of civilization, the looting of their wealth and the destruction of their cultures. (pravda.ru)
  • I think it's absolutely right that more and more people be talking and using the word genocide in terms of what Russia is doing, what Vladimir Putin has done," Trudeau told reporters in Quebec, making him one of the first world leaders to use the term. (ndtv.com)
  • Ukraine has been accusing Russia of committing war crimes and genocide since even before the discovery of hundreds of civilians reportedly killed in Bucha sparked an outpouring of revulsion. (ndtv.com)
  • Is Russia committing genocide in Ukraine? (vox.com)
  • THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine will square off before the International Court of Justice on Monday in a case that centres around claims by Moscow that its invasion of Ukraine was done to prevent genocide. (yahoo.com)
  • Kyiv argues Russia is abusing international law by saying the invasion was justified to prevent an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • Davit Gevorgyan, a 21-year-old computer programmer from Yerevan, says he thinks that pushing the issue of genocide is no longer appropriate. (rferl.org)
  • Construction of the first memorial began in 1966 (during Soviet times) in response to the 1965 Yerevan demonstrations during which one million people demonstrated in Yerevan for 24 hours to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Genocide. (archdaily.com)
  • The genocide of Native Americans is a real issue in present day America. (hubpages.com)
  • In the European conquest of North and South America both forms of genocide were also used although by far the predominant form of genocide was indirect genocide. (rael.org)
  • The Armenian and Assyrian Genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian and Assyrian people and their identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. (aina.org)
  • And if a genocide really is occurring in Ukraine, it matters for the victims to document it and show the world - and then, after the fighting, identify ways to hold at least some of the perpetrators accountable. (vox.com)
  • Russian officials continue to accuse Ukraine of committing genocide. (yahoo.com)
  • Today the European Union is due to debate and vote on a resolution to recognize the 100th aniversary of the genocide. (christianitytoday.com)
  • By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - Iran's leader on Thursday condemned as genocide the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabia in Yemen, escalating Tehran's rhetoric against the two-week-old air strike campaign. (yahoo.com)
  • The International Campaign to End Genocide Prevent Genocide International was a founding member of The International Campaign to End Genocide (ICEG) a coalition of global civil society organizations established on May 15, 1999 at the Hague, Netherlands. (preventgenocide.org)
  • In response to a rebel uprising, Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir directed the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied Arab militias, known as Janjaweed , to launch a campaign of genocide against non-Arab populations in Darfur. (progressive.org)
  • Columnist Idiz says why Ankara is strongly resisting the genocide claim, as that could open the door to numerous court cases. (voanews.com)
  • However, the Nationalist Government that was based in Ankara denied that any genocide had happened. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • Most recently, the Turkish government warned the United States of serious repercussions if it would decide to recognize the genocide officially. (bestwritingservice.com)
  • Several European countries officially recognize the massacres as genocide. (npr.org)
  • Prevent Genocide International, established in 1998, is a global education network for the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide. (preventgenocide.org)
  • As Samantha Power wrote in her seminal book A Problem From Hell , "No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and no U.S. President has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. (progressive.org)
  • Some accusations of genocide have been described as conspiracy theories. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the genocide accusations focus mainly on the Rohingya issue. (straitstimes.com)
  • Failing to remember or acknowledge the fact of a genocide only paves the way for future mass atrocities. (prnewswire.com)
  • He argued last year that failing to call the atrocities against the Armenian people a genocide would pave the way for future mass atrocities. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A week earlier, a former US Congressman told a foreign affairs subcommittee hearing that Myanmar topped the list of countries in the world where genocide and mass atrocities are likely. (straitstimes.com)
  • Take the little-known genocide of Christians in Nigeria. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Despite all this, the American "mainstream" remains committed to describing the jihad in Nigeria as a byproduct of "inequality" and "poverty," to quote Bill Clinton, as he once explained what was "fueling all this stuff" (the "stuff" being a reference to the genocide of Christians in Nigeria). (frontpagemag.com)
  • Finally, we demand that any and all parties who have supported ISIS and other Takfiri groups, in any form or fashion, be labeled as war criminals guilty of genocide. (change.org)
  • They were guilty of genocide. (cbc.ca)
  • Genocide, especially large-scale genocide, is widely considered to signify the epitome of human evil. (wikipedia.org)
  • We'll let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies [as genocide], but it sure seems that way to me. (vox.com)
  • I think it's absolutely right that more and more people be talking and using the word genocide in terms of what Putin has done," Trudeau said. (ndtv.com)
  • After all, these countries that recognize it as a genocide are Turkey's top allies and partners. (voanews.com)
  • Regional analyst says until recently many of Turkey's allies avoided recognizing genocide claims because of Turkey's strategic importance as a close ally. (voanews.com)
  • Under this definition, not every act of violence against civilians qualifies as an act of genocide - nor does every such act motivated by racial, national, or religious hatred. (vox.com)
  • In the Russian case, establishing that Russian soldiers intentionally killed Ukrainian civilians is not enough to prove genocide. (vox.com)
  • There are two main forms of genocide. (rael.org)
  • In the 1960s, Malcolm X accused the US government of engaging in a genocide against black people, citing long-term injustice, cruelty, and violence against blacks by whites. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, Mr Richard Horsey, an independent analyst based in Yangon and former top UN official in the country, notes that the term "genocide", is a loaded one and can be inflammatory. (straitstimes.com)
  • But western countries have stopped short of using the term "genocide," in line with longstanding protocol, because of its strict legal definition and the heavy implication the accusation carries. (ndtv.com)
  • However, for me the use of the term genocide in a statement is not a simple sound bite," he said. (christianitytoday.com)
  • I n Darfur, the desert of western Sudan, hideous genocide continues. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Our view is because of the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, we have to move now," U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told CT (see "Stopping Genocide-Again," p. 34). (christianitytoday.com)
  • The Darfur genocide has roots in a web of religious concerns and tribal power grabs. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Members of Congress, even while considering legislation, say the genocide is not a high priority for their constituents, according to Gloria White-Hammond of the Save Darfur Coalition. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The first genocide of the twenty-first century began in Darfur in 2003. (progressive.org)
  • In the early 2000s, activists were able to test this theory in response to the Darfur genocide. (progressive.org)
  • In the months since, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been denied access to Karabakh-and later reported that an Armenian patient in its care had been abducted by Azerbaijani forces en route to Armenia for treatment. (wnd.com)
  • Genocide is considered to be one of the most heinous crimes under international law. (hubpages.com)
  • An international argument between French and Rwandan officials broke out this week after Rwandan President Gen. Paul Kagame accused the French of playing a direct role in the political preparation of genocide in an interview with Jeune Afrique. (sfbayview.com)
  • While claiming exceptional status-and even another people's land- because the entire world ostensibly detests them, and the Germans allegedly tried to eliminate them, the Zionists now have approached a new pinnacle of hatred by seeking to overturn international law prohibiting genocide and military attacks on civilian non-combatant populations-including laws those same Zionists helped to create. (americanfreepress.net)
  • A senior Turkish official warns that political and military steps will be taken if the word 'genocide' is used. (voanews.com)
  • He encouraged Paul in his work, but questions his use of the word genocide. (cbc.ca)
  • Genocide is not merely a word for mass killing in general. (vox.com)