Genocide
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Good morning. Joe Biden has accused Russia of carrying out genocide in Ukraine, saying that Vladimir Putin is “trying to wipe out the idea of even being Ukrainian”. Biden has been consistently outspoken in denouncing Russia’s wholesale killing of Ukrainian civilians, labelling Putin a “war criminal” in mid-March. Multiple investigations are under way into Russian […]
While President Joe Biden has spoken openly about Russian war crimes, his administration has responded more cautiously to any references of genocide in Ukraine. And rightly so; genocide is a complex legal concept, which many experts consider difficult to apply and widely misused. Genocide has often been described as the “crime of crimes” and a […]
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed an announcement by the United States that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide. As news of the announcement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spread across the sprawling camps in Cox’s Bazar district that are now home to about […]
The United States has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials have told the Reuters news agency. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the decision on Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, US officials told […]
The 240-page petition, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” was meant to be sensational. America had been instrumental in prosecuting the Nazis at Nuremberg, and now its own citizens were turning the lens back on the U.S. in the most horrifying, accusatory terms. Instead, mainstream media largely ignored it. The […]
Ideas abound about why Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. But Putin himself offered one unexpected – and unfounded – justification on Feb. 23 during a televised speech. “The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the […]
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report issued on Tuesday that China had escalated its crimes against the Muslim community of Uyghurs in the northwestern region of Xinjiang and that it was “gravely concerned” that the government “may be committing genocide.” The report, “‘To Make Us Slowly Disappear’: The Chinese Government’s Assault on […]