Archive for the ‘Genocide Denial’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported.
The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining district on July 30. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters today the rebels blocked a key road during the raping and looting spree.
The eastern Congo is known as the “rape capital of the world” where savage mobs use sexual violence to subdue the population and vie for control of the “conflict minerals” used to make cell phones and laptops around the world.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
By LINDA DEUTSCH (AP) – Jul 29, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Armenian-American lawyers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Turkish government and two banks seeking compensation for the heirs of Armenians whose property was allegedly seized nearly a century ago as they were driven from the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
Lawyers were seeking class-action status for the suit, a process that attorney Brian Kabateck said could take as long as three years.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Matthew Kalman
JERUSALEM (July 28) — As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for incitement to genocide and the brutal repression of their own citizens.
The Responsibility to Protect Coalition, chaired by former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and supported by a who’s who of international law experts, says the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “a clear and present danger to international peace and security … and to its own people.”
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
July 28, 2010 (WASHINGTON) — The heads of states who attended the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala this week decided to take a more radical approach towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and adopted a final resolution that stresses non-cooperation with the Hague tribunal and also condemned the conduct of its prosecutor.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
opinion
Following Edward Herman and David Peterson’s challenge to Gerald Caplan’s critique of their book ‘The Politics of Genocide’, Adam Jones provides a powerful riposte to their arguments, emphasising what actually occurred in Rwanda in 1994. ‘Herman and Peterson’s attempts to disguise and deny it constitute,’ writes Jones, ‘the nadir of their respective careers.’
Edward Herman and David Peterson’s response to Gerald Caplan’s review of their book, ‘The Politics of Genocide’ (8 July), merits a lengthy riposte. I will limit myself to a few comments, pending a closer engagement to follow.
(1) Herman and Peterson contend that mainstream scholarship on Rwanda in 1994, such as Caplan’s, “turns perpetrator and victim upside-down.” In fact, they allege, Hutus were the principal victims of the bloodbath, and the RPF/Tutsis – “the ‘only well-organized killing force within Rwanda in 1994′” – were “both the initiators and the main perpetrators of 1994’s mass blood-letting.”
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
(AP) – Jul 12, 2010
BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serb leader is denying the Serb massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 was genocide.
Milorad Dodik spoke Monday at a commemoration for Serbs killed during the war around the eastern town of Srebrenica. At a military cemetery in Bratunac he said he recognized the massacre was a crime but it cannot be qualified as genocide.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
(AFP) – Jul 9, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States, Britain and Norway said Friday they were “deeply concerned” by Sudan’s curtailment of human rights since April elections and voiced alarm about a deterioration in Darfur.
The three powers issued a joint statement as Sudan enters the final year of a 2005 peace deal that halted a 22-year north-south civil war, saying that a “tremendous amount of work” was needed to ensure stability moving forward.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
15/07-2010 07:35, Bishkek – News Agency “24.kg”, by Daniyar KARIMOV
The United States of America are concerned over human rights violations in southern Kyrgyzstan. This was stated Wednesday at a press conference in 24.kg news agency by Special Assistant to U.S. President for National Security Affairs, Michael McFaul.
“Especially it concerns ethnic Uzbeks”, he stressed.
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Posted in ASIA, GENOCIDE, Genocide Denial, Genocide survivors, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuses, Kyrgyzstan, Preventing Genocide, United States, Uzbeks | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
July 15, 2010
Megan Flemming is a policy analyst at the Save Darfur Coalition.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber judges issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, this time for three counts of genocide. Darfur activist groups here in the U.S. welcomed the news while calling on world leaders to prevent the type of retaliation against the people of Darfur that Bashir masterminded after the first arrest warrant in March 2009. As the world responds to the ICC’s milestone decision, it’s worth highlighting why this case and the overall push for justice for Darfur is so essential and urgent: without accountability, a negotiated peace will be little more than a long-term ceasefire.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Op-Ed Contributors
By DAVE EGGERS and JOHN PRENDERGAST
Published: July 12, 2010
FOR many good reasons, Americans are doubting our ability as a nation to positively influence events abroad. We’re involved in two conflicts with dubious outcomes and we’ve begun to question whether any step we take, anywhere, will be the right one. But it was not long ago that the United States intervened abroad in a bold way that led to undeniably positive results.
From 1983 to 2005, more than two million people died and four million were forced from their homes in southern Sudan during a war between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Shortly after George W. Bush entered the White House, he decided he would put the full diplomatic leverage of the United States to work in ending this war, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century.
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