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Brit detectives' Rwanda trip in probe into five genocide suspects living in UK

Scotland Yard detectives are visiting the country to continue investigations into the suspected atrocities over which five Brits were questioned back in 2020

Daily Mirror

German lawmakers recognise Islamic State crimes against Yazidis as genocide

German lawmakers on Thursday recognised as genocide crimes committed by Islamic State (IS) militants against minority Yazidis in Iraq in 2014.

Reuters

Armenian museum reopens in Jerusalem's Old City

A 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum, a hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide

The Independent UK

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The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone review – a timely corrective to a shifting narrative

An erudite account of the Nazi genocide reiterates neglected truths and exposes modern attempts to rewrite the facts

The Guardian - UK

Residential school system recognized as genocide in Canada's House of Commons: A harbinger of change

In a historic move, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously recognized the Indian Residential School System (IRS) as genocide on Oct. 27, 2022.

The Conversation

World refuses to act on banned Serb secessionist parade: Bosnians

Republika Srpska Day went ahead on Monday despite condemnation. Bosnians say it is time for global bodies to step up.

Al Jazeera

Gateways for action on Myanmar crisis

The coup in Myanmar in 2021 brought back to power a junta-based regime and compounded grave violations, adding fuel to a recurrent crisis. A constructive gateway for action in December 2022 was thus the adoption of the UN Security Council (SC) Resolution 2669, the first substantive resolution highlighting urgently needed…

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Most states lack strong laws requiring Holocaust and genocide education

Surveys show Millennials and Gen Z members don't know basic facts about the Holocaust.

Axios

Commentary: The West cannot turn a blind eye as Azerbaijan sets up Armenians for slaughter

While we’re focused on Ukraine, a brutal dictatorship in the South Caucasus is testing the world’s resolve: Since Dec. 12, Azerbaijani operatives have blocked the only road, known as the Lachin Corridor, connecting the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous enclave to the outside world. It is a test. Failing it will invite a…

Chicago Tribune

The impossible debate in ‘The Corridors of Power’ - Roll Call

Dror Moreh's "The Corridors of Power" documentary chronicles the U.S. response to genocide and the choices policymakers face.

Roll Call

In Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidi girls box their way to a new future after ISIS terror

After the 2014 ISIS genocide which left them reeling from the effects of mass abduction and rape, Yazidi refugee girls are rebuilding their lives with the help of boxing, art and music classes. Emma Loffhagen and Charline Bou Mansour report from Iraqi Kurdistan

Evening Standard

Canada, Netherlands to intervene in genocide case against Russia at ICJ

Canada and the Netherlands have filed a joint declaration of intervention in Ukraine's genocide case against Russia at International Court Of Justice (ICJ), the countries said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

Reuters

Genocides persist, nearly 70 years after the Holocaust – but there are recognized ways to help prevent them

The newly formed United Nations passed its first international treaty on Dec. 9, 1948, just three years after the Holocaust ended. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was designed to prevent genocide from ever happening again.

The Conversation

Russia condemns German parliament for declaring Ukraine Soviet-era famine a genocide

Russia said on Thursday the German parliament's move to recognise the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine as a Soviet-imposed genocide was an anti-Russian provocation and an attempt by Germany to whitewash its Nazi past.

Reuters

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Zelenskiy praises German parliament for declaring Ukraine famine a genocide

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday praised the German Parliament for passing a resolution that declared the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 to be a genocide.

The Independent UK

German parliament set to label 1930s Ukraine famine genocide

Germany’s parliament is expected to approve a resolution labeling as genocide Ukraine’s 1930s “Holodomor” — a famine believed to have killed more than 3 million Ukrainians under the repressive rule of Soviet leader Josef Stalin

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Ukrainians are fighting for their existence. They know the history of the genocidal Holodomor

In Ukraine and in Canada, the fourth Saturday in November is the official day of remembrance for the Holodomor. The Holodomor, a Ukrainian portmanteau for “death by starvation” or “terror famine,” refers to the Russian-engineered famine and genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33.

The Independent UK

Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure amount to genocide, says top Ukrainian official

Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says strikes on key facilities target ‘the full Ukrainian nation’

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The Guardian - UK

Irish amateur historian on lonely mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges

As scholars gather in Dublin to debate the Puritan’s life, one man is insisting Ireland must apologise for blackening the Lord Protector’s name

The Guardian - UK

Germany set to declare starvation of Ukrainians under Stalin a genocide

Bundestag hopes move will serve as ‘warning’ to Moscow as Ukraine faces potential hunger crisis

Reuters

German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide

Lawmakers from Germany's ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters.

Tribune News Service

Andreas Kluth: Russia’s mass abductions are genocide

We can unearth the mass graves left in Ukraine by retreating Russian troops. We can talk to the Ukrainian survivors of rape and torture, the mothers of fallen soldiers, and the millions who live in constant fear of Russian bombing and terror. But we can’t contact the Ukrainian women and…

WEKU

Here's how some therapists are tackling structural racism in their practice

A new wave of counselors is supporting people of color by 'decolonizing' the practice of therapy. They aim to make therapy more culturally responsive and to take generational trauma into account.

Reuters

Pope compares Russia's war in Ukraine to 1930s famine inflicted by Stalin

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that Ukrainians were suffering today from the "martyrdom of aggression" and compared Russia's war in Ukraine to the "terrible genocide" of the 1930s, when Soviet leader Josef Stalin inflicted famine on the country.

The Independent UK

Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin's 'genocide'

Pope Francis is linking the suffering of Ukrainians now to the 1930s “genocide" by starvation that the country experienced under Josef Stalin

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