As reported previously the trial of accused Serbian War criminal Radovan Karadzic is set to continue. Despite the boycott of the trial's defendant, who claimed not enough time was granted for proper preparations.

Radovan Karadzic, a wartime Serbian leader, is set to face trial today for the masscre at Srebrenica, this and other trials for crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Balkans conflict show just how hard it is to prove cases of genocide.

On Friday, April 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Armenian Remembrance Day, also known as Genocide Remembrance Day. However, as he did when he visited Turkey earlier, he refrained from calling the event "genocide," which differs differs from his stance during his presidential campaign.

As Obama Seeks To Stop Genocide in Darfur, Calls Intensify for Affirmation of Turkey's Genocide of Armenians

BY ALLEN YEKIKAN

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday hailed what he called progress in the ongoing talks to normalize his country's strained relations with Armenia. His remarks come amid growing concern in Yerevan that Ankara's increasingly uncompromising preconditions on Armenia may be guiding the negotiations in an untenable direction.

YEREVAN--In a letter to the chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Howard Berman, the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Armen Rustamian on Thursday expressed his strong support for US affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, stressing that US recognition would be the greatest contributor to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

The international community should take formal steps to justify inaction when conditions of genocide exist anywhere in the world.

The Dalai Lama has on Sunday accused China of unleashing a "cultural genocide" in Tibet and demanded an impartial international probe into the situation in violence-hit Lhasa.

In a groundbreaking move, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has voted overwhelmingly to recognize as genocides the massacres of Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923.

The Genocide Prevention Task Force was unveiled at the National Press Club this morning.

The task force is being co-chair by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.

It’s being convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the United States Institute of Peace.

A former Khmer Rouge prison chief has asked Cambodia's United Nations-backed genocide tribunal to release him on bail before he is tried for crimes against humanity.

“Passage of H.Res.106 by the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on October 10 has resonated around the world. From Ireland to China, from India to South America, throughout Europe, and most every town in the United States, a worldwide public debate has begun,” AAA Country Director for Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, Arpi Vartanian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.