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.

Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said President Bush "reiterated his opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey."

NEWSru.co.il web site has accomplished a survey titled “Israel and Armenian Genocide.” The survey proceeded in two stages (August 27-28 and October 2). 561 people took part in the survey, 509 of them answered all of the questions.

The United States congress is expected to vote on the Armenian genocide resolution. But there are doubts since it may badly damage US and Turkish relations. The House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts that the bill will pass.

“It is with dismay that I read the content of the letter signed by former US Secretaries of State urging Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to derail H. Res. 106,” says a statement by Vartan Oskanian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, on the letter by Former Secretaries of State to U.S. Speaker of the House Pelosi on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106).

A U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has charged a former Khmer Rouge prison chief with crimes against humanity -- the first such indictment against a leader of the regime blamed for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians.

The screening of film titled "Return" of French-Armenian director Serge Avetisyan in Istanbul did no result in any incidents, although it was dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.