New facts proving the Armenian Genocide have come up in Turkey: community graves, where supposedly Armenians are buried, have been found. To prove the fact diggings are needed, which the authorities in Turkey will hardly allow. Editor-in-chief of the Istanbul based "Marmara" newspaper Rober Hatechian informs that Turks continue to demonstrate hostile attitude towards Armenians and other ethnic minorities.

Sudan's government has blocked a United Nations human rights team from entering the country to investigate alleged atrocities in Darfur. The government has questioned the objectivity of one team member and has called for him to be replaced.

Congressmen introduce Armenian Genocide Resolution renewing hopes for Armenian Genocide recognition.

The Turkish-Armenian border will remain closed in the absence of a breakthrough in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to Kaan Soyak, a Turkish businessman who has long campaigned for the normalization of relations between Ankara and Yerevan.

In Ethiopia, former communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has been sentenced to life in prison on genocide charges and other crimes committed during his brutal 17-year-long rule. But as VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, it is unlikely he will ever serve a day of his sentence.

Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said that the Bush administration has never denied the murders of 1.5 million Armenians.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) says he will present evidence against Darfur war crimes suspects in February. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the investigation is focusing on atrocities committed near the beginning of Darfur's nearly four-year civil war.

Fifteen years after finding sanctuary in Zimbabwe, deposed Ethiopian leader Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has been convicted by an Ethiopian court on charges of genocide. Mengistu fled Ethiopia in 1991, and Zimabwe President Robert Mugabe is not expected to provide extradition of the former Marxist ruler. Long-time Ethiopia watcher, author, and American attorney Michael Clough suggests that the Mengistu verdict must be seen in the context of what he calls Addis Ababa's current dubious human rights policy.

President Bush says he is appalled by atrocities taking place in Sudan's volatile Darfur region.

Ukraine's parliament today overwhelmingly adopted a bill recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people. An estimated 10 million Ukrainians starved to death in 1932-33 after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin seized the country's cattle and crop in a forced farm collectivization campaign.

In the next Congress together with our partners Adam Schiff and George Radanovich we shall prepare and present a bill on recognition of the Armenian Genocide," Congressional Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg said during the meeting with Chairman of the Armenian Association of America Brian Adouny.