Genocide

Karadzic Trial Set To Continue.

Seamus Esparza — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:55:12 -0500

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.

Karadzic shows difficulties of Genocide trials

Seamus Esparza — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:25:41 -0500

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.

Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day: Killings Were Atrocities

Michael Santo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:06:09 -0500

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.

Thousands to Rally at the Turkish Consulate in Los Angeles on April 24

ayekikan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:34:02 -0500

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

Ankara Hails Progress in Talks as Yerevan's Concerns Heighten

ayekikan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:39:37 -0500

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.

Armenian Parliament Leader Urges US Counterpart to Pass Genocide Bill

ayekikan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:55:07 -0500

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.

Why nations fail to act

harminka — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:49:28 -0500

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

Dalai accuses China of cultural genocide, India too cautious

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:44:22 -0500

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.

International Genocide Scholars Association Recognizes Assyrian, Greek Genocides

Hye — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:29:42 -0600

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.

If Our Friends Do It, It Is Not Genocide

Hye — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:50:17 -0600

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.

Tribunal Hears Appeal of Former Khmer Rouge Leader

Dinka — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:14:25 -0600

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.

AAA:Denial of genocide is the final stage in genocide

Hye — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:38:20 -0500

“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.