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Casualties mount in battle for Bakhmut – as ICC ‘prepares first arrest warrants’ over Russia’s invasion

The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into possible war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Ukraine a year ago

The Independent UK

The Banyamulenge: how a minority ethnic group in the DRC became the target of rebels – and its own government

The Banyamulenge are a minority ethnic group in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In December 2022, the UN adviser on the prevention of genocide raised concerns about attacks against the community based on “ethnicity or perceived allegiance with neighbouring countries”. The Banyamulenge have long been viewed as…

The Conversation

Reporting Ukraine 90 years ago: the Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin's genocide

Ninety years ago, a young Welsh investigative journalist uncovered the Soviet Union’s genocide in Ukraine, Stalin’s attempt to stamp down on rising nationalism. The Holomodor, as it became known, was responsible for the deaths of some 4 million Ukrainians through deliberate starvation.

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All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse review – invisible scars of Rwandan survivors

This searing debut novel lyrically follows the after-effects of the 1994 genocide through three generations

The Guardian - UK

Illegal gold mining: A disaster for the Yanomami people of Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Thousands of illegal gold miners are accused of destroying the lives of the indigenous Yanomami people, who have lived for centuries in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. Miners have flooded into the area, poisoning rivers, attacking people and even raping women and girls. Under Brazil's…

France 24

Can mass atrocities be prevented? This course attempts to answer the question

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Free speech or 'genocide cheering'? Ukranian authors withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week

This week, Ukrainian writer Maria Tumarkin announced her withdrawal from Adelaide Writers’ Week, along with fellow Ukrainians Olesya Khromeychuk and Kateryna Babkina. (Tumarkin writes that she doesn’t support calls for resignations, cancellations, or boycotts of the event.)

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Parliament says China is committing a genocide. Why were officials planning to meet one of the perpetrators?

Erkin Tuniyaz’s visit is no longer going ahead, but Britain should never have engaged with this whitewashing of the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities, says James McMurray of the University of Sussex

The Guardian - UK

UK MPs call for arrest of visiting Chinese governor over Uighur ‘genocide’

MPs condemn foreign, commonwealth and development office for planning talks with Erkin Tuniyaz

The Independent UK

UK urged to arrest visiting Xinjiang governor over Uighur ‘genocide’

MPs also condemned the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for planning talks with Erkin Tuniyaz.

The Independent UK

Row erupts over Chinese official’s visit to UK as senior Tories blast it as ‘propoganda coup’

Minister accused of approving of visit from ‘one of the masterminds’ of genocide

The Independent UK

Fury over government plans to meet with genocide 'mastermind' in London

The Commons heard that Erkin Tuniyaz, governor of Xinjiang in China, plans to travel to the UK on a diplomatic passport, and could meet Whitehall officials next week - despite being branded a "mastermind" of the genocide of Uyghur Muslims

Daily Mirror

Teach US students about Holocaust, experts say, amid rise in antisemitism

Multiple states in recent years have enacted laws mandating Holocaust education but there is no federal requirement

The Guardian - US

Jay Ambrose: China, a major US threat, resorts to a balloon

On top of genocide of Chinese Muslims, crushing Hong Kong’s democracy and plans to take over enterprising and happily independent Taiwan, the super-ambitious, totalitarian, morally misinformed Chinese Communist Party has been coming after the United States in every way imaginable. Intellectual property? They steal it. Trade deals? They cheat. Now…

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Descendants of Namibia’s genocide victims call on Germany to ‘stop hiding’

The Herero and Nama peoples, killed in their thousands between 1904 and 1908, seek direct talks on measures to atone for the crime

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: We can’t let history repeat itself with the siege of Nagorno-Karabakh

The world watched and allowed a brutal genocide three decades ago in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. A tragically similar crisis is looming again. Global leaders know how this could end, and they have no excuse to stand by. Indeed, they are bound by law and human decency to intervene…

The Conversation

New film Under the Hanging Tree examines how Namibia's genocide lives on today

Under the Hanging Tree is a new film written, directed and produced by Perivi Katjavivi, a young, up-and-coming Namibian filmmaker.

Daily Record

Holocaust victims and survivors remembered at poignant memorial event

Holocaust Memorial Day is held annually to remember the millions of people killed in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides

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Emhoff calls for fighting anti-Jewish tropes on Auschwitz visit

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s emotional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau marked something of a triumph for Jewish Americans: one of their own representing the U.S. at the epicenter of the Nazi genocide that tried — but failed — to wipe out their people.

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor warns of ‘plague’ of antisemitism in UK

Dr Martin Stern attended the memorial at Piccadilly Circus to remember victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.

Daily Mirror

King Charles and Queen Camilla in touching gesture to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla lit candles with a Holocaust survivor at Buckingham Palace today to remember the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Evening Standard

King and Queen consort light candles to remember horrors of the Holocaust

The royal couple lit the candles at Buckingham Palace after meeting a survivor of the Second World War genocide

The Independent UK

King and Queen Consort light candles to remember horrors of the Holocaust

The royal couple lit the candles at Buckingham Palace after meeting a survivor of the Second World War genocide.

Manchester Evening News

Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

The Conversation

The Holocaust: remembering the powerful acts of 'ordinary people'

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the British author LP Hartley once wrote, hinting at the mystique of history – the idea that people in the past were somehow different to us in the 21st century.

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