Genocide

U.S Special Envoy to the Sudan: It’s Genocide! No, it isn’t!
Andrew Natsios, the U.S. Special Envoy to the Sudan, seems schizophrenic as he one week denies the use of genocide to describe Darfur and then the next week, calls the situation a "bloodbath."

The Role of the United States in the Darfur Genocide
The United States relies on the Sudanese government for intelligence on the war on terror, while at the same time turning a blind eye to the horrors taking place daily in Darfur.

UN Tribunal Jails Rwanda Genocide Mastermind for Life
Theoneste Bagosora, the country's defence chief of staff, denied directing massacre of 800,000 by Hutu militia

Turkish Pm Dismisses Apology for Alleged Armenian Genocide
'We did not commit a crime, therefore do not need to apologize,' says Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Writers Risk Backlash With Apology for Armenian Genocide
Fierce reaction from Turkish state expected after open letter asks for signatures for an online petition

Horror Revisited for Genocide Survivor
Leah Chishugi, who survived conflict in Rwanda, returned to her native Congo to record women's experiences

Top Aide to Rwandan President Agrees to Stand Trial in France Over Genocide Claims
Detained officer welcomes chance to clear name and expose political motivations behind French indictment

Pseudo-‘Assyrians’ and ‘Kurdish’ Terrorists: Liars Fostering Chaos and Genocide
Brusque falsification of the Ancient and Christian History of Mesopotamia by Pseudo-‘Assyrians’ and ‘Kurdish’ Terrorists.

The Ongoing Aramaean Genocide, the Fabricated Pseudo-Assyrian Nation, and Kurdish Terrorists
The Aramaean Genocide is due exclusively to Anglo-French colonial plans for domination in the Middle East, and has been executed in the span of at least four to five centuries.

Karadzic Extradited to The Hague for Genocide Trial
Former Bosnian Serb leader is in UN custody in The Hague following his overnight extradition from Belgrade, UN spokesman says

African Leaders Call for Withdrawal of Darfur Genocide Charges
Panel of Africans should judge Sudanese leaders, not international criminal court, says African Union

Nuclear Genocide related to warfare
It is about my testimony of MIA agents that deceased here.

African Christianity under Attack: the Anuak Genocide
Four Years after the Anuak Genocide perpetrated by the Neo-Nazi Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians. Honoring the memory of 400 Anuaks who have been inhumanly butchered by the 'Ethiopian' gangsters.

Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer Unable to Stop the Ongoing Ogaden Genocide
Zenawi's tyrannical regime's thugs accuse the entire population of Ogaden as ONLF accomplices; this is a direct acceptance of the ONLF as the authentic and rightful representative of the Ogadeni Somalis.

US Tries to Halt Turkey Attack
Diplomats fly to Ankara to stop military move against Iraqi Kurds after 'genocide' resolution.

Making Difficult Situations Worse
Leader: Outside Turkey there is a broad consensus that the massacre and forced deportations of more than a million Armenians in the latter years of the Ottoman empire were nothing less than genocide.

Turkey Condemns Us Over Armenian Genocide Resolution
Turkey today condemned a US congressional committee for approving a resolution that recognises the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

Turkey and Us Head for Showdown Over Vote on Armenian 'genocide'
Turkey and the US were heading for a diplomatic showdown today over a Congressional vote on whether the 1915 killings of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks was genocide.

The Hidden Massacre
Eleven years ago, thousands of children and adults were left stranded by the Ulindi river as troops, hellbent on avenging the Rwandan genocide, closed in. Ruaridh Nicoll returns to a country he left in 1996, to reveal a horrific story of rape and slaughter.

Former Rwandan Major Gets 20 Years in Genocide Trial
A Belgian court sentenced a former Rwandan army major to 20 years in prison today for his part in the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an unspecified number of Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994 genocide.

Rwandan Major Jailed for Murder of Belgian Peacekeepers
Hutu also convicted of 1994 civilian killings - Troop withdrawal opened way for genocide to spread

The End for Saddam's Trusted Cousin and Lieutenant: Chemical Ali Sentenced to Death
Northern Iraq party chief guilty of Kurdish genocide - Court hears how Ba'athists killed up to 180,000

Wolassa Kumo, and the Independence Struggle for the Sidama Land
Wolassa Kumo reveals details about the Loqqe massacre that, carried out by the Abyssinian tyrant Meles Zenawi, consists in sufficient reason for us to raise the issue of the criminally ignored by the materialistic and apathetic Western World Sidama Genocide.

Europe prepares a Kurdish Genocide in Turkey
The present European stance towards Turkey not only will cause an incommensurable drawback of Democracy in Europe and the World of Islam but it will also trigger civil strife in Europe and a Kurdish Genocide inn Turkey.

Rwanda Extradition Appeal Fails
Four men accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which nearly a million people were killed, failed in a high court attempt to avoid extradition from Britain yesterday.

High Court Blow for Rwandan Genocide Accused
Four men accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide today failed in a high court bid to avoid extradition from Britain. The court dismissed their argument that home secretary John Reid had exceeded his powers by allowing the Rwandan authorities more time to file extradition...

Serbia Cleared of Genocide
Serbia found guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica but cleared of state-sponsored genocide during the Bosnia conflict in the 1990s.

Serbia Condemned for Srebrenica Despite Acquittal on Genocide Charge
Country found not guilty in test case for world court - Damning verdict on state role in Bosnian massacre

Serbia Awaits Genocide Verdict From Un Court
The world court is to rule today on whether Serbia perpetrated genocide against Bosnia in the war of the mid-1990s.

Us Genocide Bill Angers Turks
Washington's relations with Turkey, a key Nato ally, have been on the slide since 2003 and look set to worsen if a genocide bill is passed by the US House of Representatives. By Simon Tisdall

Dismay Among Kurds That Genocide Case Unanswered
Iraq's Kurds expressed satisfaction yesterday at the death of Saddam Hussein, but their joy was tempered with disappointment that their greatest tormentor would never face justice for what he had done to them.

Alleged Mass Murderers Who Believed They Were Safe in Britain
Genocide survivors say forgiveness cannot come without justice.

20 More Genocide Suspects Still Living in Uk
Four men appear in court accused of orchestrating massacres of Tutsis.

End the Darfur Genocide–21st century’s most outrageous crime against the Mankind
Leave the murderous Pan-Arabist El Bashir tyrant longer stay at Khartoum, and you prove that you never learnt anything out of the Nazi lesson. Further tolerate Darfur, and prove that you are not really a human being anymore.

Rwanda Recalls Ambassador Over French Investigation
Rwanda today said it had recalled its ambassador from France after a French judge accused the African country's leader of ordering the assassination of a former president that led to genocide.

French Judge Accuses Rwandan President of Assassination
The bitter relationship between France and Rwanda sank to new depths yesterday after a French judge accused the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, of ordering the assassination of the Hutu president that led to the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis in 1994.

Ex-Ba'athists Offered Concessions Over Jobs
· Iraqi PM moves to offset grievances among Sunnis · Saddam due back in court in Kurd genocide hearing

This Ignorant Act Will Only Fan the Flames of Division
The French vote to outlaw denial of the Armenian genocide plays into the hands of Islamist nationalists in Turkey. By Fiachra Gibbons

French Mps Anger Ankara Over Armenian Genocide Vote
The French national assembly yesterday passed a bill making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the first world war, sparking anger in Turkey and condemnation from Brussels.

French Mps Pass Armenian Genocide Bill
The French lower house of parliament today passed a bill making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks after the first world war.

How many Europes can there be?
Following the unbalanced and disparaging proposals by J. Chirac as regards Turkey’s adhesion to the European Union (being linked to an eventual recognition of the Armenian ‘genocide’), one should question to what extent France can safely be part of the Union of European states and peoples.

Ex-Bosnian Serb Leader Jailed for War Crimes But Not Genocide
A former Bosnian Serb political leader was found guilty yesterday of the extermination, murder, and forced expulsion of Bosnian Muslims in 1992, in the most important former Yugoslavia war crimes trial to reach a conclusion at The Hague.

President May Withdraw Deadline for African Union Peacekeepers to Leave
Protesters around world call for action to avoid genocide amid crisis in Sudan.

Hotel Rwanda Manager Urges Action in Darfur
The real hotel manager behind the film Hotel Rwanda has warned that a genocide on the scale of the one that wiped out 900,000 Rwandans could happen in Darfur.

Wanted for Genocide in Kigali. Living Comfortably in Bedford
Two Rwandans resident in UK among 100 most wanted massacre suspects.

Five Killed in Mine Blasts As Sri Lanka Edges Closer to War
· Diplomats warn country near point of no return · Attacks are 'attempted genocide,' say Tamils

Court Starts Hearing Bosnia's Genocide Claim
The World Court is today due to start hearing Bosnia's claim for billions of pounds in reparations from Serbia on the grounds that they was responsible for genocide against Bosnia in the 1992-95 war in former Yugoslavia.

EU Delivers Ultimatum on Mladic's Arrest to Serbia
The EU threatened to call off talks with Serbia yesterday unless the genocide suspect General Ratko Mladic was arrested and sent to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for trial.

Crunch Time for Serbia in Hunt for Mladic
· Genocide suspect still at large, says UN prosecutor · Belgrade faces crucial choices as pressure grows.

Arrest of Mladic 'has Never Been Closer' After Phone Call Intercepted
· Former general wanted in Hague over 1995 genocide · Rumours grow of secret talks to lead to surrender

Body of Genocide Witness Found in River
· Accused former Rwanda minister feared for his life · War crimes tribunal would have heard key evidence

Dutch Man on Trial for Genocide
The first EU citizen to face charges of complicity in genocide and international war crimes went on trial in the Netherlands yesterday accused of aiding Saddam Hussein to gas the Kurds of Halabja almost 20 years ago.

Turkish Protest Over Genocide Conference
Turkey avoided a damaging row with the EU when a conference on the Armenian genocide was finally held in Istanbul after the organisers circumvented a court ban.

Ban on Genocide Talks Earns Rebuke From Eu
A Turkish court yesterday blocked a university conference on the Armenian genocide, prompting an angry rebuke from Brussels 10 days before the start of EU membership talks.

Belgian Missionary Denies Terror Charge
A Belgian missionary appeared before one of Rwanda's grassroots gacaca courts yesterday to deny allegations of inciting genocide.

Village Courts Left to Unearth the True Story of Rwanda's Killing Fields
Traditional justice takes over as 30,000 genocide suspects are released from prison.

Khartoum Faces Trial for Darfur Genocide
International court draws up list of suspect Sudan officials.

Armenians Look to Bush to Step Up Pressure on Turkey Over 1915 'genocide'
International pressure on Turkey to recognise the 1915 massacre of more than one million Armenians as genocide is mounting on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the start of the killings.

Truth Behind the Picture That Shocked the World
In this special report, Lorna Martin joins a brother and sister on their pilgimage to Srebrenica, a decade after their father was killed during 'ethnic cleansing'. The image of their dead mother, who hanged herself, came to symbolise the genocide - and still haunts her children. Here they speak for the first time

Hutu Rebels Apologise for Rwanda Genocide
A Rwandan Hutu rebel group offered an unprecedented apology yesterday for the 1994 genocide, announcing that it would lay down its weapons before peacefully returning home.

'Dutch Chemical Ali' on Trial for Genocide
Trader accused of supplying gas used in Halabja attacks.

The Hotel That Saved Hundreds From Genocide
Film tells story of manager who created an unlikely haven in Rwanda by keeping militiamen at bay with wit and bribes of cheese and wine.

UN Report Calls for Darfur War Crimes Trials
Sudan's government and the Arab Janjaweed militia are not guilty of genocide, but committed mass killings, torture, rape and other crimes meriting trial before the international criminal court (ICC), a UN report said today.

Sudan's Darfur Crimes Not Genocide, Says Un Report
The Sudanese government should be referred to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity in Darfur, a United Nations commissioned report has concluded.

Sudan's Crimes Not Genocide Says Un Report
The Sudanese government should be referred to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity in Darfur, a United Nations commissioned report has concluded.

One Million Rwandans to Face Killing Charges in Village Courts
One million Rwandans - an eighth of the country's population - are expected to be tried for alleged participation in the 1994 genocide, an official said yesterday.

Genocide Tribunal 'ignoring Tutsi Crimes'
The international tribunal for Rwanda was criticised yesterday for its failure to charge Tutsis suspected of killing Hutus in the 1994 genocide.

When Will the Dithering Over Darfur End?
Simon Tisdall: The international community is still failing to get to grips with the crisis in Darfur. Six months after Tony Blair raised the possibility of British military intervention, the UN threatened sanctions and the US declared that genocide was occurring, the international community is still failing to get to grips with the crisis in Darfur.

US 'hyping' Darfur Genocide Fears
American warnings that Darfur is heading for an apocalyptic humanitarian catastrophe have been widely exaggerated by administration officials, it is alleged by international aid workers in Sudan.

Khartoum Agrees to Abide By 'unfair' Resolution
Sudan promised to protect civilians in Darfur yesterday, responding to Saturday's UN security council resolution threatening the regime with oil sanctions and ordering an inquiry into whether the atrocities in the region constitute genocide. The government in Khartoum appeared to bow to...

Stakes Rise As Us Declares Darfur Killings Genocide
The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, dramatically increased pressure on the Sudanese government yesterday by declaring the killings and destruction in its Darfur region to be genocide. Mr Powell, directly blaming the Sudanese government, said: "This was a coordinated effort, not just...

Everyone to Blame But Me, Says Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic yesterday launched his defence as the first European head of state accused of genocide by blaming everyone but the Serbs and himself for the bloodbath of Yugoslavia's disintegration. In a four-hour speech at the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague 30 months...

Sudan Massacres Are Not Genocide, Says Eu
The EU said yesterday there was widespread violence in the Darfur region of Sudan but the killings were not genocidal, a potentially crucial distinction which underlined its reluctance to intervene. "We are not in the situation of genocide there," Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's...

EU: No Genocide in Darfur
The European Union said today that its fact-finding mission to Sudan had found widespread violence in the afflicted region of Darfur, but there was no evidence of genocide. After returning from western Sudan, Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, told...

Sudan to Face 'genocide' Inquiry
The US and British governments are gathering evidence to determine whether genocide is being committed in the Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 30,000 people have been killed and more than a million have fled their homes. The Foreign Office said yesterday that it would not shy...

Rwandans Face Village Justice
In the next few weeks 'gacaca' courts will start trying people accused of participating in 1994's genocide.

Rwanda Jails Former Unity President
A Rwandan court sentenced the former president Pasteur Bizimungu, the moderate Hutu installed after the genocide, to 15 years in jail yesterday for threatening national security, embezzling public funds and fomenting ethnic divisions Bizimungu, 53, said nothing as a magistrate in the...

Hague Rules Srebrenica Was Act of Genocide
The 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica was a deliberate attempt by Bosnian Serb leaders to exterminate part of the Muslim community, rule appeal judges in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal.

Hague Rules Srebrenica Was Genocide
The 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica was a deliberate attempt by Bosnian Serb leaders to exterminate part of the Muslim community, rule appeal judges in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal.

Victoria Brittain: Rwanda Confounds Its Critics
In the decade since the genocide, Kagame's government has overcome half a century of ethnic manipulation.

The Victim's Licence
Our fairytale version of Rwanda's genocide has allowed us to overlook new atrocities. I first encountered the phenomenon of Victim's Licence when arguing on a radio show with a British importer of mahogany from the Amazon.

Rwanda Remembers Its Dead
Thousands of Rwandans crowded into Kigali's packed national stadium today at the start of a week of mourning for the 800,000 people killed in the genocide that started 10 years ago to the day. The main memorial ceremony, which began at noon with a rendition of the national anthem and...

Suspect Pleas
What would you have done? ask the prisoners accused of participation in the Rwandan genocide. Rory Carroll reports.

US Chose to Ignore Rwandan Genocide
Classified papers show Clinton was aware of 'final solution' to eliminate Tutsis.

Ten Years On, Chris Mcgreal Returns to Rwanda
In 1994, around 800,000 people were massacred when Rwanda's Hutu majority turned against the Tutsi community. One of the worst atrocities took place in the town of Kibuye, where 21,000 were killed in two days. A decade on, Chris McGreal, who reported on the genocide at the time, returns to the town to talk to the survivors - and the killers living among them.

Slave Descendants Sue Lloyd's for Billions
Americans whose ancestors were taken from Africa in chains have hired a feared New York lawyer to seek compensation for the insurer's support of 'genocide', writes Conal Walsh.

The Homecoming
Beata was just 11 when, in 1994, she was evacuated from Rwanda to escape the genocide that killed a million Tutsis. Now she is returning, to her village and to the sister she has not seen since. Victoria Brittain, who helped bring the two together, joins her on her journey, and reports on the rebel leader also headed home ...

UN Investigates 'loss' of Rwanda Black Box
The UN has launched an inquiry into how a flight data recorder thought to contain vital evidence on the plane crash that sparked the Rwandan genocide was filed away and left untouched for more than 10 years. The UNN secretary general, Kofi Annan, announced the move in response to claims...

Kagame Set Genocide in Motion, Paris Judge Says
The destruction of the plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana - the incident which began the Rwandan genocide - is blamed by a French investigating magistrate on the Tutsi rebel leader, now president, Paul Kagame, according to the newspaper Le Monde. The magistrate has...

Final Amnesty for Perpetrators of Rwanda Genocide
Thousands of Rwandans accused of participating in genocide have been offered a 'final chance' to be released from prison if they confess their guilt and ask for forgiveness before a deadline next month.

Guarding the Horror
Rory Carroll meets a Rwandan genocide survivor who is determined that the savage events he witnessed will not be glossed over.

Serb Chief Stands Trial for Genocide
One of Bosnia's most important war crimes trials opened yesterday, when Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik went on trial in the Hague accused of helping to mastermind the ethnic cleansing and persecution that left 250,000 people dead and forced two million more from their homes. Four...

Genocide Witnesses 'killed to Stop Testimony'
Witnesses to Rwanda's genocide are being intimidated and killed to stop them testifying in court against those who took part in the 1994 slaughter of up to 1 million people, it was claimed yesterday. Genocide suspects who fear prosecution are behind a spate of recent murders intended to...

Owen Rails at Milosevic Over Failure to Sway Serbs
Slobodan Milosevic fatally failed to pressure fellow Serbs to end the Bosnian war, Lord Owen, the former president's old negotiating partner told the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday. But he depicted Mr Milosevic, facing genocide charges for his role in the war, as a pragmatic nationalist...

Rwanda Genocide Prosecutor Sacking Claim
Carla del Ponte, who was removed last month from her post as prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide court, yesterday blamed her dismissal on the country's president, Paul Kagame. She also revealed that - in a last-ditch effort to remain in the job - she had offered to step down from the trial...

UN Removes Prosecutor From Rwanda Tribunal
Carla Del Ponte, the former Swiss attorney general, was removed from her post as prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide court yesterday by a unanimous vote in the UN security council. The same resolution, drafted by the US, welcomed plans to retain her for a second four-year term as chief...

Rwandan Leader Wins 94% of Vote
President Paul Kagame was declared the winner of Rwanda's first presidential election since the 1994 genocide yesterday, with provisional results awarding him a staggering 94% of the vote. At a victory rally in Kigali, the capital, early yesterday, Mr Kagame said: "This is a true victory,...

Intimidation Alleged in Rwanda Poll
Allegations of intimidation and rigging marred Rwanda's first democratic election yesterday, an event widely seen as a barometer of the country's recovery from the 1994 genocide. As Rwandans formed orderly queues outside polling stations shortly after dawn, none doubted that President...

Election Brings New Fear to Rwanda
President uses memories of genocide to win votes. In a muddy field on a misty east African hillside, President Paul Kagame ended his campaign for today's momentous Rwandan election by offering his people a life-or-death choice.

Election seen as foregone conclusion
Rwandans go to the polls on Monday to vote in the country's first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide, a ballot expected to rubberstamp incumbent Paul Kagame's iron rule over the east African nation.

Homecoming of Rwanda's Killers
On eve of first free elections, genocide victims still await justice. It is called a demobilisation centre but a better term for what takes place inside the corrugated tin classrooms of Mutobo may be genocide rehab. Nine years after the slaughter, Rwanda's killers are coming home and this centre in Ruhengeri province in the north-west of the country is their first stop.

Ian Black: Inside Europe
Ex-dictators, generals and alleged war criminals looking for a last-minute summer break can think about Belgium again now that the government has scrapped its controversial "genocide law".

Life Term for Bosnian Serb War Chief
Official escapes genocide charge but jailed for extermination. The UN war crimes tribunal yesterday acquitted a Bosnian Serb official of genocide but gave him an unprecedented life prison term for acts of extermination, murder and persecution.

Genocide Court Sets Sights on Congo Conflict
The international criminal court's first foray is to centre on a civil war fought for control of natural resources.

Genocide as militias battle to seize power
Feli thought war was fun at first, after he was press-ganged into Rwanda's invading army. Formerly a student at Bukavu university, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, he learnt the Rwandans' language quickly, and enjoyed their company and their copious supply of booze. But then they began asking him to kill babies.

Pastor Who Led Tutsis to Slaughter is Jailed
Seventh Day Adventist and doctor son herded families into church, then called in the butchers. A Rwandan Seventh Day Adventist pastor and his son who had a church roof removed to expose Tutsi refugees to Hutu attackers were convicted of genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda yesterday.

Belgium Asserts Right to Try Sharon
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, can be tried for genocide in Belgium once he has left office, the Belgian appeal court ruled last night. The judgment opens the way for survivors of a 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut to press their case against the Likud leader...

Ivory Coast Death Squads Sow Terror
Death squads linked to Ivory Coast's government are murdering opposition leaders and supporters in Abidjan, where rising ethnic tensions are drawing comparisons with Rwanda on the eve of its 1994 genocide, investigators for the UN's high commissioner for human rights have warned. "Death...

Bloody End As Trap for Man Behind Massacres Backfires
American intelligence officials were yesterday struggling to explain the failure of a dramatic operation to snare one of the main instigators of the Rwandan genocide which led to the death of their key informant, a Kenyan businessman vying for a £3m bounty. US investigators in...

Legalizing Crime
The state has a monopoly on behavior usually deemed criminal. It murders, kidnaps, and locks up people. Sovereignty has come to be identified with the unbridled - and exclusive - exercise of violence. The emergence of modern international law has narrowed the field of permissible conduct. A sovereign can no longer commit genocide or ethnic cleansing with impunity, for instance.

Top Serb Changes Plea to Guilty
Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb president who is charged with crimes against humanity in Bosnia, suddenly changed her plea to guilty yesterday and had the graver charge of genocide dropped by the UN tribunal in the Hague. Mrs Plavsic, the so-called iron lady of the Balkans,...

Croatian leader testifies against Milosevic
Croatia's president today described Slobodan Milosevic as an "emotionless warmonger" responsible for Yugoslavia's demise as he testified in the former Serb leader's genocide trial.

Milosevic Blames the French for Massacre
French secret service agents paid Serb mercenaries to massacre thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, Slobodan Milosevic claimed yesterday at his trial for genocide in Bosnia and Croatia. The former Yugoslav leader told UN judges at the Hague tribunal that the killings were carried...

Milosevic Confronted With Genocide
Ex-president's trial enters key stage as prosecutors turn to the horrors of Bosnia and Croatia wars.

Rwandan General Pleads Not Guilty to Genocide
The man in charge of Rwanda's armed forces during the slaughter of 800,000 people in 1994 today pleaded not guilty to UN charges of genocide.

Genocide court to arraign Hutu army chief
The former Rwandan army chief Augustin Bizimungu is expected to appear before the international court on genocide charges within days, following his capture in a demobilisation camp for former Angolan rebels.

Trial told of Milosevic heart risk
Slobodan Milosevic faces a severe risk of heart attack and needs close medical attention and rest from his marathon trial for war crimes and genocide, the Hague court said yesterday.

Belgium Exhumes Its Colonial Demons
More than a century after King Leopold II of Belgium claimed Congo as his personal colony, an unprecedented investigation into Belgium's murky colonial past and long-ignored allegations of genocide is to be held.

Rwanda Revives Village Justice
Rwanda relaunched an ancient system of village justice yesterday to try tens of thousands of people accused of killing Tutsis during the 1994 genocide.

Court Warned Not to Pressurise Journalists
War correspondents' lives will be at risk if the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague persists in forcing a journalist to give evidence against a Bosnian Serb accused of genocide, the British human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC said yesterday. In the first case of its kind, a former...

Kissinger Testimony Pleas Refused
Britain has turned down requests from judges in Spain and France to interview former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger as a witness in cases they are pursuing for genocide, terrorism, torture and murder against General Pinochet and others. The Home Office has told Spanish judge...

French Caused Genocide - Short
Clare Short was caught up in a diplomatic row last night after she accused the French of being directly implicated in the massacre of millions of Tutsis in Rwanda in the Nineties.

Plea to Britain in Kissinger Witness Case
British authorities have been asked to decide whether a Spanish and a French judge representing the victims of General Pinochet's military regime in Chile can travel to London next week to interview Henry Kissinger as a witness in a terrorism and genocide case. The unprecedented request...

Chris McGreal: Second Class Justice for Victims of Rwandan Genocide
The victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide have been failed by a flawed international court.

Genocide tribunal ready to indict first Tutsis
Rwanda is blocking investigations of former rebels despite pledges, prosecutor says

Rwanda's 'murderer in Chief' on Trial
The army colonel who gave the order that launched the murder of nearly a million Tutsis in Rwanda's genocide refused to attend the start of his own trial at an international court yesterday. Prosecutors described Colonel Theoneste Bagosora as the central figure in a vast conspiracy to...

Milosevic Appeals to Jury of World Opinion
Slobodan Milosevic ended his opening statement to the Hague tribunal yesterday, insisting that the "jury" of world public opinion would judge him innocent of genocide and crimes against humanity in three Balkan wars. After hours of speaking to the UN court, the former Yugoslav president...

Milosevic Blames West for War Crimes
Slobodan Milosevic continued his rebuttal for a second day today against charges of mass deportations and murders in the Balkans. The former Yugoslav president, who is standing trial for war crimes including genocide, accused Nato of massacring refugees during the bombing of Kosovo...

Milosevic Diatribe Gets Short Shrift
Slobodan Milosevic was silenced by the Hague tribunal on the second day of his trial for genocide and crimes against humanity yesterday, and bluntly told that his views on its legality were "irrelevant". Richard May, the British judge presiding over the most important war crimes case...

Milosevic Faces Trial for Genocide
Slobodan Milosevic finally faced justice for his role in three Balkan wars yesterday as United Nations prosecutors pledged to hold him to account for ethnic cleansing and genocide committed in the name of naked power. Impassive and silent in the dock at the Hague tribunal at the start of...

Milosevic Stands Trial Before the World
The long search for justice in the Balkans enters a dramatic phase today when Slobodan Milosevic faces unprecedented charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Trial Date for Milosevic
The former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, will face a single trial on February 12 for alleged crimes against humanity and genocide.

Two trials for Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader, refused yesterday to enter a plea in response to charges against him of genocide stemming from the killing and expulsion of tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats in the Bosnian war from 1992-95. But judges at the UN tribunal in the Hague...