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A “campaign of destruction” in October by Sudanese paramilitary forces against non-Arab communities in and near a city in the western region of Darfur shows “hallmarks of genocide,” UN-backed human rights experts said Thursday, a dramatic finding in the country’s devastating war. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — known as …
Read More »जहां से कई सिर काटकर ले गया था जर्मनी… ऐसी है नामीबिया की एक देश बनने की दर्दनाक कहानी! – namibia forgotten genocide german colonial history tstsd
नामीबिया एक अफ्रीकी देश है. आज टी-20 वर्ल्डकप में इस देश के शामिल होने को लेकर काफी चर्चा हो रही है. वैसे भी खेल जगत में क्रिकेट को लेकर नामीबिया एक जाना पहचाना नाम है. लेकिन, कुछ दशक पहले तक ऐसा नहीं था. इस देश के हालात काफी अलग थे. …
Read More »Canada needs all evidence assessed before recognizing genocide in Gaza, says incoming UN ambassador
Incoming UN Ambassador David Lametti says Canada needs “all the evidence to come in” and be assessed before it recognizes whether Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza — and it usually follows the lead of a UN resolution or a ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “This is certainly what …
Read More »Israeli tanks advance in Gaza City as scholars’ association says Israel is committing genocide
Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people on Monday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The reports came as the president of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association said it had passed a resolution saying the legal …
Read More »Amnesty report finds Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
A new report from Amnesty International found that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly 14-month-long campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced most of the enclave’s population. The report, published Wednesday, said the ongoing assault on Gaza met the legal threshold for …
Read More »House of Commons gives unanimous consent to recognize residential schools as genocide
Members of Parliament gave unanimous consent Thursday in favour of a motion calling on the federal government to recognize Canada’s residential schools as genocide. Leah Gazan, the NDP member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, introduced the motion following Question Period Thursday afternoon. Gazan brought forward a similar motion in June last year, but it did not …
Read More »Pope says genocide took place at Canada’s residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details While the word genocide wasn’t heard in any of Pope Francis’s addresses during a week-long trip to Canada, on his flight back to Rome, he said everything he described about the residential school system and its forced assimilation of Indigenous children amounts to genocide. …
Read More »NBA player calls out Trudeau for Canada’s inaction on Uighur ‘genocide’
NBA star and human rights campaigner Enes Kanter Freedom says he is frustrated with what he calls a lacklustre response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his calls for more action to help Uighur Muslims in China. The basketball player, who is currently a free agent after being cut by the Houston Rockets earlier …
Read More »In Rwanda to meet with Commonwealth leaders, Trudeau remembers a genocide
It was a visit heavy with political and perhaps even personal significance, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid a wreath on Thursday at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. The site contains the remains of more than 250,000 Rwandan Tutsis who were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in the spring and …
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