List of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity articles
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GettyImages-103243686 Hiroshima, My Father, and the Lie of U.S. Innocence
Why Washington hid Japan’s crimes, and its own, in the reckoning of justice after World War II.
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A group opposing any apology for Indonesia’s 1965-1966 massacres delivers a statement at the headquarters of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s largest Muslim organization, in Jakarta on Aug. 15, 2012. After 50 Years of Denial, Indonesia Takes Shaky Steps Toward Historical Reckoning
Foreign Policy spoke with genocide researcher Jessica Melvin about this month’s encouraging developments.
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Culture_Rwanda_DEF_SW_V1_2 The False Idols of Rwanda’s Genocide
Is Paul Kagame’s government using museums to commemorate the past—or cement its grip on power?
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Rwandan fugitive Leon Mugesera (C) is escorted handcuffed by policemen to a police vehicle on the tarmac as he arrives at Kigali International Airport late on January 24, 2012. Mugesera, a linguist who had lived in Canada since 1993, is wanted by the Rwandan authorities for alleged incitement to genocide in a speech he delivered two years before the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis. (Photo credit should read STEVE TERRILL/AFP/Getty Images) Rwandan Who Called Tutsis ‘Cockroaches’ in 1992 Gets Life Sentence
A man accused of encouraging the genocide in Rwanda has been sentenced to life in prison.
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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17: Visitors to the United States Holocaust Museum, which is about to celebrate its' 20th anniversary, pass beneath a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes One Free), on April, 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by ) The United States Museum of Holocaust Kitsch
At Washington’s memorial to the genocide of Jews, history often takes a backseat to “collective memory.”
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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic appears in the courtroom for his appeals judgement at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on July 11 2013. AFP PHOTO/ POOL/MICHAEL KOOREN (Photo credit should read ) Criminal in the Hague, but Not in Republika Srpska
The autonomous Serbian government in Bosnia is questioning the war crimes verdict against its former president.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - AUGUST 9: Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State (IS) forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Peoples Protection Unit (YPG) in Mosul, Iraq on August 09, 2014. (Photo by ) The G-Word Paradox
Why calling an atrocity a “genocide” is rarely a game-changer.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers What a Genocide 100 Years Ago Reveals About the War in Syria Today
2015 Global Thinkers Ara Oshagan, Levon Parian, and Vahagn Thomasian discuss how the world hasn’t changed since the slaughter of their Armenian ancestors.
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A Bosnian Muslim woman, survivor of Srebrenica atrocities in 1995, Sehida Abdurahmanovic, arrives at Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica, on March 31, 2010, to visit graves and pay her respects to relatives, victims of the Bosnian-Serb ofensive in July 1995. Serbia's Srebrenica apology on Wednesday March 31 met with bitterness and cynicism in Bosnia where Muslim survivors of the massacre slammed Belgrade for dodging the term genocide and Bosnian Serbs felt betrayed. AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC (Photo credit should read ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP/Getty Images) The Bosnian War Cables
The 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords is a time to reflect on the power of American diplomacy. But it is also a time for a reckoning of America’s dismal diplomatic response to genocide in the heart of Europe.
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Burundian soldiers walk near a burning barricade erected by protesters as people demonstrate against the president's bid for a third term in power in Musaga, in the outskirts of Bujumbura, on April 27, 2015. Police in Burundi battled protestors on April 27 in a second day of demonstrations over a bid by the central African nation's president for a third term in office. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) More Than 21 Years Later, Washington Faces Another Problem From Hell
The U.S. and its allies failed to stop Rwanda from descending into genocide. With Burundi teetering on the brink, they are facing a new and very dangerous test.
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Ten of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees carry their belongings as they flee towards the Tanzanian border from the refugee camps at Magara, near the northern Burundian town of Ngozi on March 31, 1995. A UN High commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman in Nairobi said there were some 55,000 refugees on the road in a column stretching for 20 km and announced that Tanzania had closed its border. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images) Can a New Tool Help the U.S. Say (and Mean) ‘Never Again’ for Genocide?
Data made available by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hopes to prevent genocide and other atrocities before they even begin.
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exchange_septoct_2015 The Exchange: Joshua Oppenheimer and David Rieff on Genocide
How different are victims from victimizers?
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers Global Thinkers: Understanding Genocide’s Perpetrators
From Indonesia to Syria, just how different are victims from victimizers?
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SILENCE_Glasses Fitting An Act of Empathy
Joshua Oppenheimer’s unsettling new film, "The Look of Silence," raises questions about the troubling relationship between global capitalism and western complicity.
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Journalists watch as the judges (unseen), question Seif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, broadcasted live from the western Libyan city of Zintan, from inside a room in Tripoli on June 22, 2014. Thirty-seven former Kadhafi regime officials are charged with murder, kidnapping, complicity in incitement to rape, plunder, sabotage, embezzlement of public funds and acts harmful to national unity. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images) Sentenced to Death from Thousands of Miles Away
On Tuesday, Muammar al-Qaddafi's son was sentenced to death in absentia. He's not the only one who's escaped a death sentence by not attending his own trial.
