By evaluating the health of a given at-risk population, they may be able to identify a marginalized group, and mobilize international efforts to prevent a genocide from ever beginning.
Armenian-Americans want Mr Obama to honour his election pledge to insist that the massacre by Ottoman forces of more than a million of their ancestors in 1915 was genocide.
On December 13,1253, Kublai Khan besieged and took over Dali Town, with no genocide. Some local dignitary Bai families surrendered and some rebelled violently.
The idea that any country may take action against pirates is the precursor to the idea of “universal jurisdiction” used to prosecute heinous crimes such as genocide.
The first crash served as the pretext for the swiftest genocide in history. The second silenced its most dogged witness, a tiny American lady with silver hair.
The economic recovery after the genocide, when Hutu militias looted the country before fleeing into Congo, had been remarkable, if largely funded by the diaspora and by foreign aid.
The purpose of the special tribunal investigating the Rwanda genocide is not only to bring the guilty to justice but also to bring reconciliation to a society that was split asunder.
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