Saturday, April 27, 2024

Topic: Genocide

Arrest of top Rwandan genocide fugitive shows ‘justice will be done’

One of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives has been arrested after being on the run for more than two decades, the UN tribunal prosecuting war crimes committed in Rwanda announced on Thursday.

‘It can happen anywhere’: UN General Assembly reflects on Rwandan genocide

Hate speech is an alarm bell – the louder it rings, the greater the threat of genocide, the UN chief said on Friday as the General Assembly commemorated the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Nellie Massacre; “Though impossible to describe, I will try”

Hemendra Narayan, a journalist from The Indian Express wrote an eyewitness account "Horrible doesn't describe it. How many deaths difficult to say" on 19 February 1983. Read the full text

In India’s financial capital, over 10000 gather to call for killing of Muslims: “Ready to hit and beat your enemies,” urge speakers

Islamophobic slogans and genocidal speeches calling for the killing of Muslims were delivered in Mumbai in a massive Hindutva gathering on Sunday. The speakers associated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu nationalist groups urged Hindus to wage war against Muslims in the country.

“Something that happened 21 years ago…Why foreign TV open old wounds…”: Shashi Tharoor

“In India, this is something (Gujarat genocide 2002) that happened 21 years ago that the Supreme Court has ruled on. And that people including Muslims feel we now should put behind us,“ senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor said talking on the recent BBC documentary that questions Narendra Modi’s leadership during Gujarat Muslim genocide 2002.

“India’s bulldozer genocide”: Thousand to march to Indian High Commission in London

More than 15 Indian diaspora groups in the United Kingdom jointly called for a protest in London, demanding to end the Hindu-supremacist violence and fascist policies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government that left the Muslims in the country on the brink of genocide.