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Namibian Indigenous Groups Sue Germany Over Genocide

Namibian Indigenous Groups Sue Germany Over Genocide

Namibian indigenous groups filed a lawsuit against Germany in a US court on Thursday, demanding compensation for genocide by German colonial troops in the early 1900s. Berlin appears unperturbed. Germany’s special envoy for dialogue with Namibia, Ruprecht Polenz, told DW that he was “not surprised” by a lawsuit filed by Namibian activists in a US […]

South Sudan at strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines, with the potential for genocide

South Sudan at strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines, with the potential for genocide

The U.N. adviser on genocide said Friday that South Sudan, embroiled in civil war since 2013, was at a “strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines, with the potential for genocide.” Adama Dieng spoke to reporters in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, at the end of his five-day visit to the nation. Information Minister Michael […]

Rwanda Names 22 French Army Officers It Accuses of Aiding Genocide

Rwanda Names 22 French Army Officers It Accuses of Aiding Genocide

Rwanda has released a list of 22 senior French army officers it says knowingly aided the planning and execution of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. The list released by the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) is likely to escalate the tiff between Kigali and Paris, in the wake of the reopening […]

Rwanda Genocide Perpetrators and Survivors Reconciled in Nyamasheke

Rwanda Genocide Perpetrators and Survivors Reconciled in Nyamasheke

Ten Genocide perpetrators, including two women, who showed remorse and apologised to survivors were Sunday forgiven during a mass at Ntendezi Parish in Ruharambuga Sector, Nyamasheke District. The ceremony was witnessed by Fidele Ndayisaba, the executive secretary of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC), Aime Fabien Kamali, the mayor of Nyamasheke, security agencies, priests, […]

French Youth Leaders Visit Widows of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide

French Youth Leaders Visit Widows of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide

French youth leaders and their other European colleagues, yesterday, visited widows of the 1994 Genocide, as part of an outreach programme to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The youth are members of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM). Valerie Mukabayire, the president of Avega Agahozo, an association of Genocide widows, said such visits […]

Burundi: ‘Help us, the world needs to know that a genocide is under way’ says opposition

Burundi: ‘Help us, the world needs to know that a genocide is under way’ says opposition

“Help us, the world needs to know that the genocide is underway.” These were the words of Jeremie Minani, a spokesman for the Burundian coalition known as Cnared, following the death of nearly 90 people during clashes in the Burundian capital on 11 December. The UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously voted on 12 November for […]

ISIS committed genocide against Iraq’s Yazidis, U.S. Holocaust Museum report says

ISIS committed genocide against Iraq’s Yazidis, U.S. Holocaust Museum report says

A Yazidi refugee girl on the first day of the new school term at Sharya refugee camp, on the outskirts of Duhok province, October 17, 2015. ISIS militants committed genocide against Iraq’s Yazidis in the north of the country and carried out crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes against other minorities, the U.S. […]

Burundi says there’ll be ‘no war or genocide’ despite global alarm over security crackdown

Burundi says there’ll be ‘no war or genocide’ despite global alarm over security crackdown

Burundi said Saturday it wanted only to crush “terrorism” as it dismissed international fears of fresh bloodletting if the government carries out threats to stamp out resistance to the president. “There will be no war or genocide,” presidential communications chief Willy Nyamitwe told AFP, after world leaders voiced concern over a government escalation of already […]

Rwandan Genocide Incitement Tactics Emerge in Burundi

Rwandan Genocide Incitement Tactics Emerge in Burundi

As regional and international efforts gain momentum to deal with the deteriorating crisis in Burundi, a senior member of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s ruling party is inciting local population and security personnel to turn against each other. Political unrest has increased with dozens of people so far killed, clobbered, or strangled to death on city streets […]

Forgotten genocide: Namibia’s quest for reparations

Forgotten genocide: Namibia’s quest for reparations

On July 6, a delegation of Namibian leaders, lawyers, and heads of civic organisations, arrived in Berlin hoping to meet with German President Joachim Gauck, to present him with a petition signed by over 2,000 German public figures including members of the Bundestag, the German national parliament. The document, titled ” Genocide is Genocide “, […]

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