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… On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. The date … community for the commission of mass atrocities. Yet, genocide became an international crime much earlier. One of … Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a framework for criminal trials at the …

… out, Ottoman Turkish authorities launched a full-scale  genocide  of its Armenian population. Armenians had been … to massacres previously, but nothing on the scale of the genocide of 1915. By the time it was over, 1.5 million … War ( left ). Orphan children from the Armenian Genocide, 1915 ( right ). Meanwhile, as Imperial Russia …

… Gravestones at the Potočari genocide memorial near Srebrenica. In July 1995, in the … the atrocities at Srebrenica met the legal definition of genocide . To date, international and Bosnian state courts … Mladić, who were both found, among other crimes, guilty of genocide in Srebrenica and sentenced to life imprisonment. …

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