… 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 …

… contested events of the twentieth century:  the Armenian Genocide . In the midst of  World War I  and as the Ottoman …  recently called the killing of Armenians “the first genocide of the 20th century,” recognition of the 100 th … has steadfastly refused to call the Armenian deaths a “ Genocide .” Official symbol of the Centennial ;  The City …

… On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. The date … On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. … Genocide … Justice for the Rwandan Genocide …

… prison sentence. Their crime: they had used the term "genocide" in reference to the Ottoman treatment of Armenians … language. Indeed, Turkey has denied the existence of the genocide, and the number of Ottoman scholars, both within … is the culmination of his long-time study of the Armenian Genocide. This work, based on more than six-hundred new …

… This lesson plan focuses on the genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994 when the Hutu … The Extermination of a Nation: The Genocide in Rwanda …

… 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. …

… the international community’s attention on the issue of genocide . As part of an effort to prevent a horror like the … Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . The new convention established a clear definition for the crime of genocide. Importantly, this landmark international agreement …

… Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the United States did not sign the Genocide Convention until 1988). Both of these UN documents … in 1994 . The court prosecuted the leaders of the Rwandan genocide that took the lives of between 800,000 and 1 …

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… the removal and ultimate extermination of Jews from Europe, genocide . German expulsion of Poles from Reichsgau … flee, conflict may escalate into ethnic cleansing and even genocide. This is particularly so in cases of civil war, … Genocide …

… Pius XII for his perceived inaction in the face of Nazi genocide. But while other nations and groups have confronted … Genocide …

… process delayed action until it was too late to prevent genocide. The travails of multilateral diplomacy and … the families of victims of the Rwandan and Srebrenica genocides . . . and to pronounce that the terrorists … Genocide …

… are differences, of course. Hitler’s policy called for genocide, a murderous extermination. Milosevic’s strategy … Genocide …

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