But that genocide did not end the killing any more than Pol Pot's ended it in Cambodia.
NATO's claim to have launched its bombers on humanitarian grounds to prevent genocide was hypocritical and inconsistent with western policy elsewhere.
CALDH, is standing by to bring another case against him this time for genocide.
Some Armenian-Americans suggest that passing of the measure might even spur the U.S. to address a modern genocide Darfur.
Many Sunnis were appalled by the sectarian attacks and were also fearful of genocide at the hands of the Shiite death squads.
The perpetrators of the genocide a mixture of politicians, priests, and militias fled to Congo where they hid among more than 1m genuine Hutu refugees.
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Chinese firms as well as Indian ones moved into Sudan after American investors left (the United States applies sanctions to Sudan, which it now accuses of genocide).
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As I said, we want the world to view terrorism as it views piracy, slave trading or genocide activities universally repudiated by respectable people.
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For example, no decent person any more no one who hopes to be recognized as respectable in the wider world supports or excuses slave-trading, piracy or genocide.
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In 1992 he helped retrieve and safeguard 14 tons of Iraqi files documenting the atrocities against the Kurds crucial evidence if Saddam Hussein is ever brought to book for genocide.
For example, no decent person any more no one who hopes to be recognized as respectable in the wider world supports or excuses slave trading, piracy or genocide.
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These people have seen refugee camps before after the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans fled to Goma and they did not like what they saw: squalor, cholera, bloodshed.
Tens of thousands of people are thought to have been killed though the slaughter is not technically considered a genocide, since it has not been an effort to kill a whole ethnic group.
Administration officials were impressed by the court's carefully reasoned rejection of the hundreds of allegations it has received regarding America's role in Iraq including suggestions that it was guilty of aggression or even genocide.
But he then claimed with no evidence to support his assertion that 40, 000 Serbs in northern Kosovo are at risk of expulsion, adding that if that happened it would really be an act of genocide.
The Rwandan government, for its part, is satisfied with a military situation that gives it de facto control over almost half the country and enables it to pursue the Rwandan militiamen responsible for the 1994 genocide.
After winning about a third of the vote in Germany's 1932 election, Hitler convinced ailing President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933 setting Germany on a course to war and genocide.
The end of the cold war in 1989 raised hopes that human rights would be more widely respected, and the 1990s became the decade of democracy yet it also brought horrors such as the Rwandan genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Balkans.
The divestment campaign directed against South African apartheid is, to many, a model for the current market activism aimed at the genocide-, slavery-, and terrorist-sponsoring Sudanese government and the foreign oil companies like Talisman whose investments are providing the Khartoum regime with economic life-support.
Fifty years or so ago, shocked by the barbarities of the second world war, the would-be makers of a better world agreed on an ambitious bunch of conventions prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and then, for nearly half a century, did nothing to enforce them.
The worst genocide of all, the Holocaust, stands out because it was the most audacious Germans employed the most scientifically advanced means of the day in the most culturally advanced society in the world to kill the greatest number of people as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The genocide in Darfur is competing for international action with human rights emergencies in Congo, Somalia, and northern Uganda conflicts that along with southern Sudan have left over 6 million dead but the international response to these atrocities rarely goes beyond military observation missions and humanitarian relief efforts, which are insufficient Band-Aids.
The treaty's definitions of the four categories of wrongdoing for which it would be responsible genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression (which have yet to be specified) are defined in such a way that prosecutors could easily go after members of an American peacekeeping force whose mission they politically disapprove of.
While unchecked genocide in Chechnya, a legitimated Russian nuclear deal with Iran and apparent acquiescence to Russian interference in NATO expansion decisions would figure high on any list, Mr. Clinton may have done the most harm in an area that has received far less public attention the imposition of new constraints on U.S. options to defend against missile attack.
It was as if the head had been pulled out of a hat not unlike its cousin on the cover of Weird Mysteries no. 6 (August-September 1953), which pretty clearly seems to have been modeled on the Nuremberg skull right down to the way the curling hair has been transmuted into Gypsy-style earrings (Gypsies also being victims of the Nazi genocide).
Most countries with big histories have to wrench themselves into gazing into the darker chasms of their past: Americans about slavery and the near-genocide of their country's indigenous peoples, Britons about the racial arrogance and cruel excesses of empire, Spaniards and Italians about fratricidal war and fascism, the French about collaboration and cowardice, and Germans most acutely of all about the Holocaust and the slaughter of the second world war.
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