List of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The False Idols of Rwanda’s Genocide
Is Paul Kagame’s government using museums to commemorate the past—or cement its grip on power?
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Rwandan fugitive Leon Mugesera (C) is escorted handcuffed by policemen to a police vehicle on the tarmac as he arrives at Kigali International Airport late on January 24, 2012. Mugesera, a linguist who had lived in Canada since 1993, is wanted by the Rwandan authorities for alleged incitement to genocide in a speech he delivered two years before the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis. (Photo credit should read STEVE TERRILL/AFP/Getty Images) Rwandan Who Called Tutsis ‘Cockroaches’ in 1992 Gets Life Sentence
A man accused of encouraging the genocide in Rwanda has been sentenced to life in prison.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United States Museum of Holocaust Kitsch
At Washington’s memorial to the genocide of Jews, history often takes a backseat to “collective memory.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Criminal in the Hague, but Not in Republika Srpska
The autonomous Serbian government in Bosnia is questioning the war crimes verdict against its former president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The G-Word Paradox
Why calling an atrocity a “genocide” is rarely a game-changer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What a Genocide 100 Years Ago Reveals About the War in Syria Today
2015 Global Thinkers Ara Oshagan, Levon Parian, and Vahagn Thomasian discuss how the world hasn’t changed since the slaughter of their Armenian ancestors.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Bosnian War Cables
The 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords is a time to reflect on the power of American diplomacy. But it is also a time for a reckoning of America’s dismal diplomatic response to genocide in the heart of Europe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More Than 21 Years Later, Washington Faces Another Problem From Hell
The U.S. and its allies failed to stop Rwanda from descending into genocide. With Burundi teetering on the brink, they are facing a new and very dangerous test.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can a New Tool Help the U.S. Say (and Mean) ‘Never Again’ for Genocide?
Data made available by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hopes to prevent genocide and other atrocities before they even begin.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Joshua Oppenheimer and David Rieff on Genocide
How different are victims from victimizers?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Global Thinkers: Understanding Genocide’s Perpetrators
From Indonesia to Syria, just how different are victims from victimizers?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Act of Empathy
Joshua Oppenheimer’s unsettling new film, "The Look of Silence," raises questions about the troubling relationship between global capitalism and western complicity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sentenced to Death from Thousands of Miles Away
On Tuesday, Muammar al-Qaddafi's son was sentenced to death in absentia. He's not the only one who's escaped a death sentence by not attending his own trial.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In the Shadow of Genocide
Twenty years after the massacre, Bosnian Muslims are moving back to Srebrenica. But surrounded by people who deny the terrible crimes of the past, they fear for their safety -- and the future of their divided country.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Shame of Srebrenica
The massacre shaped the thinking of a generation of U.S. foreign-policy makers like me. And it still looms over our choices, from Iraq to Libya to Syria.
