genocide

Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)

April 13, 2018, 3:17 pm

More than a meme against genocide

Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by

By Gina Ross

Aftermath of the Babi Yar ravine massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, during which 33,000 Jews were murdered between Sept. 29-30, 1941. (public domain)

April 11, 2018, 3:40 am

In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a ‘carnival atmosphere’ prevailed

In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution

By Matt Lebovic

March 26, 2018, 10:23 am

Israel set to recognize hundreds of Sudanese as refugees — report

State tells High Court any decision to grant status to migrants who fled Darfur genocide will also apply to victims of ethnic cleansing in Nuba mountains

By TOI staff

Maziar Bahari, December 4, 2017. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

March 12, 2018, 1:29 am

Tortured Iranian expat makes documentaries to educate Muslims about Holocaust

Maziar Bahari's home country imprisoned him for his education initiatives, but he continues to preach against genocide -- including at Monday's speech at the USHMM

By Cathryn J. Prince

Screenshots from YouTube videos related to the Holocaust history dispute between Israel and Poland. At left, a video from the Polish government's #GermanDeathCamps campaign. At right, a video produced by the Israeli group 'J-nerations,' February 2018.

February 23, 2018, 9:24 am

Poland-Israel Holocaust dispute hits the court of viral YouTube videos

Amid the diplomatic feud over Poland's new 'anti-defamation' law, Jewish activists push back on the Polish government for 'white-washing' anti-Semitism

By Matt Lebovic

In this January 28, 2018 photo, Rohingya Muslim refugees Nooranksih, 9, left, and her mother Rohima Khatu, 45, originally from the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, eat inside their makeshift shelter at Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. (AP/Manish Swarup)

February 1, 2018, 10:46 am

Report confirms Myanmar massacre of Rohingya and 5 mass graves

Government denies such killings ever happened, acknowledging only one communal grave burial site containing 10 'terrorists'

By Foster Klug

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

January 30, 2018, 11:38 am

UN chief meets with Sudan’s president, who is accused of genocide

Guterres' spokesman insists parley with Omar al-Bashir justified by 'operational necessity' of coordinating UN efforts in Darfur and elsewhere

By Edith M. Lederer

People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

January 26, 2018, 2:14 pm

The inevitable politicization of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Since 2005, the UN has commemorated the genocide of European Jewry every year on January 27. This weekend's observance is galvanizing activists from South Carolina to Vienna

By Matt Lebovic

In Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler participates in a Nazi party rally, 1930 (public domain)

January 8, 2018, 3:15 am

What did Germans know? Secret anti-Nazi diary gives voice to man on the street

Friedrich Kellner's account, starting from 1939, about the Nazi regime's atrocities and the unfolding destruction of European Jewry is being published in English for the first time

By Matt Lebovic

December 13, 2017, 6:30 pm

Wanted for genocide, Sudan leader welcomed by Erdogan at Jerusalem summit

Omar al-Bashir is alleged by ICC to have committed war crimes in conflict that UN says killed at least 300,000 and displaced more than 2.5 million

By AFP

December 13, 2017, 8:28 am

International court: Failure to arrest Sudan’s president undermines us

Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda criticizes countries for hosting Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of genocide

By AP

Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic enters the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), on November 22, 2017, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Peter Dejong)

November 23, 2017, 5:44 pm

Holocaust experts disagree over justness of Mladic’s conviction for genocide

Efraim Zuroff says mass killing at Srebrenica was a war crime but not genocide because women were spared; Menachem Rosensaft disagrees

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bangladeshi men help Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on September 30, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)

November 16, 2017, 2:14 pm

‘Mounting evidence’ of genocide in Myanmar, watchdogs warn

US Holocaust Memorial Museum joins rights groups in detailing mass killings, forced displacement and sexual violence targeting Rohingya civilians

By AFP and TOI staff

Rohingya Muslim refugees making their way into Bangladesh from Myanmar on September 7, 2017. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

September 28, 2017, 6:14 pm

After court’s gagged ruling on arms sales to Myanmar, activists call for protest

As hundreds of thousands displaced by violence in south Asian country, and Israeli government demands weapons exports be kept secret, Myanmar's own military boasts of its purchases

By Judah Ari Gross

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

September 20, 2017, 10:21 pm

Macron says Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is ‘genocide’

French president does not mince words in describing carnage that has caused 420,000 members of Muslim minority to flee for safety in Bangladesh

By AFP