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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
African migrants gather during a protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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
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