Topic: Genocide

Former Guatemalan dictator now under house arrest

10:24AM GMT . Comments . . A ruling on Thursday by the Guatemalan judge Patricia Flores opened the way for the prosecution of the 85-year-old...
The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide ...

Former Guatemalan leader at 'genocide' hearing

Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous ...

Rwanda has risen again

Walking along the bustling, asphalted streets of Kigali, among the crowds of tourists and schoolchildren, packed buses and noisy motorcycles, it's...

BC-LT--Guatemala-Ex-Dictator,0124

BC-Guatemala-Ex-Dictator,0124 January 27, 2012 19:50 GMT . . Guatemala: Ex dictador to face genocide charges . GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The lawyer ...
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity as the Central American nation...
Cloths embroidered with signs are seen in front of the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City January 26, 2012. Former Guatemalan dictator...

Genocide suspect lands in Rwanda

A former member of Rwanda's ruling Hutu party during the 1994 genocide arrives in Kigali after being extradited from Canada. Rough cut (No reporter...
When it comes to Léon Mugesera's epic lost battle to avoid deportation to Rwanda, the number most people fixate on is 18 years. The alleged Rwandan...

France and the Denial of (Some) Genocides

Last night, the French senate passed a bill that would make illegal the denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, which cost a million Armenians their...