genocide

GENEVA: The top U.N. human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown…

UNITED NATIONS: The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible "elements of genocide". Speaking before a special session of the…

THE HAGUE: The chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes court Sunday urged Croatian leaders to face up to what happened in the past and work towards reconciliation, after the suicide of a Bosnian Croat leader. In dramatic scenes Wednesday,…

THE HAGUE: UN judges on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago. The trial of the man…

DHAKA: Bangladesh's foreign minister said on Sunday that genocide was being waged in Myanmar's violence-racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 300,000 Muslim Rohingya to his country. "The international community is saying…

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet of Pakistan in a meeting on Thursday condemned the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in the chair of the meeting in Islamabad, passed a resolution to this effect.…

LAHORE: Condemning the atrocities being committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif urged the world community to put pressure on the Myanmar government to halt genocide of Muslims. Talking to media…

SREBRENICA: Thousands gathered in Srebrenica on Tuesday to mark the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, with some relatives of the victims giving their loved ones a proper burial for the…