Genocides

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014, file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame listens to a question while participating in a panel discussion on the campus of Tufts University, in Medford, Mass. A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday, March 26, 2021 that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead and bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" in the drift that led to the killings, but cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Rwanda recalls genocide as France seeks to reset relations

By Ignatius Ssuuna And Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 07, 2021 07:20 AM EDT

China blasts US 'evil past of genocide' at UN rights body

By Jamey Keaten Mar. 17, 2021 02:35 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — China on Wednesday blasted the United States' human rights record, citing what it called U.S. failures against COVID-19 that cost “hundreds of...

FILE - In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Félicien Kabuga, a former radio station owner, appeared Wednesday in a United Nations courtroom to face charges that he armed and incited militias that took part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. It was the first time Kabuga had appeared before the U.N.'s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since he was transferred to The Hague following his arrest outside Paris in May. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwandan genocide suspect enters not guilty pleas at UN court

By Mike Corder Nov. 11, 2020 12:06 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. France's highest court on Wednesday Sept.30, 2020 rejected Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga's appeal of a decision to extradite him to an international court in The Hague. Kabuga, one of the most-wanted fugitives in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, was arrested outside Paris in May after 25 years on the run. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwandan genocide suspect sent to UN court in The Hague

Oct. 26, 2020 11:15 AM EDT

FILE - in this Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 file photo, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winner Doctor Denis Mukwege of Congo arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege has stepped down Wednesday, June 10, 2020 from a COVID-19 task force in eastern Congo, saying his hospital needs to focus on treating coronavirus patients because testing delays and other problems have allowed the crisis to deepen. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

UN protection back for threatened Nobel-winning Congo doctor

By Cara Anna Sep. 09, 2020 08:53 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic said Friday, July 24, 2020 that his health is bad and getting worse, as his lawyers sought another delay in a United Nations hearing in his appeal against convictions for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Lawyers for Bosnian War strongman seek court delay in appeal

By Mike Corder Jul. 24, 2020 10:39 AM EDT

Rwandans mark genocide anniversary under nationwide lockdown

By Ignatius Ssuuna Apr. 07, 2020 05:46 AM EDT