Roma Genocide Remembrance Day on August 2 is intended to be a reminder of the crimes Nazis committed against the group through internment, forced labour and mass murder during World War 2.
The Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) approved on Friday July 31 a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The Panama-based body that was created in 1964 with the Declaration of Lima, and is composed by the National Congresses and Legislative Assemblies of all Iberoamerica.
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 other artificial intelligence experts published a letter Monday warning of the deadly consequences of an “autonomous weapons” arms race is sparked.
Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, dodging a
court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be
arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide.
Turkey
has recalled its ambassador to Brazil, Hüseyin Diriöz, for
“consultations” after the Latin American country’s Senate passed
legislation recognizing the killing of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as
genocide, a Foreign Ministry statement said late on June 8.
YEREVAN—Representatives of ethnic minorities living in Armenia issued a united statement this week in an efforts to call the attention of the world to the Armenian Genocide, which still awaits justice one hundred years later. The groups have thus addressed a message to the leaders of all the UN member states.
A
Belgian deputy of Turkish origin has been expelled from her party for
refusing to call the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide.”
