Two days later, Jean Kambanda became the first head of government to be convicted of genocide.

To its credit, the Tribunal has brought to justice many leading suspects of the genocide.

In December 2006, 72 officials of the Derg were found guilty of genocide.

He was convicted of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity and sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.

Turkey also has a long history of poor relations with Armenia over its refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.

The question of genocide went to the very heart of his mandate because genocide was the most extreme manifestation of the executions that were the mandate's raison d'être.

In addition, neither Viet Nam nor the United States had yet ratified the Genocide Convention.

It was the first time in the Argentine trials that genocide had been applied to the assaults against the class of political dissidents.

The Union therefore welcomes the unprecedented recognition of the international community's responsibility to protect populations from the threat of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity.

This totalitarian, gestapo like, fascist fight with smokers is more like an extermination, a genocide, running counter to all norms of common sense. An entire group of citizens is having its basic rights violated.

In 1965, the 50th anniversary of the genocide, a 24 hour mass protest was initiated in Yerevan demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Soviet authorities.

Agreement among Member States to better address grave situations such as those involving genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity itself constitutes significant progress.

Provided advice to the Minister of Justice and to various government departments on legislative and policy questions related to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and participated in the development and establishment of the section

Still, the problem with genocide is not narrow judging, but that the crime itself is doubly irredeemable it is defective in its definition and troubling in its moral and political effects.

They currently cover complex issues, such as the legality of the use of force, the determination of land and maritime boundaries between neighbouring States, the application of the Genocide Convention, the treatment of aliens in foreign jurisdictions and other issues.

In October 2006, the Adygeyan public organizations of Russia, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the USA, Belgium, Canada and Germany have sent the president of the European Parliament a letter with the request to recognize the genocide against Adygean (Circassian) people.

Men are the major recipients of disability pensions in most categories, except for a slightly higher number of women among those receiving hostile operations and Holocaust and anti Nazi operations disability pensions.

Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, once the darling of the international community (and especially the United States) for his opposition to the nationalist Serb Democratic party, has adopted that party's agenda without being tainted by their genocidal baggage.

The Court also declared that Serbia will remain in violation of the Genocide Convention until it transfers Mladic who is believed responsible for some of the worst crimes in Europe since the Second World War to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

With Serbia at the helm, the Council, which aims to promote human rights and the rule of law, is now overseen by a state that thumbs its nose at the Genocide Convention and harbors an indicted war crimes suspect, former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic.