Twothirds of the Jews of Europe... exterminated.

In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust?

Some representatives of the Tutsi group are claiming that genocide against them is in the making.

Recognizing that April 2004 is the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda,

Then, 200 Armenian merchants were killed as a part of a systematic campaign of genocide by the Ottoman authorities.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, I presented a five point action plan to prevent genocide.

The memory of recent instances of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross and flagrant violations of human rights should never fade from our minds.

We can detect early symptoms of genocide, reject them and take timely, firm measures to overcome social and international injustices of all kinds.

In Colombia, coca leaf cultivation has decreased continuously as a result of a rigorous eradication programme coupled with the government led forest warden programme.

Thus millions of innocent people fell victim to the brutality of the Armenian nationalists. At present, 31 March is marked in our country as a day of genocide of the Azerbaijanis.

On several occasions since 1945, we have witnessed instances of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The concern of the Government and people of Rwanda, particularly the genocide survivors, is that the perpetrators of the genocide not be allowed to evade justice.

She stated that there was evidence that war crimes and atrocities might have occurred, although there was no finding of a policy of genocide.

So let us end genocide as we know it by stopping genocides, but also by abandoning the crime of genocide.

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.

Former Lebanese president Amine Gemayel stated in 2011 that Christians had become the target of genocide after dozens of Christians were killed in deadly attacks in Egypt and Iraq.

Clearly, the international community cannot and should not sit idly by when faced with the heinous crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) The Jewish Holocaust is the paradigmatic case of genocide, a crime that until that time lacked a definition and did not allow for legal recourse.

The Tribunal is committed to bringing to justice those persons who were the alleged architects of the genocide and violations of international humanitarian law committed in Rwanda in 1994.

The legal concept of genocide is so incoherent, so harmful to the purposes that international law serves, that it would be better if we had never invented it.

Rafal Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer who established the concept of genocide and invented the term, would have disagreed he called the Ukrainian famine a classic case of Soviet genocide.

Auschwitz will forever be engraved in the history of humanity as a symbol of utter contempt for humanity and of genocide. Auschwitz was the most horrific expression of a system blinded by racial insanity which brought untold suffering upon the people.

Next, Tudor headed a PRM delegation to lay a wreath at Auschwitz, where the one time Holocaust denier declared that Jews had been exterminated in Romania.

To our dismay, however, we cannot deny that even today we are witnessing genocide and many crimes against humanity, from Srebrenica to Kigali to Darfur.

Brightman often used the phrase, Indian Power , and believed that a militant tone was justified, given the long history of genocide and abuse suffered by Native Americans at the hands of the United States government.

A world without hunger or poverty one that offers everyone a healthy life, education and dignity a world free from oppression and discrimination, without war or genocidal blockades, where the exploitation of the weak has been eliminated.

The date of 26 February 2005 will mark the thirteenth anniversary of the Khojaly genocide a bloody crime against humanity committed by Armenian nationalists, the monstrous slaughter of the peaceful inhabitants of the town of Khojaly.

None of the Hague Conventions mentioned genocide, nor could the massacres that had taken place be properly judged or their perpetrators punished owing to the lack of a legal definition of genocide.

Our decisions on the responsibility to protect are a courageous step forward in international relations, but more importantly, they are an offer of hope to those most vulnerable to genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The responsibility to protect is our joint commitment to an individual's right to life, and a promise that he or she will not fall victim to genocide, war crimes or ethnic cleansing while the rest of the world goes about its business as usual.

The Government is convinced that as the world prepares to commemorate the genocide of 1994 for the eleventh year, Rwandans deserve to have the threat of genocide removed from them once and for all.

The Burundian parties to the negotiations also agreed that the Government of Burundi should request the Security Council to establish an international criminal tribunal to bring to justice and punish the guilty should the report establish that acts of genocide, war crimes and other crimes against humanity had occurred.

In the letter, the German government is urged to make concrete steps towards changing their current foreign policy in the Middle East. This was and still is shaped by Germany s historical guilt stemming from the Nazis' systematic genocide of millions of Jews during World War II.

Endorsing the Secretary General's Action Plan to Prevent Genocide, including, inter alia, swift and military action in extreme cases, presented to the Commission on Human Rights on 7 April 2004 the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide recalling that the international community had failed to prevent the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica because of lack of will,

An international convention against that crime has not prevented the kind of thinking that leads to genocide, the violence that sparks genocide, the injustices that make it possible or the interests that allow a genocide to be sustained over time.

Women who go to get firewood in order to heat the humanitarian aid in order to feed their families humanitarian aid, the dirty secret of it is it has to be heated, really, to be edible are themselves subjected to rape, which is a tool of the genocide that is being used.

Ms. Dempster (New Zealand), noting the priority accorded to genocide, massacres and ethnic cleansing in the report and drawing attention to paragraphs 30, 76 and 77, said that an early warning mechanism would be particularly useful in preventing such crimes.

In the world we are all trying to create, how could it ever be acceptable to allow genocide, war crimes or gross violations of international humanitarian law to proceed with impunity? The principle of the responsibility to protect must surely be part of the answer.

Although I am a physicist, I began to study demography about15 years ago, in the belief that the key global problem was not so much the threat of nuclear annihilation as the dynamics of population growth. It was a grim recognition that Russia faces the opposite problem a rapid decline in population that threatens every aspect of Russian life.

This Convention defines genocide as () acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group , and in such cases includes deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part .

So, while I can't automatically say that Britain will rush to the aid of any citizen of any country, in danger, I can say that Britain is in a position where we're working with other countries so that this idea that you have a responsibility to protect people who are victims of either genocide or humanitarian attack, is something that is accepted by the whole world.