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Survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have criticized a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health

“The risk of genocide in India is no longer close to zero,” read an open letter by 17 current and former faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, urging the leaders of corporate India to “de-fund” the misinformation and hate speech spread through news channels and social media. 

The leader of South Africa’s second-largest opposition party is waging a war of words with the world’s richest person after being accused of “pushing for genocide of white people”.

In 2014, a staffer asked that a photo of a convicted war criminal was removed from the premises. The legal saga goes on.

Over 300 homes, businesses and roadside shanties – mainly belonging to Muslims – were bulldozed after communal riots.

Judges say Felicien Kabuga, accused of fuelling the 1994 genocide, is unfit for trial or alternative procedures.

Appeals judges have thrown out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect after he was declared unfit to face trial