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Will the final Khmer Rouge ruling close a dark chapter?

Last week, a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia upheld a genocide conviction for 91-year-old Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Bangkok Post

‘Even their remains should be in handcuffs’: Khmer Rouge vilified

Cambodians reflect after the UN-backed war crimes tribunal issued its final judgement on the regime’s brutal rule.

Al Jazeera

A UN-backed tribunal on Khmer Rouge crimes just confirmed the conviction of key leader Khieu Samphan. What now?

A United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has just concluded its largest trial, concerning crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The tribunal’s appeal judges yesterday confirmed the conviction against 91-year-old Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, for his role in these crimes.

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Dear Abby: I’m angry that my beloved grandma took an awful job

The older woman, dead more than 40 years, was wonderful to her granddaughter but also worked at a boarding school that could have practiced abuse and cultural genocide.

Chicago Sun-Times

Court upholds genocide conviction for last surviving Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan

The final verdict brings a close to a court process which stretched 16 years, cost $500 million and resulted in the conviction of three senior Khmer Rouge leaders.

ABC News

Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan loses genocide appeal

Ruling marks the final decision by the court and ends 16 years of work by the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

Al Jazeera

Cambodia court rejects genocide appeal of last surviving Khmer Rouge leader

Judge upholds conviction of Khieu Samphan, 91, in what is likely to be UN-backed court’s last judgment

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Many refugees dealing with trauma face obstacles to mental health care

As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border.

Tribune News Service

Chinese officials barred from Westminster Hall after protest by Scottish peer

CHINESE officials have been barred from entering Westminster Hall ahead of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, following a letter of protest signed by…

The National (Scotland)

Local Armenians protest US assistance to Azerbaijan’s military forces

Demonstrators supporting Armenia protest outside the Azerbaijani consulate on Wilshire Boulevard.

Los Angeles Times

Anger as Chinese leaders invited to Queen's funeral - despite Ambassador's Parliament ban

A group of MPs and peers said it was 'extraordinary that the architects of genocide' against Uighur Muslims were asked to attend the Queen's funeral

Daily Mirror

‘An insult to the Queen’: Senior Tories condemn China’s invitation to funeral

Demand that China’s representatives are barred from parliament – after it voted to recognise Uighur ‘genocide’

The Independent UK

U.N. investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information

The head of a U.N. team of investigators on Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook has handed over millions of items that could support allegations of war crimes and genocide.

Reuters

College professor under fire for Queen’s death tweet stands by criticism of monarchy

Dr Uju Anya received racist and misogynistic backlash to remarks on monarchy and genocide

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Commentary: China’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs must not go ignored

The international community should make China a pariah for its crimes against the Uyghur population. Last month’s report from the U.N. Human Rights Office says China’s actions could constitute crimes against humanity. The United States and others have called it genocide.

Radio France Internationale

French judges drop Rwanda massacre charges against army peacekeepers

French judges have dropped a case against French soldiers deployed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The men had been accused of complicity in crimes against humanity.

Reuters

Paris prosecutors close investigation of French army over Rwanda genocide

French prosecutors have found no evidence that members of the French armed forces played a role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and have decided against re-opening a case over the issue, the French Public Prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The Conversation

UN report on China's abuse of Uyghurs is stronger than expected but missing a vital word: genocide

The long-awaited UN report into human rights abuses committed in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was finally published last week to a mixed reception. For some – principally the Chinese government – it went too far. Others thought it didn’t go far enough.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Our people are still trapped’: Uyghur exiles demand action on abuses

Campaigners criticise failure of UN report to label China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities genocide

France 24

US says China must be 'held to account' after UN report on Xinjiang abuse

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that a long-awaited UN report on human rights violations in China's Xinjiang province reaffirmed Washington's view that Beijing is committing "genocide" against the Uyghurs.

The Guardian - UK

Lawyer criticises UN report’s failure to call Uyghur oppression ‘genocide’

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says outgoing human rights chief’s report on China makes it easier for international community to do nothing

Bangkok Post

Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.

The Guardian - UK

UK asylum seeker deal leaves Rwanda hostel residents homeless

Survivors of Rwandan genocide were told to vacate hostel two days after Priti Patel signed £120m deal

WEKU

The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus

The "Man of the Hole" lived in isolation and resisted contact for decades after the rest of his tribe was massacred. His death precedes Brazil's elections, where Indigenous rights are on the ballot.

The Independent UK

Pensioner, 80, says she would be ‘better off dead’ than trying to cope with soaring winter energy bills

Struggling Britons have warned of ‘economic genocide’ in wake of energy cap announcement that could see bills jump 80%

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