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Genocide

September

Sudanese children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border.

A genocide is under way in Sudan yet the world is silent

When an Arab militia rampaged through Maryam Suleiman’s village in the Darfur region of Sudan last year, “so many men were killed, like grains of sand”.

  • Nicholas Kristof

January

Pro-Israel demonstrators march towards the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.

Germany invokes the Holocaust in defence of Israel

Germany has emerged as one of Israel’s most vehement supporters after South Africa brought a charge of genocide.

  • Updated
  • Gerald Imray

June 2021

Orange shirts made in honour of the 215 residential school children whose remains were discovered in Kamloops in May.

More than 600 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

The discovery is the second site of unmarked graves found in as many months, a legacy of Canada’s effort to assimilate Indigenous people and their culture.

  • Jim Morris

April 2021

During last year’s presidential campaign, Biden promised to “recognise the Armenian Genocide and make universal human rights a top priority”.

Biden tells Erdogan he’ll call Armenian massacre a genocide

President Joe Biden would be the first US president in 40 years to publicly recognise the 1915 mass killings as a genocide.

  • Onur Ant, Jennifer Jacobs and Gregory Korte