Sentence examples for constitute genocide from inspiring English sources

In a landmark case in 1998, the Rwandan tribunal ruled that "rape and sexual violence constitute genocide".

Bitter debate over the fate of the Ottoman Armenians did the mass killings of 1915 constitute genocide?—has fuelled decades of enmity.

In a recent report, Guy Horton, a human-rights activist, argues that these abuses are systematic, deliberate and aimed specifically at ethnic minorities, and so constitute genocide.

That October, a United Nations Commission of Experts found that the "concerted, planned, systematic and methodical" acts of "mass extermination perpetrated by Hutu elements against the Tutsi group" in Rwanda "constitute genocide".

But it said that the massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serb troops at Srebrenica in 1995 did constitute genocide, and it denounced Serbia for failing to prevent it.

But bitter arguments over the fate of the Ottoman Armenians did the mass killings of 1915 constitute genocide?—together with lingering border disputes have stood in the way of formal ties.

Moreover, the tribunal has ruled that the massacre at Srebrenica constituted genocide.

"We strongly reject any suggestion that any part of this documentary constitutes genocide denial".

Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has commissioned independent observers to assess whether the violence in Darfur constitutes genocide.

The modern position, however, is that it is not up to governments to decide what constitutes genocide.

The world was slow to acknowledge the problem, but in September 2004, the Bush administration stated that the carnage constituted genocide.