Sentence examples for constituted genocide from inspiring English sources

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

This week the French Senate passed a bill to make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide.

That was until she sponsored a bill that would make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide.

Much of their wealth went to Muslim Turks.William Schabas, a professor of human rights in Galway, Ireland, says the 1915 killings constituted genocide.

It said: "There are repeated references to the mass killings of Tutsis by Hutus in 1994 and that this constituted genocide.

It concluded that attacks on specific indigenous groups constituted genocide because the strategy was to kill as many members of these groups as possible.

"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.

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.