Sentence examples for constitutes genocide from inspiring English sources

"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.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 6 — The United Nations and Sudan announced Thursday that the government and Darfur rebel leaders would hold peace negotiations next month to seek an end to a conflict that many in the world contend constitutes genocide.

And in the demotic man-on-the-street understanding of what constitutes genocide, ordering the massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men as part of a long campaign to drive the Bosnian Muslims out of Bosnian Serb-held territory doesn't seem to stretch the definition too much.

14 U.N. Passes Sudan Resolution The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Sudan, holding out the threat of sanctions on the country's leaders and its oil industry if the government fails to curb ethnic violence and setting up an inquiry into whether that violence constitutes genocide.

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

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

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.