Sentence examples for conviction for genocide from inspiring English sources

The verdict was the fifth conviction for genocide by the tribunal dealing with crimes after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

Ten days later, the first conviction for genocide of a former head of state in his own country was quashed on flimsy technicalities.

See articleTrial and errorGuatemala's Constitutional Court threw out the recent conviction for genocide of José Efraín Ríos Montt, a former dictator.

The first international conviction for genocide since Nuremberg came this summer over Rwanda, as did the first steps towards the creation of a standing UN criminal court.

For Mirsad, there is a wider purpose in this work: "To prove that there was genocide in an area where there has been no conviction for genocide".

Though the country is being celebrated internationally for an historic example of justice, it also now suffers the stigma of being one of the few states in the world with a conviction for genocide.

In September the tribunal handed down convictions for genocide against Jean Kambanda, a former Rwandan prime minister who had pleaded guilty, and Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former mayor.

The appeals court in Tanzania said it reversed his convictions for genocide and crimes against humanity because they "violated the most basic and fundamental principles of justice".

During the trial, Mr. Ieng Sary's lawyers argued that he was protected by a pardon, granted in 1996 by King Norodom Sihanouk, absolving him of a conviction in absentia for genocide in a show trial in 1979, shortly after the Khmer Rouge were driven from power by a Vietnamese invasion.

Presiding Judge Oh-Gon Kwon said prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to "be capable of supporting a conviction of genocide".

Although the United Nations war crimes tribunal has convicted more than a dozen people of crimes committed in Srebrenica, it has only once before issued a conviction of genocide.