The genocide attempted against BiH's Muslims has often been used by violent extremists as ISIS to rationalize their current violence against non-Muslims or those they project as offending Islam.
It was an unparalleled modern genocide, an attempt to exterminate an entire people in 100 days.
This Holodomor-as-Ukrainian-Holocaust narrative outrages Russians and the considerable number of Soviet-nostalgist Ukrainians, who see in the accusation of genocide an attempt to undermine their most sacred belief, the moral superiority of the Soviet Union over the Nazis.
Whether or not "genocide" was attempted by the government in Juba, a recent African Union report described atrocities on both sides.
And the passages about the deportations and massacres of Armenians are shocking, as Armanoush finds a city and a country in denial about the genocide, and attempts to make her cousins understand how much the past conditions the present.There's plenty of plot, too, even if it does mostly come in the final third.
BAGHDAD — The special Iraqi court that is trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged the ex-president with genocide for attempting to annihilate the Kurdish race through military operations in 1988 that killed at least 50,000 civilians and destroyed thousands of villages.
Unfortunately, Dith Pran is less fortunate, and endures years of torture and confinement during the ensuing genocide before attempting a daring escape.
The Tutsi genocide was an attempt to exterminate them".
Some observers, he notes, call what has happened in Zimbabwe "politicide": "As genocide is an attempt to wipe out an ethnic group, so politicide is the practice of wiping out an entire political movement".
"The refusal to end the judicial investigation (into downing the plane) and pronounce a dismissal against Rwandan leaders who ended the genocide is an attempt (at) concealing their responsibilities," the commission said.
