"This gang made a genocide, then they say Hutu-Tutsi, Hutu-Tutsi, and everything is a genocide to them," Major General Paul Kagame, an R.P.F.
The difficulty of making a genocide charge stand up in a Romanian court — and then against any legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France — has raised concerns among those who have long pushed for justice that the case could prove to be yet another false start in the country's fitful efforts to come to terms with its past.
A U.S. administration has not made a genocide finding since 2004, when it determined genocide had occurred in Darfur and that the government of Sudan was responsible.
Vocabulary: Offense, extermination, hourlong, affiliate, outrage, vulnerability, erosion, legitimacy, outlandish, flaws, articulate, ardently, dent, lucidly, capacity, tantamount, condescending, dissidents, envelop, barbarity, painstakingly, deportations, systematic, genocide, censorship Extension Activities: 1. Make a timeline of genocide beginning with the year 1943, when the term was initiated.
[On Thursday, the House and Senate passed measures declaring that the atrocities unfolding in Darfur constituted genocide.] Much of the current disagreement centers on how much evidence is necessary to make a determination of genocide, said Susannah Sirkin, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights.
Didn't the Turks murder enough Armenians to qualify them for a capital H? I wrote a long memorandum to my then editor, Simon Kelner, explaining that it was racist to make a distinction between two genocides; we could not base our definition on the numerical difference between 1,500,000 and 6,000,000.
Should President Bush not take the advice of his predecessor and make a stand to stop the genocide in Sudan?
For example, to comply with the Genocide Convention a country must make genocide a crime within its own legal system.
We want to leave, but will leaving make things worse, even cause a genocide?
Two years later, both houses of Congress passed a bill to make genocide a crime under United States law, and President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.
