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What You Do Matters: Confronting Genocide Today Event in NYC
May 22, 2013
The Museum is hosting a panel discussion in New York City featuring Judge Thomas Buergenthal, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, international jurist and law professor, and Eugenie Mukeshimana, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network.
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José Efraín Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Overturned
May 22, 2013
On Monday, May 21, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court set aside the May 10 conviction of former military ruler José Efrain Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, ordering the trial court to reconvene the trial from where it stood on April 19.
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Verdict in Case of Former Guatemalan Military Ruler Charged with Genocide
May 14, 2013
A Guatemalan court has convicted former military ruler José Efrain Ríos Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against Mayan communities during the fiercest fighting in the country’s long civil war.
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Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Burma
May 3, 2013
A recent Human Rights Watch report describes crimes against humanity being committed against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State as well as organized attempts to ethnically cleanse this population.
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White House Delivers Update on Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention Efforts
May 2, 2013
As the fact sheet illustrates, preventing the world’s worst crimes requires a broad set of policies and actions.
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A Conversation with Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken
April 30, 2013
In his role on the National Security Council, Antony Blinken, a descendent of Holocaust survivors, plays an instrumental role in formulating US government policy for preventing genocide and mass atrocities.
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Iran and Inciting Genocide
April 5, 2013
Michael Gerson focuses attention on the inflammatory rhetoric of Iranian leadership, suggesting that it is not only hate speech, but may also border on incitement to genocide.
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UN Approves Arms Trade Treaty
April 2, 2013
In a landmark agreement, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which seeks to keep weapons out of the hands of would-be perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, or other war crimes.
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Danger of Escalating Sectarian Violence in Burma
March 29, 2013
The outbreak of violence between Buddhists and Muslims in central Burma last week indicates that there is “considerable risk” of further sectarian violence in the country.
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Is Genocide in Syria’s Future?
March 25, 2013
In June 2012, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed grave concern about the escalating violence in Syria and warned that the increasingly sectarian nature of that violence could, if unchecked, lead to genocide.
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