Genocide
The Tigray War May Be One of the Deadliest Conflicts of This Century
Editor’s Note: The following article is adapted from the introduction to The New Line Institute for Strategy and Policy’s recently published report “Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of International Law...
Serbian Officials Threaten Violence If UN Adopts Srebrenica Resolution
Recent attempts by the United Nations (UN) to pass a resolution commemorating the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide have been met with vehement opposition from Serbian officials. This constitutes not...
The House Quietly Recognizes Russia’s Ukraine War as Genocide. Now What?
On Tuesday, March 19, the House of Representatives passed Res. 149, “Condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” This event drew little...
The UN’s Court Can’t Rise Above Legal Politics
Given the steep rise in global anti-Israel and anti-Semitic prejudice, South Africa may well win its genocide case against the Jewish state in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or...
Israel, Palestine, and the “G-Word”
This week, the International Court of Justice begins consideration of whether the devastation and deprivation that Israel is inflicting on the Gaza Strip constitute genocide. The impetus for the ICJ...
Charging Israel with Genocide is Orwellian
Three months after a genocidal, anti-semitic terrorist group slaughtered 1,200 of its citizens in a barbaric fashion, Israel sits in the docket of the International Court of Justice, accused of...
Ukraine’s Children Are Central to Peace Negotiations with Russia
The International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin for the abduction of Ukrainian children is groundbreaking—the issue has not nearly gotten sufficient public...
Tolerating Holocaust Denial Erodes Democracy
As scholars of genocide will line up to tell you, Holocaust denial is never just Holocaust denial. It is always accompanied by other things. If the historians “lied” about the...
Can America Prevent Genocide in Ethiopia?
For nearly two years, a war has raged in Ethiopia as the elected government has fought to suppress a rebellion by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The conflict began...
America Can’t Turn Away From the Hazara Genocide
The September 30 attack on the Kaaj Educational Center in Kabul has triggered a global wave of grassroots protests against violence toward Hazaras in Afghanistan. These protests have demonstrated the...
Law Is On Armenia’s Side in Nagorno-Karabakh
Military skirmishes erupted this week in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani forces sought to destabilize and seize Armenian-populated territory. Azerbaijan and its cheerleaders in the West say that Azerbaijan is...
UN Faces ‘Tremendous Pressure’ Over Xinjiang Human Rights Report
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet indicated during her final press conference on Thursday that the international organization’s human rights commission had experienced “tremendous pressure” regarding...