The German parliament has approved a resolution declaring the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a “genocide”.
Even now, 100 years on, the slaughter of 1.5m Ottoman Armenians which began in April 1915 has two of the world’s most powerful people at loggerheads.
A Dutch court has ruled that the Netherlands is liable for the deaths of more than 300 Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Hercegovina in July 1995.
The guilty verdict against Efraín Ríos Montt, former leader of Guatemala, for genocide and crimes against humanity is an unprecedented step toward establishing accountability for atrocities during the country’s brutal civil war.
The genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt came to an abrupt halt on April 18 as a judge ruled all proceedings to date invalid, with the witnesses who testified for the prosecution – survivors of mass rape and massacres – would have to testify again if the trial were to proceed.