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Reporter's Notebook: Rwandan's Trial Triggers Memories Of Genocide

4:10pm April 09, 2019

by Jackie Northam

NPR's Jackie Northam describes what it was like recently sitting across a courtroom from a man accused of atrocities in Rwanda, 25 years after she covered the genocide.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

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Radovan Karadzic Gets Life As Hague Court Upholds Genocide Conviction

2:22pm March 20, 2019

by Sylvia Poggioli

Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader's conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Bar chart showing 30 countries considered "high risk" for genocide, according to The Early Warning Project. Leading the list: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Egypt, South Sudan and Pakistan.

Is Genocide Predictable? Researchers Say Absolutely

10:30am December 20, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Scholars at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum say that mass killings follow predictable patterns. They're using a computer model to track where the next genocide is likely to occur.

Myanmar border guard police patrol the fence in the "no man's land" zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state, during a government-organized visit for journalists on Aug. 24. A new U.N. report finds that Myanmar's military

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Myanmar's Military Leaders Should Be Tried For Genocide, U.N. Investigators Say

2:52pm August 27, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

A new report on the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims suggests six Myanmarese commanders be prosecuted. Investigators also say civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi did nothing to stop the attacks.

The people of Rwanda are required to take part in the national cleanup day, Umuganda, on the last Saturday of every month. (Above) Getting grass under control in Kigali, the capital city.

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How Rwanda Tidied Up Its Streets (And The Rest Of The Country, Too)

4:12pm July 18, 2018

by Amy Yee

On the last Saturday of the month, citizens must spend three hours beautifying the nation. Some people question the authoritarian approach. But the results are impressive.

A quarter million Herero are estimated to live in Namibia today, with the population growing in recent years.

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Why The Herero Of Namibia Are Suing Germany For Reparations

5:16pm May 06, 2018

by Daniel A. Gross

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're still fighting to regain what they lost.

The idea behind "Musekeweya", or the New Dawn, is to do the opposite of what the government's notorious "hate radio" did 20 years ago as it stoked ethnic hatred during the genocide carried out by Hutu extremists.

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Romeo & Juliet In Kigali: How A Soap Opera Sought To Change Behavior In Rwanda

11:06pm April 16, 2018

How do you convince a generation of people who once slaughtered each other to reconcile? In Rwanda, a team of psychologists, writers and policymakers came up with an unusual idea: a radio soap opera.

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Patrick Desbois began investigating Nazi crimes because of his family history. His grandfather was deported to a work camp in Ukraine during World War II but never spoke about what had happened. "So I decided to go there one day," he says, "and that's whe

After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis

7:00am March 18, 2018

by Eleanor Beardsley

Patrick Desbois has spent the last 15 years uncovering details of Nazi massacres in Eastern Europe and Russia. Using the same methods, the priest is now uncovering ISIS crimes against Yazidis.

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Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait squashed against each other to receive food handouts distributed to children and women by a Turkish aid agency at Thaingkhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, in October.

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AP Investigation Details Shocking Massacre, Mass Graves Of Myanmar Rohingya

4:36am February 01, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The Associated Press interviewed more than two dozen refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, some of whom had time-stamped cellphone videos backing claims of several mass graves.

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi gives a speech this month in Beijing. The U.N. human rights chief says she could be held responsible for her country's brutal treatment of the Rohingya.

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U.N. Human Rights Chief: Aung San Suu Kyi Could Be Culpable For Genocide

3:53pm December 18, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Amid her country's brutal treatment of the Rohingya, Myanmar civilian leader Suu Kyi's once-saintlike reputation has taken a steep dive.