Genocide

History explains the scale of the Russian military's destruction and the coordinated campaign to erase Ukrainian national identity and the Ukrainian state.

"Your poor babies. Can you hear them crying close by?"

Historic events must be taught to students today, regardless of who is the oppressor or the victim.

Russian President Vladimir Putin'sVla troops have long been separating families and detaining anyone in the occupied territories suspected of pro-Ukrainian sentiments.

A college professor who has fought for Ukraine since the war's inception plans to continue until Russia's "complete destruction."

After years of hostility, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to "reestablish relations" in a deal brokered by China, a nation that has shown little love for Islam within its borders.

Jo Ingabire Moys tells Newsweek about surviving genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994.

This is the same city that, in 2022, Boychenko called "one of the worst genocides of civilians in modern history."

A quick rule of thumb: whenever you read a sentence that begins with "The Jews," or words to that effect, it is in all likelihood the beginning of an antisemitic rant.

If the blockade continues, mothers will need to prepare for war. But these mothers want to prepare for peace.

As in 1453 with the siege of Constantinople, the destiny of regions, continents, and value systems lies in brittle balance.

Since Monday, 120,000 ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave have been held under siege as Azerbaijan has blocked the humanitarian Lachin corridor, their only link to Armenia and the outside world, and cut off their gas supply as temperatures plummet to freezing levels.

Ericsson is being sued by 528 U.S. service men and women, as well as civilians.

The international community has a deeply moral responsibility toward "never again"—one it has never been able to exercise.

"International companies which remain working in Russia are directly funding Russian war crimes and genocide," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

Survivors of Russia's siege of Mariupol told Newsweek how they were forcibly relocated to Russia, and how some eventually escaped westwards.

Why then do some people—even some decent people—refuse to recognize the Armenian genocide? Turkish authorities have done everything in their power to pressure individuals and countries not to acknowledge this genocide.

As a global proponent of human rights, the lynchpin of the rules-based international order and home of up to 3 million Americans of Greek origin, the U.S. should commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe on Sept. 14, 2022, and recognize the Greek genocide.

The Rohingya have been pushed to the brink of extinction. More than one million people languish in overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, while the military that committed these atrocities is more powerful than ever, having carried out a coup against the civilian government in 2021. The world must act now to prevent this ongoing genocide against us—starting with supporting the international justice efforts that have provided a ray of hope.

Uyghur groups that accuse Beijing of crimes against humanity have taken their case to a court in Argentina.

Between 1627 and 2015, the small town bore the name of Castrillo Matajudíos or "Fort Kill the Jews," according to historians.

We ask the international community to support accountability and help Yazidis safely return to their homes, or if that is not possible, to accept them as refugees.

Global recognition of the Yazidi genocide was always meant to only be the beginning.

Seventy percent of Russia's attacks on Ukraine have hit civilian targets, according to numbers from Ukrainian military officials.

"I've heard talks that, you know, there is no threat anymore because they have exhausted themselves. No, they haven't," Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said.

Bergen-Belsen symbolizes the Nazis' unimaginable horrors and reminds us that genocide and crimes against humanity have not altogether vanished, as is the case with Ukraine.

"80% of the guys in our unit speak Russian amongst themselves, but 100% of us are united against Russia and against Putin," Ukrainian soldier says.

Given the current state of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the crimes against humanity, it is recommended that normative recognition of war crimes as genocide should not be delayed any further.

Rewarding despots like Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan with foreign aid, sends the wrong message to the world.

Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of Putin's political party, described Russia as "the embodiment of the forces of good."