Sources: The Guardian
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announces that Colombia suspends the purchase of armament from Israeli manufacturers and declared the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip as a genocide. 2024-02-29
South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. 2023-12-29
Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts, leaving at least 62 people dead, 300 others injured, and forces the closure of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City. 2018-06-3
The trial of Guatemalan ex-ruler Efraín Ríos Montt, accused of genocide during the civil war in the 1980s, ends abruptly with the defendant's death. 2018-04-1
The death toll at the fire at an orphanage in San José Pinula, Guatemala, rises to at least 35 children. 2017-03-10
The German Bundestag passes a resolution classifying the Ottoman Empire's killing of Armenians in 1915 as genocide, provoking a furious reaction in Turkey. 2016-06-2
Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturns a genocide conviction against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt due to a dispute over jurisdiction. 2013-05-20
A Guatemala court finds former military leader Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentences him to 80 years in prison. 2013-05-10
The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico. 2011-02-8
Mexican Drug War: The Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel threatens to launch a war in northern Guatemala where the government declared a "state of siege". 2010-12-29