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The parliament of the Netherlands recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide.
2025-06-20

Bolivia formally joins South Africa's case in the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip as genocide, stating it "has a responsibility to condemn the crime of genocide".
2024-10-9

In Guatemala, the Constitutional Court aligns itself with the outgoing ruling party and denies legal recourse to Semilla, affirming that Semilla's elected members of Congress must assume office as "independents", thereby disqualifying them from running for the presidency of the Congress. The legislature of the outgoing Congress subsequently announces a delay in the investiture of the incoming legislature, as well as in the presidential investiture of Bernardo Arévalo.
2024-01-14

Guatemala reports the country's first death from the coronavirus, an 85-year-old man who had recently returned from Spain.
2020-03-15

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

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

Serbia's war crimes court rejects an appeal from former Bosnian Serb Colonel General Ratko Mladić against a transfer to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges.
2011-05-31

The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
2011-02-8

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is arrested on charges such as collaboration with a terrorist organisation and genocide denial.
2010-04-21