Sources: The Guardian
The French Senate votes to recognize the 1932 Holodomor famine as a "genocide" of Ukrainians. 2023-05-17
Canada's House of Commons approves a motion by 266 to zero votes, formally recognizing that China is committing genocide against its Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and most of his Cabinet did not participate in the vote. An amendment to the bill also calls for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved from Beijing if the genocide continues. 2021-02-22
Radovan Karadžić starts his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes at the UN court at The Hague. 2018-04-23
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
U.S. Department of Justice immigration Judge Jose A. Sanchez in Boston, Massachusetts, approves an extradition request from the government of Guatemala for Juan Alicio Samayoa Cabrera, who is wanted for trial for war crimes. 2018-03-29
A United Nations official accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya. 2016-11-24
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing at least three deaths. 2014-07-7
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
Guatemala issues arrest warrants for 18 former senior officials and policemen who killed 7 prisoners in 2006. 2010-08-10