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In the Netherlands, the Schoof cabinet is installed with Dick Schoof taking office as the new prime minister.
2024-07-2

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom formally join the genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Myanmar, accusing Myanmar's military junta of committing genocide against the Rohingya people.
2023-11-17

Three human rights organisations, Al Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court calling for the court to consider apartheid and genocide in its investigation of the ongoing situation in Palestine.
2023-11-9

Former Rwandan army major Pierre-Claver Karangwa is arrested in the Netherlands for his role in the 1994 genocide in Mugina, Rwanda, where thousands of people were killed.
2023-10-3

The trial of Ali Kushayb, one of the suspects in the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, begins at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Kushayb pleads not guilty.
2022-04-5

The Dutch House of Representatives votes to recognize the Chinese government's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority as genocide, becoming the first European Union country to do so.
2021-02-25

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of the Netherlands is awarded the 2020 International Booker Prize for their novel "The Discomfort of Evening".
2020-08-26

The Netherlands halts funding of the Syrian opposition and police forces, saying the chances of them winning the war are "extremely limited". Dutch support for the White Helmets will also end in December 2018.
2018-09-10

A KLM Boeing 777 flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Amsterdam, Netherlands encounters severe turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean causing injuries to four occupants.
2018-04-1

Duterte rejects claims that he is inciting genocide with his anti-drug campaign.
2016-08-29