CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS ON GENOCIDE
The Landmark Mugesera Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, 28 June 2005. This judgment upheld the denial of eligibility for permanent residence in Canada to Léon Mugesera of Rwanda. It is of special interest for its discussion of the legal meaning of incitement to murder, to genocide and to hatred, as well as its application of crimes against humanity to persecutory speech.
Mugesera Judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada
Frank Chalk's Brief concerning the Treatment by the Turkish Government of Citizens of Armenian Origin
"Mr. Bahaban reclaims history: Fight to revert to Armenian name results in broader victory, for truth" by Harry Dikranian, The Montreal Gazette, Editorial/Op-Ed, June 26, 2000, B3
Declaration by the Stockholm International Forum 2004
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Program Data Center report: "Guatamala: Memory of Silence." Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification. Entire text available in Spanish. Conclusions and Recommendations available in English and Spanish.
Guatemala: Memory of Silence
David Irving vs. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt -- Complete Judgment
The Nizkor Project
The 1949 Geneva Conventions and additional protocols
Genocide Judgement from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia against Radislav Krstic
Krstic - Judgement
House of Lords Session 1998-99 Publications on the Internet Opinions of the Lords of Appeal for Judgment in the Cause Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others Ex Parte Pinochet (Respondent) Regina v. Evans and Another and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others (Appelants) Ex Parte Pinochet (Respondent) (On Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division) On 24 March 1999.
Human Rights Watch, Leave No One to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, 1999 report on the failure to prevent the Rwanda genocide.
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Human Rights Watch Report, March 1999)
Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
Responsibility to Protect- Engaging Civil Society: The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity is an international commitment by governments to prevent and react to grave crises, wherever they may occur. In 2005, world leaders agreed, for the first time, that states have a primary responsibility to protect their own populations and that the international community has a responsibility to act when these governments fail to protect the most vulnerable. The Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society (R2PCS) project works to advance Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and to promote concrete policies to better enable governments, regional organizations and the U.N. to protect vulnerable populations.
Responsibility to Protect
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Includes link to a table of countries that have signed on to the Convention, and the text of their reservations.
OHCHR - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
"The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction." A National Security Archive Briefing Book, Edited by William Ferroggiaro, August 20, 2001.
The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur to the United Nations Secretary-General
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