The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday reduced the life sentence handed down on a former Rwandan public prosecutor and ex-ICTR staffer to 40 years. Simeon Nshamihigo, a 50-year-old ethnic Hutu, was at the time of the genocide deputy public prosecutor in the south western Rwandan town of Cyangugu. When he was arrested in May 2001, he was ...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday upheld the 15-year prison sentence handed down on the famous Rwandan singer Simon Bikindi. On December 2, 2008 Bikindi was found guilty of direct public incitement to commit genocide for a speech he made from a vehicle equipped with loudspeakers in late June 1994 on a road in northwestern Rwanda. "The ...

A congressional resolution that would recognize World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide could go forward despite opposition from the Obama administration. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon told reporters there is no deal with Democratic congressional leaders to block the resolution. That contradicts ...

Myanmar on Monday angrily condemned a UN expert's finding that human rights violations there may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry. But the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Quintana, stood by his finding and added that upcoming polls in Myanmar could not be credible given that the ruling junta ...