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Félicien Kabuga: Der meistgesuchte Mann des Völkerstrafrechts und seine Flucht durch Frankfurt

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Am 16. Mai 2020 wurde der mutmaßliche Hauptfinanzier des Völkermordes in Ruanda, Félicien Kabuga, in einem Pariser Vorort festgenommen. Dem wohl meistgesuchten Mann der internationalen Strafjustiz gelang es 26 Jahre lang, sämtlichen staatlichen und internationalen Behörden zu entgehen. Die Spur des heute Mittachtzigjährigen führte zwischen 1994 und 2020 aus Ruanda nach Frankreich, unter anderem über die Demokratische Republik Kongo, die Schweiz und Kenia – und auch über Frankfurt am Main.

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Endangered Future: Yezidis in Post-Genocide Iraq and the Need for International Support

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As the international memory of ISIS’ genocide against the Yezidi population of Şengal in Northern Iraq recedes, its victims have been left to languish increasingly hopelessly, in refugee camps with little realistic prospect of returning to their homes. Tens of thousands of displaced Yezidis remain dispersed across Northern Iraq, hundreds of kidnapped Yezidi girls and women are unaccounted for and the fates of many of their male relatives unknown. In the short term, there is an urgent need for international protection from further attacks, the recognition of a political status for Şengal and immediate aid for refugee camps to create the conditions for Yezidi genocide survivors to return, resettle and gain a sense of political stability and empowerment.

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Is the Work Done? Views from Armenians in Germany on the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

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All around the globe the Armenian Diaspora has been campaigning in their respective countries to recognise the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide but the successor state of the perpetrator – Turkey – continues labelling it as ''so-called'' genocide. After many years of hesitation, Germany became the 25th country to officially adopt a resolution to recognise the Armenian Genocide in 2016. How has this step impacted the perspectives of the Armenian community in Germany?

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Turkey and the “so-called” Armenian Genocide: the politics of denial in European and domestic affairs

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The Armenian Genocide or, as it is labelled in mainstream Turkish discourse, the “so-called Genocide,” continues to fuel political tensions, both internationally and at home. Use of the G-word by governments worldwide invariably provokes a reaction from Ankara, whose genocide denial continues to shape and colour Turkish foreign policy as well as domestic matters. Strikingly enough, however, the most important institution of the Armenians in Turkey has also participated in the politics of denial in recent years. How do the politics of such genocide recognition and denial play out, and what do they imply?

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