Here’s a look at genocide, the attempted or intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, whether in wartime or peace. Facts The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

December 1937-January 1938 – The Japanese Imperial Army marches into Nanking, China ... Union and other areas around Europe during World War II. 1944 – The term “genocide” is coined ...

During World War II, the Japanese forced thousands of women into sexual slavery. Known as the ‘comfort women’, their story is ...

Both men were among 26 tourists shot dead by militants this week in a massacre that has ripped open ... to it would be considered an act of war. Kavita Lele lost her husband Sanjay, 50, and ...

The world's famous are not silent in the face of the terrible massacre of the residents of southern Israel and the abductees taken captive by Hamas in Gaza. Some of them shared photos alongside ...

As Europe marks Victory Day over Nazi Germany, Londoner John Goldsmith still remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the ...