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Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014.

Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France

Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and enslaving several women and children from this Kurdish-speaking community in Syria and Iraq.

By Chloé Dubois

Military report supposedly behind the plot that led to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Photo montage combining a portrait of Théoneste Bagosora at a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and a scan of the 1991 report of the ‘Bagosora Commission’.

Justice Info publishes the report supposedly behind the genocide plot in Rwanda

Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.

How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative

Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris

Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide

Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.

Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown

Eugène Rwamucyo, a Rwandan doctor accused in France of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.

Rwamucyo: the eighth Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial opens in France

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When a people’s tribunal tries the People’s Republic of China

Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.

Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide

Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.

Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire”

The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda

Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial

Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.

Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say?

Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).

Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated”

On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read:

At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying

A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.

At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide

Nicaragua considers Germany's support for Israel (by supplying it with arms) to be complicity in genocide. Photo: An Israeli tank in Palestine, near Gaza.

Nicaragua extends the legal battle over Palestine

Rwandan trial in Belgium - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, the accused, drops defence of Georges Rutaganda, also accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: 2 portraits side by side.

Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda

In memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, 30 years on. Photo: At the end of the commemorations, an elder leaves the Mayunzwe memorial and walks down the hill towards the village.

Mayunzwe remembers the "Calvary" of the Tutsis

Trial in Belgium of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accused of genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Nkunduwimye stares into the camera behind his discussing lawyers.

Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial

Reconciliation after the genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Victims of the genocide discuss in the Rwandan hills.

Reconciliation made in Rwanda