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Furious Tory backbenchers tore into Boris Johnson today for using ‘arcane games’ in parliaments to block their attempt to veto trade deals with nations accused of genocide. The China hawks lashed out in the latest round of an ongoing battle within the Conservatives over how hard a line to take against Beijing over its treatment … Read more
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyseus is accused of aiding genocide in Ethiopia: Nobel peace prize nominee lodges complaint with International Criminal Court American economist David Steinman accused WHO chief of being one of three officials who directed Ethopia’s security forces from 2013 to 2015 Tedros, who denies the allegations, was Ethiopia’s foreign minister until 2016 The … Read more
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said the actions of Turkey and Azerbaijan amounted to a ‘terroristic attack’ over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region that formed part of the continuation of Armenian genocide. ‘What we are facing is an Azeri-Turkish international terroristic attack,’ Pashinyan said. ‘To me there is no doubt that this is a policy … Read more
Hotel Rwanda hero who saved 1,200 lives during country’s 1994 genocide and was played by Don Cheadle in the film is arrested on terror charges Paul Rusesabagina, 66, is a well-known critic of President Paul Kagame There was an international arrest warrant for him for crimes including terrorism Police announced his arrest on Monday but … Read more
Historian David Starkey has come under fire after claiming ‘slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa, or in Britain’. The 75-year-old called Black Lives Matter (BLM) ‘wholly and entirely a product of white colonisation’ and its activists ‘not culturally black Africans’. In an interview with Darren Grimes, the … Read more
A 50-year-old statue of Captain Cook is under threat after activists petitioned for it to be torn down over his links to ‘colonialism and genocide’. The statue in Cairns has attracted controversy over the British Royal Navy captain’s treatment of Aboriginal people when his ship landed in Australia. The petition claims the statue is a … Read more