genocide

Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028. The conflict, from 1960 to 1996, resulted in over 200,000 deaths and 45,000 disappearances, recognized as genocide by the U.N. Arévalo inherited a stalled reparations program from previous administrations.

The concept and practice of the U.S. government deciding what to recognize as a genocide is profoundly political, both in contemporary and historical cases.

Speaking about easing restrictions on higher-ethanol gasoline amid spiking fuel costs, Biden said prices shouldn't "hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away."

Pope Francis met with Indigenous leaders and survivors of Canada's residential schools this week. He had expressed sorrow in the past on behalf of the church, but this is the first formal apology.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the determination at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Parsley tells the story of a family trapped in the 1937 massacre of Black Haitians in the Dominican Republic ordered by the brutal and racist dictator Rafael Trujillo.

The Guatemalan film "1991," which just premiered in Miami, recalls horrific — but lesser known — racist violence that stalked the country's streets during its civil war.