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If Mayor Larson are going to come here, then Mayor Larson need to support us as Indigenous people so that Mayor Larson climate solution doesn't end up in our cultural and spiritual genocide. – Karen Diver	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the United States reiterates The United States calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Until they abolish Australia Day then maybe Australia Day will be a bit quieter, at this moment, until this nation celebrates genocide, we will not be silent, we will not stop and we will keep coming. – Lizzie Jarrett	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Biden, who said he would be tough on Beijing’s human rights violations, will have to act against Chinese genocide or pay a political cost for not doing so, everyone will be watching. – Gordon Chang	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have filed a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court over this genocide. The evidence that we have submitted include killings of people, historically, in the past, and even killings of people recently. – Sairagul Sautbay	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The forcing of men, women and children into concentration camps; trying to, in effect, re-educate them to be adherents to the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, all of that speaks to an effort to commit genocide. – Anthony Blinken	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think we’re very much in agreement, the forcing of men, women and children into concentration camps; trying to, in effect, re-educate them to be adherents to the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, all of that speaks to an effort to commit genocide. – Antony Blinken	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
...the bottom line is Columbus Day is just a celebration of genocide. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
National sovereignty is not a license to commit crimes against humanity or genocide. The Rohingya and all of Myanmar’s people, in fact the entire world, is looking at you to take action. – Marzuki Darusman	added by anonymous 3 years ago
She literally looked us in the face and said that the Iranian leaders call for genocide against Israel and Jews was an acceptable form of political discourse, twitter cannot, on the one hand, say it is committed to tackling hate and violence when it continues to provide an unfiltered platform to the Iranian leader to continue espousing calls for genocide and terror. – Arsen Ostrovsky	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Under the current political circumstances, we have difficulties solving some issues - such as the (order) that the government must ensure its military or armed insurgents do not commit genocide or attempt to commit genocide against Rohingya or Bengali. – Myo Nyunt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The court concludes that prima facie it has jurisdiction under the Genocide Convention. – Yusuf Abdulqawi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
How can anyone possibly expect the Tatmadaw to hold itself accountable for genocidal acts against the Rohingya, when six of its top generals including the commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, have all been accused of genocide by the UN fact-finding mission and recommended for criminal prosecution. – Paul Reichler	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have to recognize that we imposed a genocide on tribes and we imposed harsh measures toward any government structure that they had, to me, it's not surprising that it would take somewhat deep into the self-determination era for tribes to be in a position to assert some of these rights. – Ezra Rosser	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Even on Easter Sunday, there are those who sow hatred and reap death. The attacks in Sri Lanka churches testify to a real genocide perpetrated against Christians. Let us pray for the innocent victims and work towards religious freedom around the world. – Sri Lanka	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Mr. Teganya is a good man whose only crime was being a Hutu at the time of the genocide. – Scott Lauer	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is... because of the genocide of millions of people. – Mark Maslin	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think there is more at stake today than even back then, when collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows. We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation. – Steven Spielberg	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The human rights violations committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to the worst atrocities, including crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide. With an almost complete lack of accountability -- indeed with ongoing violations -- returning Rohingya refugees to Myanmar at this point effectively means throwing them back into the cycle of human rights violations that this community has been suffering for decades, the history of the Rohingya in Myanmar is one filled with repeated episodes of violence, flight and return. – Michelle Bachelet	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won't have anything to do with each other... that jealousy turns into hate, and we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what's happening here. – Bill Nelson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is incredible how this regime is starving its own people to death, we have all seen the pictures. We have all seen the videos and the proof of what is happening. Why is the international community not calling this a genocide? Because that is what it is. – Antonio Ledezma	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The ambassador has been here long enough. The ambassador has been denying that genocide happened - he is insulting us and our innocent children who lie here. – Munira Subasic	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

If Mayor Larson are going to come here, then Mayor Larson need to support us as Indigenous people so that Mayor Larson climate solution doesn't end up in our cultural and spiritual genocide.

– Karen Diver

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the United States reiterates The United States calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Until they abolish Australia Day then maybe Australia Day will be a bit quieter, at this moment, until this nation celebrates genocide, we will not be silent, we will not stop and we will keep coming.

– Lizzie Jarrett

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Biden, who said he would be tough on Beijing’s human rights violations, will have to act against Chinese genocide or pay a political cost for not doing so, everyone will be watching.

– Gordon Chang

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have filed a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court over this genocide. The evidence that we have submitted include killings of people, historically, in the past, and even killings of people recently.

– Sairagul Sautbay

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The forcing of men, women and children into concentration camps; trying to, in effect, re-educate them to be adherents to the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, all of that speaks to an effort to commit genocide.

– Anthony Blinken

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think we’re very much in agreement, the forcing of men, women and children into concentration camps; trying to, in effect, re-educate them to be adherents to the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, all of that speaks to an effort to commit genocide.

– Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

...the bottom line is Columbus Day is just a celebration of genocide.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

National sovereignty is not a license to commit crimes against humanity or genocide. The Rohingya and all of Myanmar’s people, in fact the entire world, is looking at you to take action.

– Marzuki Darusman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

She literally looked us in the face and said that the Iranian leaders call for genocide against Israel and Jews was an acceptable form of political discourse, twitter cannot, on the one hand, say it is committed to tackling hate and violence when it continues to provide an unfiltered platform to the Iranian leader to continue espousing calls for genocide and terror.

– Arsen Ostrovsky

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Under the current political circumstances, we have difficulties solving some issues - such as the (order) that the government must ensure its military or armed insurgents do not commit genocide or attempt to commit genocide against Rohingya or Bengali.

– Myo Nyunt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The court concludes that prima facie it has jurisdiction under the Genocide Convention.

– Yusuf Abdulqawi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

How can anyone possibly expect the Tatmadaw to hold itself accountable for genocidal acts against the Rohingya, when six of its top generals including the commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, have all been accused of genocide by the UN fact-finding mission and recommended for criminal prosecution.

– Paul Reichler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have to recognize that we imposed a genocide on tribes and we imposed harsh measures toward any government structure that they had, to me, it's not surprising that it would take somewhat deep into the self-determination era for tribes to be in a position to assert some of these rights.

– Ezra Rosser

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Even on Easter Sunday, there are those who sow hatred and reap death. The attacks in Sri Lanka churches testify to a real genocide perpetrated against Christians. Let us pray for the innocent victims and work towards religious freedom around the world.

– Sri Lanka

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mr. Teganya is a good man whose only crime was being a Hutu at the time of the genocide.

– Scott Lauer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is... because of the genocide of millions of people.

– Mark Maslin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think there is more at stake today than even back then, when collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows. We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation.

– Steven Spielberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The human rights violations committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to the worst atrocities, including crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide. With an almost complete lack of accountability -- indeed with ongoing violations -- returning Rohingya refugees to Myanmar at this point effectively means throwing them back into the cycle of human rights violations that this community has been suffering for decades, the history of the Rohingya in Myanmar is one filled with repeated episodes of violence, flight and return.

– Michelle Bachelet

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won't have anything to do with each other... that jealousy turns into hate, and we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what's happening here.

– Bill Nelson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is incredible how this regime is starving its own people to death, we have all seen the pictures. We have all seen the videos and the proof of what is happening. Why is the international community not calling this a genocide? Because that is what it is.

– Antonio Ledezma

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The ambassador has been here long enough. The ambassador has been denying that genocide happened - he is insulting us and our innocent children who lie here.

– Munira Subasic

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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