Nov 16 - By Melissa Eddy, Associated Press Writer
Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo.
Nov 16 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

Nov 8 - By Associated Press
Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide.
Oct 29 - By Amy Luft, Associated,Press,Writer
A Rwandan man who was the first person convicted under a law allowing people in Canada to be tried for war crimes committed abroad has been sentenced to life in prison.

Oct 14 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
A top suspect accused of forming secret death squads and orchestrating the killings of thousands during Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to war crimes charges.
Oct 8 - By Associated Press
A Ugandan official says the country wants to claim a $5 million reward offered by the United States for the capture of a Rwandan genocide suspect.
Oct 6 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
A look at some of the top suspects and convicts in Rwanda's 1994 genocide:

Oct 5 - By Godfrey Olukya, Associated Press Writer
A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide — including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen — has been captured, police said Tuesday.
Oct 2 - By Associated Press
A federal appeals court in New York has ruled that a lawsuit alleging that a Canadian energy company aided genocide in its pursuit of oil in Sudan was properly thrown out.
Oct 1 - By Stephen Majors, Associated Press Writer
An Armenian-American congressional challenger made false campaign statements with reckless disregard for the truth when he said an Ohio congresswoman took money from the Turkish government and Turkish government-sponsored interests, the Ohio Elections Commission found Thursday.
Oct 1 - By Stephen Majors, Associated Press Writer
An Ohio congressional candidate defended statements he made about a state congresswoman, telling an election panel Thursday he had reason to believe she took money from Turkish government-sponsored interests in return for a denial that the country committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.
Sep 23 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded not guilty on Monday to crimes against humanity at a U.N. tribunal trying the alleged masterminds of the slaughter.
Sep 3 - By Stephen Majors, Associated Press Writer
The Turkish government covertly funneled campaign money to an Ohio congresswoman in return for her denials that the mass killings of Armenians during World War I constituted genocide, an Armenian American and his high-powered attorney argued at a state hearing Thursday.
Aug 31 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
A Rwandan businessman went on trial Monday for allegedly ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter, and watching as they were crushed or hunted down by armed gangs.

Aug 17 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
The brother of a New Zealander tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge three decades ago told the man who ordered the execution on Monday that he wished him a similarly gruesome fate.

Aug 3 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
A former security guard at the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison told a tribunal Wednesday he watched as a Western prisoner was burned alive.
Jul 14 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
A U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced a former governor in Rwanda to life in prison Tuesday after finding that he was one of the main perpetrators of genocide in the African country in 1994.

Jul 8 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
A woman tortured by the Khmer Rouge testified Wednesday that she has spent most of her life trying to forget the horrors she endured in the 1970s and never spoke of the past, even to her husband and children.

Jun 28 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
A man who was a child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center 30 years ago testified Thursday at the trial of the facility's commander that he hid under a pile of clothes to escape a final purge of inmates before Vietnamese troops ended the regime's reign of terror.
Jun 22 - By Sukhdev Chhatbar, Associated Press Writer
A U.N. court trying alleged masterminds of Rwanda's genocide sentenced a former interior minister to 30 years in prison Monday for tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill, only to watch them get slaughtered by militias.
Jun 14 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot personally ordered the killing and burning of four Western prisoners who were captured while sailing in Cambodian waters, a former prison chief on trial for crimes against humanity testified Wednesday.
Jun 13 - By Stephen Singer, AP Business Writer
Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual — some say risky — move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the U.S. should label Turkey's slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide.
Jun 8 - By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press Writer
Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could never take revenge for their parents' deaths, the group's chief jailer testified Monday.

Jun 5 - By Associated Press
President Barack Obama says the international community has an obligation to stop genocide, even when it's inconvenient.