The resolutions comes after the Gambia brought a case at the International Court of Justice urging strong action to prevent a genocide  of the Muslim minority.

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United Nations General Assembly resolutions are not binding. The determinations of the 193-member body reflect world option, however.

The resolution, adopted by 134 votes to nine, with 28 abstentions, calls on the Myanmar Government urgently to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.

The Rohingya, who have been in Myanmar for generations have been denied citizenship since 1982.

They are denied freedom of movement and other basic rights.

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Tens of thousands of Hereros and at least 10 000 Namas were killed by the Germans when they revealed between 1904 and 1908.

New York Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that the Herero and Nama claim was inadmissible because of Germany’s sovereignty immunity during its 31-year colonization of Namibia.

Herero chief Vekuii Rukero says the judge was wrong and the ruling would be appealed.

The claim was made in New York because the tribes maintain there is an American commercial involvement in the genocide because bones of the victims were  sold in the  United States.

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It follows the world organization’s human rights chief Zeid Raad al Hussein calling that country the most prolific slaughterhouse of humans in recent times.

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Burundi authorities have given the UN human rights body two months to quit their capital.

A UNHRC report accuses the Burundi regime of involvement in systematic abuses and risk of genocide following President Pierre Nkurunziza’s  decision in 2015 to seek an unconstitutional third term in office.

The commission regrets the decision and says it would have preferred to continue its cooperation with Burundi.

Amnesty International says its deeply disappointed by the Burundi government action  but insists that truth will still get out of the country where thousands of the president’s opponents have been killed. 

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Today’s handover at a Berlin church is the third by the German government that refuses to pay reparations for the  killing of more than 100 000 colonial subjects.

The Herero and Nama people are growing impatient with the German government, that admits the killings of  Hereros and Namaquas in retaliation for their rebellion in 2004 was the first genocide of the 20th century, but refuses to pay reparations.

The skulls of many victims were sent to Germany for scientific research purporting to show the inferior brain capacity of Africans.

The German public broadcaster ARD says the skulls of 1 000 Rwandans and 60 Tanzanians killed during German colonial times are still in Berlin.

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The legal institution is going a step further than it did against South Africa for failing to meet its obligations under the Rome Treaty establishing it.

Sudanese President Omar al Bashir visited Jordan last March for an Arab League summit.

The ICC reminded King Abdullah II that al Bashir is wanted on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Jordan made no attempt to detain the Sudanese leader…

… just as the South African authorities fell foul of the ICC and its own Supreme Court for failing to detain al Bashir when  he was in South Africa for the AU summit in 2015.

In the latter case the ICC rapped South Africa over the knuckles but did not refer the matter to the UN powerhouse.

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As a signatory of the Rome Statute, South Africa’s obliged to hold Bashir who’s wanted by the court for war crimes and genocide in Darfur

The announcement from the Hague follows last year’s dispute when President Omar al Bashir attended an African Union summit.

The Sudanese leader was able to leave despite a South African High Court ruling that he be held pending its judgment.

The Appeal Court’s  accused government of disgraceful conduct and ruled that failure to arrest Bashir was unlawful.

Government maintains Bashir had immunity as an AU head of  state.

It has subsequently given notice that it is leaving this ICC.

But this does not exonerate it from its obligations while still a signatory.

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They say there’s been a new intensification of repression and crimes against opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

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The International Federation For Human Rights and the Burundian Human Rights League have issued a 200-page report listing what they call dramatic actions by the Burundian government.

These include the expulsion of African Union and United Nations human rights experts from Burundi;

The denunciation by the Burundian government of a UN human rights report critical of actions in Bujumbura;

Burundi’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court; and

The suspension of five human rights organizations in Burundi.

The alarm bells started ringing, say the watchdogs, when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to take an unconstitutional third term at the helm.

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President Edgar Lungu’s ordered the military to restore order in Lusaka where at least 62 Rwandan-owned shops have been looted.

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The two deaths in Zambia are put down to confusion in one of the  one of the nine Lusaka neighborhoods shaken by xenophobic violence.

It’s been sparked by the suspicion that Rwandans are behind seven recent ritual killings in the Zambian capital.

Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila urges his compatriots not to heed these malicious rumours.

He says there have been at least 11 arrests following the ritual killings.

At least 6 000 Rwandans moved to Zambia following the 1994 genocide in their country.

They say they have no intention of returning.

Many have sought Zambian citizenship.

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The remarks come days before Rwanda marks the twenty second anniversary of the  genocide of 800 000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates.

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The allegations by President Pierre Nkurunziza and Burundi’s ruling party chief Pascal Nyabende that  President Paul Kagame wants to play the minor imperialist are particularly keenly felt in Rwanda.

US and other  Western powers have expressed concern about Kagame’s meddling in regional affairs.

He’s criticized his Burundian neighbour for taking an unconstitutional third term in power.

But Kagame himself plans to follow suit – albeit after  winning a referendum scrapping presidential term limits in Rwanda.

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