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February 4-11, 1945. On this date, Allied power leaders met at Yalta in the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar order.
July 4, 1946. On this date, there was a massacre of Jews in Kielce, Poland.
October 1, 1946. On this date, the International Military Tribunal sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death.
November 5, 1988. On this date, the US ratified the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
July 17, 1998. On this date, the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court, a permanent judicial body to try genocide and war crimes.
September 2, 1998. On this date, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Jean-Paul Akayesu guily of genocide and crimes against humanity.
September 9, 2004. On this date, Colin Powell labelled the events in Darfur as "genocide."
January 12, 1951. On this date, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide entered into force.
August 28, 1959. On this date, Raphael Lemkin died. He coined the term "genocide" and worked tirelessly for the term to become international law.
July 9, 2011. On this date, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan.
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