Genocide

Ruth, Meet Gracie

Charles J. Sykes · March 23, 2018 1:56 pm

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum revoked Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's human rights award. The museum said the political party Aung San Suu Kyi leads blocked journalists, refused to cooperate with United Nations investigators and promoted hateful rhetoric against the Rohingya Muslim community. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

National Security

Holocaust Museum revokes Aung San Suu Kyi’s human rights award

Katelyn Caralle · March 7, 2018 4:38 pm

While Myanmar claims it takes the Rohingya human rights situation seriously, from its geriatric military leadership to the once-honored Aung San Suu Kyi, top officials are unwilling to stop the bloodletting. In response, President Trump should ask Congress to impose sanctions on top Myanmar officials, including Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Beltway Confidential

Trump should sanction Myanmar

Tom Rogan · December 13, 2017 6:18 pm

Without Britain's 22nd Special Air Service and their U.S. counterparts, many war criminals would likely still be at large, rather than facing the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. (Julian Nitzsche / Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

As the Hague tribunal concludes, remember the role of US and British special forces

Tom Rogan · November 16, 2017 8:32 pm

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state and arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25 to avoid persecution that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

President Trump, heed the plight of the Rohingya

Murat Guzel · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

Anthony Scaramucci's company, Scaramucci ost, posted a survey that asked its followers whether 1 million, 1 to 2 million, 2 to 3 million, or more than 5 million people died during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Anthony Scaramucci’s ‘media company’ deletes Twitter poll asking how many Jews died in Holocaust

Anna Giaritelli · October 17, 2017 3:13 pm

It's time for US diplomatic leadership. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Beltway Confidential

Why and how the US must confront Burma’s Rohingya genocide

Tom Rogan · October 5, 2017 5:20 pm

"We are alarmed by the allegations of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, burning of villages, massacres, and rape, by security forces and by civilians acting with these forces' consent." (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

White House condemns ‘slow-burning genocide’ against Muslims in Burma

Diana Stancy Correll · September 12, 2017 12:51 am

Whitewash Interrupted

The Scrapbook · September 8, 2017 7:30 am

"Since its release, a number of people with whom we have worked closely on Syria since the conflict's outbreak have expressed concerns with the study. The Museum has decided to remove the study from its website as we evaluate this feedback." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Holocaust Museum pulls Syria study defending Obama

Joel Gehrke · September 6, 2017 3:43 pm

Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum have criticized Rep. Clay Higgins for narrating part of a five-minute video from inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. (Lee Celano/The Daily Advertiser via AP, File)

Auschwitz Memorial condemns Republican Rep. Clay Higgins for selfie video from gas chamber

Anna Giaritelli · July 5, 2017 12:41 pm

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov justified the Syrian intervention by noting Moscow's alliance with Assad's government. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Russian diplomat: Statements against genocide amount to foreign meddling

Joel Gehrke · March 24, 2017 1:53 pm