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Concern is mounting about the devastating effects of the conflict raging in Tigray since November.

David Scheffer: Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. I'm David Scheffer, visiting senior fellow on international law at the Council on Foreign Relations. And I've been a longtime student of Scottish devolution and aspirations for independence from the United Kingdom. We have the privilege today of being joined by Michael Russell, who is cabinet secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs of the Scottish Government, and he is a constituency member of the Scottish Parliament, representing Argyll and Bute. He was raised in Troon in Ayrshire and educated at Edinburgh University a...

Share Major-General (retired) Henry Anyidoho served as the Deputy Force commander and Chief of Staff for UNAMIR in Rwanda. He has also served in international peacekeeping operations in Lebanon, Liberia and Cambodia. Following his time in Rwanda, he was posted to the Ministry of Defense in Ghana. He served as the Chairman of the Ghana Telecom Board of Directors and is the author of the book, Guns over Kigali (1997). Michael Barnett served as the political officer at the US Mission to the United Nations assigned to cover Rwanda in 1994. His 2003 book, Eyewitness to a Genocide: the Uni...

Terry Glavin: Two new reports shed blinding light on China's crimes. Will the Liberals ignore them? The Trudeau government’s reluctance to stand up to Beijing can’t be explained away by the predicament of the two Michaels, genocide expert says Author of the article: Terry Glavin Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021  •  March 10, 2021  •  5 minute read  •  Uyghur women from East Turkestan demonstrate to ask for news of relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul on March...

Updated 6:26 PM ET, Wed March 10, 2021 This photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows a facility north of Akto in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. This was excerpted from the March 10 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. (CNN)A devastating independent report accusing China of across-the-board genocide in Xinjiang leaves the rest of the world with two questions: What to do, and will it make any difference? The report finds that China's government is deliberately trying to "destroy" the Uyghu...