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Each year thousands of local activities take place across the UK to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).

The Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) was a unique humanitarian rescue programme which ran between November 1938 and September 1939. Approximately 10,000 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, were sent from their homes and families in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

In 1997 the Cambodian Government made a formal request to the UN for international assistance in setting up a tribunal to hear cases against the senior members of the Khmer Rouge allegedly responsible for the worst crimes of the 1975 to 1979 genocide.

In April 1994 President Habyarimana restated his commitment to the peace and power-sharing agreement which had been signed the previous year, a commitment which alarmed extremist Hutus.

In the years following the genocide, more than 120,000 people were arrested and accused of crimes committed during the genocide. The prison system was overwhelmed, and people waited in extreme overcrowding and life-threatening prison conditions for their cases to be processed.