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Listening to a survivor of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution or subsequent genocide share their testimony is a hugely powerful experience, and participants at HMD events are likely to have a profound reaction to hearing it.

On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladić entered the town of Srebrenica and began planning the deportation of women and children from the area.

On 12 July 2010 the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged the then Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide committed during the conflict in Darfur on three African tribes – Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.

A statement from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Chief Executive, Olivia Marks-Woldman.

On 26 July 2010 following a trial that lasted for nine months Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the genocide in Cambodia.