genocide

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• 5/2/19
  

  The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide

  by David Carlin

  In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/7/19
  

  Macron Wants France to Commemorate Rwanda Genocide

  France has admitted mistakes in how it handled the killings but has always denied the accusations of complicity

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• 3/3/19
  

  Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World

  by Albinko Hasic

  The same de-humanizing philosophy which fed into ethnic and religious tropes leading to genocide is back, perhaps stronger than ever.

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• 2/18/19
  

  Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide

  by Rafael Medoff

  If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-16-18
  

  Cambodian Court Convicts Former Khmer Rouge Leaders of Genocide in Historic Ruling

  An international criminal tribunal convicted two former Khmer Rouge leaders of atrocities including genocide in a historic ruling.

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• SOURCE: RFA
  7-23-18
  

  China Holds Ethnic Mongolian Historian Who Wrote “Genocide” Book

  Ethnic Mongolian historian and author Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 74, is facing for prosecution for "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity,”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-3-18
  

  Genocide hoax tests ethics of academic publishing

  by Reuben Rose-Redwood

  An academic journal published a controversial article advocating for colonialism last fall. Would academic journals also publish an outrageous article advocating for genocide?

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• SOURCE: CP24
  5-30-18
  

  Canadian historical association rebrands award named for John A. Macdonald

  In August, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario called for the removal of Macdonald's name from elementary schools in the province, referring to him as the “architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples.”

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  4-12-18
  

  Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again

  Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.

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• SOURCE: The Times Higher Eduacation
  2-21-18
  

  Historians fear ‘censorship’ under Poland’s Holocaust law

  Academic exemptions to legislation threatening those who say Poles played any part in Second World War genocide may not go far enough.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  2-16-18
  

  Literally drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews

  by Edward B Westermann

  The role of alcohol in the Nazi genocide of European Jews deserves greater attention.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1-24-18
  

  Thousands of Herero people died in a genocide. Why are Herero skulls in the American Museum of Natural History?

  It's a question people are only now getting around to asking. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12-6-17
  

  In Australia, historians and artists have turned to cartography to record the widespread killing of Indigenous people

  Chief among them is historian Lyndall Ryan, who says her fellow historians are in denial about the extent of the massacres.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  9-25-17
  

  Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin's War Against Ukraine

  "I Believe It Was Genocide"

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• 10-15-17
  

  The Nazi Plan to Kill the Disabled: What the U.S. Government Knew and When It Knew It

  by Suzy Evans

  The terrible question that remains today amid widespread ethnic cleansing and genocide is why nothing was done.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-21-17
  

  A Colonial-Era Wound Opens in Namibia

  More than a century after the genocide of two African ethnic groups, a city that retains strong German ties is divided over the fate of a war memorial.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  1-6-17
  

  Germany sued for reparations over colonial-era genocide in Namibia

  Representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples have filed a class action lawsuit to demand reparations for the systematic massacre of some 100,000 of their forebears between 1904 and 1908.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12-25-16
  

  Germany moves to atone for 'forgotten genocide' in Namibia

  It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia.

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• SOURCE: The Sundial
  11-10-16
  

  Armenian students protest Atatürk scholar to leave campus

  They objected to a new book by Baylor University history professor George Gawrych.