genocide

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• Indian Removal

  by Claudio Saunt

  In May 1830, the United States Congress authorized the US federal government to uproot and transport 80,000 people from their homes east of the Mississippi.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Why Holocaust Fiction?

  by Bernice Lerner

  Had they had a choice, I believe Hitler’s victims would have wanted nothing about the mortal crimes against them falsified. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/25/20
  

  75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Worry That ‘Never Again’ Is Not Assured

  Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  1/21/20
  

  The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference

  by Rivka Weinberg

  We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/29/19
  

  A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House

  by Samantha Power

  For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/5/19
  

  Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

  by Samantha Lakin

  Despite the broader mission’s many well-documented failings, peacekeepers took risks to save lives, going beyond official orders to protect innocent Rwandans.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9/1/19
  

  Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

  The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Pumpkin spice wars: The violent history behind your favorite Starbucks latte

  PSL is back, and so is its connection to a centuries old genocide.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7/24/19
  

  Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide

  New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  ‘It’s Called Genocide’: California Gov. Newsom Apologizes to the State’s Native Americans

  The governor’s proclamation is part of a cultural moment in which Americans are increasingly grappling with the nation’s past sins.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide

  The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a “genocide” for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.

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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?