Search Results for: "genocide"
Alper Bahadir / May 2, 2007 9:33 pm
You hear the story every year around this time: Turks massacred hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the early 1900s. The modern state of Turkey claims that the crumbling Ottoman state did not premeditate or direct the killings, noting that the Turks suffered as many deaths as the Armenians. Armenians, for their part, want the episode recognized as genocide, and they blame the international community for its inattention and hypocrisy. It sounds...
Alex Bedrosyan / October 31, 2010 8:21 pm
...member of Turkey’s Armenian community, was killed because of his outspoken views on the massacre of over a million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish troops in 1915. Dink, like all Armenians, called these killings a state-organized genocide. The Turkish government denies these accusations, claiming that the Armenians were killed as they revolted against the Ottoman government or died while being deported away from warzones as a security measure. For de...
Chris Brennan / April 8, 2012 1:35 pm
...the different ethnicities, which also practiced different religions, scrambled millions – around half the population of Bosnia – out of their homes. And these mass casualties are what most 20-somethings know about the Bosnian genocide in the early 1990s. It is often included in history textbooks, but a lot of the time, in that chapter your high school class just didn’t quite get to before the end of the year – a small subsection of a chapter prob...
Laura Brunts / April 2, 2008 4:29 am
...xated on the ethnic dimensions of the conflict. At the height of the violence in late January and early February, media descriptions of “tribal killings” and “ethnic cleansing” ran rampant, as did allusions to the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Gerard Prunier, a political scientist who has written extensively on Rwanda and Darfur, says that for the media, “‘genocide’ is big because it carries the Nazi label, which sells well.” Likewise, the term “ethnic c...
Bari Weiss / May 2, 2007 8:28 pm
...US pulled in at second with 29, while Cote D’Ivoire had 9. This year, 15 actions have been taken on Israel, while Sudan, whose government has condoned (or at least failed to stem) the murder of at least 200,000 in an ongoing genocide, has received only 9 actions. Yet some among the left’s ranks don’t see this dramatically disproportionate focus on Israel as a problem. Because Israel is a democracy, some argue, it is rightfully held to higher sta...
Jamie Kessler / December 2, 2007 5:13 am
...ror’s Advocate. He is witty, relaxed, and always willing to talk. Even before formally introducing him, Terror’s Advocate opens with Vergès sitting in his office casually talking about the “exaggeration” that is the Cambodian genocide. Sure, people were murdered, he explains, but not in the magnitude that we are so inclined to believe. This, Schroeder argues, is Jacques Vergès. So how did Jacques Vergès, a French lawyer who once fought in de Gaul...
Rob Wile / December 2, 2007 5:04 am
The US Congress recently attempted to pass a law officially recognizing Turkish genocide of Armenians. Backed by more than half the members of the House, the bill called upon the Turkish government to acknowledge the Ottoman Empire’s role in committing atrocities against its Armenian population from 1915 to 1924. Yet the motion was ultimately quashed. As a New York Times editorial put it, “Historical truths must be established through dispassion...
Tommaso Verderame / June 17, 2012 7:06 am
...h the United States on many fronts in the War on Terror. Turkey’s Take Turkey’s relations with Armenia are growing amicable, but they will remain in a diplomatic morass for some time; as of yet, Turkey has not recognized its genocide of over one million Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century. Azerbaijan, however, has superb relations with Ankara. The mutual intelligibility of Turkish and Azerbaijani, and the sharing of much culture and h...
Nadine Mansour / August 2, 2012 11:44 am
...oubtedly, the UN Security Council requires reform: In response to the impasse in Syria, some have written in support of a measure to prohibit the UNSC from blocking action dealing with crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. I have been hesitant to label the situation in Syria as a civil war, but over time it has become clear that this is indeed the case when the military shoots at its citizens in a systemized manner, as opposed to the...
Nadine Mansour / June 6, 2012 6:33 pm
...no Ocampo, who held a meeting with the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday. Ocampo urged the UNSC to enforce its arrest warrants for Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir, who is allegedly responsible for war crimes and acts of genocide committed by the Sudanese army and the allied Janjaweed militia against four million civilians. While more heated comments were made, it is this seemingly non-controversial claim that struck me the most as I watched...
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