Genocide

Key Point: Like language or tool use, a capacity for and tendency to engage in genocide is arguably an intrinsic, instinctive part of human nature. There’s little reason to think that early Homo sapiens were less territorial, less violent, less intolerant – less human. Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000…

Myanmar was ordered to “take all measures within its power” to prevent any further acts of violence against the Rohingya in late January by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The court is considering a case brought by the Gambia accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Convention on Genocide against…

Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. The award is for a writers life work, and Handke has written novels, travelogues, theatre plays, screenplays and poetry. Hundreds protested the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert … Read More

An author who conducted 12 interviews with the notorious former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić claims she found him 'handsome and likeable' and even gave him her phone number - but had to think like a 'fellow war criminal' to get inside his head. American-born Jessica Stern, 61, a research professor…

View this post on Instagram Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay, which takes place each year on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and honours survivors of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution, and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…

But remember we must, because 75 years after this kind of murderous hate was supposedly ended with something as simple as an international cry of “never again,” it seems like the “never” part has been jettisoned and all we’re left with is “again.”American Jews are being slaughtered in their temples…

Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. The award is for “a writer’s life work,” and Handke has written novels, travelogues, theatre plays, screenplays and poetry. Hundreds protested the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. This was not an isolated protest. Literature laureate 2019 Peter…

Every year, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust by the Nazi regime, but this year marks the anniversary of two atrocities: 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and 25 years since the end of the gen…

Countries still fight over the history of the Holocaust, and do too little to stop other genocidesTHE SOVIET troops who in 1945 liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the biggest Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, had already witnessed unspeakable atrocities across eastern Europe. Yet what they found when they rescued the camp’s 7,000…

Countries still fight over the history of the Holocaust, and do too little to stop other genocidesTHE SOVIET troops who in 1945 liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the biggest Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, had already witnessed unspeakable atrocities across eastern Europe. Yet what they found when they rescued the camp’s 7,000…