Genocide
When, in 1881, the German anti-Semite Dühring urged a "final settling of accounts" with the Jews, he spoke, rather obliquely, of the need for a "Carthaginian...
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Genocide
The word genocide is relatively new, even though the act of genocide is not. Yet in part because of its twentieth-century origins, genocide is often associated with the use of modern science ...
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Genocide
Throughout history there have been attempts to destroy groups of human beings because of their race, religion, or nationality. However, until the twentieth century, no international body or d...
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Oppression and Genocide
Introduction
British historian Lord Acton once said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Though this could be considered a universal...
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Allen argues "that rape, enforced pregnancy and enforced childbirth equal genocide." She argues on the definitions from Brownmiller about this paradox Serb equation of enforced pregnancy equals genoci...
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The cousin of Estonia's late president committed genocide by helping deport his countrymen to Siberia nearly 60 years ago, prosecutors said Wednesday.But Arnold Meri, a former top ranking Communist...
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House sponsors of a resolution that would label as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on the measure because they feared it woul...
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The United Nations' highest court is ruling Monday whether Serbia is guilty of genocide for the killing, torture, rape and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims _ the first time an entire nation is being he...
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PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - French police have arrested a
former Rwandan army officer suspected of taking part in the
country's 1994 genocide, a French prosecutor said on Wednesday. Marcel Bivugabaga...
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Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday a proposed resolution in Congress to condemn as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm Turkish-American relations ...
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. special adviser
on preventing genocide and mass atrocities Tuesday warned
leaders responsible for post-election violence in Kenya they
could be held to account ...
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan ex-dictator
and seven other former officials avoided extradition to Spain
to face charges for genocide committed in the country's 36-year
civil war, accordi...
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Cambodian and foreign judges began a weeklong meeting Monday to confirm rules for the much-delayed genocide trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.In his ...
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers have introduced a resolution urging the government to recognize as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the end of World War I.The measure is likely t...
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