Yom Hashoah begins at sundown May 1. We consider it our duty to not just remember those so savagely deprived of life and liberty in the Shoah, but also never to forget the horror of a modern nation creating factories of death with the same cool precision it applied to building automobile factories. We want to make that collective memory the foundation for preventing future genocides. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Darfur’
How to remember
Posted: May 2, 2011 in CommentTags: Darfur, genocide, Holocaust, Interahamwe, Nazis, Remembrance, Rwanda
History of Armenian genocide should be taught despite government denial
Posted: April 28, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Armenian Genocide, Darfur, Holocaust, Rwanda, Tutsi
By Rohan Viswanathan–April 24, 2011
All throughout my elementary and middle school years, I was educated on the numerous genocides of the 20th century: the Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur. I was told to look at these events as the worst acts of inhumanity ever committed; however, these events all took place after the Armenian genocide. (more…)
Citizens in Korea Commemorate 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsis
Posted: April 19, 2011 in NewsTags: Darfur, Dignity, genocide, Haiti, Internet, Korea, Rwanda, Tutsi
Edmund Kagire–18 April 2011
Members of the Rwandan Diaspora in the Republic of Korea, on April 17, commemorated the 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis, in the capital Seoul. (more…)
The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective?
Posted: March 17, 2011 in NewsTags: Africa, America, Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Darfur, genocide, Machetes, Mahmood Mamdani, Palgrave MacMillan, Rebecca Hamilton, Rwanda, The Independent
By Andrew Stobo Sniderman
If machetes (rise and) fall in Africa and no American voters are listening, do American politicians care? No, says history. “If every member of the House and Senate had received one hundred letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda,” a senator explained in 1994 after the United States stood by while 800,000 people were butchered in three months, “then I think the response would have been different.” No one wrote, and popular silence abetted official indifference. (more…)
New Humanitarianism with Old Problems: The Forgotten Lesson of Rwanda
Posted: January 31, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: African Rights, Community, Darfur, DRC, Feinstein International Center, genocide, Humanitarianism, Hutu, Indifference, Interahamwe, International, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, Killers, Linda Melvern, NGOs, Philip Gourevitch, Princeton University Press, R2P, Rwanda, Samantha Power, Survivors, Tutsi
By Madalena Elena Nan–OCTOBER 4, 2010
“The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” (more…)
France needs to do more on genocidaires
Posted: September 27, 2010 in Genocide DenialTags: Darfur, France, Genocidaires, ICTR, Ngoga, Rwamucyo, Rwanda, The New Times, Tutsi Genocide, United Nations
The New Times 24/09/2010
THE Prosecutor-General Martin Ngoga has spoken out on the recent ruling by French Court that released genocide suspect Eugene Rwamucyo. In an exclusive interview conducted by Fred Oluoch-Ojiwah, the prosecutor general termed the ruling as a temporary setback against Rwanda’s drive towards according justice to those aggrieved by the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi. (more…)
friends of evil 
World needs to get proactive on genocide, says museum executive
Posted: May 2, 2011 in CommentTags: Committee on Conscience, Darfur, Holocaust, Holocaust museum, Mike Abramowitz, Rwanda, Tutsi
By Dan Pine Thursday, April 28, 2011
To Mike Abramowitz, the Shoah was one shoah too many. That’s why the former Washington Post reporter now heads the Committee on Conscience, established by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. His mission: alert the world to emerging crimes against humanity, wherever they may take place. (more…)