Genocide

The keyword Genocide is tagged in the following 7 articles.

A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa

July 22, 2010 - 5675 words | Opinion » Colonialism

There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater deal of suffering than others. Over time certain societies have developed through a series of phases of modernity and civilization... Read Article »

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The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

April 20, 2010 - 7184 words | Political Science » Rwanda

1993 was not a very good year for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty- second President of the United States, the... Read Article »

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The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene

January 28, 2010 - 2901 words | History » World War II

Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and history into five segments. In his fourth... Read Article »

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Report: The Positive Impact of African Union Forces in Darfur

January 19, 2010 - 4991 words | International Affairs » Sudan

After the wave of liberalization of many African states in the late twentieth-century, the world has seen a rise in the amount of international and internal conflicts that have taken thousands of human lives. Ethnic tensions and economic hardships have often been the... Read Article »

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Darfur African Union Sudan AU UN NATO Genocide African Union Forces Sudan Civil War

Triumph over Tragedy: The Women's Movement of Rwanda Finds Success Post-Genocide

January 1, 2010 - 2984 words | International Affairs » Rwanda

On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two state presidents, over the next three... Read Article »

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An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial

December 28, 2009 - 996 words | Opinion » Genocide

More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 20th century alone, the world bore witness to the Holocaust in Europe, as well as Genocide in the former... Read Article »

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A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

December 14, 2009 - 3368 words | History » Rwanda

“The Genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal... Read Article »

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