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Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"genocide"”.
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Fertility in Rwanda: Impact of genocide, an ananlysis of fertility before, during and after 1994 genocide
The 20th century has witnessed several wars and genocides worldwide. Notable examples include the Armenian and Jews genocides which took place during World War I and World War II respectively. The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a more recent example. These wars and genocides have impacted on the …
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'Mastering the genocide narrative' : an analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's official narrative of the Rwandan genocide
… construction of their narrative ofthe Rwandan genocide be established? A frequent point of emphasis by scholars is that an official narrative usually is put forward by the dominant or ruling group to serve their interests: the contents and features oftheir narrative are capable of legitimating …
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Never Again: The Genocide Convention in Review
… on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was supposed to, as its title states, prevent any further genocides from occurring. In the event the United Nations could not prevent genocide the convention obligates all member States to intervene and punish those perpetrating the crime. …
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Wujoud: Resistance strategies in the Syrian genocide?
… what I refer to as the “narrative component” of genocide in Syria. “Genocide” here refers to the term used by Syrian activists to describe what they see as a campaign of extermination targeting their friends, families and compatriots, and which they regard as being instigated and carried out by …
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Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide
… perpetrators of mass murder. The Rwandan genocide is chosen as a case study. The project strives to explain what seems inexplicable; why tens of thousands of Rwandan men and women turned into killers during the hundred days of genocide in 1994, most of them with no history of murderous …
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Testimonies of Light: Bearing Witness, Photography and Genocide
… to enhance global and local understanding of genocide, and help in both reconciliation and remembrance in post-conflict societies. It takes the war in the Former Yugoslavia as a case study, and argues that the act of actively bearing witness has a distinctive moral quality that goes beyond …
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Many bloody hands : responsibility for genocide in Rwanda
… war in Rwanda included one of the bloodiest genocides of the twentieth century. This thesis explores the question of who is responsible for a crime that has claimed the lives of close to l million Rwandese and continues to be Rwanda's scourge. The thesis focuses on the most recent 1994 …
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The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994
The Rwandan Genocide occurred between April and July of 1994. Within those four months, approximately a million Tutsi were brutally murdered by the Hutu in an effort to cleanse the country of a Tutsi presence. The genocide was the culmination of decades of unrest between the two groups created from …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… Children</i> examines the Bangladeshi genocide through a variety of literary strategies, especially hyperbole, to produce a crisis of history to indict the Cold War arms trade on equal terms with a war criminal. Similarly, Boubicar Boris Diop's novel <i>Murambi, The Book of Bones</i> …
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Yuli's story: Using educational policy to achieve cultural genocide
<p>All children residing in the United States have the right to a quality education. At least that is our collective expectation. Through the lived experience of Yuli, a Native American woman from the Southwest, you will discover, due to her birth on a remote reservation, she was not given the same …
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The Gukurahundi "genocide": memory and justice in independent Zimbabwe
Operation Gukurahundi (1982-1987) commenced and endured within the Midlands and two Matabeleland Provinces of Zimbabwe through a Fifth Brigade army – trained by the North Koreans, and which was accountable to former President Robert Mugabe. This army sought to find 400 armed dissidents, but their …
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Final solutions : the causes of mass killing and genocide
This dissertation seeks to identify the causes of genocide and mass killing. Many of the most widely accepted explanations of genocide and mass killing seek the causes of these events in the social structure, system of government or the collective psychology of the societies in which they take …
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The Complexity of Identifying Genocide in the Midst of Bloodshed
… on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the crime of genocide has been tragically perpetrated multiple times across the globe, often without those same member states taking meaningful action to prevent genocide or even categorise it as such. This thesis sets out to interrogate …
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Remembering the Forgotten Genocide: Armenia in the First World War.
<p>The Ottoman Empire was in serious decline by the late nineteenth century. Years of misrule, war, and oppression of its various nationalities had virtually driven the Turks from Europe, leaving the weakened Empire on the verge of collapse. By the 1870s the Armenians were the most troubling group, …
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