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Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

… the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Beginning in 1915 in the midst of the strains of … peninsula for more than 2500 years. But labeling it as a “genocide” has proven controversial and unacceptable for the … events, the meaning of the legal and historical label “genocide,” and why coming to terms with mass atrocities is …
The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Genocide and Justice in Rwanda

… On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. The date … community for the commission of mass atrocities. Yet, genocide became an international crime much earlier. One of … Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a framework for criminal trials at the …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… contested events of the twentieth century:  the Armenian Genocide . In the midst of  World War I  and as the Ottoman …  recently called the killing of Armenians “the first genocide of the 20th century,” recognition of the 100 th … has steadfastly refused to call the Armenian deaths a “ Genocide .” Official symbol of the Centennial ;  The City …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… prison sentence. Their crime: they had used the term "genocide" in reference to the Ottoman treatment of Armenians … language. Indeed, Turkey has denied the existence of the genocide, and the number of Ottoman scholars, both within … is the culmination of his long-time study of the Armenian Genocide. This work, based on more than six-hundred new …
photos of people who died during Rwandan genocide

The Extermination of a Nation: The Genocide in Rwanda

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
War & Peace
… This lesson plan focuses on the genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994 when the Hutu … 1500 … War & Peace … The Extermination of a Nation: The Genocide in Rwanda …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… out, Ottoman Turkish authorities launched a full-scale  genocide  of its Armenian population. Armenians had been … to massacres previously, but nothing on the scale of the genocide of 1915. By the time it was over, 1.5 million … War ( left ). Orphan children from the Armenian Genocide, 1915 ( right ). Meanwhile, as Imperial Russia …
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

Srebrenica and its Memory

In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… Gravestones at the Potočari genocide memorial near Srebrenica. In July 1995, in the … the atrocities at Srebrenica met the legal definition of genocide . To date, international and Bosnian state courts … Mladić, who were both found, among other crimes, guilty of genocide in Srebrenica and sentenced to life imprisonment. …
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

… the international community’s attention on the issue of genocide . As part of an effort to prevent a horror like the … Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . The new convention established a clear definition for the crime of genocide. Importantly, this landmark international agreement …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the United States did not sign the Genocide Convention until 1988). Both of these UN documents … in 1994 . The court prosecuted the leaders of the Rwandan genocide that took the lives of between 800,000 and 1 …

Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective

… the removal and ultimate extermination of Jews from Europe, genocide . German expulsion of Poles from Reichsgau … flee, conflict may escalate into ethnic cleansing and even genocide. This is particularly so in cases of civil war, … Europe … Middle East … Migration, Immigration, & Refugees … Genocide … Military/War/Peace … Refugees or Immigrants? The …
KKK members displaying the Nazi salute and Holocaust denial signs.

Facing Anti-Semitism and American History

… Pius XII for his perceived inaction in the face of Nazi genocide. But while other nations and groups have confronted … … United States … Germany … Austria … Christianity … Genocide … Facing Anti-Semitism and American History …
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S

Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… process delayed action until it was too late to prevent genocide. The travails of multilateral diplomacy and … the families of victims of the Rwandan and Srebrenica genocides . . . and to pronounce that the terrorists … … Joseph Arena … Reviews … International Organizations … Genocide … Legal history … Global/Transnational … Bringing …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… States … Germany … Racism & Racial Ideas … Jewish People … Genocide … From Dixie to the Third Reich …
graveyard at memorial to Srebrenica

Srebrenica

In July 1995, over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… … Europe … Bosnia and Herzegovina … Military/War/Peace … Genocide … International Organizations … Srebrenica …
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)
… Sports … Netherlands … World War II / WWII … Antisemitism … Genocide … Is It Only A Game? …
American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt Book Cover

American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

Review of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
… 2007) … Laura Herron … Reviews … Religion … Jewish People … Genocide … Antisemitism … United States … American Jewish …
Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried

Review of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
… Reviews … United States … Native America … U.S. Politics … Genocide … Indigenous Communities … Where Our Hearts Are …