Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1827
Kaziwa Salih
I first observed the confident, sad, yet hopeful face of Nabat Fayiaq Rahman through the black screen of the TV. She was wearing a traditional, completely black Kurdish outfit that matched the stage curtains designed for the anniversary of the Anfal genocide, marked on April 14th of each year. The Kurdish Anfal genocide in Iraq was perpetrated by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s. Human Rights Watch (1994) estimates that as many as 182,000 Kurds were buried alive in mass graves; many of these mass graves were found after Hussein was overthrown. More than 2.5 million people were displaced, 4500 villages destroyed, and 250 towns and villages exposed to chemical weapons.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1820
A. Hadžiomerović
The volume Remembrance and Forgiveness, edited by Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović and Laura Kromják, brings together a diversity of disciplines, authors, and cultural contexts to discuss the legacies of the post-Holocaust era genocides by focusing on the (de)mobilisation of memory in seeking truth, justice, and forgiveness. The book provides a compendious overview of the social, historical, and political contexts behind the insurgencies and gives a better sense of understanding of (the obstacles to) the healing process and reconciliation in the global frame.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1805
Andrew Woolford, Wanda June, Sereyvothny Um
In recent years, genocide scholars have given greater attention to the dangers posed by climate change for increasing the prevalence or intensity of genocide. Challenges related to forced migration, resource scarcity, famine, and other threats of the Anthropocene are identified as sources of present and future risk, especially for those committed to genocide prevention. We approach the connection between the natural and social aspects of genocide from a different angle. Our research emanates out of a North American Indigenous studies and new materialist rather than Euro-genocide studies framework, meaning we see the natural and the social (or cultural) as inseparable, deeply imbricated, phenomena. We argue that those entities designated natural are often engaged in co-constitutive relations with the social and cultural groups that are the focus of genocide studies. Simply put, groups become what they are through interaction—or symbiogenesis—with their natural world(s). Symbiogenetic destruction, then, is the destruction of this symbiogenesis. We use this term to draw attention to how relations with more-than-human entities are integral components of the ongoing formation of group life, and how they are put at risk by genocide. In particular, we examine testimony that centers on the relationship between Khmer people and rice, including rice cultivation and consumption, as it was impacted by the Khmer Rouge. In so doing, we highlight the cultural consequences of social/natural death in the Cambodian genocide.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1824
Cheng Xu
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1834
Rukiye Turdush, Magnus Fiskesjö
In genocide, both women and men suffer. However, their suffering has always been different; with men mostly subjected to torture and killings, and women mostly subjected to torture and mutilation. These differences stem primarily from the perpetrators' ideology and intention to exterminate the targeted people. Many patriarchal societies link men with blood lineage and the group’s continuation, while women embody the group’s reproductivity and dignity. In the ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan, the ideology of Chinese colonialism is a root cause. It motivates the targeting of women as the means through which to destroy the reproductivity and the dignity of the people as a whole. It is a common misunderstanding to associate genocide with only mass killings, and the current lack of evidence for massacres has led some to prematurely conclude there is no genocide. But this overlooks the targeting of women, which is also a prominent part of the definition of genocide laid out in the Genocide Convention. State policy in China intentionally targets Uyghur and other Turkic women in multiple ways. This dossier is focused on analyzing China’s targeted policies against Uyghur women and their “punishment,” as rooted in part in ancient Chinese legalist philosophy. In doing so, this dossier contributes toward further exposing Chinese colonialism and the genocidal intent now in evidence.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1828
Fiza Lee-Winter
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1825
V. Michel
Book review of the book Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes by Mark S. Berlin.
马克·s·柏林的《将暴行定为犯罪:针对国际犯罪的刑法的全球传播》一书书评。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1790
Nicole Fox, H. N. Brehm, John Gasana Gasasira
In April 1994, in one of the most Christian nations in Africa, genocidal violence erupted culminating in the deaths of upwards of one million people. While thousands participated in mass killings, others choose not to, and rescued persecuted individuals instead. Relying on 45 in-depth interviews with individuals who rescued others in Rwanda, we demonstrate that religion is tied to rescue efforts in at least three ways: 1) through the creation of cognitive safety nets that enabled high-risk actions; 2) through religious practices that isolated individuals from the social networks of those committing the violence; and 3) through religious social networks where individuals encountered opportunities and accessed resources to rescue. The case of rescue in Rwanda illustrates how religiosity can support high-risk collective action, buffer individuals from recruitment to violent social movements, and can connect individuals in ways that enable them to save lives during extreme political violence.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.14.3.1772
S. Welch
Political scientists have examined the role of gender in genocide but have largely ignored the Holocaust in these analyses. Yet, the Holocaust is the largest genocide in human history and there is much we do not know about how gender affected individual experiences. Nor do we have a very precise understanding of the impact of age in survival, beyond the common wisdom that old and young people usually did not survive. Here we examine in more detail the impact of gender and age and their intersection among the nearly 7,000 Italian Jews deported to the east, mostly to Poland and mostly to their deaths. Unlike most previous work on gender that uses personal recollections as the data source, here we use individual data collected and published by Liliana Picciotto in Il Libro della Memoria. Examining survival rates and places of death, we find distinct gender and age differences and an important interaction between the two characteristics.
政治学家研究了性别在种族灭绝中的作用,但在这些分析中基本上忽略了大屠杀。然而,大屠杀是人类历史上最大规模的种族灭绝,关于性别如何影响个人经历,我们知之甚少。我们也没有非常精确的理解年龄对生存的影响,除了普遍的智慧,老年人和年轻人通常不会活下来。在这里,我们更详细地研究了性别和年龄的影响,以及它们在近7000名被驱逐到东方的意大利犹太人中的相互作用,这些犹太人大多被驱逐到波兰,大部分被杀害。与以往大多数使用个人回忆作为数据来源的性别研究不同,这里我们使用Liliana Picciotto在Il Libro della Memoria中收集和发布的个人数据。通过检查存活率和死亡地点,我们发现了明显的性别和年龄差异以及这两个特征之间的重要相互作用。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.5038/1911-9933.14.3.1734
Angelica P So
This article explores how Franco-Cambodian cartoonist Tian’s graphic novel, L’année du lièvre [Year of the Rabbit], represents second-generation postmemory in the form of, what I call, a “Cambodian family album,” or a personal-collective archive. The album serves to convey to subsequent generations: 1) the history of the Cambodian genocide, 2) the collective memories of pre-1975 Cambodia preceding the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, and 3) the Cambodian humanitarian crisis and exodus of the 1970s-1990s. The conceptualization of the family album is derived from the literal translation, from Khmer into English, of the term “photo album” – “book designated for sticking pictures.” The translation of the term emphasizes the fragmentary and creative nature of postmemory, or the second-generation’s experience of their parents’ trauma. This article begins with an analysis of L’année du lièvre as family album and moves beyond the comics medium to show how Cambodian identity is being reshaped and renegotiated through 1.5- and second-generation Cambodian genocide survivors’ contributions to film, dance, and the literary-arts.
本文探讨法裔柬埔寨漫画家Tian的漫画小说《兔年》,如何以我所谓的“柬埔寨家庭相册”或个人集体档案的形式,代表第二代人的后记忆。这张专辑旨在向后代传达:1)柬埔寨种族灭绝的历史,2)1975年前红色高棉占领金边之前的柬埔寨集体记忆,以及3)柬埔寨人道主义危机和20世纪70年代至90年代的难民潮。家庭相册的概念来源于“photo album”一词的直译,从高棉语翻译成英语,意思是“专门用来贴照片的书”。这个词的翻译强调了后记忆的碎片性和创造性,即第二代人对父母创伤的体验。本文首先分析《L’annacime du li》作为家庭画册,然后超越漫画媒介,透过第1.5代和第二代柬埔寨大屠杀幸存者对电影、舞蹈和文学艺术的贡献,展现柬埔寨身份如何被重塑和重新协商。
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