tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89930782024-02-07T22:27:57.421-08:00GENOCIDE STUDIES MEDIA FILEInternational media coverage and commentary on genocide and crimes against humanity. Compiled by Adam Jones, Ph.D., author of <a href="http://www.genocidetext.net">"Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction"</a>, selected as one of <a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/Fifty-Key-Thinkers-on-the-Holocaust-and-Genocide-isbn9780415775519">"Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide"</a>.Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.comBlogger1064125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-3626873318912670772014-08-15T08:44:00.000-07:002014-08-15T08:53:40.130-07:00Israel / The Netherlands / Jewish Holocaust
"During the Nazi occupation of Holland Mr. Zanoli's family had helped shelter a young boy until the Allied liberation in 1945."
"Dutchman, 91, Returns Holocaust Honour to Israelis after Six Relatives Killed in Gaza"
By Inna Lazareva
The Telegraph, August 15, 2014
"A 91-year-old Dutch man who was awarded a prestigious honour by the State of Israel for his family's role in saving a Jewish childAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-15009933217386169342013-12-25T19:48:00.003-08:002013-12-25T19:49:29.387-08:00Iraq / Violence against Christians
"Debris at the site of the attack at the marketplace in Baghdad." (Reuters)
Bombs Targeting Christians Kill Dozens in Baghdad
The Guardian, December 25, 2013
"Iraq's Christians celebrated Christmas behind blast walls and barbed wire as at least 37 people were killed in bomb attacks in Christian areas, some by a car bomb near a church after a service. Earlier, two bombs ripped through a nearbyAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-6893451675444494442013-12-24T16:28:00.002-08:002013-12-24T16:32:55.758-08:00South Sudan / Gendercide
"A young cattle herder from the Dinka tribe carries his AK 47 rifle near Rumbek, capital of the Lakes State in central South Sudan." (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
South Sudan: The State That Fell Apart in a Week
By Daniel Howden
The Guardian, December 23, 2013
"A week ago, Simon K, a 20-year-old student living in the capital of South Sudan, was arrested by men in military uniforms. He was Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-72503136506073526152013-12-07T03:47:00.001-08:002013-12-07T03:48:19.163-08:00Central African Republic
Central African Republic: Death Toll from Clashes Increases to 300
The Telegraph, December 6, 2013
"Christian civilians have fled by the thousands to the capital's airport guarded by French forces as the mostly Muslim armed fighters who have ruled the Central African Republic since March hunted door-to-door for their enemies and the death toll from inter-communal violence increased to 300 peopleAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-2337265194526487332013-11-20T11:12:00.001-08:002013-11-20T11:12:31.175-08:00Central African Republic / United Nations
Urgent Call for UN Troops to "Prevent Genocide" in Central African Republic
By Mike Pflanz
The Telegraph, November 20, 2013
"Thousands of United Nations peacekeepers should be dispatched urgently to halt Christian-Muslim fighting in the Central African Republic that risks spiralling into genocide, Ban Ki-moon and aid agencies have said. Months of violence have pushed the country into Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-63056642583143019022013-11-20T10:47:00.002-08:002013-11-20T10:47:42.530-08:00China / Tibet
"China's former President Jiang Zemin looks up while President Hu Jintao gives his speech during the opening ceremony of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 8, 2012." (Reuters/Jason Lee)
China Dismisses as Absurd Spanish Arrest Warrants over Tibet
Reuters.com, November 20, 2013
"Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and exAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-82403897320330739822013-10-27T12:20:00.000-07:002013-10-27T12:20:19.746-07:00Guatemala / Genocide Tribunals
New Court Ruling Another Obstacle in Genocide Prosecution of Guatemala's Rios Montt
By Benjamin Reeves
McClatchy News Service, October 25, 2013
"The human rights prosecution of former Guatemalan dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt, whose brutal rule in the early 1980s saw the deaths of tens of thousands of the country's indigenous people, has hit another obstacle, with one of the country's two high Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-72143143844164700632013-09-21T10:25:00.002-07:002013-09-21T10:25:32.962-07:00Iraq
"In this photo released by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, several of the 52 Iranian exiles killed in a Sept. 1 attack on Camp Ashraf, in eastern Iraq, are seen with gunshot wounds to the head and their hands bound behind their backs." (National Council of Resistance of Iran)
Envoys Urge UN Probe of Massacre at Iranian Exile Camp in Iraq
By Carol J. Williams
The Los Angeles Times,Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-71724567250143122982013-07-01T13:54:00.001-07:002013-07-01T13:54:17.019-07:00Chad / National Tribunals
"Mbacke Fall, head of the Extraordinary African Chambers, a special court set up this year by Senegalese authorities in agreement with the African Union, speaks to journalists at a news conference in Dakar July 1, 2013." (Reuters/Joe Penney)
Ex-Chad Leader Habre Faces War Crimes Charges - Prosecutor
Reuters dispatch, July 1, 2013
"Chad's former president Hissene Habre will be charged with warAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-87082674982010746592013-06-28T00:11:00.001-07:002013-06-28T00:11:19.817-07:00Syria / Gendercide
"Syrian youths walk amongst the rubble in the village of al-Hamidiyeh, north of Qusayr, in Homs province."
A Return to Homs
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent, June 28, 2013
"Khalid is too frightened of travelling the 100 miles from Homs to Damascus to ask officials if they know what happened to his three sons, who disappeared 16 months ago as government troops over-ran the rebel stronghold Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-52156584507812853062013-06-23T05:16:00.000-07:002013-06-23T05:16:02.788-07:00Burma/Myanmar
"Buddhist monasteries associated with the fundamentalist movement, which calls itself 969, have opened community centers and a Sunday school program for children nationwide." (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists
By Thomas Fuller
The New York Times, June 20, 2013
"After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-92091239677486236632013-06-06T23:33:00.001-07:002013-06-06T23:33:27.365-07:00Kenya / United Kingdom / Colonialism
"Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion are to receive compensation payments from the British government." (Dai Kurokawa/EPA)
Britain Has Said Sorry to the Mau Mau. The Rest of the Empire is Still Waiting
By Caroline Elkins
The Guardian, June 6, 2013
"On Thursday nearly 200 elderly Kikuyu people travelled from their rural homesteads and sat before the British high commissioner in Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-84338108256677042532013-06-04T23:00:00.001-07:002013-06-04T23:00:55.252-07:00Papua New Guinea / Witch Hunts
"Hundreds of bystanders watched as a woman accused of witchcraft was being burned alive in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea, Feb. 6, 2013." (Post Courier/AP)
Despite Legal Moves, PNG's Terrifying Witchcraft Killings Look Set to Continue
By Ian Lloyd
Time.com, June 5, 2013
"One step forward and several giant steps back. That's how the UN's Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-69724316285084140182013-05-31T04:18:00.001-07:002013-05-31T04:18:53.625-07:00Rwanda / United Kingdom / National Tribunals
"Emmanuel Nteziryayo, pictured in the dossier of his alleged crimes." (Jose Cendon/AFP)
Rwandans Held in Britain on Genocide Extradition Request
Reuters dispatch, May 30, 2013
"Five Rwandans accused of involvement in the genocide that killed 800,000 people in just 100 days were arrested in Britain on Thursday after an extradition request from Rwanda, London police said. Emmanuel Nteziryayo, Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-85519410035532050432013-05-31T04:03:00.000-07:002013-05-31T04:03:03.290-07:00Serbia / Bosnia and Herzegovina / International Tribunals
"Jovica Stanisic, left, and Franko Simatovic, right, await judgment at the tribunal." (Martijn Beekman/AP)
Hague Tribunal Acquits Serbian State Security Chiefs of War Crimes
By Ian Traynor
The Guardian, May 30, 2013
|Two Serbian state security chiefs who facilitated the use of paramilitary murder squads in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s have been acquitted of all charges of war Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-80919288032121969572013-05-30T11:27:00.000-07:002013-05-30T11:29:21.098-07:00Bosnia and Herzegovina / International Tribunals
"(File) Bruno Stojic, left, and Jadranko Prlic appear at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2004."
6 Former Bosnian Croat Leaders Convicted of War Crimes
By Laura Smith-Spark
CNN.com, May 29, 2013
"Six former top Bosnian Croat leaders were handed long prison sentences Wednesday after they were convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including the rape and Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-19186884360670624662013-05-30T11:13:00.003-07:002013-05-30T11:13:53.050-07:00Cambodia / Genocide Tribunals
"Nuon Chea expressed 'condolences' to victims of the regime present in the court." (EPA)
Khmer Rouge Leader Accepts Responsibility for Cambodia's Killing Fields
Reuters dispatch in The Telegraph, May 30, 2013
"A leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge expressed remorse on Thursday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people during the 'Killing Fields' regime in the 1970s and accepted Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-34805178105866088012013-05-29T08:28:00.001-07:002013-05-29T08:28:52.618-07:00Brazil / Genocides of Indigenous Peoples
"Umutima shaman in 1957: the Figueiredo report caused an outcry after it revealed crimes against Brazil's indigenous population." (José Idoyaga/Survival)
Brazil's "Lost Report" into Genocide Surfaces after 40 Years
By Jonathan Watts and Jan Rocha
The Guardian, May 29, 2013
"A 'lost' report into genocide, torture, rape and enslavement of indigenous tribes during Brazil's military dictatorship Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-16400325546332125242013-05-22T10:36:00.001-07:002013-05-22T10:38:56.584-07:00Indigenous Peoples / Slavery
Slave Descendants Seek Equal Rights from Cherokee Nation
By Marcos Barberry
Salon.com, May 22, 2013
"On an oppressively hot evening last May, David Cornsilk addressed a room of so-called 'black Indians' at Gilcrease Hills Baptist Church in northwest Tulsa. He wore a leather-braided bolo tie clasped by an emerald quartz. Though Cornsilk never formally studied law, his voice bellowed with Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-81615559835996019262013-05-21T23:23:00.001-07:002013-05-21T23:24:16.592-07:00Guatemala / Genocide Tribunals
Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt. (Johan Ordonez/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Genocide Trial of Guatemalan Ex-Dictator May Have to Restart
By Elisabeth Malkin
The New York Times, May 21, 2013
"A day after Guatemala's highest court threw out the genocide verdict against a former dictator, Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, lawyers on both sides of the case said Tuesday that his entire trial would probably Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-18780967778354461222013-05-15T07:49:00.001-07:002013-05-21T23:25:20.839-07:00Syria
"An image from Bayda, Syria, released by a group, the Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad." (Via Associated Press)
An Atrocity in Syria, With No Victim Too Small
By Anne Barnard and Hania Mourtgada
The New York Times, May 14, 2013
"After dragging 46 bodies from the streets near his hometown on the Syrian coast, Omar lost count. For four days, he said, he could not eat, remembering the Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-3356991857515990542013-05-14T07:05:00.001-07:002013-05-14T07:06:23.413-07:00Japan / Second World War / Rape as a Crime against Humanity
"Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto." (Associated Press)
Forced Prostitution of Women for Use by Japanese Soldiers during World War II Was "Necessary" Claims Mayor of Osaka
Associated Press dispatch in The Telegraph, May 14, 2013
"An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-20021298791189991642013-05-13T03:18:00.001-07:002013-05-13T03:19:06.926-07:00Nigeria / Gendercide
"The hospital morgue in Maiduguri, Nigeria, where large numbers of bodies have been brought." (Adam Nossiter/The New York Times)
Bodies Pour In as Nigeria Hunts for Islamists
By Adam Nossiter
The New York Times, May 7, 2013
"A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started movingAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-82135356872817204472013-05-13T03:09:00.001-07:002013-05-13T03:09:50.906-07:00Guatemala / Genocide Tribunals
"The former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt waited for his verdict to be read on Friday. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison." (Moises Castillo/Associated Press)
Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group
By Elisabeth Malkin
The New York Times, May 10, 2013
"A Guatemalan court on Friday found Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one ofAdam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993078.post-75239660243720396832013-04-25T23:04:00.003-07:002013-04-25T23:05:23.757-07:00Jewish Holocaust / Bystanders to Genocide
"Toy Nazi figurines in this exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." (Drew Angerer/The New York Times)
Bystanders, Not So Innocent
By Edward Rothstein
The New York Times, April 25, 2013
"Whatever larger themes are sounded when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum commemorates its 20th anniversary here this weekend, whatever is said at a Monday ceremony by former Adam Jones, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040417664765882878noreply@blogger.com0