I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation...
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt found guilty of genocide. May the evil old monster die in prison. Of course, his supporters in the United States still hold major positions.
Interesting news out of Guatemala today. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former genocidal president and darling of right-wing America, will be forced to appear before a Guatemalan court, a move that.
If you're looking for something to read forInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, let me humbly suggest Adam Jones' volume Evoking Genocide, which has won a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine. Here's their review: This compilation has a simple yet fascinating...
Back from vacation and back on the grid. Hmm, what have I missed in the last couple of weeks? 1) Ooh, looks like the BP oil spill is capped for.
JEM fighters will put down their arms for the opportunity to join the Sudanese army at 500 euros a head. Perhaps this will slow conflict-related violence in the region, perhaps.
Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch explains yesterday's decision of the International Criminal Court's Appeals Chamber to require the Pre-Trial Chamber to reconsider including the crime of genocide in the arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The Pre-Trial Chamber previously included "only" war crimes...
You will not believe this 1934 New Yorker cartoon my friend Adam Jones dug up. What a difference a few decades makes. Jones writes about mass killing and has one.
It's certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a violent confrontation with modern humans. However, I think that there's always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a.
Radovan Karadzic. Good deal. More from Hilzoy and Doug.