As Rohingya villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were set alight last month, the military and civilians lined up to shoot, hack and beat defenceless villagers to death as they tried to escape. In the last few weeks, a mass exodus of more than a quarter of a million...
Today, 7 April, services will be held throughout Rwanda to commemorate the some one million lives lost during the 1994 Genocide. They’ll be followed by a designated national week of mourning, during which time communities will come together to take part in events to...
And above all beware, my body and my soul too, beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear… Aimé Césaire Last...
In Nineteen Eighty-Four those vaporised – erased from not only the present, but also the past – are designated ‘unpeople.’ As a term, it goes beyond mere dehumanization; it refuses to acknowledge that any trace of that person ever existed. They are without worth, they...
Australia has a shameful history of carrying out and sponsoring genocide and the Abbott Government is continuing this tradition, writes Tim Robertson. History is pliable. And if there’s one mark a nation must surely wish to have expunged from its record, its genocide....
