"Death itself is not fearsome... Only hatred and cruelty. Only the human mind, that engineers such wholesale destruction. They say that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire universe, yes? What is it then to destroy a universe? Death is nothing - but what is fearsome is to look into the eyes of a man who has no human feeling, and see yourself reflected there"- - Lavigne, Michael (2007). Not Me. Random House Paperbacks. Original publication 2005.
Jacques Semelin's tenet is simple. Genocide has to do with identity fostered through fantasy, and the maintenance of a sense of identity via a sense of purity and security. The idea that political conflict has its basis in shared beliefs is not new. The notion that we kill en masse in order to maintain our collective unconscious fantasy is new - at least in genocide studies.- - Baum, Steven R (2008). Review of Semelin, Jacques (2007). Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide. New York: Columbia University Press. Journal Hate Studies, 6, 137-139.
| A new eruption of genocidal violence in a far-away location to peoples we in the West hardly know. News Report with a Timeline and a GPN Editorial Blog Bulletin: Genocidal Massacres in Kyrgyztan - Two Muslim Nationalities  GPN reports on the disastrous BP Oil Spill and raises the question whether "ecological genocide" or "ecocide" is an appropriate category News Report with a Timeline and a GPN Editorial Blog The British Petroleum Oil Spill…Ecocide? What Is It? What Is It Not? And So What? Two mosques in Pakistan of minority Muslim religion are attacked News Report with a GPN Editorial Blog Two Mosques in Pakistan of Minority Muslim Religion are Assaulted by Gunmen and Suicide Bombers in Coordinated Attacks An appreciation and memorial With examples from Richard Kloian's compilation of original New York Times reports of the ongoing Armenian Genocide Richard Kloian, Founder of Armenian Genocide Resource Center, Passes Away A very hard hitting critique of contemporary appeasement - must reading for those who worry about our contemporary world and know how wrong disbelief in the oncoming evil of a new Hitler/Stalin/Mao can be until it is too late to stop them Elihu Richter What If: Obama and Biden against Hitler, or... Chamberlain and Halifax against Ahmadinejad? A dramatically different analysis of genocide from the vantage point of population (the author's emphasis on population has been featured prominently in the Wall Street Journal) Gunnar Heinsohn Is International Terror Caused by the Creation of Israel? A disturbing and important overview of Islamic power by a member of the Dutch parliament Geert Wilders Wilders: "America, the Last Man Standing" An old Jewish proverb says, "A good person is subject to suffering, while the evil person gets a good deal": The current plight of a great judge Pioneering Spanish Judge Garzon Comes Under Serious Legal Fire because He Intended to Try Franco-era Crimes Spain goes after Chinese Persecution of Falun Gong Spanish Court Indicts Chinese Leaders for Persecution of Falun Gong A very moving exhibition (GPN editors were there after a Tel Aviv court overruled closing the exhibition under Chinese pressure) Tel Aviv University Falun Gong Exhibition Closes Down Under Pressure from the Chinese Government, but a Tel Aviv Court Overrules the Closure A survey introduction to laws in European countries against Holocaust denial Jacqueline Lechtholz-Zey The Laws Banning Holocaust Denial Incitement is often (not always) a key early warning indicator Article with Two Timelines: Rwanda Genocide Timeline and Darfur Genocide Timeline Includes an Appendix of Excerpts from School Textbooks and Media Elihu D Richter, with Yael Stein, Alex Barnea, and Marc Sherman Can We Prevent Genocide by Preventing Incitement? Iranian-born journalist Bahari was tortured, threatened, and then freed (thanks to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) Two personal stories from Darfuris Oral Histories from Darfur Vél d'Hiv - where the Jews were gathered by the French for the Nazis to be murdered Education to perpetrate genocide -- with vivid examples from the Palestinian classroom Includes video examples of Fatah and Hamas Indoctrination for Genocide Daphne Burdman Genocidal Indoctrination: Palestinian Indoctrination to Genocide A Muslim voice calling for Islamic faith without terrorism - a voice of hope for a better Islamic community living peacefully with others Kuwaiti Sheik Criticizes Scholars and Preacher who Entice Youth to Terrorism Major American Armenian organization stands together with the other non-Armenian victims of the Armenian genocide Armenian National Comittee of America Joins with Pontian Greeks, all Helenes, Assyrians, Syriacs and other Victims of Genocide by the Ottoman Empire "It's a shame they didn't finish you all off" - the contemporary Turkish version Video of Turkish Embassy Celebration on Genocide Anniversary Denial of a genocide also implies renewed threat - Erdogan does so openly Shut Up about Armenians or We'll Hurt Them Again Laughs are rare in the realm of genocide studies - a spoof that teaches us about Turkish denial Harut Sassounian A Great Hoax about a Turkish Ambassador Israel fights Holocaust denial but participates in denial of the Armenian Genocide Yair Auron Armenian Jews and Israelis - Remembering and Denial The tortuous legal process at work: Turkish denial versus truth U.S. Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments in Massachusetts on Armenian Genocide Denial Case A lecture given in Turkey about how denials of genocidal acts affect many countries. Did the locals get the message? A Casebook of Denials of Doing Harm to Others and Rewards to People and Nations Who Overcome Denial Israel Charny A major new research resource at the forthcoming Armenian Genocide Museum in Washington, D.C. Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA) Opens Research Library The former British Ambassador to the U.K. David Miller, speaks out the truth of the Armenian Genocide. It will be recalled that the former U.S. ambassador to Armenia, John Evans spoke out while he was in office and promptly lost his job. Former British Ambassador Recognizes the Armenian Genocide Bangladesh's Hindu population is dying - a report from an area not often in Western consciousness of Islamist campaigns to get rid of Bangladesh Hindus Richard Benkin Bangladesh Ethnic Butchery & Genocidal Massacres "My son the martyr!" A life-renouncing prayer that one's son will die "Go Ahead, My Son and Become a "Great Shahid," says the Mother HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW INFORMATION RESOURCES
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