Delhi 1984: Memories of a massacre By BBC News November 1, 2009
The 25th anniversary of Indira Gandhi's assassination revives stark memories
of some 3,000 Sikhs killed brutally in the orderly pogrom that followed her
killing.
The wave of ethnic cleansing which raged unhindered across the country,
especially in Delhi,
after Mrs. Gandhi was shot dead ended only with her cremation on 2 November.
During these three days droves of Sikhs were determinedly hunted down by
Hindu mobs from their homes, corralled and slaughtered like animals.
The trigger for Mrs Gandhi's killing was the storming of the GoldenTemple
in Sikhism's holy city Amritsar
four months earlier to flush out Sikh militants fighting for an independent
homeland of Khalistan or Land of the Pure.
The heavily-armed militants - many of them former soldiers - had barricaded
themselves inside the temple and were dislodged only after three days of bitter
fighting. Some 1,000 people, including women and children pilgrims and about
157 soldiers, died. (Read more)
September 28 Massacre Was Premeditated By Human Rights Watch October 27, 2009
(New York) -- An in-depth investigation into
the September 28, 2009 killings and rapes at a peaceful rally in Conakry,
Guinea, has uncovered new evidence that the massacre and widespread sexual
violence were organized and were committed largely by the elite Presidential
Guard, commonly known as the "red berets," Human Rights Watch said today.
Following a 10-day research mission in Guinea, Human Rights Watch also
found that the armed forces attempted to hide evidence of the crimes by seizing
bodies from the stadium and the city's morgues and burying them in mass graves.
Human Rights Watch found that members of the Presidential Guard carried out
a premeditated massacre of at least 150 people on September 28 and brutally
raped dozens of women. Red berets shot at opposition supporters until they ran
out of bullets, then continued to kill with bayonets and knives. (Read more)
Amazon tribe down to five as oldest member dies By Survival International October 19, 2009
'The final stages of a genocide' The Akuntsu
tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has lost its oldest member, Ururu, leaving the
tribe with only five surviving members.
Ururu was
the oldest member of this close-knit, tiny group and an integral part of it.
Altair
Algayer, head of FUNAI's (Brazilian government Indian affairs department) team
which protects the
Akuntsu's
land said, 'She was a fighter, strong, and resisted until the last moment.' In
addition, the oldest-surviving Akuntsu, Ururu's brother Konibu, is seriously
ill.
Ururu
witnessed the genocide of her people and the destruction of their rainforest
home, as cattle ranchers and their gunmen moved on to indigenous lands in
Rondonia state. Rondonia was opened up by government colonisation projects and
the infamous BR 364 highway in the 1960s and 70s. (Read More).
Stanton Discusses Genocide at CU Chapel By Hillary C. Wright October 16, 2009
CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY. -- "Never underestimate your own ideas...Yours in fact may change the world," Dr. Gregory H. Stanton said at CampbellsvilleUniversity's Chapel Oct. 7.
Stanton spoke about genocide and its affect on the world. He also talked about his journey in Cambodia.
Stanton is research professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at GeorgeMasonUniversity in Arlington, Va., the founder and president of Genocide Watch (www.genocidewatch.org), the founder and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and is the founder and chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide. He is the vice president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
"I believe genocide goes back to the beginning of the human race," Stanton said. (Read more)
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton speaks at Campbellsville University's Chapel service recently. (Campbellsville University Photo by Bayarmagnai "Max" Nergui)
Major
Suspect in '94 Rwanda
Genocide Is Caught By Will Connors, The Wall Street Journal October 7,
2009
One of the
most-wanted suspects accused of instigating genocide in Rwanda was arrested by police in Uganda,
officials there told reporters Tuesday, marking a significant victory in
efforts to bring alleged perpetrators of the violence to justice.
Idelphonse
Nizeyimana was arrested in Kampala, the capital,
this week and will be transported to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in neighboring Tanzania, the Associated Press
reported, citing government officials.
Mr. Nizeyimana was indicted by the United Nations-backed tribunal in 2000, charged
with genocide and crimes against humanity.
Mr.
Nizeyimana was the head of ethnic Hutu intelligence and military operations
during the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were
killed. He is accused of organizing hit squads against Tutsis, including the
traditional Tutsi queen, and of participating in at least one killing. (Read more)
Idelphonse Nizeyimana [Associated Press]
Was genocide committed in northern Uganda? By Rosebell
Kagumire, The Independent 7
September 2009
The return
of Olara Otunnu to Uganda
and his continued claims that genocide was committed in northern Uganda
has drawn some reactions in the country. Top of it has been the army
spokesperson Lt. Col Felix Kulaigye who is defending the UPDF, saying that it behaved
well and that the few incidents of illegal killings got deserved attention and
justice from the army system. Otunnu's claim is backed by some members in the
Acholi Parliamentary group like Reagan Okumu. For anyone, especially outsiders
(read not direct victims of the conflict), to engage in the debate we must
understand what genocide is.
Scholars
like Gregory H. Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch have said genocide
doesn't only describe the killings but it is rather a process that happens over
time. There are eight stages of genocide that include classification,
symbolisation (using symbols to distinguish the group), dehumanisation
("dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder."),
organisation and polarisation, preparation, extermination and then denial.
Whereas all genocides don't follow this chronology, most of them have most
elements of these stages. (Read More)
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