The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site -- Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo.
[....]
when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits. In some cases, heads, hands and feet appear to have been removed as trophies for the killers. The attackers then removed belongings out of the structures and set the roofs on fire.
[....]
At least two other separate studies have come to similar conclusions, suggesting the genocide victims at Sacred Ridge belonged to an ethnic group that was different from that of other nearby populations.
posted by orthogonality
on Sep 20, 2010 -
45 comments
Srebrenica: Genocide Reconstructed In July 1995 Srebrenica was shelled and occupied by the Army of Republic of Srpska,VRS, despite being declared a protected area by the United Nations. More than 7,000 people were killed, the victims of genocide. Recently a wealth of data has been found in the home of the fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, who is still
assumed alive by the Hague Chief Prosecutor in spite of his family petitioning for him to be declared
dead.
15 years on Srebrenica
buries its dead.
Amid a hurricane of killing, rape and 'ethnic cleansing', a movement striving in the opposite direction responded in the most powerful way they knew: with rock'n'roll. Fifteen years since War Child's Help LP, key figures reflect on
the war – and music.
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posted by adamvasco
on Jul 11, 2010 -
17 comments
Baltasar Garzón is a Spanish judge known for his cases on human right abuses by south american dictatorships under international law, specially
the case against Augusto Pinochet. Now, after admitting a case against abuses during Franco's Era, he is facing
accusations by extreme right groups of deliberately ignoring the Amnesty Law of 1977, possibly questionable under the same universal jurisdiction that gained him international renown. In a controversial decision, the case
has been admitted by the Spanish Supreme Court, and so Garzón is facing the possibility of up to 20 years of suspension.
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posted by valdesm
on Apr 14, 2010 -
14 comments
I'm on a mission - not to praise Jesus or ensure that every child in Namibia has a netbook, but to kill every single living vaguely human-like character in Fallout 3. ... everyone ... no matter how friendly, helpful, or beneficial to my completion of the game, must be put into the ground. "Natural Born Killer", an experiment in virtual genocide, parts
One,
Two and
Three.
posted by slimepuppy
on Mar 26, 2010 -
45 comments
The Secret Life of Radovan Karadzic. A 45 minute documentary made by Rageh Omaar who travels to Serbia and Bosnia to investigate the decade-long period the former president of the Republika Srpska spent in hiding and examines his legacy in present-day Bosnia and beyond.
(Warning: graphic and disturbing in parts).
As his trial for Genocide finally commences Karadzic defends his actions as
"Just and Holy"
(
Meta Related 1; 2; )
posted by adamvasco
on Mar 1, 2010 -
13 comments
Doubt [print version] is an article by Andrew Rice about Leopold Munyakazi, a professor of French at Goucher College, who has been accused by the Rwandan government of being a genocidaire. His defenders, including the late
Alison Des Forges, claim that the Hutu Munyakazi, who's married to a Tutsi, is being targeted by Paul Kagame's administration because he's a dissenter who's challenged the official account of the genocide. Into this complicated affair steps documentarian Charlie Ebersol who wants to profile Munyakazi for his NBC primetime news show Wanted, which has been received with
considerable opprobrium and which may
already have been canceled.
posted by Kattullus
on Aug 3, 2009 -
9 comments
Intended Consequences. It is estimated that 20,000 children were born as the result of rape during the 1994
Rwandan Genocide that claimed the lives of over 800,000 Tutsis. Many of these women also contracted HIV/AIDS as a result. Not only do the mothers have to live with memories of this incredibly horrible event, but they along with their children are shunned by other Tutsi survivors.
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posted by itchylick
on Apr 20, 2009 -
22 comments
BABIES’ skulls dashed against rocks; attempts to twist off the heads of toddlers. Girls, their mothers and grandmothers (and sometimes male relatives too) raped at knife- or gunpoint, the weapons then used to inflict mutilation. Women hauled off to camps or just tied to trees and gang-raped. Thousands of children, some as young as nine, snatched or recruited by armed gangs (or regular forces) and made into drug-crazed killers, the girls among them often serially abused or taken by commanders as “wives”. Such are the horrors reported from some recent conflict zones...
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posted by kliuless
on Feb 21, 2009 -
41 comments
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the
Holodomor. The
Holodomor was the starvation of millions of Ukranians at the hands of the Soviets. The Ukranian government is using this year to push for greater recognition for the genocide. Ukranian communities in
Australia,
Canada and all over the globe are holding events all year in the lead up to this years Holodomor day on November 25.
posted by sien
on Mar 9, 2008 -
14 comments
Harvard Professor Samantha Power's book
A Problem from Hell is on syllabi across the country, and is the bible of
humanitarian hawks who decry our failure to intervene in the
Rwandan or
Sudanese genocides. As one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisors, she's getting a lot of press for her positions:
pro-intervention, obviously,
critical of Israel,
pro-UN,
pro-internationalism, and, perhaps unsurprisingly given
her husband's role in ignoring the Rwandan genocide,
anti-Clinton.
posted by anotherpanacea
on Mar 7, 2008 -
85 comments
Musekeweya ("new dawn") is a phenomenally popular radio drama broadcast out of
Kigali, Rwanda. The soap, funded by Dutch NGO
La Benevolencija, follows the story of two star-crossed lovers who come from opposing villages involved in an increasingly violent struggle. Thought Rwandan law makes it difficult to discuss the genocide in the media, the show aims to open a dialog using the fictional villages of Bumanzi and Muhumuro as a proxy for Hutus and Tutsis.
A soap opera may seem like an unlikely vehicle to tackle a topic of such national importance, but it's actually
not uncommon. And, certainly, Rwanda is a country that knows all too well about the
power of radio
posted by meta_eli
on Jul 8, 2007 -
8 comments
Whatever one's opinion of its possible limitations, the 2006 Iraq mortality survey produced epidemiological evidence that coalition forces have failed to protect Iraqi civilians... If, for the sake of argument, the study is wrong and the number of Iraqi deaths is less than half the infamous figure, is it acceptable that "only" 300,000 have died? Last November, with no explanation, the Iraqi Ministry of Health suddenly began citing 150,000 dead, five times its previous estimate. Is that amount of death acceptable? In January, the United Nations reported that more than 34,000 Iraqis were killed violently in the last year alone. Is that acceptable?
Regarding
The Number, the result of what one of the study's authors calls
an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide... [more within]
posted by y2karl
on Mar 7, 2007 -
44 comments
What can two nerds from Chicago do about the crisis in Darfur? Donor fatigue means the marginal value of each life has effectively dropped to zero. Kill 5 people, kill 500, kill 500,000 - it makes no difference - each added fatality has absolutely no policy impact and won’t change the situation one iota. It’s not that as many as 500,000 (essentially an entire Seattle) have died in Darfur. The horrific thing is that they could kill another 500,000 and nobody will bat an eyelash.
posted by notsnot
on Dec 5, 2006 -
95 comments
The largely forgotten holocaust of the Ukrainian people began when Stalin imposed collectivism upon the farms, sealing state borders & refusing any seed grain until ficticious and unattainable production goals were met. The Ukrainian upper class were executed, the peasantry left to starve to death. In all, seven million people died, one out of every four citizens. At this Ukranian art site, a
collection of stamps commemorating the event & a
gallery of "genocide art" continue to speak for the dead.
posted by jonson
on Oct 22, 2006 -
55 comments
Ripples of Genocide. Journey through Eastern Congo with Angelina Jolie, commentary by John Prendergast, photos by Ed Parsons and Laura Engelbrecht.
posted by semmi
on Apr 22, 2006 -
13 comments
Let's Play Genocide MTV's Darfur Digital Activist online game contest has posted the four finalist teams' prototypes for voting. In
Fetching Water, "you are a Darfurian trying to to make it the well to get water without becoming a victim of the Janjaweed." When do
social impact games cross the line from raising awareness into trivializing?
posted by Cassford
on Feb 3, 2006 -
15 comments
Genocide in Slow Motion. "[For every Genocide this century], we have wrung our hands afterward and offered the lame excuse that it all happened too fast, or that we didn't fully comprehend the carnage when it was still under way. And now the same tragedy is unfolding in Darfur, but this time we don't even have any sort of excuse. In Darfur genocide is taking place in slow motion, and there is vast documentary proof of the atrocities."
posted by dgaicun
on Jan 20, 2006 -
25 comments
The
conference at
Wannsee occurred on January 20, 1942.
The Holocaust had been going on for at least one year; the camp at Dachau had been in operation for several years. The
Final Solution was already underway. At issue at Wannsee, in the relaxed and distinctively
upper middle-class atmosphere of that SS guest-house for the fifteen highly placed Nazis was the
best strategy for genocide.
Less than one year after the conference a little girl who had been hiding in Holland is sent to the Bergen camp in northern Germany. She spends more than six years looking for
four perfect pebbles
posted by Smedleyman
on Jan 18, 2006 -
16 comments
With "freedom" as a goal of US policy, what are the real benefits of democracy? In the developing world, no democracy has
ever had a famine as Nobel-winner
Amartya Sen demonstrated, and citizens of democratic nations have
equivalent economies, longer lifespans and better educations than autocracies. Unfortunately, it appears that
democracies do go to war with each other (although
less, statistically). On the other hand, high levels of political freedom
decrease terrorism and prevent
genocides. Obviously, democracies
also do bad things, but is there a better form of
government?
posted by blahblahblah
on May 30, 2005 -
29 comments
Armenian Genocide Plagues Ankara 90 Years On This weekend, Armenians commemorated the 90th anniversary of the genocide of 1915. But Turkey has yet to recognize the crime -- the first genocide of the 20th century. By refusing to use the word "genocide," Turkey could complicate its efforts to join the European Union.
posted by Postroad
on May 18, 2005 -
11 comments
"
Between 1915 and 1918 the Ottoman Empire, ruled by Muslim Turks, carried out a policy to eliminate its Christian Armenian minority. This genocide was preceded by a series of massacres in 1894-1896 and in 1909, and was followed by another series of massacres beginning in 1920. By 1922 Armenians had been eradicated from their historic homeland." Since the early 1920s, successive
Turkish governments have maintained an ostentatious silence on the subject, broken only to issue denials that the genocide ever occurred, and denunciations of those who assert that it did. In 1990, for example, the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. dismissed the holocaust as resulting from "a tragic civil war initiated by Armenian nationalists."
This Sunday in NYC,
thousands will gather to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the genocide and protest the Turkish denials.
posted by jenleigh
on Apr 14, 2005 -
74 comments
