genocide

Genocide: Demons from the Past

By Caitlin Kavanaugh. Published Thursday, October 29th, 2009

As the world saw Hitler’s escapades revealed, it was vowed that such atrocities would never take place again. Following Raphael Lemkin’s coining of the term “genocide,” the United Nations formed a preventive genocide convention in 1948 and swore to keep the world free from genocide’s evil grasp.
The reality is that the Holocaust is still alive. [...]

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: One nation, divisible under genocide

By Sara Patek. Published Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Although people across the globe have heard of Darfur, a region in Sudan that is approximately the size of Texas, few understand the genocidal nightmare erupting there.
Since 2003, Sudan’s dictators and militias, known as the Janjaweed, have committed acts of mass, systematic violence against the Darfurian people, including rape and murder. SaveDarfur.org, in a briefing [...]

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