Genocide articles
-
How to stop genocides
Rwanda is an astonishing country: safe, prosperous, orderly, and open. Its success is remarkable enough given the rough neighborhood in which it finds itself. But when you think that 30 years ago this month, it was in the throes of the worst mass slaughter of the late 20th century, its achievements look miraculous. I have […]
-
Genocidal Irony
The crime of genocide is surrounded by tragic ironies and contradictions. One involves the political and moral problem of the nation-state itself. For not only does the nation-state privilege, and claim to protect, one nation by warring against and destroying others, to paraphrase Balzac’s quip about there being a great crime behind every great fortune, More
-
Genocide in Real Time
Ronald Grigor Suny As an American, I share the deep sorrow over my country’s complicity in this horrific crime against humanity.