What intention does the project of preventing a whole portion of humanity from being born reveal? Some religious fanatics advocate it. Time to investigate.
Genocide
“Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide”: A New Book by Susan Palmer and Colleagues
The best way to document the horror of what is happening is to let victims speak for themselves.
Children Protest “Genocide Tourism” to Tibet
When trains with tourists pass, the traditional stone-throwing ropes called “urduo” are used to express disapproval of the staged tours.
Uyghurs: Do Not Forget There Is Also an Economic Genocide
Artificially impoverished in their own land, Uyghurs sometimes manage to offer a glimpse of the truth through social media.
Documenting the Horror. 4. Time for Revising the “Convention on Genocide”?
A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
Documenting the Horror. 3. Cultural Genocides
The planned, organized, and systematic suppression of distinctive cultures aims at annihilating human groups for what makes them what they are. One perpetrator is the People’s Republic of China.
Documenting the Horror. 2. Of Genocides and Culture
The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
Documenting the Horror. 1. A Valuable Report on the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
Testimonies collected on the ground by the European Bangladesh Forum confirm scholarly studies, calling on the international community, and by extension the UN, to recognize an overlooked truth.
Uyghurs Continue to Oppose “Genocide Tours” to Xinjiang
American and European travel companies should not directly or indirectly support a genocidal regime, Rushan Abbas told “Bitter Winter.”
China Finds a “Useful Idiot” in Trinidad: Sheikh Imran Hussein
Two Uyghur activists write to a Caribbean Islamic preacher who claimed that the Uyghur genocide is an invention of the CIA.