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... of its 94 recommendations. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Canada truth and reconciliation memory cultural genocide This project was supported by multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. ...

... should not use its legislative powers to sustain sexist and genocidal policies. Although Canadians cannot always perceive it, it’s there. Genocide is not always mass murder; it was first defined in cultural terms, as what happens when an oppressor imposes its worldview and governance structures...

... heads the government, Kurds may engage the very foundations of modern Turkey. in their own cultural practices, and leftist The mere acknowledgment that some of parties contribute to the political debate. the founders of the republic, heretofore glo­ Only the Armenian genocide taboo remains. rified...

... over half of the population. Moreover, as the U.S. banned interracial mixing and marriage, many Latin American countries embraced it. In fact, mestizaje —or the cultural and biological mixture between different peoples (e.g. European, African, and indigenous)—was not only widespread, it was held...

... and Georgia. But I was born genocide, slavery, revolution, emancipa­ too late to witness the wrenching traumas tion, nation building. In Sudan, I learned, of the civil rights era. I had studied history a civil war had begun the year I was born in college, and as a journalist I wanted to and lasted until...

... that President Clinton’s approval of a treaty for a proposed international crimi­ nal tribunal was a “poison pill” for George W. Bush. By meeting a Dec. 31 deadline for signing the treaty, Clinton (who finds much fault with the proposed tribunal for war crimes, genocide and crimes against...

... © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Jeff Danziger For the past 12 years, President Paul Kagame has ruled Rwanda with a firm hand, stabilizing a country that was torn apart by genocide only 18-years ago. Nevertheless, his opponents say his rule has come...

... machinery for keeping the when the first warnings of the planned mas­ peace than ever before. Yet ironically, not sacres were received, some four months be­ since the Second World War has violence fore the genocide actually started? Such a been more widespread, and international in­ proposal would...

... and policy should focus on a narrow but notable subset—inflammatory speech that precedes violence, especially outbreaks of mass violence like genocide. Before such outbreaks, leaders address their own group with language calculated to dehumanize another target group. Nazi propagandists referred to Jews...

... them citi­ influence of those Rwandans who had re­ zenship in an effort to strengthen his do­ mained in Congo after the takeover of Kin­ mestic support in the region. Following shasa to help restructure the army. By the the genocide in Rwanda in April 1994, in summer of 1998, Kabila, tired...

... representation of women in 8% 8.8% legislature, in part due to a RWANDA shortage of men post-genocide. 86.4% 85.3...

... adds to public culture an accretion of moral realism. It rebuts Joseph Stalin’s fa­ Amid hundreds of deaths in New York mous cynical remark, “The death of one per­ on 9/11 and many thousands in the bombed son is a tragedy, the death of a million a sta­ cities of World War Two, physical...

... American and the human rights of North Koreans. woman are thrown together in Tokyo. The Neoconservatives and paleo-hawks, both city is to them a bewildering, alien land­ within and outside the Bush administration, scape. We see Japanese culture through have taken a one-size-fits-all approach...

... that they face many of the same challenges. The campaign to assert black lives matter in Canada, whose black population makes up less than 3 percent of the country’s total, might seem different from the movement to end “black genocide” in Brazil, where the black population holds a slim majority. Yet both...

... populations in the 1970s and early Behind the central church, a cross and 1980s. “Beans and Bullets,” dictator Efrain some wilting flowers have been placed on a Rios Montt’s genocidal counterinsurgency mound of dirt. The grave is in one of five program, led to the recapture of guerrilla clandestine...

... tri­ vain attempts to end Western coddling of bunals, and the Universal Declaration of Middle East despots, and disputes the com­ Human Rights now resists submitting mon calculation, even among Israelis, that a genocide charges against Sudanese warlords corrupt autocrat like Yasir Arafat could...

... nations, but so are genocide and war cute alleged torturers, or extradite them for crimes.12 Piracy on the high seas is some­ trial elsewhere.16 Such, in effect, were the re­ times presented as the classic inspiration for marks of Lord Browne-Wilkinson, who in the concept of universal jurisdiction...

... and her children, and to burn down her no doubt that he has found sanctuary and home. So, Sarabhai, a Gujarati cultural icon support in Pakistan and that Muslim gangs and one of that state’s most famous person­ participated in the violence that wracked alities—and a Hindu— had to sneak out...

... policymakers in a period when it finds itself more and The Crusaders 39 more culturally estranged from the wider sades have been undergirded by a similarly society it serves, and for very sound reasons, sharp-edged sense of moral certainty...

... of global history. From Colón on, emerging European powers launched campaigns of genocide, forced religious conversion, and empire-building in the Caribbean—and subsequently throughout the Americas. These are the origins of the inequitable economic and social power relations that still exist in the region...