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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/5/19
  

  Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

  by Samantha Lakin

  Despite the broader mission’s many well-documented failings, peacekeepers took risks to save lives, going beyond official orders to protect innocent Rwandans.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9/1/19
  

  Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

  The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Pumpkin spice wars: The violent history behind your favorite Starbucks latte

  PSL is back, and so is its connection to a centuries old genocide.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7/24/19
  

  Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide

  New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  ‘It’s Called Genocide’: California Gov. Newsom Apologizes to the State’s Native Americans

  The governor’s proclamation is part of a cultural moment in which Americans are increasingly grappling with the nation’s past sins.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide

  The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a “genocide” for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.

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• 5/2/19
  

  The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide

  by David Carlin

  In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/7/19
  

  Macron Wants France to Commemorate Rwanda Genocide

  France has admitted mistakes in how it handled the killings but has always denied the accusations of complicity

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• 3/3/19
  

  Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World

  by Albinko Hasic

  The same de-humanizing philosophy which fed into ethnic and religious tropes leading to genocide is back, perhaps stronger than ever.

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• 2/18/19
  

  Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide

  by Rafael Medoff

  If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-16-18
  

  Cambodian Court Convicts Former Khmer Rouge Leaders of Genocide in Historic Ruling

  An international criminal tribunal convicted two former Khmer Rouge leaders of atrocities including genocide in a historic ruling.

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• SOURCE: RFA
  7-23-18
  

  China Holds Ethnic Mongolian Historian Who Wrote “Genocide” Book

  Ethnic Mongolian historian and author Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 74, is facing for prosecution for "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity,”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-3-18
  

  Genocide hoax tests ethics of academic publishing

  by Reuben Rose-Redwood

  An academic journal published a controversial article advocating for colonialism last fall. Would academic journals also publish an outrageous article advocating for genocide?

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• SOURCE: CP24
  5-30-18
  

  Canadian historical association rebrands award named for John A. Macdonald

  In August, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario called for the removal of Macdonald's name from elementary schools in the province, referring to him as the “architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples.”

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  4-12-18
  

  Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again

  Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.

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• SOURCE: The Times Higher Eduacation
  2-21-18
  

  Historians fear ‘censorship’ under Poland’s Holocaust law

  Academic exemptions to legislation threatening those who say Poles played any part in Second World War genocide may not go far enough.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  2-16-18
  

  Literally drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews

  by Edward B Westermann

  The role of alcohol in the Nazi genocide of European Jews deserves greater attention.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1-24-18
  

  Thousands of Herero people died in a genocide. Why are Herero skulls in the American Museum of Natural History?

  It's a question people are only now getting around to asking.