[PDF] Remembering The Forgotten Genocide eBook

Author : Rene Lemarchand
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812204387

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Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the extermination of the Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey, the mind reels when confronted with the inhuman acts that have been consigned to oblivion. Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory gathers eight essays about genocidal conflicts that are unremembered and, as a consequence, understudied. The contributors, scholars in political science, anthropology, history, and other fields, seek to restore these mass killings to the place they deserve in the public consciousness. Remembrance of long forgotten crimes is not the volume's only purpose—equally significant are the rich quarry of empirical data offered in each chapter, the theoretical insights provided, and the comparative perspectives suggested for the analysis of genocidal phenomena. While each genocide is unique in its circumstances and motives, the essays in this volume explain that deliberate concealment and manipulation of the facts by the perpetrators are more often the rule than the exception, and that memory often tends to distort the past and blame the victims while exonerating the killers. Although the cases discussed here are but a sample of a litany going back to biblical times, Forgotten Genocides offers an important examination of the diversity of contexts out of which repeatedly emerge the same hideous realities.

Author : Donald E. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520923270

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Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armenians, Donald and Lorna Miller give the "forgotten genocide" the hearing it deserves. Survivors raise important issues about genocide and about how people cope with traumatic experience. Much here is wrenchingly painful, yet it also speaks to the strength of the human spirit.

Author : Hank Reinhardt
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
ISBN : 9780980767131

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This book is about the 'forgotten genocide' of the Armenians. It looks at the factors behind the loss from memory of an event that saw 1.5 million Armenians perish after the Young Turk takeover of the Ottoman Empire. Together with the deaths of a similar number of Greeks and Assyrians, the Young Turk campaign of Armenian genocide carried out during the years of the First World War made for a total of about 3 million, easily comparable to the Jewish Holocaust of WW2 when 6 million died under the Nazi regime. Many, if not most, Australians are today unaware of this event which took place at the same time as Gallipoli. Fortunately, several Allied Prisoners of War in Turkey during WW1 were acquainted with the attempts at Armenian extermination. These POWs witnessed the aftermath of the deportations, or death marches, on which the Armenians were placed: such as burnt-out or empty villages and churches, the begging survivors and the starving orphans that escaped deportation. Their testimony is very significant as it documents the historical proximity of Anzac involvement in Turkey during the Armenian Genocide.The book also looks at the role Ataturk played in the post-war continuation of the campaign to exterminate the Christian minorities in Turkey. Ataturk was important in the events that eventuated in establishing the Turkish Republic after the end of the War and blocking Allied plans for retribution and compensation for the genocide of the Armenians. In doing so he was arguably as ruthless as the Young Turks in his approach to the Armenians.The subject of denial, which was at the core of Ataturk's diplomacy and the Turkish Republic's attempt to rehabilitate the image of the 'Terrible Turk' and deflect blame for past Armenian suffering, is put under the microscope as the author employs both sourced material and his own research to explain and expose the propaganda, censorship and revisionism that has been used by Turkish authorities to cripple awareness of, and bury the memory of, the shameful events of Turkish history.

Author : Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857458434

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Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroy the Roma as a distinct group. Other chapters examine the failure of the West German State to deliver justice, the Romani collective memory of the genocide, and the current political and historical debates. As this revealing volume shows, however inconsistent or geographically limited, over time, the mass murder acquired a systematic character and came to include ever larger segments of the Romani population regardless of the social status of individual members of the community.

Author : Ariana Kabodian
Publisher : Schuler Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948237710

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The Armenian Genocide of 1.5 million innocent Armenians was carried out by the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) from 1915 to 1923. This book is a recollection of experiences and stories of those Armenians who survived recalled by their descendants.Turkey denies responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, which is why it is referred to as the Forgotten Genocide. In 2019, the United States Congress voted to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, and also voted to formally reject all forms of denial accusations. Armenians around the world remember the Armenian Genocide every year on April 24th.The official symbol of the Armenian Genocide is the Forget-Me-Not Flower.

Author : David Charlwood
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526729024

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This short history sheds light on the slaughter and expulsion of ethnic Armenians during WWI with stories of those who witnesses the terror firsthand. Twenty years before the start of Hitler’s Holocaust, over 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish state. They were crammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death. It was described as a crime against humanity and Turkey was condemned by Russia, France, Great Britain and the United States. But two decades later the genocide had been conveniently forgotten. Hitler justified his Polish death squads by asking in 1939: ‘Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?’ In Armenian Genocide, historian David Charlwood presents a gripping short history of a forgotten genocide. With vivid eyewitness accounts, this volume recalls the men and women who died, the few who survived, and the diplomats who tried to intervene.

Author : Nigel Eltringham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1317754212

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In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda, Australia, Canada, the Punjab, Armenia, Cambodia and during the Holocaust, those seeking to remember genocide are confronted with numerous challenges. Survivors grapple with the possibility, or even the desirability, of recalling painful memories. Societies where genocide has been perpetrated find it difficult to engage with an uncomfortable historical legacy. Still, to forget genocide, as this volume edited by Nigel Eltringham and Pam Maclean shows, is not an option. To do so reinforces the vulnerability of groups whose very existence remains in jeopardy and denies them the possibility of bringing perpetrators to justice. Contributors discuss how genocide is represented in media including literature, memorial books, film and audiovisual testimony. Debates surrounding the role museums and monuments play in constructing and transmitting memory are highlighted. Finally, authors engage with controversies arising from attempts to mobilise and manipulate memory in the service of reconciliation, compensation and transitional justice.

Author : Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822392364

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What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the past? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales. Specialists on the societies about which they write, these anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or remembered, and how those representations are altered by the attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert “the truth” about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual commemoration of that country’s genocide in 1994. Still another explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia’s state-sponsored anticommunist violence of 1965–1966, a genocidal period that until recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks, anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and “ethnic cleansing.” Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation reveals the major contribution that cultural anthropologists can make to the study of genocide. Contributors. Pamela Ballinger, Jennie E. Burnet, Conerly Casey, Elizabeth Drexler, Leslie Dwyer, Alexander Laban Hinton, Sharon E. Hutchinson, Uli Linke, Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Debra Rodman, Victoria Sanford

Author : Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813561647

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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust. The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well. Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies. Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey