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Politics, scholarship and the Armenian Genocide
The first story in the series documented the resignation of Donald Quataert, a distinguished American scholar, who stepped down from the chair of the Georgetown University-based Institute of Turkish Studies. Quataert said he had been forced out by a defunding threat from the Government of Turkey. Several board members also resigned and said political infringement of academic freedom was the reason. The second story in the series looks at evidence of a deliberate attempt to maintain Turkish state control of the U.S. nonprofit. Present and former Turkish ambassadors controlled the endowment that provided almost all the funding for the scholarly institute at the time of Quataert's resignation. Also, founding members of the institute as well as endowment trustees had been party to Ankara's decades-long campaign to suppress international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Tags: Armenian Genocide; Institute of Turkish Studies; Turkish scholars; improper financial control; Middle East Studies Association; public denial; politics versus academics
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Searching For Jacob
While individualizing the story by centering on the search for a refugee named Jacob Arga, "whose village was destroyed as part of the ethnic 'cleansing,'" CBS News tells the story of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The reporters did find Jacob "in a refugee camp on the Chad border."
Tags: ethnic cleansing; Darfur, Sudan; refugees; genocide
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Waiting for Justice
After the ethnic slaughter in the Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court was going to take over trying war criminals charged with genocide, mass rape and torture. It has not happened. Millions of euros were spent to build a War Crimes Chamber, but not a single trial has been held, and hundreds of suspects live free among the same people they are charged with terrorizing.
Tags: war crimes; genocide; Balkans; terrorism; international court; Freedom of Information
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Justice on the Grass
Temple-Raston investigates the events leading to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and how Rwanda has fared in the aftermath. She details the United Nations' trial of three Rwandan journalists charged with inciting the murder of Tutsis. She follows their convictions for helping to start the RTLM hate radio station in Rwanda. She conveys how ordinary Rwandans felt during the three month-long genocide. She refers to her study as "the most notorious media trial since Nuremberg."
Tags: genocide; Rwanda; United Nations; Tutsi; RTLM; Hutu; prejudice; UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; journalist; freedom of the press
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The Few Who Stayed: ARW reporting on Rwanda; U.N. Betrayal
On the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, American Radioworks aired this piece on the only American who stayed back in Rwanda. Carl Wilkens an American missionary helped save an orphanage and scoured the city of Kigali in search of water and medicines for the orphaned Tutsi children.
Tags: Rwanda; genocide; Carl Wilkens; American in Rwanda; American missionary; missionaries; orphanages; Kigali; Tutsi; Hutu
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Bystanders to Genocide
The Atlantic Monthly investigates "why the United states let the Rwandan tragedy happen." The story includes "exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making." The author analyses "a cache of newly declassified documents" that reveal that "the U.S. government knew enough about the genocide early on to save lives..." The story reveals that "the U.S. did much more than fail to send troops...it lead a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda." The article is a "chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will - and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime."
Tags: United Nations; peacekeepers; politics; defense; Romeo Dallaire; Hutu; Tutsi; human rights; genocide; intelligence; Wesley Clark; Pentagon; Warren Christopher; Africa; Somalia
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Forsaken
An attempt to explain the fighting in Africa. The Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, has seen little political stability since independence in Belgium, serving more as an "all-purpose African battleground" for different interests of Africa rather than a struggle by its people. Current Congo President Kabila came to power backed by an army from Rwanda and Uganda and 10 other African nations, largely as payback for former President Mobutu support of the Power Hutus (in Rwanda) which resulted in 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis AND moderate Hutus. Mobutu's ties with Rwanda spawned resentment from Congo natives. The climate was right for Kabila to seize power. Yet in 1998, Kabila transfers his allegiance to his former enemies, the Power Hutus, and Rwanda retaliates and other nations join the fray.
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Defending the indefensible
The New York Times Magazine chronciles the story of a Serb accused of establishing concentration camps in Bosnia. The situation presents a test for his lawyers, for the international tribunal at The Hague -- and for the post-cold-car world.
Tags: Genocide Croatia Muslim
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The Death of A Village
Newsweek takes an in-depth look at what happened in one village in the Srebrenica enclave after Serbs overran the area in 1995. By tracing every family and household and what befell them, Newsweek found a compelling way to determine the grander scale of the massacres in Srebrenica. The story was also able to assess the claims of Serbs that the massacres did not take place and of some in the international community who thought they had been exaggerated. (April 15, 1996)
Tags: Norland The death of a village Contest entry Genocide War crimes 8 pgs.
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Middle Managers of Genocide
The Nation investigates the horror surrounding the creation of Omarska, a concentration camp in Northwestern Bosnia run by Bosnian Serbs. The article describes the Serbian men who ran the camp and the soldiers' past experiences in Nazi concentration camps. Many Bosnian Serbs deny Omarska was a true concentration camp or that it even existed. (June 10, 1996)
Tags: Vulliamy Middle Managers of Genocide Mass murder 5 pgs.