Mini-Me: Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group – US Leaders Should Note….

Huh? Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan court on Friday found Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods of its long civil war, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judge Yasmín Barrios sentenced General Ríos …

Berto Jongman: ‘Lost’ report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide 25 April 2013

‘Lost’ report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide 25 April 2013 A shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ in a fire. The Figueiredo report was commissioned by the Minister of the Interior in 1967 and caused an international …

1 March 2013 Geoergetown University, Washington, DC Colloquium on Genocides and War Crimes

Colloquium on Genocides and War Crimes, Georgetown University Posted by Eze Eluchie on February 20, 2013 at 10:00pm View Blog Join us for the 1st International Colloquium on Genocides and War Crimes scheduled for McDonough Hall, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC. on Friday, 1st March 2013. From 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Diplomatic representatives …

DefDog: Newly Unclassified Records Show Reagan Administration Promoted Genocide in Guatemala

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. How Reagan Promoted Genocide Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team agreed to supply military aid to the brutal right-wing regime in Guatemala to pursue the goal of exterminating not only “Marxist guerrillas” but their “civilian support mechanisms,” according to a newly …

Review (Guest): Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

Gerard Prunier 5.0 out of 5 stars a comprehensive account of a vast conflict May 29, 2009 By Kirk Huff This is going to be a complicated review.First, if you know nothing about the wars of central Africa over the past 15 years or so, in particular the Rwanda-related conflicts, this is an awful book …

Berto Jongman: Genocide’s Definition Revisited – More About Cultural Extinction than Mass Violence

Genocide’s Definition Revisited Alexander J. Motyl World Affairs, 19 October 2012 If you think you know what Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the term genocide, thought about genocide, think again. A dissertation-in-progress on Lemkin and the history of the United Nations Genocide Convention by Douglas Irvin-Erickson, a doctoral student in global affairs at Rutgers University-Newark, …