Rwanda is an astonishing country: safe, prosperous, orderly, and open. Its success is remarkable enough given the rough neighborhood in which it finds itself. But when you think that 30 years ago this month, it was in the throes of the worst mass slaughter of the late 20th century, its achievements look miraculous. I have […]
The crime of genocide is surrounded by tragic ironies and contradictions. One involves the political and moral problem of the nation-state itself. For not only does the nation-state privilege, and claim to protect, one nation by warring against and destroying others, to paraphrase Balzac’s quip about there being a great crime behind every great fortune, More
“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
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Ronald Grigor Suny As an American, I share the deep sorrow over my country’s complicity in this horrific crime against humanity.
On 21 April, a commemoration ceremony was held in Amsterdam, near the memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Ambassador of Armenia to the Netherlands H.E. Mr. Viktor Biyagov, Mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema, members of the Dutch Parliament Don Ceder, Caroline van der Plas and representatives of the Armenian community of Amsterdam …
Wednesday marks the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, when the Turkish Ottoman empire killed more than 1.5 million Armenians during the early 20th century.
Throughout history, various groups of people and religions have believed different places around the globe to be gateways to the underworld. A fascinating video by Atlas Obscura takes a look at some of these alleged gateways to Hell. While some of these places look quite beautiful from photos, I understand why others are thought to be Hell's gates. — Read the rest
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II I come asking with brother Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on? What’s going on?”
Irvine dedicated land in its Great Park over the weekend for an Armenian genocide memorial that was added to plans last year, the Orange County Register reports. City officials, along with the Orange County Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee, held a dedication ceremony on Sunday, April 28, in the Great Park for the future memorial. It will be located …
The Foreign Ministry of Uruguay commemorated the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, reminding that the country’s Parliament was the first in the world to declare April 24 as “Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Martyrs.” “As a result of the genocide, tens of thousands of Armenians had to settle in different countries. In Uruguay, …
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his equally incompetent underlings have been making anti-Armenian statements for months. He started with denigrating Mount Ararat and then went on to criticize the Republic of Armenia’s constitutionally-protected official []