...Andrea Purdeková East Africa presents striking examples of the different ways in which states may seek to promote forgetting through control or suppression of memories of mass violence. In Rwanda, the 1994 genocide is intensively memorialized, yet violence committed by the ruling party is not part...

... social movements demanding change, political elites who have become large landowners show few signs of willingness to pursue transformative measures. A recent agreement with Germany to make amends for genocide has also failed to satisfy calls for land reparations. Overall, the Namibian government has...

... refugees Myanmar military junta Burma Bangladesh British Empire colonialism migration Buddhists Muslims Rakhine ethnic cleansing genocide Aung San Suu Kyi 149 Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy...

... refugees terrorism genocide ethnic cleansing Buddhist Muslim Aung San Suu Kyi South Asia 129 Bangladesh has neither the military nor the diplomatic power to force a solution on Myanmar. Bangladesh Copes With the Rohingya Crisis By Itself NAVINE MURSHID Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s...

...Susan Thomson Rather than addressing the trauma inflicted by genocidal violence, the ruling party has used a program of national ethnic unity and reconciliation to reinforce its political authority. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California...

... Menon genocide humanitarian intervention Universal Declaration Human Rights Syria Aleppo Rwanda Libya al-Qaddafi Barack Obama global norms PERSPECTIVE Does an international community exist? Up to a point. Certainly, world politics cannot be reduced to a ceaseless Hobbes- ian rivalry...

...Howard Eissenstat Ronald Grigor Suny has written a history of the Armenian genocide that goes beyond familiar partisan interpretations and does justice to the full complexity of the tragedy. “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide , by Ronald Grigor...

... of the University of California 318 [T]he war undoubtedly acted as a major catalyst to an aspect of the modern world we have seen time and time again, namely the mobilization of ethnic groups by great powers for their own geopolitical interests. Genocidal Legacies of the Great War MARK LEVENE High up in remote...

... is also driven by mounting international pressure to recognize the Armenian genocide, as momentum builds toward commemorations of its centennial in 2015. Even in light of the renewed optimism, the out- look for Armenian-Turkish normalization remains largely dependent on Turkey, which suspended the process...

... Joseph Kabila Laurent Kabila genocide International Criminal Court 188 [T]he arrest of Ntaganda and his trial should serve as reminders to the Rwandan author- ities that their interference in DRC is no longer acceptable, if it ever was. Will Rwanda End Its Meddling in Congo? thomaS turner...

... Criminal Court Augusto Pinochet Omar Hassan al-Bashir Luis Moreno-Ocampo genocide Madeleine Albright United Nations Bill Clinton International Criminal Tribunal Former Yugoslavia 32 In many instances human rights violations are better confronted as a political problem rather than...

... Action Battalion Bangladesh Nationalist Party Jamaat-e-Islami Sheikh Hasina Pakistan justice impunity genocide 151 Stints in power have been occasions to wipe out opponents, justice has meant vengeance, and egregious abuses have been legalized through immunity. Bangladesh s Quest...

... settlement is unnecessary. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California assimilation Beijing China colonial Dalai Lama genocide Han independence Lhasa Tibet 278 As the myths surrounding the Tibetan cause are challenged by Western...