genocide
August 20, 2009
- What makes a difference? Watching Beyond the Gates, a film about the genocide in Rwanda that took place in 1994 with a group of Anglicans last night, I heard one of the lead characters, Joe, a teacher, tell a BBC reporter that he went to Africa “to make a difference.” He grew up privileged—with “everything.” Teaching in Rwanda was his way of “giving back.” Each day, he ...
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August 19, 2009
- As my recent posts would suggest, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s o.k. to write poetry in the first person about experiences one hasn’t had, even knowing that such poems defy convention and that one’s audience might mistakenly believe such verse to be autobiographical. I think such defiance is justfied when: 1) it serves some greater truth, and 2) the author knows enough about ...
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April 13, 2009
- I joined the Tamil demonstrators on sunday in Oslo to demand a ceasefire between Sri Lankan forces and the rebels. As a peace activist-i want non-violent means to be used always. Norway is one the four nations heading Sri Lanka's peace process and their is need for it to do something to stop the genocide. Some of the protestors ran to the Sri Lankan embassy and broke the door-as we stood and ...
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January 23, 2009
- Hi all, I recently had the opportunity to read Mathias B. Freese's The i Tetralogy. You may read my review of this book at Today.com.Thanks,Mayra
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January 22, 2009
- Danish writer Christian Jungersen's 2nd novel "The Exception" was a bestseller in Europe and won a major Danish literary prize. Published in English in 2007, the novel uses a thriller format to investigagte the psychology of evil among Danes. The novel focuses on four women who work for the Danish Center for Information on Genocide (DCIG), an archive of material about genocide open ...
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January 5, 2009
- When I studied in the USA, I was constantly told that "never again" was the moral to live by. Holocaust studies, memorials, monuments, documentaries, novels, memoirs dominated and still dominate the Western marketplace and psyche. In that process what is lost is the genocide determinedly practised over 60 years by survivors of the Holocaust. Like children of abusers and alcoholics, the ...
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January 2, 2009
- "Your father's not genocide terrible. He's terrible like kill just one guy terrible." Tiny William's mom told him this one time.In Eyelid by Caleb J. Ross. Eyelid is an excerpt from Stranger Will a novel in progress by Red Roomer Caleb! I read Eyelid at coloredchalk.com colored chalk: Issue Five - Sins of the Father. Check it out!
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December 29, 2008
- In the wake of Israel's escalating bombardment of Gaza, and this latest violence against Palestinians which has been condemned by many in the Israeli press, and media, The New York Times reported late Sunday:"At Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, women wailed as they searched for relatives among bodies that lay strewn on the hospital floor. One doctor said that given the dearth of facilities, not ...
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November 8, 2008
- On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, come revelations that blueprints were found, from 1941, in a Berlin flat that reveal the plan to expand the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and annihilate 11 million European Jews. You'll recall that Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 was the night when nearly 100 Jews were slaughtered by Nazis, and close to 30,000 ...
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