The call came around noon on Sunday. “What do you mean, Tita’s missing? Who was the last man to see her? Who was she with? Did she go to work on Saturday? What exactly did she tell her mother?” Establishing facts is always a great way to hold back one’s feelings in a time of [...]
As a dozen photographers and reporters anxiously awaited the team’s first move, John Gerns, a forensic investigator, evenly hoisted a six-foot long, T-shaped iron rod from a pickup truck. Gerns and a team of researchers from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had finally arrived in a pastoral meadow in Lazete, Bosnia. [...]
The Nazis weren’t the only real country to construct death camps in the time prior to World War II. Japan, also, had their concentration camps. The item wasn’t, just like the Germans, the extermination of a people, but rather was to use imprisoned common criminals and prisoners of war as guinea pigs in natural and, [...]
Right before Christmas 1975, I went east from Bangkok a few hundred miles to Thailand’s border with Cambodia. Because the Khmer Rouge Communists had won strength in Cambodia, defeating the U.S.-backed government of Gen It absolutely was some ten months. Lon Nol. Since that time the Khmer Rouge had emptied all the cities of individuals, [...]
The word ‘genocide’ is one of these controversial conditions that may result in a myriad of problems. The issue is that the word has been so politicized, and commonly used to attack leaders or nations that one dislikes, that it’s come to mean different items to different people. For example, the term has often been [...]
An Evolving International Construction Genocide is just a term developed during the Holocaust and announced a global crime in the 1948 Un Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. As the following acts committed with the intention to destroy, entirely or simply, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: [...]