It has been a very difficult week for humanity. Whenever human life is lost, we must pause and reflect. When those lives are lost because of unilateral aggression and a wanton disregard for human rights, […]
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi 2019 656 pages, Harvard University Press $24.74, hardcover We Armenians have reached a point in the history of our nation when […]
The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey: Survivor Testimonies From The Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921 Kostas Faltaits Translated and edited by Ellene S. Phufas-Jousma and Aris Tsilfidis Prologue by Tessa Hofmann New York: Cosmos […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Dr. Henry Theriault, will headline the inaugural February 27 lecture of the Raphael Lemkin Policy Series, an ongoing Capitol Hill conversation about legal and political […]
I was covering the Indigenous People’s March in Washington, D.C. for the Armenian Weekly, when international headlines were made. According to reports, Covington Catholic High School students from Kentucky wearing Make America Great Again hats […]
I heard so much caterwauling about my recent “Bad News Beginning” piece that I went out of my way for a feel-good piece this week. I hope all sensitive readers will find their nerves soothed […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Donald Trump has signed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, a ground-breaking genocide prevention law, overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate and House, which codifies earlier measures, including those implemented by the […]
In the 1956 movie The Searchers, two white girls are abducted from their family homestead during a raid by Comanche Native Americans. With their parents murdered and one sister raped and left for dead, the […]
TORONTO, Canada—The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is proud to announce that 19 scholars have graduated from the Zoryan Institute’s two-week Genocide and Human Rights Program (GHRUP) 2018 at the University of […]
WASHINGTON–Henry Morgenthau III passed away on July 10, 2018 at the age of 101. Morgenthau was the grandson of Henry Morgenthau Sr., the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide. His […]
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