TMO Tags: Genocide
Women Under Siege – the use of rape as a weapon of war
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012The International Criminal Court made legal history in February 2002, when it ruled in what has become known as the’rape camp‘ case that the systematic rape of women in the town of Foca constituted a crime against humanity. In Slavenka Drakulić’s book They Would Never Hurt a Fly – War Criminals on Trial in the [...]
When is Genocide not Genocide? Recognising the Armenian Genocide, eighty-nine years on.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2004When planning the Holocaust, Hitler famously referred to the Armenians, as an example of how quickly the world forgets terrible events. The Armenian Genocide however has not been forgotten and eighty-nine years after the event, remains a contentious and controversial topic. Turkey, Israel and the United States are amongst the countries that do not recognise [...]
The Multi-Culturalist. William Dalrymple in interview with Three Monkeys Online Magazine.
Saturday, May 1st, 2004William Dalrymple is a hard man to pin down, as befits an award winning travel/history writer who has written about the Middle East, Asia and in particular India. A couple of tentative interview arrangements are scuppered through travel plans – but when we finally manage to get hold of him, the conversation is well worth [...]
