Genocide
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(Note: This article was originally posted on 2 October 2016.) Rafael Trujillo was a dictator of the Dominican Republic for decades. He was assassinated in 1961. In early 1930, after Dominican President Horacio Vasquez faced revolts and a provisional government had been established, Trujillo named himself a candidate in the new presidential elections. During Trujillo’s
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On 15 November 1943, Himmler ordered that Romani and “part-Romanies” were to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps.” Between 1933 and 1945, Roma and Sinti in Europe were targets of Nazi persecution. The Nazi regime, building on long-held prejudices, viewed Roma as “a-socials” (outside “normal” society) and as
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Forgotten History-The Hardaga & the Kabiljo families:Holocaust and Bosnian Muslim Genocide survivors
(originally posted in April 2016) There really isn’t such a thing as a happy Holocaust story but I think this is probably could be seen as a ‘happy’ story. It doesn’t only portray extreme bravery but also that deep down, good people are the same, regardless of what religious differences they have. Especially in the
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The Ustaše (also spelled Ustashas or Ustashi) was a Croatian fascist, ultranationalist, and terrorist organization that engaged in violent activity before and during World War II. Under the protection of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, the Ustaše established a puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia. At World
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(Repost from May 15 2016) Let it never be said that the Eurovision Song Contest can’t be an inspiration to write a historical piece. The lyrics for “1944” concern the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union at the hands of Joseph Stalin in 1944. Jamala was particularly inspired by the story of
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The Rwandan Genocide, which took place over a horrifying span of 100 days from April 7 to July 19 1994, stands as one of the most brutal and rapid genocides in modern history. An estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in a planned campaign of mass murder orchestrated by the
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The concept of concentration camps did not originate with the Nazis. In fact, the British created the first concentration camps during the Boer War (1899–1902). These camps were used to detain Boers and black Africans, preventing them from aiding Boer guerrillas. Tragically, over 27,000 Boers and 14,000 Africans, many of them children died in the
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We are running towards a wall. This wall represents the subsequent genocide. I fear that this genocide will be much bigger than the Holocaust. We are running towards a wall, not as individuals but as a group—a global group. The warning signs are there. For people like me, it is clear that we are living
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The Holodomor comes from the term moryty holodom which translates as “death inflicted by starvation.” A man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet Republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, peaking in the late spring of 1933. Millions of Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. The primary victims
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