What does genocide look like? Do gas chambers, machetes, and mass graves come to mind? Images of piles of mutilated bodies? I haven’t conducted a survey, but I’ll take a bet and say that most of us think of genocide as the intentional, large-scale murder of entire groups of people. But murder is just one …
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Developments in the Rohingya’s pursuit for justice
It's been close to three years since Myanmar carried out the most violent military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority seen to date. Over 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee their homes in Rakhine (a coastal state in Myanmar), into neighboring Bangladesh. Ten thousand or more were killed. Survivors told reporters how soldiers grabbed babies …
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Not ‘just’ a terrorist
When the deranged fantasy of a caliphate was at its peak, thousands of men and women traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. By October 2015, an estimated 30,000 people from 100 countries were part of the fight, linked to ISIS or other militant groups. In 2018, around 30% of the foreign fighters had …
