Genocide

Tolerating Holocaust Denial Erodes Democracy

As scholars of genocide will line up to tell you, Holocaust denial is never just Holocaust denial. It is always accompanied by other things. If the historians “lied” about the...

Netherlands Apologizes for Role in Srebrenica Massacre

Dutch defense minister Kajsa Ollongren issued a formal apology on Monday to the families of victims of the Srebrenica Massacre, a notorious incident of ethnic cleansing in July 1995 in...

The ‘Parsley Massacre’ Shows How Easily a Genocide Can go Unnoticed

Here’s What You Need to Know: A soldier would pull a sprig of parsley from a pocket and ask what it was. Those who answered correctly in Spanish were presumed to...

The ‘Parsley Massacre’ Shows How Quickly a Genocide Can Unfold

Here’s What You Need to Know: The mispronunciation of a single word may have cost thousands their lives.  In 1937, social and economic tensions within the Dominican Republic were redirected at...

France Enabled Genocide. It Continues to Blame the Victims.

KIGALI, RWANDA—In the first years of the twentieth century, an anonymous author or authors in Tsarist Russia published Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated account purporting to document...