When the plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, the president of Rwanda, crashed on the evening of 6 April, 1994, all hell was unleashed, a hell that had simmered for decades. This year, on April 6-7th,  the world will remember the 30 years that have passed since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. On the…
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On 28th September, 2023, I was interviewed by David Selves on Radio Faversham – part of the ‘A Voice From The Street‘ series. We discussed the issues covered in my forthcoming book, Genocide – Fear, Greed, Propaganda. Genocide isn’t something from the past or something that happens somewhere else or someone else. It’s also not…
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Over the past ten months, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have been encircled by Azerbaijan troops and endured a food, fuel and medical blockade. This was already a form of “ethnic cleansing” by attrition. Now, following a full-scale military attack by Azerbaijani troops, we are witnessing the forced mass exodus of the ethnic Armenians from their…
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Genocide isn’t something from the past or something that happens somewhere else or someone else. It’s also not something we can forget because we all have a responsibility to remember and protect. In Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions, I discuss the major genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – from the Armenian Genocide to the…
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“Who are the Israelis today?” “What do they want?”  These are the questions that Isabel Kershner has tackled in her book, The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul (Scribe UK, £25), which is published tomorrow. Her book appears as Israel faces the most significant internal crisis in its 75-year history. Kershner traces…
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MANTRAYA.ORG The war in Ukraine and the atrocities committed there, with accompanying claims of genocide and Nazism, have made remembrance of the Holocaust more relevant than ever. We are confronted by perhaps the most serious challenge to the international rule of law since the end of World War II and, unfortunately, we are also confronted with…
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