What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet. Go to Open Democracy for full text.
Category: Uncategorized
A century of genocide, 1915-2009, Open Democracy, 23 April 2009
The Armenian massacres belong to a wider pattern of "mass death" forged in war and state rivalry. Go to Open Democracy for the full text.
Israel’s politics of war, Open Democracy, 20 January 2009
The impact of Israel's three-week assault on Gaza on the civilian Palestinian population is revealing of its true character, says Martin Shaw.Go to Open Democracy for the full text.
Review of Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide and Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, for JGR, 2008
Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, 640 pp. ISBN 978 1 4039 9219 2 (cloth). Donald Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, 268 pp. ISBN 978 0 85303 720 0 (cloth), 978 0 85303 721 7 (paper).… Continue reading Review of Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide and Bloxham, Genocide, The World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe, for JGR, 2008
