1.) Your article powerfully weaves personal narratives, legal history, and current affairs. What initially drew you to write about genocide, especially at a time when the word seemed, as you put it, “dusty”? When I was about 12, my parents, young...
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Genocide Keeps Growing Despite Cries of ‘Never Again’ — Are We Normalising the Worst of Humanity?By Heidi Kingstone Genocide was once a term reserved for the darkest chapters of history. But as urban warfare ravages cities from Mosul to Aleppo to...
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“Perhaps the time has come to critically examine the wording of the Genocide Convention” By Mukesh Kapila. Mukesh Kapila CBE is the former United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. He is Professor Emeritus of Global Health a...
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Exploring 20th and 21st century genocide , “Genocide” is the latest work from journalist and author Heidi Kingstone. This book is a collection of personal stories of survivors, witnesses, academics and activists. BOOK SUMMARY The book tells the ...
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What We Have Learned From a Century of Genocides: From first-person accounts of the Armenian and Yazidi genocides, to Anne Frank's diary and the Nuremberg prosecutor who 'peered into hell', we need to listen to those who experienced genocide, to s...
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The making of an extraordinary memento that survived the concentration camp and a death march designed to bury the truth Joy was not an emotion often seen in the death camp of Auschwitz, where more than a million Jews were murdered. Nor were acts...
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When Fania Fainer was in the camp, a friend made her a birthday gift that she managed to preserve When I met Sandy Fainer, she lived on the same street as Miss Shepherd, a homeless woman who camped in playwright Alan Bennett’s driveway in London’...
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“The British would never have gone to the slaughter like the Jews did in Nazi Germany,” someone once said to me. That sentence angered me and stopped me in my tracks. Many years later, I am still reacting to its ignorance and arrogance. Frankly, w...
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This article by Mukesh Kapila includes a review of Heidi Kingstone's Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions The sombre speeches of foreign dignitaries including the UN Secretary General and heads of state were interrupted by sobs and screams f...
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Heidi Kingstone says it is not for journalists to decide whether conflict in Gaza is genocide. When I began writing my book Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions in 2020, people’s eyes glazed over when I discussed the atrocities committed in ...
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