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Ten Stages of Genocide Revised PowerPoint

Ten Stages of Genocide 2016 short version with Countries at Risk

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ISIS-inspired attacker kills French police officer and streams it on Facebook

ISIS-inspired attacker kills French police officer and streams it on Facebook James McAuley, The Washington Post 14 June 2016 Video: A couple with ties to the police was killed at their home on the outskirts of Paris on June 13 in what the French president has called "undeniably a terrorist attack." The victims were a French police captain and his partner, an unidentified official at the Interior Ministry. (Reuters) PARIS — French President François

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After years of siege, first food aid reaches Syria’s Daraya

After years of siege, first food aid reaches Syria’s Daraya Bassem Mroue, The Washington Post  10 June 2016 Image: FILE -- This Wednesday, June 1, 2016, file photo released by the International Committee for the Red Cross, shows the first humanitarian aid convoy in Daraya, Syria. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations have delivered food aid to the Damascus suburb of Daraya for the first time since it came under siege in 2012, hours

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Shooter Omar Mateen’s father says he’s saddened by massacre, calls gunman ‘a good son’

   Shooter Omar Mateen’s father says he’s saddened by massacre, calls gunman ‘a good son’   Tim Craig, Max Bearak and Lee Powell, The Washington Post    13 June 2016  Video: Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique, says he last saw his son a day before the Orlando nightclub shooting. And nothing seemed amiss. (Lee Powell/The Washington Post)   KABUL — The father of the Orlando nightclub gunman insists that his son was not motivated

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Iraqis Trapped in Fallujah Face Twin Peril of Islamic State and Militia Fighters

 Iraqis trapped in Fallujah face twin peril of Islamic State and militia fighters Hugh Naylor, The Washington Post  8 June 2016 Iraqis who fled fighting around Fallujah gather at a camp run by the Norwegian Refugee Council. (Ahmad Mousa/AFP/Getty Images) BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants have gunned down people trying to flee the Iraqi city of Fallujah even as pro-government forces have apparently committed beatings and torture during battles

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‘An American Genocide,’ by Benjamin Madley Book Review

'An American Genocide,' by Benjamin Madley Alan Taylor, The New York Times 1 June, 2016 The state of sunshine and pleasure is drenched in the blood of Indians, the victims of mass killings. These peaked between 1846, when Americans conquered California from Mexico, and 1873, when they snuffed out the last group resistance by natives in the state. The slaughter of California’s Indians was rapid and thorough even by the grim standards prevailing

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Airstrikes Kill Dozens Near a Hospital in Syria as Violence Escalates

Airstrikes kill dozens near a hospital in Syria as violence escalates Liz Sly, The Washington Post 1 June, 2016 Image: Rescuers look for survivors at a site damaged after airstrikes on the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib late Monday. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) BEIRUT — Intense airstrikes overnight Tuesday in rebel-held areas of northern Syria killed or wounded scores of people, most of them civilians, as an already fraying peace process wobbled

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Rwanda’s technology revolution helps country forge new path after genocide

Rwanda's technology revolution helps country forge new path after genocide BBC News 24 May, 2016 Image: Mobile phones have transformed Rwandans' lives Returning to Rwanda after an absence of several years, the BBC's Milton Nkosi finds a country which has undergone astonishing technological change. The Rwandan capital Kigali was a hive of activity this week as the city hosted the World Economic Forum on Africa.  The land of a thousand hills is shaking

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Justice Delayed

Justice Delayed Letters to Phnom Penh Newspapers 23 May, 2016 “It’s always difficult to make an exact projection about how long things will take,” according to ECCC spokesman Lars Olsen, as quoted in the Phnom Penh Post on May 10, referring to the announcement that the tribunal’s Supreme Court now does not expect to rule before mid-August on the appeals of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan against their conviction in trial 002/01. But, in reality,

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