Search results for "Genocide"
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The Line: committing and commemorating ‘the crime without a name’
2018
This article analyses Gina Shmukler’s verbatim play The Line (2012) and argues for another look at the testimonies captured from witnesses, survivors and perpetrators of the violence targeting foreign and perceived as foreign persons in South Africa that escalated in 2008 and in 2015. It is a narrative analysis of the play that uses Gregory H. Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide model and the United Nations Convention on Genocide to investigate the theatrical representation of the violence. This account argues that the events that are captured in the play and that inspired it should be reconsidered as acts of genocide. In the absence of an official acknowledgement of the events as genocide, pe…
Israel State, Genocide and Thana-Capitalism
2019
The term “genocide” was originally coined by Lemkin just after the horrendous crimes committed against innocent civilians in Nazi Germany. At that moment, the SS officials disposed of a systemic rationalized system of death which was oriented to domesticate and eradicate the “inferior” or the undesired “Other”. The concentration camps were space of torture, violence, death and mourning that marked the state of Israel forever. Today things have changed a lot, and the state of Israel is accused of violating the human rights in Palestine. While we review the discussion of senior lecturers such as Slavoj Žižek, Richard Bernstein, Norman Finkelstein and Yakov Rabkin, we reconstruct the philosoph…
International Courts and the Crime of Genocide
2013
En este trabajo realizo un análisis jurídico de los elementos constitutivos (tanto subjetivos como objetivos) del crimen de genocidio, tal y como han sido interpretados y aplicados por la jurisprudencia internacional. En concreto, se estudia la jurisprudencia de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, del Tribunal Internacional Penal para la antigua Yugoslavia y del Tribunal Internacional Penal para Ruanda sobre el crimen de genocidio.
Has Pandora's Box Been Closed? The Decisions on the Legality of Use of Force Cases about the Status of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and…
2006
In its judgments on the preliminary objections in the Legality of Use of Force cases, the Court held that the FRY was not a UN member in the period between 1992 and 2000. This finding is controversial, at odds with previous decisions of the Court, and has indeed attracted criticism from various judges. This article proposes a different construction of the question of the FRY's membership within the UN and reviews arguments that allow doubts to be cast on the reasoning of the Court. Because of the link between UN membership and the FRY's participation in the Genocide Convention, the Court's finding in the Legality of Use of Force cases may have some implications for two sets of proceedings s…
Forgetting to Remember: The Press Discourse, the Cold War and Conjunctures of Remembrance
2011
The first ‘memory wave’ of the Holocaust, largely based on the depictions of the liberation of the camps and the Nuremberg Trial, was coming to an end in the late 1940s.1 This period, sometimes called the ‘Nuremberg interregnum’,2 was also shaped by discussion relating to the Jewish DPs, the creation of Israel and its aftermath, as this this book has shown. As the Palestine issue became less acute and faded from daily news, talk of the Holocaust also vanished from the public domain. Consequently, the disappearance of the Holocaust from the public eye marked the beginning of a cultural amnesia that lasted, as the dominant historical wisdom now has it, until the 1960s.3 On the other hand, it …
Genocide, torture, and terrorism: ranking international crimes and justifying humanitarian intervention
2018
International Courts and the Crime of Genocide
2013
This contribution focuses on the application of the crime of genocide by international tribunals, mainly the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice. The constituent elements of the crime of genocide are analyzed according to the jurisprudence of these international tribunals.
El enaltecimiento de los delitos previstos en el art. 510 CP a la luz de la última jurisprudencia constitucional
2021
espanolEl articulo 510 CP, en los apartados 1 c) y 2 d), tipifica el enaltecimiento y otras declaraciones de apoyo al genocidio y a los demas delitos cometidos contra grupos o sus miembros por motivos de intolerancia. Para castigar estas conductas se precisa tan solo el favorecimiento de un clima de violencia, hostilidad, odio o discriminacion, e incluso en el segundo precepto bastan esas expresiones, de modo que si se promueve ese clima se agrava la pena. Sin embargo, en los ultimos anos el Tribunal Constitucional ha aplicado la STC 235/2007 al enaltecimiento y justificacion de los delitos de terrorismo o de sus autores, del articulo 578.1 CP, al entender que constituyen “discurso del odio…
Marginacions d’ahir i d’avui: drets humans i discursos discriminatoris a la pel·lícula También la lluvia
2020
Resum: Al present article s’analitza la pel·lícula También la lluvia, una bona mostra de com també el cine «pel gran públic» pot contribuir, a través de les seves representacions, a conscienciar els espectadors; en aquest cas, sobre temes com el genocidi indígena a l’edat moderna, la històrica marginació dels pobles indígenes d’Amèrica Llatina i el dret a l’aigua que hom posa en discussió arreu del món. S’hi destaca, especialment, el racisme inherent als discursos de les elits que estan reproduïts a la pel·lícula i que són una bona mostra –dins del codi realista de También la lluvia– d’idees i d’un llenguatge prou difós.
 
 Paraules clau: Divulgació dels drets humans a través del …
Écrire le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda, la nouvelle : un genre propice ?
2015
4 OS nat; National audience; no abstract