Sexual Violence and Sri Lankan State Sovereignty

What has taken place in Sri Lanka this year marks a historical turning point. The liberation struggle against the Sri Lankan occupation of the homeland of the Tamil people is at a stand still and has suffered a debilitating blow. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group formed to fight for the rights, recognition, and freedom of the Tamil people and homeland (Tamil Eelam), had previously controlled areas of the North and East of the island now under occupation of the Sri Lankan state. The Sri Lankan state has moved hundreds of thousands of troops into the region and continues to hold 250, 000 Tamil people in concentration camps. Tamil people are terrorized and humiliated by the government as it proceeds to build settlements on Tamil owned land and take over the homes and businesses of people who fled the fighting in what can only be described as the violent colonization of Eelam.

It takes 3.

It takes 3. It takes 3 types of people for genocide to occur: the bully, the bystander and the bullied. There could be no genocide without a Hitler, a Hutu Power, A Rajapaksa – the genocidaires. These are the planners, instigators, and perpetrators, who plan instigate, and/or take an active part in the genocide.

Genocide and Women

Women have been targeted in genocide; the destruction and degradation of their bodies havnne been used as an instrument of genocide. In many cultures, women are the ones who bear the honor of their societies. Targeting their honor, and defiling a women’s body is a way in which perpetrators of genocide can terrorize a community. Raping women produces three outcomes perpetrators hope will happen:

Gendercide and Genocide

An important part of genocide is gendercide. Gendercide has been carried out in Bosnia, and recently in Sri-Lanka. It is a way of controlling the reproduction of a targeted population. Ethnic cleansing has been

What Genocide? – Denial

Although it’s hard to believe, some people deny genocide ever took place. There was a poll conducted in 1993 in America, and it found that 1 in 5 Americans (or 22%) answered ‘it is possible the Holocaust never happened.’ While you may think that these people

What is Genocide?

Genocide; What it is?

Genocide is the deliberate and organized killing of a group/and or groups of people, with the intention of destroying their identity as an ethnic, cultural, or religious group. The word genocide was first

Our rights, as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.”

The story of the Greensboro Four

Four freshman students from all Black Greensboro North Carolina College entered a downtown Woolworth store. They bought supplies, and sat down at the lunch counter to eat, however