Essays on Genocide

In our unstable world a lot of crimes are committed on the grounds of discrimination. And among such crimes the crime of genocide is to be the most violent and the most difficult to prove. This crime is characterized by the specific intent to destroy...

In 1994, Raphael Lemkin termed crimes committed against individuals, not by their capacity as an individual, but because of their membership in a group, as Genocide. The extermination of almost a million of Armenians residing in Turkey during the first World War I and the...

Toward the start of the thirteenth century a dry spell more noteworthy than any amid the written history of the region went to the Great Plains. As the downpours fizzled quite a long time and the harvests shriveled in the fields, hunters and horticulturalists who...