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A narrative history of genocidal acts by Ottoman Turks against Armenians between 1915 and 1923 traces the impact of three central figures and offers insight into the Armenians' largely unrecognized struggle for justice throughout a subsequent half century.

Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 --- Armenian massacres survivors --- Collective memory --- Social justice --- War victims --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Atrocities --- Armenian massacres (1915-1923) --- World War (1914-1918)

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French literature (outside France) --- Massacres --- Crimes against humanity --- Congo (Democratic Republic)

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Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events.Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be—and are now being—perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, turning monstrous deeds into nonevents. Genocide, this book makes us see, is in one sense the destruction of the archive. It relies on the historiographic perversion.

Historiography --- Genocide --- Massacres --- Holocaust denial. --- Witnesses. --- Political aspects. --- Historiography. --- History --- History.

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Cet ouvrage traite des souffrances infligées aux civils dans la guerre en général et des raisons pour lesquelles ils en sont la cible. La plupart des sévices endurés par les populations pendant les conflits armés sont délibérément commis contre elles, quand bien même le droit international est censé préserver leur immunité dans de telles circonstances. Massacres, viols, déportations, famines ou maladies en sont les principales expressions, comme le détaille avec profondeur l'auteur, témoin de nombreux conflits contemporains au titre de délégué humanitaire. Reposant également sur l'histoire et des considérations philosophiques, Les civils dans la guerre décrypte les principales motivations à l'origine des persécutions. L'auteur s'arrête notamment sur les ambiguïtés que prend souvent le statut de civil en temps de guerre, et comment elles suscitent l'hostilité de nombres de belligérants. Contre tout angélisme, cet ouvrage jette les bases d'une réflexion appelée à restaurer l'impunité des civils. De nombreuses pistes théoriques et concrètes sont ici convoquées pour inverser une logique qui piétine dans le sang la dignité humaine.

War victims --- War --- Victimes de guerre --- Guerre --- Protection of civilians --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Protection des civils --- Aspect moral --- Viol --- Massacres --- Famines

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The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when a freewheeling market of illegal "massacre-imagery" videos blossomed in Bangkok on the very site where, days earlier, for the third time in two decades, a military-controlled government had killed scores of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex." Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized, and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence, and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the new world order.

Meditation --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Violence in mass media. --- Massacres --- Buddhism. --- Religious aspects --- Thailand --- Politics and government --- Mass media --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Dhyāna (Meditation) --- Meditation (Buddhism) --- Meditation (Lamaism) --- Tantric Buddhism --- Zen Buddhism