SOCI 3P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Raphael Lemkin, Hutu, Counter-Insurgency
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Un: convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide. R. j rummel (1994: dadrian (2004, barnes (2005) We are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs not even they must live. The whole people must be wiped out of existence, and none be left to think of them and shed a tear (king agamemnon prince and later king of greece) Rwanda is important in understand the 1994 genocide. Realistic way to dismantle torture is change the way in police and military personnel are trained and educated. Recognize importance of respecting human rights; observing human rights conventions. Obedience to authority must have limits; question orders that harm others. Re-humanize those who were the targets of the torture regime. Empower the victims of torture who had been disempowered and incapacitated by the torture regime. Public airing of grievances against the torture regime. Documenting the regime"s record of abuse and victimization.