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Genocide justification, the Glossary

Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.^[1]

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Armenian genocide

The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Armenian genocide denial is the claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of evidence and affirmed by the vast majority of scholars.

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Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira

On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945), sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi, is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.

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Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger

The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger was a daily newspaper published in Berlin, with one of the highest national circulations of its time.

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Berliner Tageblatt

The Berliner Tageblatt or BT was a German language newspaper published in Berlin from 1872 to 1939.

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Bibliography of genocide studies

This is a select annotated bibliography of scholarly English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the subject of genocide studies; for bibliographies of genocidal acts or events, please see the See also section for individual articles.

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Bosnian genocide

The Bosnian genocide (Bosanski genocid / Босански геноцид) refers to both the Srebrenica massacre and the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995.

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Bosnian genocide denial

Bosnian genocide denial is the act of denying the occurrence of the systematic Bosnian genocide against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or asserting it did not occur in the manner or to the extent that has been established by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) through proceedings and judgments, and described by comprehensive scholarship.

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Bugesera District

Bugesera is a district (akarere) in Eastern Province, Rwanda.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald,, The New York Times, 2 June 1989.

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Constitutionality

In constitutional law, constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.

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Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945.

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Einsatzgruppen trial

The Einsatzgruppen trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) was the ninth of the twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the US authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.

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Erik-Jan Zürcher

Erik-Jan Zürcher (born 1953) is a Dutch Turkologist.

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Eugenics

Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.

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Fatma Müge Göçek

Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioral genetics movement during the Victorian era.

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Frankfurter Zeitung

The Frankfurter Zeitung was a German-language newspaper that appeared from 1856 to 1943.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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Genocide denial

Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Genocide justification and genocide denial are hate speech and Responses to genocide.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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Hans-Lukas Kieser

Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957) is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in Basel.

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Hasan Fehmi Ataç

Hasan Fehmi Ataç (1879 – 16 September 1961) was a Turkish politician and a member of both the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey (the Turkish Parliament) and the earlier Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire (the lower house of the Ottoman Parliament).

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Hitler's prophecy

During a speech at the Reichstag on 30 January 1939, German Führer Adolf Hitler threatened "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" in the event of war: These words were similar to comments that Hitler had previously made to foreign politicians in private meetings after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938.

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Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration.

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Hutu

The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region.

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Incitement

In criminal law, incitement is the encouragement of another person to commit a crime. Genocide justification and incitement are speech crimes.

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Incitement to genocide

Incitement to genocide is a crime under international law which prohibits inciting (encouraging) the commission of genocide. Genocide justification and Incitement to genocide are hate speech and speech crimes.

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International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.

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International criminal law

International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration.

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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators.

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Interwar period

In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

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Israel Charny

Israel W. Charny (born 1931) is an Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin;; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, and leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.

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Jewish war conspiracy theory

The claim that there was a Jewish war against Nazi Germany is an antisemitic conspiracy theory promoted in Nazi propaganda which asserts that the Jews, framed within the theory as a single historical actor, started World War II and sought the destruction of Germany.

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Kangura

Kangura was a Kinyarwanda and French-language magazine in Rwanda that served to stoke ethnic hatred in the run-up to the Rwandan genocide.

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Kravica attack (1993)

The Kravica attack was an attack on the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) from the Srebrenica enclave on Orthodox Christmas Day, 7 January 1993.

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Legality of Holocaust denial

Between 1941 and 1945, the government of Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust: a large-scale industrialised genocide in which approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered throughout German-occupied Europe. Genocide justification and Legality of Holocaust denial are speech crimes.

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Military necessity

Military necessity, along with distinction, and proportionality, are three important principles of international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Otto Ohlendorf

Otto Ohlendorf (4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era.

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Outline of genocide studies

Below is an outline of articles on the academic field of genocide studies and subjects closely and directly related to the field of genocide studies; this is not an outline of acts or events related to genocide or topics loosely or sometimes related to the field of genocide studies.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Physicians for Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a US-based not-for-profit human rights NGO that uses medicine and science to document and advocate against mass atrocities and severe human rights violations around the world.

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Posen speeches

The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Poznań), in German-occupied Poland.

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Preemptive war

A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war shortly before that attack materializes.

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Psychology of genocide

The psychology of genocide attempts to explain genocide by means of psychology. Genocide justification and psychology of genocide are Responses to genocide.

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Radio Rwanda

Radio Rwanda (est. 1961) is a radio station of the Rwandan Broadcasting Agency, a public broadcaster that also owns Rwandan Television, Magic FM, and other public radio stations.

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Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines

italic (RTLM) (Radiyo yigenga y'imisozi igihumbi) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993, to July 31, 1994.

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Refugees International

Refugees International (RI) is an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.

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Risk factors for genocide

The assessment of risk factors for genocide is an upstream mechanism for genocide prevention.

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Robert Zajonc

Robert Bolesław Zajonc (/ˈzaɪ.ənts/ ''ZY-ənts''; Polish: ˈzajɔnt͡s; November 23, 1923 – December 3, 2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes.

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Rohingya genocide

The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.

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Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.

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Rwandan Patriotic Front

The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi; Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda.

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Self-defense

Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

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Serbian nationalism

Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs.

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Soghomon Tehlirian

Soghomon Tehlirian (Սողոմոն Թեհլիրեան; April 2, 1896 – May 23, 1960) was an Armenian revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Talaat Pasha, the former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, in Berlin on March 15, 1921.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Srebrenica massacre

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War.

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Stefan Ihrig

Stefan Ihrig is an academic, author, and speaker.

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Supreme Court of Spain

The Supreme Court (TS) is the highest court in the Kingdom of Spain.

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Talaat Pasha

Mehmed Talaat (1 September 187415 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was an Ottoman Young Turk activist, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918.

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Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide

Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide is a 2018 academic book by Hans-Lukas Kieser, published by Princeton University Press.

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Théoneste Bagosora

Théoneste Bagosora (16 August 1941 – 25 September 2021) was a Rwandan military officer.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Holocaust in Romania

The Holocaust in Romania was the development of the Holocaust in the Kingdom of Romania.

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The Intercept

The Intercept is an American left-wing nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online.

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Turkish nationalism

Turkish nationalism (Türk milliyetçiliği) is nationalism among the people of Turkey and individuals whose national identity is Turkish.

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Tutsi

The Tutsi, also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.

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Virginia Journal of International Law

The Virginia Journal of International Law is a law journal that was established in 1960 at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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War and genocide

War and genocide studies is an interdisciplinary subject that identifies and analyzes the relationship between war and genocide, as well as the structural foundations of associated conflicts.

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1804 Haitian massacre

The 1804 Haiti massacre, sometimes referred to as the Haitian genocide, was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_justification

Also known as Apologist for genocide, Defending genocide, Defense of genocide, Genocide apologia, Genocide rationalization, Justified genocide, Justify genocide, Justifying genocide, Rationalizing genocide.

, Outline of genocide studies, Oxford University Press, Physicians for Human Rights, Posen speeches, Preemptive war, Psychology of genocide, Radio Rwanda, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, Refugees International, Risk factors for genocide, Robert Zajonc, Rohingya genocide, Rwandan genocide, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Self-defense, Serbian nationalism, Soghomon Tehlirian, Spain, Srebrenica massacre, Stefan Ihrig, Supreme Court of Spain, Talaat Pasha, Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, Théoneste Bagosora, The Holocaust, The Holocaust in Romania, The Intercept, Turkish nationalism, Tutsi, Virginia Journal of International Law, War and genocide, 1804 Haitian massacre.

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Responses to genocide

Speech crimes

References