I was born 1961 in Kayonza District, Eastern Province. We were ten children, three girls and seven boys. My family was rich and we had a good life when I was young. What I liked about my childhood was conversing with my parents and siblings while we were together at home. My mother loved me and I loved her. The first violence I experienced was in 1973. People came to my school and selected Tuts...

In genocide, both women and men suffer. However, their suffering has always been different; with mostly subjected to torture killings, mutilation. These differences stem primarily from the perpetrators' ideology intention exterminate targeted people. Many patriarchal societies link blood lineage group’s continuation, while embody reproductivity dignity. ongoing genocide against Uyghurs other Tu...

Whenever some form of beneficent killing--for example, voluntary euthanasia--is advocated, the proposal is greeted with a flood of slippery-slope arguments warning of the dangers of a Nazi-style slide into genocide. This paper is an attempt systematically to evaluate arguments of this kind. Although there are slippery-slope arguments that are sound and convincing, typical formulations of the Na...

This paper investigates the identity implications of silence about genocide in commemorations of American Thanksgiving. In Study 1 we assessed the co-occurrence of national glorification themes with different forms of silence in commemoration products by conducting a content analysis of presidential Thanksgiving proclamations. In Study 2 we examined the extent to which different commemoration p...