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To download click here : https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:23569 La promulgation de la loi du 23 février 2005 « portant reconnaissance de la Nation et contribution nationale en faveur des Français rapatriés » donne lieu à un... more
K. Magliveras, “International Organisations and Denialism: The Case of the African Union” in H. Nelen, J.C.M. Willems & R. Moerland (eds.), Denialism and Human Rights, Intersentia, 2016, pages 267-284 See the edited volume at:... more
To download click here : https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:23565 Tant le langage courant que le langage historiographique contemporain définissent le négationnisme comme une doctrine ou une position idéologique consistant à nier... more
Examining the concept of death can provide a new perspective on the question of why prominent sections of the Australian political and media establishment have resisted recognising the Stolen Generations as a genocide. This paper examines... more
Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the... more
(Article language German, English Abstract) Facticity, Identity, and Emotionality: Cultural Strategies addressing Genocide Denial in the Case of Srebrenica. Twenty-six years after the Srebrenica genocide, the topic remains a discursive... more
"Heresy" is developed here as an analytical term for the criminalization of speech questioning the basic tenets of a belief system, such as internal criticisms of state socialism or denial of the applicability of the term genocide to some... more
Review on the monograph "Knowing about Genocide" by Joachim Savelsberg
The Perinçek precedent of ECHR on freedom of expression-which denied the Armenian Genocide by means of its relativisation and banalisation-, was a regression in the fight for the historical truth and the recognition of genocide. The ECHR... more
Le sujet de ce travail est la relation entre l’art. 17 (interdiction de l’abus de droit) et la liberté d’expression dans la jurisprudence de la Cour. L’ancienne Commission européenne des droits de l’homme et la Cour européenne des droits... more
File 1 contains my review as published in "The California Courier" (pp.6-7), File 2 the full version in an online-edition. File 3 contains the German version of the review,published in "Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen... more
Laws regulating historical discourse, or “memory laws,” recognize past injustices, and, as in the case of legislation regarding the Holocaust, may punish denial. They also reflect the geopolitical interests of states or supranational... more
There have been relatively few works focusing on the denial of the Holocaust from a purely legal perspective. Examining different laws banning Holocaust denial from an internationally comparative legal perspective will be an interesting... more
This article examines the techniques used by Anne Frank in revising her diaries for what she intended to be a post war publication. The article begins by reviewing the scholarly and political contexts in which the Diaries are normally... more
The effects of genocide denial and the paradigmatic relevance of the Ottoman genocide against the Armenian in the history of international law
Ever since the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the crime of genocide has been one of the most controversial matters in international humanitarian law, history and politics as the... more
HOUSED IN THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARCHIVE at Geneva is a collection of intake surveys from the Rescue Home in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. These documents record the histories of some 2,000 Armenian girls, boys, and young women who... more
International crimes are defined by international conventions as well as by the statutes of international courts. The crime of genocide belongs to a group of international crimes against humanity and international law, which is primarily... more
In this article I argue that the notable memory boom in Turkey since the 2000s about the Armenian genocide has diverted the attention away from the importance of formal genocide acknowledgement; in addition, the responsibility of genocide... more
On overview of German history and memory policies, parliamentary genocide 'recognition' and related concerns such as penalization of genocide denial, genocide awareness education in schools and public commemoration.
K. Magliveras, “International Organisations and Denialism: The Case of the African Union” in H. Nelen, J.C.M. Willems & R. Moerland (eds.), Denialism and Human Rights, Intersentia, 2016, pages 267-284 Book webpage:... more
The year 2015 marked the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians by the Committee of Union and Progress and the Ottoman state apparatus, and one of the first mass murders of the twentieth century. Last... more
Law’s claim of mastery over past political violence is frequently undermined by reversals of that relationship of mastery, so that the violence of the law, and especially its symbolic violence, becomes easily incorporated into longues... more
Against the backdrop of a recent proliferation of so-called memory laws across Central and Eastern Europe, the article provides a framework that distinguishes between three different categories of punitive memory laws – anti-hate speech,... more
This is a chapter from a book on modern genocide, published in 2017. It is very difficult to find a good, clear, fairly concise overview of the Armenian Genocide, which I hope I accomplished with this chapter.
On Holocaust commemoration and its misuse in TUrkey
General comments: Those who are familiar with the subjects of Rwanda and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi will have observed that Filip Reyntjens is not a big fan of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the ruling party of Rwanda. They... more
Mehmet Perinçek, Rus Devlet Arşivlerinden 150 Belgede Ermeni Meselesi (İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, genişletilmiş altıncı basım, 2013) adlı kitabında ve başka yerlerde Ermeni milliyetçi partisi Taşnaksütyun'un işlediği cinayet vb... more
This essay describes the attempt of a small group of white colonist artists and scholars to prevent genocide denial and problematize white supremacy in the "Timber!" Exhibition held at the East Gippsland Art Gallery in 2018. It is a story... more
The Srebrenica crime gained several dimensions in the last 25 years: the legal qualification of genocide, The Hague judgments and life sentences, established facts, a memorial, survivors’ testimonies. Still, except on July 11, every day... more
To access the article: https://philpeople.org/profiles/imge-oranli/publications Genocide denialism is an understudied topic in the epistemic injustice scholarship; so are epistemic relations outside of the Euro-American context. This... more
Recognizing the moral equivalence of Nazism and communism does not entail the punishment or trivialization of the two types of crimes but simply putting them in the same category. To reach this standard, there is however another way:... more