Journey through Genocide (eBook)

Stories of Survivors and the Dead

Raffy Boudjikanian (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
192 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4077-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Journalist Raffy Boudjikanian speaks with genocide survivors from Darfur and Rwanda; and in eastern Turkey confronts the legacy of the Turkish government's denial of its responsibility for the Armenian genocide of 1915, an atrocity that resulted in the murder and exiling of many, including the author’s ancestors.

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Powerful accounts by genocide survivors, a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain.Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey all visited by genocide, all still reeling in its wake. In Journey through Genocide, Raffy Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity.In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced migrations, Boudjikanian looks back at three humanitarian crises. In Chad, meet families displaced by massacres in the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan, their ordeal still raw. In Rwanda, meet a people struggling with justice and reconciliation. And in Turkey, explore what it means to still be afraid a century after the author s own ancestors were caught in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.Clear-eyed and compassionate, Boudjikanian breathes life into horrors that too often seem remote.

Autor

Raffy Boudjikanian is a national reporter with CBC Edmonton. He has worked as a journalist in a number of places around the world, from Nicaragua to France to Montreal. He lives in Edmonton.

Inhalt

Preface
An Introduction
Chapter 1: Preparations and Goodbyes
Chapter 2: Planes, Paperwork, and Patience
Chapter 3: Victims of the Janjaweed
Chapter 4: The Country That Would Rebuild
Chapter 5: He Who Chases Genocide
Chapter 6: Lost Tourist in the Mist
Chapter 7: Rosette
Chapter 8: The Strangest Birthday
Chapter 9: Facing the Music
Chapter 10: The G Word
Chapter 11: Cover-Up City
Chapter 12: House and Home
Chapter 13: What To Do About the Past
Epilogue: Origins and Returns
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2018
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Armenia • Armenian • Chad • Crime • Darfur • Denial • Elazig • Genocide • Harput • Holocaust • Human Rights • Hutus • Interahamwe • Istanbul • Kharpert • Kigali • massacre • Mustafa Kemal Ataturk • Ottoman Empire • Pogrom • Rawanda • Refugee • Sudan • Survivor • Talaat Pasha • Trauma • Turkey • Turkish • Tutsis • UNHCR • victim • Yerevan • Young Turk regime
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-4077-7 / 1459740777
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-4077-8 / 9781459740778