Genocide in Paraguay

The Aché and Guaraní: Thirty Years after Maybury-Lewis and Howe’s Report on Genocide in Paraguay

The Order of Genocide : The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda

To begin, I’d like to describe the origins of the research project that ultimately became The Order of Genocide. I first traveled to Rwanda as a journalist in the mid-1990s, and, during my travels there and in what was then Zaire, I became deeply interested in the dynamics that ultimately led to the 1994 genocide. From my perspective as a journalist traveling in the region, the genocide was an ...

Medical Genetics in Paraguay

Paraguay is a country located in the center of South America, sharing borders with Brazil to the east and northeast, Argentina to the west and southwest, and Bolivia to the northwest. It is divided in two regions, Occidental (western) and Oriental (eastern), separated by the river Paraguay. The regions are in turn subdivided in 17 departments plus the capital district (Fig. 1). The country has ...

Catastrophe in asunción, paraguay.

On Sunday 1 August 2004, at noon, in a well-known supermarket (Ycua Bolaños) on the outskirts of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, there was a violent explosion in the fast-food section. This was caused by a build-up of gases in the chimneys of the kitchen. The flames spread rapidly through the air ducts, causing a huge fire throughout the supermarket. When the fire broke out, there were about...

Genocide in Australia.

A number of scholars — notably Tony Barta, Colin Tatz, Dirk Moses1 — have in recent years attempted to apply the concept of genocide to the conflict between European and Indigenous peoples in Australia. The definition of genocide is necessarily central to such analysis, with the definition contained in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ...