Alicia Partnoy - Question from Refugee group

When you hear or read about Holocaust survivors, survivors of the Rwandan genocide, of Darfur, or any of the other incidences of mass torture and killing, what is your reaction? To what extent do you feel that you can relate to other survivors?

Suppose you knew, while you were in the Little School, that a few college students in the United States were following your story and were researching as much as they could about the situation in Argentina. What would you have wanted them to do, if anything, other than spread awareness? Do you think this is something that other survivors/refugees, even in other parts of the world, would want?

Partnoy Question

Ms. Partnoy,

 History shows us that in the genocide of Nazi Germany, the Nazi's had favorties of the people who they deemed undesirable. They showed this favoritism by giving these people power. In your experience with the genocide going on in Argentine through these forced abductions and executions was there any favoritism shown to specific groups, for example men over women, or rich over poor. If so how was the manifested?

Alicia Partnoy Question

You mentioned some brutal living conditions when you were in prison. How did you stay sane and also what motivated you to write your series of essays?

Darfur: Progress Report 3

Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly

Prof. Horowitz

INTL-I 204

10-10-12

Progress Report 3: Personal Research Summary

            My responsibility for the Darfur project is to research why the UN became concerned about Genocide and how they’ve been implementing their legislation on the issue ever since. I may use some specific examples of other cases of genocide and compare them to the one in Darfur so the class will understand why the UN acted differently in different situations. I will use Rwanda, because the class is already familiar with that example, and Cambodia, because I’m assuming not many people know much about this situation. I’ve already looked at a few articles, both academic and popular, about the situations surrounding both of these Genocides, one of which was John Mueller’s article “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War’”. This article is really helpful in understanding the difficulty in defining genocide especially in regards to what happened in Rwanda. Along with this research I have also looked at the “ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” and intend on including key points in the power point and focusing on how the UN either honors them or not and why.  

Progress Report #3

For our project we wanted to focus somewhat on the refugee problem that is now going on in Darfur.  I am doing research on the newly establish Republic of South Sudan, the peace agreements they have entered into and trying to figure out why many refugees feel it is still not safe to return home.  Below are some site I have found to help explain this, sites about the government itself as well as the peace treaties it has entered into.

http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/cca.pdf

http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/Documents/interior%20press%20release0001.pdf

http://www.goss.org/

http://unmis.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=515

History of Darfur- two different unique articles

The above link sends you to where you can buy or rent the book, "Darfur, A Short History of a Long War." I have read the book and personally like it. It is short and if your interested in finer points of the history, than take a look. The other link I posted below is for an online book pdf file of, "A New History of Long War."

Darfur Al-Jazeera timeline

An helpful article for summarizing the history of Darfur in a timeline easy to understand.