Today,half the world,almost all of the most developed countries and Western countries,formally recognizes the Armenian Genocide.In certain states of the USA and in some European countries,such as Switzerland,saying t...Today,half the world,almost all of the most developed countries and Western countries,formally recognizes the Armenian Genocide.In certain states of the USA and in some European countries,such as Switzerland,saying that“the genocide isn’t real”or even arguing about it is considered an offence will get you into prison.This is a behavior that does not comply with the moral code of the hypocritical West,which has been applying double standards for centuries.The Turks have faced the one-sided,brutal,and unrealistic accusations and oppression of the West for five centuries,and the same type of irrational impositions by both the USA and the European Union still continue to this day.The Turkish people are unprepared against the Armenian claims.The blind admiration to the West,the lack of foresight on the part of the leaders,and unfortunately the unresponsiveness of the Turkish society have always encouraged the West.This state of affairs should be stopped as soon as possible.展开更多
Introduction<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;">...Introduction<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">In August 2014, the Yazidi community of Sinjar, in the Nineveh Governorate of Northern Iraq, was brutally targeted by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for annihilation through murder, torture, and the systematic and premeditated use of rape and sexual slavery of Yazidi women. In 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that ISIS was committing genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against Yazidis. Methods<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Using current international literature, which includes reviews, qualitative interviews of survivors, and reports from medical and humanitarian actors, this paper explores the short and potentially long-term physical and mental health consequences of the extreme physical and sexual violence and atrocities perpetrated against Yazidi women.<span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Yazidi women survivors of kidnapping, sex slavery, and rape experienced significant levels of physical ailments, chronic pain, and mental health conditions. All women reported feelings of guilt, stress, insomnia, and severe flashbacks. The incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ranged from 42% to 90%. Sixty-seven percent suffered from a somatoform disorder, 53% had depression, 39% experienced anxiety, and 28% suffered from dissociation.<span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusions<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sexual violence against women is a common tool systematically employed during wars and genocide. In recent ISIS attacks, intentional perpetration of mass rapes of women and execution of men was a strategy to destroy an entire population. PTSD and depression are common after traumatic stress. For disaster responders and humanitarian workers, training and education to understand, try to prevent, and plan for interventions when gender-based violence and sexual exploitation occurs must become a mandatory part of emergency preparedness.展开更多
This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments...This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments of fantasy elements that reflect the evolution of horror and magic-realist genres in Latin American cinema.The films repurpose fantastical elements through horror and mythopoetic narrative in order to confront the legacies of colonial trauma.Building on SlavojŽižek’s concept of the plague of fantasies,the paper examines how La Llorona mobilizes the Mesoamerican folk figure of La Llorona to connect contemporary genocide in Guatemala with its historical necropolitical origins,while Sueño en otro idioma examines cultural genocide through the extinction of an indigenous language in Mexico.Both films demonstrate how fantasy can function in destabilizing ways in postcolonial contexts,offering distorted glimpses of horrors that resist direct representation.Through close analysis of these works,the paper reveals how contemporary Latin American cinema deploys fantasy elements,including magic realist conventions,to provide a fundamental challenge to colonial epistemologies,by exposing the phantasmatic underpinnings of colonial violence and its contemporary reverberations.展开更多
In a national effort to promote anti-Semitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi Germany. Its leader, Walter Grundmann, was instrumental in the promotion o...In a national effort to promote anti-Semitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi Germany. Its leader, Walter Grundmann, was instrumental in the promotion of the Aryan Jesus dogma in scholarly circles. Through a quid pro quo arrangement with a state-based university, the dogma was given scholarly respectability. The dogma asserted that Jesus was not Jew. This dogma gained enough support to be adopted into the German Lutheran Church’s catechism of the time. Not only was the motivation for the promotion of the dogma suspect, but the reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion was faulty. The dogma contributed to the body of Nazi propaganda that vilified Jews as enemies of the Aryan society.展开更多
文摘Today,half the world,almost all of the most developed countries and Western countries,formally recognizes the Armenian Genocide.In certain states of the USA and in some European countries,such as Switzerland,saying that“the genocide isn’t real”or even arguing about it is considered an offence will get you into prison.This is a behavior that does not comply with the moral code of the hypocritical West,which has been applying double standards for centuries.The Turks have faced the one-sided,brutal,and unrealistic accusations and oppression of the West for five centuries,and the same type of irrational impositions by both the USA and the European Union still continue to this day.The Turkish people are unprepared against the Armenian claims.The blind admiration to the West,the lack of foresight on the part of the leaders,and unfortunately the unresponsiveness of the Turkish society have always encouraged the West.This state of affairs should be stopped as soon as possible.
文摘Introduction<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">In August 2014, the Yazidi community of Sinjar, in the Nineveh Governorate of Northern Iraq, was brutally targeted by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for annihilation through murder, torture, and the systematic and premeditated use of rape and sexual slavery of Yazidi women. In 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that ISIS was committing genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against Yazidis. Methods<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Using current international literature, which includes reviews, qualitative interviews of survivors, and reports from medical and humanitarian actors, this paper explores the short and potentially long-term physical and mental health consequences of the extreme physical and sexual violence and atrocities perpetrated against Yazidi women.<span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Yazidi women survivors of kidnapping, sex slavery, and rape experienced significant levels of physical ailments, chronic pain, and mental health conditions. All women reported feelings of guilt, stress, insomnia, and severe flashbacks. The incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ranged from 42% to 90%. Sixty-seven percent suffered from a somatoform disorder, 53% had depression, 39% experienced anxiety, and 28% suffered from dissociation.<span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusions<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">: <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sexual violence against women is a common tool systematically employed during wars and genocide. In recent ISIS attacks, intentional perpetration of mass rapes of women and execution of men was a strategy to destroy an entire population. PTSD and depression are common after traumatic stress. For disaster responders and humanitarian workers, training and education to understand, try to prevent, and plan for interventions when gender-based violence and sexual exploitation occurs must become a mandatory part of emergency preparedness.
文摘This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments of fantasy elements that reflect the evolution of horror and magic-realist genres in Latin American cinema.The films repurpose fantastical elements through horror and mythopoetic narrative in order to confront the legacies of colonial trauma.Building on SlavojŽižek’s concept of the plague of fantasies,the paper examines how La Llorona mobilizes the Mesoamerican folk figure of La Llorona to connect contemporary genocide in Guatemala with its historical necropolitical origins,while Sueño en otro idioma examines cultural genocide through the extinction of an indigenous language in Mexico.Both films demonstrate how fantasy can function in destabilizing ways in postcolonial contexts,offering distorted glimpses of horrors that resist direct representation.Through close analysis of these works,the paper reveals how contemporary Latin American cinema deploys fantasy elements,including magic realist conventions,to provide a fundamental challenge to colonial epistemologies,by exposing the phantasmatic underpinnings of colonial violence and its contemporary reverberations.
文摘In a national effort to promote anti-Semitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi Germany. Its leader, Walter Grundmann, was instrumental in the promotion of the Aryan Jesus dogma in scholarly circles. Through a quid pro quo arrangement with a state-based university, the dogma was given scholarly respectability. The dogma asserted that Jesus was not Jew. This dogma gained enough support to be adopted into the German Lutheran Church’s catechism of the time. Not only was the motivation for the promotion of the dogma suspect, but the reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion was faulty. The dogma contributed to the body of Nazi propaganda that vilified Jews as enemies of the Aryan society.
