I'm looking for recommendations largely about title-related. I'm interested in the group dynamics that lead to mass violence, from discrimination to violent policies, cleansing, and maybe even mass killings.
Seen and relevant:
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Life is Beautiful
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Hotel Rwanda
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Shake Hands with the Devil
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Cannibal Holocaust
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The Act of Killing
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Un dimanche Γ Kigali
Less relevant:
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Son of Saul (starts in the middle of it, nothing about the policies and dynamics that led to it)
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Shoah (apart from being way too long for my project, it's not enough about the politics that led to it, it focusses on what was happening during the holocaust, which is valid, just not relevant to my particular interest right now)
Note that ethnic cleansing =/= mass killings. Policies that remove groups of people from a place, even if done without intention to kill, are also ethnic cleansing. Bhutan has been removing foreign ethnicities from their country, turning them into sans papiers and forcing them into camps outside their borders. They don't send death squads but they do ethnically cleanse their country.
Anyway, I'm interested to hear your suggestions!
#20% of them left the valley due to 1950 land reforms of Sheikh Abdullah and by 1981 the Pandit population amounted to 5 % of the total. In 2016 only 3,445 pandits remained. The world slept when the massacre of the Pandits happened.
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community. They belong to the Pancha (five) Gauda Brahmana groups from the Kashmir Valley. They lived in the Kashmir Valley before Muslim influence entered the region after which large numbers converted to Islam. They are one of the only few remaining Kashmiri Hindu community native to Kashmir.
##1950 land reforms - LAND TO TILLER
When the land to tiller law of 1950 came into force, even the daughters of poor peasants were treated as part of the estate on which the landlords enjoyed absolute rights. The sweeping land reforms under the Big Landed Estates Abolition Act passed on July 13, 1950, changed the complexion of Kashmiri society.
The Kashmiri Pandits who were close to tyrannical regime had not got any land outside the Kashmir valley.
In 1950 when the constituent assembly of the Jammu Kashmir was constituted, it had to decide four points including whether compensation should be given to those landlords who have lost their land through the land abolition act.
On November 5, 1951 the then Revenue Minister Mirza Muhammad Afzal Beg refused to give compensation to landlords.
##Exodus from Kashmir (1985β1995)
The Kashmiri Pandits had been a favoured section of the population of the valley during Dogra rule (1846β1947). 20 per cent of them left the valley as a consequence of the 1950 land reforms and by 1981 the Pandit population amounted to 5 per cent of the total.
In the 1990s during the eruption of militancy, following persecution and threats by radical Islamists and militants they were forced to flee in greater numbers.
Events of 19 January 1990
>On that day, mosques issued declarations that the Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs and that the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or be killed. Those who chose to the first of these were told to leave their women behind. The Kashmiri Muslims were instructed to identify Pandit homes so they could be systematically targeted for conversion or killing
The exact numbers vary between 600,000 to 800,000 Kashmiri Pandits fleeing Kashmir, some led a life of refugees in the camps of Jammu.
##Sheikh Abdulla
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Labours reaction to Palestinian protestors booing and objecting to a far right ambassador Tzipi Hotovely whilst visiting LSE is deeply worrying.
Firstly Hotovely rejects any notion of Palestinian statehood, including the two-state solution which is supported by the Labour Party, including Labour friends of Israel, despite this the Labour Party are offering support and condemnation of protest against a far right ambassador.
Moreover Hotovely has made comments in the past opposing βrace mixingβ and has denied the attempted genocide / forced removal of Palestinians in 1948 otherwise known as βthe nakbaβ.
Moreover another labour mp Nick Timothy made a tweet around and hour ago condemning protestors who oppose the system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing that Israel participates on a daily basis with funding and military support from the UK.
Labours position de facto now means
1: criminalisation of palestianian protestors
2: conflation of criticism of Israel as antisemitism which itself is antisemitic as evidenced by the IHRA definition
3: supports the oppression of Palestinians and the denial of their right exist
4: is now allied to the Israeli far right
To sum up, labour are now adjacent to the Israeli far right in their denial of palestianian statehood, and support the ethnic cleansing that takes place on a daily basis. After the numerous war crimes Israel has committed this year, and the 267 children who have been killed by the Israeli army, why should any of us vote for labour at the next election if this is their current position?
Diana Johnson tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaJohnsonMP/status/1458418519062818826
Nick Timothy tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/NickTorfaen/status/1458428527880118273
"There was no battle and no resistance. The first conquerors killed 80 to 100 Arab men, women and children. The children were killed by smashing their skulls with sticks. There wasnβt a house without people killed in it."
"Palestinian elders who could not flee the Zionist invasion and ethnic cleansing, who were lined up against various walls and massacred; of an older woman being shot point-blank with four bullets; of other elders who were crammed inside a home and shelled by a tank and hand grenades; of many Palestinian women raped"
