Genocide Geography academic cites Tamil case, urges solidarity of victims
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 11:50 GMT]
The US government's record in directly perpetrating or being complicit in the crime of genocide in many regions of the world – even at the present time, as much as in the recent past - was deeply unsettling, and needed to be recognised and confronted, argued Desmond Fernandes, a former senior lecturer in Human Geography and the Geography of Genocide at De Montfort University in the UK. Speaking at a conference held in a UK House of Commons room earlier this month, and discussing genocide cases past and present across the world, Fernandes drew attention to the on-going genocide of Eezham Tamils and the PPT judgement. Noting with concern that struggle against genocide itself is criminalised nowadays, he emphasized on the need of action in solidarity by targeted peoples. External Links:
| Balochwarna: | 'Some Perspectives on Genocide' - By Desmond Fernandes |
