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  • AUSTRALIA

    Building blocks for a compassionate society

    • Barry Jones
    • 05 June 2007
    9 Comments

    Tackling the problem of terrorism by the application of force is unlikely to succeed. Pouring blood on the Iraqi desert produced an upsurge of terrorism where none had been before: cruelty, genocide even, but not terrorism, let alone fundamentalist terrorism.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Letter: 1965 genocide of Indonesian Chinese did not occur

    • Charles Coppel
    • 04 September 2006

    Charles Coppel argues that there was no empirical evidence to support Jack Waterford's view in the last Eureka Street, that there was a kind of Chinese Holocaust in Indonesia in 1965. The victims of the 1965 anti-communist massacre were overwhelmingly Javanese and Balinese, and the slaughter was politicide rather than genocide.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Rwandan mist

    • Michele Gierck
    • 31 May 2006

    Ten years after the genocide Rwanda still mourns its dead.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Elusive justice

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 14 May 2006

    Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.

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