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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

On 16 April 2013, the #Assad regime’s Military Intelligence massacred over 100 civilians (including women and children) in Damascus by driving them to an alley in Tadamon neighborhood, taking them to a pre-dug pit, and executing them one by one. (1/4)

Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal

After a rookie militiaman secretly watched a video of 41 people being brutally killed, he knew he had to get the horrific images to the outside world

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

The massacre stands in a broader context of #genocide in the southern Damascus suburbs. For the inside story see our longread with the fearless and peerless Annsar Shahhoud in @newlinesmag . Arabic translation forthcoming in @aljumhuriya_net .

How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed

War crime researchers tricked Assad intelligence officers into confessing to the crime, and a chilling journalistic investigation followed

newlinesmag.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

The perpetrators videotaped the entire massacre, by far the worst footage I have seen in 11 years of violence in Syria. We obtained the videos, analyzed them, managed to find the main perpetrator on Facebook, and interviewed him. (2/4) Full story by @martinchulov in @guardian .

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2 years

This material is unique: a) There are no other examples of #Assad 's Mukhabarat so clearly on record committing massacres and torture against unarmed civilians who are neither detainees nor combatants, b) the perpetrator admitted to his crimes and explained why he did it. (3/4)

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4 years

After 9 years of research, here is a pretaste for the book I'm writing on Assad's 'Shabbiha' militias. This article looks at their mobilization, motives, and massacres in the city of Homs from 2011 on, and is based on interviews with these militiamen.

Shabbiha: Paramilitary groups, mass violence and social polarization in Homs - Uğur Ümit Üngör, 2020

Within a year, the Syrian uprising in March 2011 developed into a civil war that gradually escalated and within 9 years killed over half a million people, displ...

journals.sagepub.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

8 months

Looking forward to presenting my forthcoming book "Shabbiha: Assad's Militias and Mass Violence in Syria" tomorrow afternoon at All Souls College in Oxford. Please come and attend, there is a lot to discuss and I'm sure I can use the feedback!

Shabbiha: Assad’s Militias and Mass Violence in Syria

talks.ox.ac.uk

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3 years

Coming soon, first in Dutch, then asap in English, Arabic, German and Turkish: "Syrian Gulag: Assad's Prisons, 1970-2020", the first book that provides an overview of the causes, dynamics, and consequences of the Assad regime's prison system. #syriangulag

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The #Assad regime's paramilitary death squads are known as #Shabbiha . With fellow researchers, I've been examining their prehistory, inception, and violence since 2011. This will lead to my monograph, "Assad's Militias and Mass Violence in Syria", forthcoming with @CambridgeUP .

CIJAonline

@CIJAOnline

1 year

For years the #SyrianRegime denied control over brutal #paramilitaries or “ #shabbiha ”. CIJA’s report – #Assad ’s Ghosts Unmasked – changes that. Regime documents demonstrate how its highest levels organised and deployed #militias to attack civilians:

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4 years

Happy to announce the publication of my book on paramilitarism, a synthetic overview and global history of paramilitarism through the prism of states and their ability to outsource illegitimate violence. PS: Syrian sequel is forthcoming. #paramilitarism

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@ugur_umit_ungor

10 months

Hi everyone, I'm in the US for a week to discuss our new book, "Syrian Gulag" and more. See thread for schedule. All welcome!

I.B. Tauris

@ibtauris

10 months

📅 Join @ugur_umit_ungor at upcoming events on Syrian Gulag from 10 Oct to 17 Oct:

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2 years

Important declaration on the Tadamon massacre. Spread the word please. بيان مهم عن #مجزرة_التضامن

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Together with @JaberBaker1 we wrote the book "Syrian Gulag: Assad's Prisons, 1970-2020", which has just been published in Dutch. The English and Arabic versions are coming very soon. #syria #بدنا_المعتقلين

BoomGeschiedenis

@BoomGesch

2 years

NIEUW | 𝗗𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗴. 𝗗𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱, 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬‑𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 van Uğur Ümit Üngör en Jaber Baker, een onthullend boek over de Syrische goelag van Assad: .

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@ugur_umit_ungor

10 months

Our book 'Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prisons', written with @JaberBaker1 , will be out next week in English. The first book review, published by @The_NewArab is soundly positive: 'compelling', 'comprehensive', and 'systematic'. #syria #gulag

The New Arab

@The_NewArab

10 months

Book Club 📚 Jaber Baker and Ugur Umit Ungor's 'Syrian Gulag' looks into Syria's different prisons and charts the Assad regime’s repression from 1970 until the 2020s through years of detailed research.

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2 years

Ali Khizam (1966-2012), a colonel in the Republican Guard, committed a wide range of atrocities during the repression of the Syrian uprising. This biographical essay in @newlinesmag portrays the life and crimes of this top perpetrator in the Assad regime.

The Specter of Sectarian Violence in Syria

Ali Khizam was a popular and charismatic Alawite ‘warrior-sheikh’ who justified his extreme cruelty with history and identity.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

@evanishistory The extent to which Atatürk's alcoholism debilitated his functioning in Turkey in the 1930s. When reading his aide's diaries, published fairly recently, one can see how the Pasha started the morning drunk, spent most of the day pretty tipsy, and ended the day absolutely hammered.

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6 months

The specter of #genocide has been haunting the Middle East, and Israel/Palestine is no exception. In this essay for @JournalGenocide 's forum, I discuss the nature of the genocide debate, politicized distortions, and the dynamic of mass violence in #Gaza .

Screaming, Silence, and Mass Violence in Israel/Palestine

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

The Assad regime has militarized entire professional sectors, including its medical system. Many doctors and nurses were involved in the perpetration of violence, including torture and killings. This episode of the great podcast series @Branch_251 examines this phenomenon. #syria

75 Podcasts

@75podcasts

3 years

🚨NEW EP🚨 1/2 When you think of #dictatorial regimes, you might think of state-controlled media📺, of the army on the side of the regime 🪖 -but what about the healthcare sector🩺? Do they side with the #regime ? And what does that even look like? ⬇️

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3 years

Save the date: on 23 September 2021 at 16:00, I will be delivering my inaugural lecture as Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at NIOD. Everyone is welcome, including to the reception after the lecture. #Genocide @NIODamsterdam

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

German-language television report analyzing the Tadamon massacre, featured here on @tagesschau with contributions by Noura Chalati of @LearnIntelZMO and Carla del Ponte. With that many Syrians living in Germany, very important the report is out there too.

tagesschau

@tagesschau

2 years

Video zeigt erstmals Massenerschießung durch Assad-Regime #Investigativ #Kriegsverbrechen #AssadRegime #Syrien

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

The Assad regime has arrested, imprisoned, tortured, disappeared, and executed innumerable human beings in its many prisons. We will be discussing our book on the history, context, and violence of the Syrian Gulag on Friday @UNBC . #assad #syriangulag

Syrian Gulag: A History of Assad’s Prison System, 1970-2020

www.unbc.ca

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@ugur_umit_ungor

6 years

How can we best understand the Syrian conflict? By listening to the Syrians and drawing up their stories into a comprehensive, integrated history of the conflict. This article discusses the Syria Oral History Project, an attempt at exactly that.

‘We Can’t Save Syrians Anymore, But We Can Save the Truth’

An ambitious oral history project will determine how the war in Syria is remembered.

foreignpolicy.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

The Syrian Gulag is Assad's legacy of 50 years of violent authoritarian rule, which has destroyed countless lives. Listen to this new podcast episode with @JaberBaker1 and @BriHerremans . Our book, "Syrian Gulag" will be published in English and Arabic in early 2023. #syriangulag

Brigitte Herremans

@BriHerremans

2 years

The prison is a central institution of the Assad’s regime’s system of governance, aimed at destroying political subjects. In our new podcast episode, @JaberBaker1 , @ugur_umit_ungor & Anne-Marie McManus shed a light on the Syrian gulag & its narratives.

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2 years

Jaber Baker is a friend and co-author of our forthcoming book #SyrianGulag . For the first time ever, he opens up in this harrowing essay in @newlinesmag , and narrates how for 2 years, he endured torture and humiliation Assad's most notorious prisons.

How I Survived a Syrian Gulag

A political inmate recounts his daily life during his two-plus years in one of the regime’s notorious prisons

newlinesmag.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun çöküş esnasında ve sonrasında özellikle kitlesel şiddetten dolayı yaşanan çeşitli travmaların sayısı ve etkisi çok. 1913 Balkan Harbinden, 2013 Şam kimyasal silah katliamına kadar uzanan bu süreç hakkında yarın Dr. Seda Altuğ ile sohbet edeceğiz.

Rememberings/Hatırlamalar

@Rememberings2

3 years

#Rememberings projesinin düzenlediği #T ürkçeSohbet serisinin bu yayınında, Amsterdam Üniversitesi profesörü @ugur_umit_ungor ve Boğaziçi Üniversitesi öğretim üyesi @sedaaltug #Osmanl ı İmparatorluğu ve #T ürkiye’de #TarihselTravma meselesini masaya yatırıyor.

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@bashar__asad إحترامي سيدي! 🥾🥾 As soon as our request for research access to the #Mukhabarat archives is granted, we will publish a full update on all the massacres in #Syria you ordered in the past 13 years. عيني ربك سيدي الرئيس يا قائد الخالد، حبيب الملايين أبو حافظ 🦆

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

How does genocide affect subsequent generations of a victimized group? Excellent traumatological research by the inexhaustible @janilkiz on the case of Dersim 1938 indicates "high rates of distress in all generations" due to a persisting "genocidal environment". #genocide #trauma

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan (personal account (4=1)

@janilkiz

3 years

Our new article Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma across Three Generations of Alevi Kurds. Still after 1937-38 of the Dersim Massacre the survivors and there children till the 3 Generation suffered from this Genocide. …

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3 years

Read this terrific special forum on "Mass Violence in Syria" for the @JournalGenocide with really innovative contributions by Annsar Shahhoud, @Ali_al_Jasem , @Syrianzo and @DukhanHaian . Topics range from medical violence to massacres and structural violence. #Syria #Genocide

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

3 years

Our Forum on Mass Violence in Syria is now out guest edited by ⁦ @ugur_umit_ungor ⁩ with ⁦ @Ali_al_Jasem ⁩, Annsar Shahhoud, and ⁦ @DukhanHaian ⁩

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

A sober and lucid assessment by @andrewmichta : from destroying Chechnya in 1999 to occupying Georgia in 2008, pulverizing #Syria in 2016, and now waging a war of annihilation in #Ukraine , Vladimir #Putin 's life of crime is an autonomous process, but enabled by European inaction.

Andrew A. Michta

@andrewmichta

2 years

Let's review the basics: Until February 2022, every time Putin used military power, he scored a geopolitical win. He invaded #Georgia in 2008 - he still got Nord Stream 1; he invaded #Ukraine in 2014 - he got Nord Stream 2 nonetheless; 1/

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3 years

Our special issue on "Mass Violence and the Kurds" of the journal Kurdish Studies is finally out. Great articles, and good variety of disciplines and topics. #kurds #violence

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

In 1981, the Khomeini regime executed thousands of dissidents and adversaries and buried them and their identities. The Rastyad initiative has published the results of years of hard work: a terrific digital presentation of these forgotten massacres.

UvA Geesteswetenschappen

@UvA_Humanities

2 years

UvA-onderzoeker Shahin Nasiri en collega’s achterhaalden de identiteit van 3500 dissidenten die in 1981 door het Iraanse regime werden geëxecuteerd. 'Bijna iedereen in Iran kent wel iemand die getroffen is door de massamoorden van de jaren tachtig.'

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4 years

Everyone is welcome to join my book launch with @sini_malesevic and @ariel_ahram and @coboje on Zoom, 16 November, 16:30 CET. #paramilitarism #violence

NIOD

@NIODamsterdam

4 years

BOOK LAUNCH | We invite you to the online Book Launch of Paramilitarism. Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State (Oxford, OUP, 2020) written by NIOD researcher @ugur_umit_ungor . See link for more info and registration:

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

And another special issue: the Journal of Perpetrator Research focuses on Paramilitarism, with four excellent contributions: on Greece, Serbia, Turkey, and Syria. And a great epilogue by Stacey Hunt. #perpetrators #paramilitarism

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Hagop Mıntzuri'nin köyü Armıdan, babamın köyüne 100 km uzaklıkta. Özellikle "Kapandı Kirve Kapıları" ve "Armıdan: Fırat'ın Öte Yanı" kitapları bölgenin tarihi ve kendi ailemin belleği hakkında yepyeni ufuklar açtı bana. Herkese öneririm, ayriyeten Erzincanlılara zorunlu okuma.

Aras Yayıncılık

@arasyayincilik

3 years

Köyü Armıdan’ın ve bir ömür sürgünü olduğu İstanbul’un insanının yaşamını edebiyatının mürekkebi yapan Hagop Mıntzuri, 135 yıl önce bugün doğdu. (16 Ekim 1886)

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3 years

The Syrian Gulag, the vast industrial prison system of the Assad regime, is built on institutional foundations that start with primary schools in Syria, where punishment, discipline, and atomization are all part of the hidden curriculum. Dellair Youssef writes in @syriauntold_en

Ziad Majed

@ziadmajed

3 years

In Assad’s Syria, school is prison | Dellair Youssef via @SyriaUntold

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Anwar Raslan, colonel in one of the Syrian intelligence agencies that commits mass torture in the Syrian Gulag, received a life sentence in German court today. @hannahel711 's co-authored longform article gives a great overview of the case. #syria #justice

Hannah El-Hitami

@hannahel711

3 years

I've been following the #Alkhatib trial in Koblenz for almost 100 days. With the final verdict coming up tomorrow, Christoph Reuter and I went over Anwar Raslan's case once again for @derspiegel and reflected on the difficult question of individual guilt.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Denial of the crime is always part of the violence itself. The #Assad regime issues an entirely unbelievable, indeed pathetic attempt at denying its profound responsibility for the #Tadamon massacre. Coming soon: an essay on the regime's long-standing culture of genocide denial.

The Syria Campaign

@TheSyriaCmpgn

2 years

In its first public reaction to leaked footage showing Assad regime forces massacring 41 people in Al-Tadamon, Damascus in April 2013, the regime once again resorted to disinformation to cover up blatant war crimes, describing footage as “fabricated videos from an unknown source"

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@ugur_umit_ungor

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Sudan's #paramilitary groups, the Janjaweed, have refashioned themselves as the 'Rapid Support Forces', but their #genocide in #Darfur remains a constant since 2003. This new @hrw report is at once meticulous and comprehensive in reconstructing the myriad forms of mass violence.

Ida Sawyer

@ida_sawyer

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🚨In a new 218-pg report, @hrw documents widespread war crimes & crimes against humanity as part of the RSF's ethnic cleansing campaign in West #Darfur #Sudan . Concerted global action is needed NOW to stop further atrocities & hold perpetrators to account.

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2 years

I have read 3 biographies of Putin in the past years, but Jonathan Littell deftly summarizes the current historical moment well in this exceptionally crisp essay. Not surprising, considering that he studied perpetrators and authoritarian regimes for years.

The Guardian

@guardian

2 years

War brought Vladimir Putin to power in 1999. Now, it must bring him down | Jonathan Littell

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@ugur_umit_ungor

6 years

It's an absolute pleasure to announce that Ali Aljasem and I received this wonderful NWO grant, which will allow us to study how and why students at Syrian universities got involved in the violence. #universities #syria

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4 months

Join us today at the American University of Paris with @JaberBaker1 for a discussion on the Syrian Gulag, the #Assad regime's vast prison system, which continues to torture and murder Syrians silently but systematically.

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7 months

Kudos to @ayhan_s_isik and the editors for bringing together a stellar lineup of authors for this massive 3-part volume on the #Kurds at the centenary of the Turkish Republic. Chapters are very diverse and deal with history, politics, culture, memory, gender, ecology, etc.

Dipnot Yayınları

@DipnotY

7 months

📢 Cumhuriyetin 100. Yılında Kürtlerin Cumhuriyeti ve Cumhuriyetin Kürtleri üzerine 100 farklı sesi bir araya getiren kapsamlı bir derleme. 📆 16 - 24 Aralık tarihleri arasında Diyarbakır Kitap Fuarı'nda! 📆 Yeni yılda kitap satan her yerde! 👉

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Pandemic or not, teaching starts and our MA program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is popular as ever, with 20 students this year. Very stimulating to see enthusiastic students enroll in this demanding program. #genocide @NIODamsterdam @UvA_Amsterdam

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Growing up with Iraqi-Kurdish friends, their parents often told me about Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign and his #chemical massacres in Kurdistan. This time, fortunately the #Assad regime's murderous policies are documented meticulously by outfits such as @syrian_archive .

SyrianArchive

@syrian_archive

11 months

In memory of the victims of this attack, with our sincerest respect to its survivors: Today Syrian Archive shares an updated version of our dataset assessing open source documentation of the 21 August 2013 sarin gas attacks on East and West Ghouta.

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For this handbook, @ayhan_s_isik and I wrote the chapter "Violence against the Kurds in the Turkish Republic". We argue that there is episodic violence (e.g. in 1925 or 1938), but also the systemic violence of military rule, disenfranchisement and torture.

The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey

This Handbook discusses the new political and social realities in Turkey from a range of perspectives, emphasizing both changes as well as continuities. Contextualizing recent developments, the...

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Took efforts to organize, but to have an in-person conference again feels great. "Narrating Exile in the Ottoman Empire" is in full swing in Amsterdam with great contributions by colleagues from around the world. @TurkeyStudiesNL

Turkey Studies Network

@TurkeyStudiesNL

3 years

The Narrating Exile Conference is in full progress with critical contributions and inspiring keynotes by Edhem Eldem and Christine Philliou! Program @ .

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2 years

Monday 16 May I'll be testifying about the #SyrianGulag , Assad's murderous prison system in which countless Syrians were tortured and killed, including hundreds of journalists such as Nabil Sharbaji, whose remarkable story demonstrates the regime's specific hatred of free media.

Mansour Omari

@MansourOmari

2 years

The case of Nabil Sharbaji-a friend & cellmate killed under torture by Assad regime in Saydnaya Slaughterhouse- will be heard at the People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists in the Hague on 16 & 17 May. #Justice4Syria Bear witness! Attend/watch live:

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9 months

Last Tuesday in Washington DC, I had the somber pleasure to discuss the Syrian Gulag and the Tadamon massacre with @hxhassan of @newlinesmag . Global attention shifted away for now, but the #Assad regime's killing campaign has a profound impact on regional and global developments.

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3 years

When confronted with their crimes, perpetrators of mass violence often retreat into outright denial or portray themselves as well-meaning resistors. Syrian prison boss Anwar Raslan apparently took the latter road. Listen to this new episode of podcast @Branch_251 . #syria #torture

75 Podcasts

@75podcasts

3 years

1/2 As we approach the final verdict in the case against Anwar R. next week, our team went to #Koblenz to hear how Anwar R. and his lawyers addressed the judges and #Syrian public, and to find out whether he apologized to the #victims and their families in his final words

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2 years

De Syrische schrijver Mustafa Khalifa is overlevende van één van de meest gewelddadige gevangenissen van het Assad-regime. Zijn autobiografische roman "De Schelp", vertaald door @uitgeverijMaaS , is zo verpletterend dat ik het alleen mondjesmaat heb kunnen uitlezen. #SyrianGulag

Brigitte Herremans

@BriHerremans

2 years

Leestip! Een van de meest aangrijpende romans over de Syrische foltergevangenissen, ‘De schelp’, vertaald in het Nederlands door @uitgeverijMaaS . Autofictief getuigeverslag door Mustafa Khalifa over de ontmenselijking in Assads kerkers.

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10 months

Wednesday 4 October the indefatigable @JaberBaker1 will be in London to speak about his personal and professional journey into the #SyrianGulag . No other researcher has delved into Assad's murderous prison system as thoroughly and systematically as he did.

Faisal Al Yafai

@FaisalAlYafai

10 months

Next week at The Frontline Club @newlinesmag will sit down with Jaber Baker to discuss his book Syrian Gulag @BloomsburyBooks . Tickets are limited:

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11 months

Annual Holocaust and #Genocide lecture of @NIODamsterdam by @petoandrea focuses on how illiberal memory politics of the Holocaust across Europe distorts, misrepresents, and manipulates the historicity of the Shoah. Arguments are valid for many other genocides.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Looking forward to work on this massive research project at @NIODamsterdam about 20 years of war in #Afghanistan . Some of the important topics to cover: local studies of Afghan collective experiences of war and violence, militia activity, the logic of the "war on terror", etc.

NIOD

@NIODamsterdam

2 years

NEWS I NIOD and NIMH (Netherlands Institute for Military History) will conduct research into twenty years of Dutch deployment in Afghanistan. The Dutch Council of Ministers has decided to commission this study.

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

The Assad regime is one of the most violent I have ever studied. Of all its different policies of mass violence against civilians since 2011 (indeed 1970), forced disappearances have a uniquely destructive impact on Syrian society, beyond the direct victims and their families.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

3 years

A decade of "disappearances" under Assad: nearly 102,000 Syrians have been forcibly disappeared since March 2011, mostly by Syrian government forces: @SNHR .

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

It's a satisfying feeling to see hard-working students succeed. A terrific success for @Ali_al_Jasem and Amir Taha who were each granted a full scholarship by @NWONieuws and will be working on their PhD projects on political violence in #Syria and #Iraq .

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Today 8 years ago, the Assad regime massacred hundreds with chemical weapons. Coming soon: a biographical essay on one of the main responsibles, based on intimate interviews with him on various topics, including the Assad regime's chemical weapons program. #EasternGhouta #Syria

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

7 months

Right on time before the holidays: join us tomorrow for a teach-in on mass violence in Israel/Palestine, held at the University of Amsterdam.

History is not context, it's reality; Atrocity Crimes (Genocide, War, & Crimes Against Humanity) in...

This teach-in brings perspectives from Holocaust and genocide studies on genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in conversation with international law. Can historically grounded conceptions...

aihr.uva.nl

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Just finished reading Arbella Bet-Shlimon's book "City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk" (2019), a terrific critical history of how a multi-ethnic city changed profoundly in the past century due to i.a. ethnic nationalism. @abshlimon #kirkuk #Iraq

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Finally had the chance to read this brilliantly lucid review essay in @newlinesmag on Assad's use of chemical weapons, the genocidal massacre of August 2013, and the deeply problematic international political and diplomatic response to it. A deep cut.

The Day the World Stood Still

On August 21, 2013 the Syrian regime launched the biggest chemical attack of the 21st century. It was a seismic event whose repercussions are still being felt. This is an account of what happened...

newlinesmag.com

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Laura Robson's terrific book on mass violence in the Middle East is an excellent empirical and theoretical study of the different layers of violent politics in the region, from the Ottoman Empire to the mandate and especially in the post-colonial period.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

8 months

İstanbul's #Fatih neighborhood is home to lots of different communities and their cuisines. @aljumhuriya_eng published my essay about Fatih's rich and diverse food scene, including Little #Syria .

Al-Jumhuriya English

@aljumhuriya_eng

8 months

"A young man from Homs was mincing the falafel mix as he narrated his exile as a child. When he mentioned Bashar al-Assad, he dunked the falafel bits with suppressed rage into the oil." ✍️ Uğur Ümit Üngör on Turkey's Little Syria #fatih #syriandiaspora

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

11 months

On Thursday 14 September, Prof. Andrea Pető will deliver the Holocaust and Genocide Studies annual lecture at the @UvA_Amsterdam , about illiberal memory politics of the Holocaust, highly topical due to developments in e.g. Poland and Hungary. Looking forward to it!

NIOD

@NIODamsterdam

11 months

#LEZING | Op 14 september geeft Prof. Andrea Pető ( @ceu ) de jaarlezing Holocaust en Genocidestudies in de Aula van de @UvA_Amsterdam . De titel van de lezing is 'Illiberal memory politics as a paradigm shift in the memory of the Holocaust'. ➡️ Meer info:

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

The #Syrian Gulag is the Assad regime's system of mass arrest, torture, and detention, which has destroyed countless lives and communities. Based on our book "Syrian Gulag", forthcoming with @ibtauris this reportage examines the lives and problems of survivors in the Netherlands.

Argos

@argosonderzoekt

2 years

Zojuist deelden we in onze uitzending het verhaal van Muhannad, een Syrische ex-gevangene van het Assad-regime die nu in Nederland woont. We spraken onder andere met @ugur_umit_ungor van het @NIODamsterdam . Lees op onze site meer 👇

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

This forum of the @JournalGenocide on 'Mass Violence in Syria' examines some of the forms and contexts of especially #Assad regime violence in #Syria . Articles on medical violence, massacres in Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor, and weaponization of public services.

Journal of Genocide Research

@JournalGenocide

2 years

The issue concludes with a forum on Mass Violence in Syria, guest edited by @ugur_umit_ungor with @Ali_al_Jasem , Annsar Shahhoud, Abdullah Al-Jabassini and @DukhanHaian

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@ugur_umit_ungor

1 year

Until now, there was little documentary evidence on their initiation and coordination by the regime. Today, @CIJAOnline has published a fascinating set of official documents elucidating the nexus between the regime's political, military, and intelligence elites, and the militias.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

8 months

A thoughtful and nuanced review of our book "Syrian Gulag" (with @JaberBaker1 ) published in @LabourHub : "undoubtedly a useful book, but it makes for grim reading." #Assad #SyrianGulag

Labour Hub

@LabourHub

8 months

Syria’s human slaughterhouses Mike Phipps reviews Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System, by @JaberBaker1 and @ugur_umit_ungor published by @BloomsburyBooks

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Instructive and saddening map of civilian killings in #Bucha . Now it's key to find out exactly on which criteria these people were murdered; that way we can find patterns and deduce policy. The same should then be done for other massacres in Ukraine.

Tanya Kozyreva

@TanyaKozyreva

2 years

The map you’ll never forget

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Great investigative reporting by @MelvynIngleby of Dutch newspaper NRC on Assad's militiamen who took refuge in Europe: unperturbed, they walk free and continue doing what they're good at: committing crimes and terrorizing Syrians. #militias #Shabbiha #Assad

NRC

@nrc

4 years

Syriërs die deelnamen aan de gruweldaden van president Assad, lopen vrij in Nederland rond. Uit onderzoek van NRC blijkt dat sommigen mogelijk oorlogsmisdaden pleegden en ook hier nog contact onderhouden met het regime.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

De Syrische Goelag, het gevangenisstelsel van het Assad-regime, is uniek vanwege de nietsontziende manier waarop het slachtoffers opslokt, martelt, en vermoordt. Niemand is ervoor veilig, ook niet deze Arnhemse jongen die werd gekidnapt en doodgemarteld.

Hoe een Arnhemmer verdween in een martelcel van Assad

Syrië: Een man uit Arnhem reisde in 2013 naar Libanon en verdween. NRC onderzocht zijn lot. Een verhaal over een ontvoering, marteling in Syrië en een passief ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.

www.nrc.nl

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

This well-researched and analytically sharp report by @BritishSyrian focuses on the August 2012 #Daraya massacre, in which #Assad regime forces (a mix of army, intelligence, militias) stormed that neighborhood and systematically executed over 700 civilians in a matter of days.

Syrian British Consortium

@BritishSyrian

2 years

Our report is out! Read the vital two-year investigation into the atrocities committed by #Assad 's regime 10 years ago. Witnesses recounted how the attack on #Daraya killed 700 people in just one week, many executed in their homes or shot in the street.

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

This special issue of @OfficialBrismes on "Mass Violence in Syria" offers an original set of articles on a number of relevant issues such as detainees, massacres, and local studies, in the 10+ years of political violence in #Syria , all of it in a broader historical context.

James Worrall

@PolViolence

2 years

Wonderful that our Special Issue: Mass Violence in #Syria : Continuity and Change was published in British Journal of MES @OfficialBrismes today! Thanks to @ugur_umit_ungor and Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi for putting it together

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Happening in half an hour: a discussion on my book "Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State".

Event: Online | Conversation with Prof. Uğur Ümit Üngör - The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Online | Conversation with Prof. Uğur Ümit Üngör | مناسبات يجريها معهد فان لير حول مواضيع الدين، والعلمنة، والديانة اليهوديّة، والمجتمع العربيّ، والشرق الأوسط، والفلسفة، والثّقافة، والفنّ، والنسوية...

www.vanleer.org.il

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

An excellent article by @VukusicIva on micro-level paramilitary violence in Bosnia. Contains links to our JPR special issue on paramilitarism.

Iva Vukusic also over @vukusiciva.bsky.social

@VukusicIva

3 years

This piece is out, a shortened version for the general public of my recent article on #paramilitary violence in two Bosnian towns. Thanks @BalkanInsight . The article is #openaccess . #BosniaandHerzegovina #ICTY #IRMCT #archives #massviolence

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Solid investigation into one of the most infamous and murderous Serb #paramilitary groups during the Yugoslav Wars: Arkan's Tigers. For a thorough study of Serb paramilitarism, especially their manifold relations with the state, see the recently published book by @VukusicIva .

Rolling Stone

@RollingStone

2 years

Decades after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous combat unit "Arkan’s Tigers" have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes. One former member of Arkan’s Tigers has had a second act spinning techno records at clubs

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Great discovery by my @NIODamsterdam colleague @HistK of a comic book from 1945 in which the Holocaust is depicted in graphic brutality. Some of the details are incorrect, but a powerful image of the mass killings.

In deze strip uit 1945 worden de gruwelen van de Holocaust getoond

De allereerste striptekening die de Holocaust in 1944 uitbeeldt. Het is de vondst van hoogleraar Kees Ribbens aan de Erasmus Universiteit. In de tekeningen worden de gruwelen getoond van de verniet...

www.parool.nl

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

@salma_daoudi1 The Assad regime's abuse of medicine as power, metaphor, and policy is examined thoroughly in this comprehensive study by Annsar Shahhoud, "Medical Genocide: Mass Violence and the Health Sector in the Syrian Conflict", downloadable at: …

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Een podcast in het Nederlands over de staat van de mensheid in de 21ste eeuw. In een notendop: over het algemeen redelijk OK, en deels steeds beter, maar nog genoeg ellende waar nog veel aan gedaan moet worden. Wat lichte kost voor het weekend.

Vrij Nederland — lees je in

@vrij_nederland

4 years

Genocide, verplichte sterilisatie, slavernij: journalist @pleij en hoogleraar @ugur_umit_ungor wagen zich aan zware materie in deze aflevering van de podcast MENS. Met een beetje humor, dat wel. 'Weet jij nog een goede genocide-mop?'

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Uğur Ümit Üngör

@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Join us today at Pages Bookstore in Amsterdam to discuss how Syrian writers make literary and investigative sense of revolution, civil war, violence, and exile. I will be discussing the relevance of testimony and literature in understanding mass violence.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

1 month

A solid analysis by @Leolucassen on the genealogy of the so-called "Replacement Theory" that is becoming increasingly popular among white-nationalist European politicians. This conspiracy theory revolves around imagining a non-existent genocide for propaganda purposes.

Leo Lucassen

@Leolucassen

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Nu omvolkings-denkers niet alleen ons parlement voorzitten, maar ook minister worden: dit is een racistische (en antisemitische) complottheorie, met wortels in vroeg-negentiende eeuws Amerika. En een ideologie die terroristen als Breivik inspireerde.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

How should we think about diversity and inclusion at universities? Last year, I spent a semester at the superdiverse universities in California, and I wrote an essay comparing my experiences at UCLA with Europe and the Netherlands. #DiversityandInclusion

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

This sobering but level-headed and realistic analysis of @Karam__Shaar offers constructive proposals on what to do with the #Assad regime. Key point: a master of deception (or pathological liar) can only be paid in kind with a skeptical approach.

Sada / صدى

@SadaJournal

2 years

Given the agonizing political deadlock, a new approach to resolving the Syrian conflict is indeed warranted. But could a more-for-more policy work with Assad? Read analysis from @Karam__Shaar here:

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

@skayyali1 @hrw "Medical Genocide: Mass Violence and the Health Sector in the Syrian Conflict", available at:

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

A lucid and well-argued article by @EminCengiz92 about the pros and cons of Turkish rapprochement with the Assad regime. It examines what re-establishing relations would mean and concludes it would be beneficial only to the regime. (English coming soon.)

Esed’le Doğrudan Görüşme: Ne İçin? - MEHMET EMİN CENGİZ

Esed ile anlaşalım düşüncesi pratikte rejimi kurtarma projesinden başka bir şeye tekabül etmiyor. Hâlihazırda rejimin Rusya ve İran’dan bağımsız hiçbir şey yapamaması ve ülkenin içinde bulunduğu çok...

www.perspektif.online

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

The European Review of Books is online! Thanks to @blauwsteen , this long-anticipated project is finally coming alive. Yes, it was very necessary, and we do welcome and expect your contributions!

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Terrific new volume on Perpetrators edited by Erin Jessee and @Kjell_Anderson . Congratulations! (Makes for a great Christmas present.) #perpetrators

Kjell Anderson

@Kjell_Anderson

4 years

Researching Perpetrators of Genocide, an edited vol. from @erinjessee + I bringing together diverse contributions exploring ethical, methodological, and conceptual issues in research with #perpetrators of #genocide . Coming Dec 2020 w/ @UWiscPress

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

@heissenstat True, all moral indignation is selective and nobody can claim ideological purity. It's simply humanly impossible to muster the empathy to worry about all victims. But a handful of genocide scholars did actually work on all of those catastrophes (to their own mental detriment).

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Next week Thursday 1 December, Dr. Omar McDoom @omarmcdoom will deliver the Holocaust and #Genocide Studies annual lecture at @NIODamsterdam . His work offers an original, nuanced perspective on the complexity of genocide, exemplified by Rwanda but applicable in a broader setting.

NIOD

@NIODamsterdam

2 years

LECTURE | On Dec 1st @omarmcdoom ( @LSEnews ) addresses three long-running issues in discussions of genocide. He offers an original perspective using new and existing evidence of the tragic events that took place in Rwanda in 1994. More information:

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

Journal of Refugee Studies special issue on displaced Syrians, with some very interesting contributions. h/t @MohammadKanfash

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academic.oup.com

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Hello everyone, don't miss this event on paramilitarism tonight with @VukusicIva and @Ali_al_Jasem . Always relevant, and even more so now, considering the heavily armed 'American Shabbiha' running around in the streets, ready to pounce on demonstrators.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

@roberkoptas Katılıyorum Rober. O aynı avluda 1915'de Diyarbakır Ermenilerinin istimlak ve gasp edilen malları toplanıp İttihatçı yandaşlara dağıtıldı veya açık artırma ile cüzi miktarlara satıldı. Orası bir "olay yeri"dir (crime scene), keyif için değil hatırlama için düzenlenseydi keşke.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

This terrific research project by @LynzyBilling and @propublica on the CIA-backed "Zero Units" who killed countless civilians in #Afghanistan is a very good example of #paramilitarism : #perpetrators whose violence is characterized by secrecy, impunity, and plausible deniability.

Lynzy Billing

@LynzyBilling

2 years

1/ What started as a personal journey in 2019 looking into the deaths of my family, turned into a deep dive into the Zero Units—secretive, CIA-backed Afghan special forces that left a trail of loss and destruction across eastern Afghanistan. @propublica

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@ugur_umit_ungor

3 years

@fritz_streiff @Hadi_alkhatib Also check out Ms. Annsar Shahhoud's MA thesis on medical genocide in Syria, including interviews with survivors but also doctors who perpetrated violence against civilians. Thesis in English available at:

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@ugur_umit_ungor

4 years

Join us next week for a webinar on sectarianism. I'll be talking about Shabbiha violence in Homs and Alawite-Sunni polarization in Syria.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

2 years

Spot-on critical analysis by @ProfPaulPoast of war and #genocide as the foundation of International Relations. Would have rendered similar results even if focusing on e.g. genocides during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Paul Poast

@ProfPaulPoast

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What if genocide, not war, was considered the central problem of International Relations? How would the study of international relations be different? I ask that question of my Intro to IR students. Here's what we discussed. [THREAD]

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Great revealing investigative report on the Russian mercenaries of the Wagner group. Demonstrates well how #paramilitarism works by looking at recruitment, mobilization, unemployment, crime, plausible deniability, and the key role of intelligence agencies.

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@ugur_umit_ungor

1 year

Today at @DeBalie , we will discuss the historical and contemporary problems of Northern Syria, with particular focus on #Afrin . Great line-up of speakers and a rich cultural program.

Afrin: Trapped Between Empires

How should the Netherlands and other European countries respond to attain justice for the people, Kurds and other minorities, of North Syria?

debalie.nl

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@ugur_umit_ungor

6 years

What are the constraints that scholars have to contend with, when researching mass violence? In this blog for OUP, I argue that especially psychological attrition and political threats are important to bear in mind.

OUP History

@OUPHistory

6 years

. @ugur_umit_ungor explores the political constraints and psychological consequences of studying genocide

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@ugur_umit_ungor

9 months

A fine set of essays on the escalation of mass violence in Israel/Palestine, including especially @martinshawx , who is imperturbable as ever, arguing that "the war is one of asymmetrical counter-genocide" and explaining the dynamic of violence with clarity and equanimity.

Hassan I. Hassan

@hxhassan

9 months

We at @newlinesmag gathered some of the very best minds on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including Arwa Damon, Hisham Melhem, Lisa Goldman, Gilbert Achcar, Wendy Pearlman, Martin Shaw, Michael Scott Moore, and a few more with no-nonsense granular analysis cutting through the noise:

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1 year

@KenRoth That is one of the arguments in our forthcoming book "Syrian Gulag". A ceasefire or absence of clashes doesn't mean less violence against civilians, if anything, more of it.

Syrian Gulag

www.bloomsbury.com

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3 years

@r_aldoughli Also read this comprehensive study, "Medical Genocide: Mass Violence and the Health Sector in the Syrian Conflict", downloadable at:

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The Trump Shabbiha offer a very enlightening insight into the "deliberate ambiguity" of paramilitarism, especially regarding a) plausible deniability, and b) supererogation, when one goon inside the Capitol says: "Ted Cruz would want us to do this."

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