Articles by Martin Shaw
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Boycotting Israel: The Situation Has Changed and I Have Changed My Mind Too
Martin Shaw – Open Democracy,
11 Aug 2014
Israel’s claim to self-defence is much too easily accepted by western governments and media. The present crisis arises following the murder of Israeli teenagers, which Israeli officials now admit was not carried out by Hamas. The killing is an almost routine police action as the Israeli euphemism “mowing the lawn” suggests. The recent escalation of rocket attacks was a response to these Israeli actions.
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Martin Shaw,
30 Jun 2009
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet. The civil war in Sri Lanka is receding from the international headlines, as crises […]
→ read full articleA CENTURY OF GENOCIDE, 1915-2009
Martin Shaw,
24 Apr 2009
The Ottoman-era massacres of the Armenians also belong to a century of "mass-death" episodes forged in war, state rivalry, ethnic targeting and expulsion. When Armenian leaders in Constantinople (now Istanbul) were massacred on 24 April 1915, it was the signal for killings and deportations of Armenians across eastern Anatolia, then the heartland of the Ottoman […]
→ read full articleUSES OF GENOCIDE: KENYA, GEORGIA, ISRAEL, SRI LANKA
Martin Shaw,
10 Feb 2009
The concept of genocide has become a weapon of political polemic. But the violence inflicted on civilians in four conflicts shows how it is also rooted in the logic of modern wars. The accusation of "genocide" nowadays seems to accompany almost any episode of political violence and armed conflict around the world. In the last […]
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