Theriault: Post-Denial Denial
The Armenian Weekly Magazine
April 2012
In 2012, we might wonder what the point of engaging denial yet again could be. The best thinking on the Armenian Genocide has moved far beyond it, to the question of reparations; the genocide’s gendered dimensions, including the sexual violence and slavery of Armenian women and girls; attention to the micro [...]
Theriault: The ‘Neutrality’ of Genocide Denial: A Response to Pam Steiner
For Steiner to refuse to characterize the historical facts correctly, according to the UN definition of genocide, is for her to give de facto support to deniers.
It was with hope that turned to concern that I read Harut Sassounian’s crisp and clear account of the March 31 UCLA event featuring Hasan Cemal, the grandson of [...]
Reparations as Essential Element of any Just Resolution of Genocide
The Armenian Weekly
April 2011 Magazine
For decades, the issue of reparations was largely absent from the discourse on the Armenian Genocide. For some, it was implicit in the issue. Once the case was recognized widely as genocide, they expected that reparations could become a central part of the discourse. For others, the notion was an impossible [...]
Theriault: The Global Reparations Movement and Meaningful Resolution of the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Weekly
April 2010 Magazine
Over the past half millennium, genocide, slavery, Apartheid, mass rape, imperial conquest and occupation, aggressive war targeting non-combatants, population expulsions, and other mass human rights violations have proliferated. Individual processes have ranged from months to centuries. While the bulk of perpetrator societies have been traditional European countries or European settler states [...]
Obituary: Dennis Brutus, Supporter of Reparations to Armenians
Dennis Brutus was a world-renowned human rights activist who had a major role in the struggle against apartheid in his native South Africa and later in various struggles for life and justice around the globe. He passed away on Dec. 26, 2009 in Cape Town.
Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
Brutus was instrumental in organizing the 1999 protests of [...]
Theriault: Never-Ending Rape
A note from the author: At the end of March 2009, I submitted the following article to the Editor of the Armenian Weekly for inclusion in the April 24 special magazine issue. Because the Weekly was also publishing another article of mine in that issue, he decided to postpone the publication of this one. Given [...]
Theriault: The Final Stage of Genocide: Consolidation
This essay is an analysis of the Turkish-Armenian protocol process in relation to the Armenian Genocide. I say “protocol process” because mere analysis of the protocols themselves cannot be meaningful. The protocols exist within a complex historical, cultural, political, and geopolitical context dominated by genocide and its aftermath. It is impossible to interpret accurately the [...]
Theriault: Sarkisian Must Be Called to Account for His Abuse of Armenian Human Rights
Armenian President Serge Sarkisian has spent the past year of his presidency negotiating a deal with Turkey (1) to accept Turkey’s perennial denial that its predecessor state the Ottoman Empire and nationalist forces under Ataturk executed a genocide of Armenians beginning in 1915, and (2) to give up all claim to formerly Armenian territories depopulated [...]
Where do We Go from Here? Rethinking the Challenge of the Armenian Genocide and Progressive Turkish Politics
The Armenian Weekly
April 2009 Magazine
In previous Armenian Weekly magazine articles, I have raised objections to some of the reigning views of Turkish progressivism. In “Post-Genocide Imperial Domination” (“Controversy and Debate,” The Armenian Weekly, April 21, 2007), I argue that, contrary to the prevalent view that Armenians and Turks could enter a mutual dialogue toward better [...]
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