Suchergebnisse

Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations

Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany's genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities

Part 1. Introduction. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss -- The Place Where I Belong: The Human Right to Home -- A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide -- Part 2. From Bureaucracy to Bullets. "And Leave Them Burning Our Homes": The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960) -- Paradise Lost: The Division of Cyprus (1974) -- A Rose for a Tear: The Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) -- Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945- present) -- Violence from the Center: Chechnya's Generations of Domicide (1944-present) -- Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995) -- Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-present) -- "All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning": The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-present) -- Part 3. Conclusions. The Place Where We Lived: Justice, Reconciliation, and Impunity Gaps -- Home Matters: Lessons Learned While Studying Extreme Domicide.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss -- 2. The Difference between Life and Death: The Human Right to Home -- 3. A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide -- Part II. From Bureaucracy to Bullets -- 4. "And Leave Them Burning Our Homes": The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960) -- 5. No Place to Call Home: Mutually Assured Domicide in Cyprus (1974) -- 6. "The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew": Domicide and the Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) -- 7. Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945-Present) -- 8. "Their Home Will Be Razed Down to the Basement": Chechnya's Generations of Domicide (1944-Present) -- 9. Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995) -- 10. Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-Present) -- 11. "All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning": The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-Present) -- Part III. Conclusions -- 12. You Can't Go Home Again: Justice, Reconciliation, and a Convention Against Domicide -- 13. Home Matters: Lessons Learned while Studying Extreme Domicide -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

There is limited international recognition that domicide—or intentional destruction of home—is a violation of children's rights. While human rights documents allude to the crime of domicide, it is, however, never explicitly referred to as a human rights violation. Through an analysis of human rights documents and with a focus on the experiences of children, families and communities, we argue that domicide should be explicitly acknowledged as a violation of human rights so that it can effectively be prosecuted as a war crime in contexts of political violence.