Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial and Memory.

Monica Ciobanu of Plattsburgh State University of New York reviews Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial and Memory, editedby René Lemarchand.

As the title indicates, this volume presents cases of genocide that disappeared into history, remained unacknowledged by the perpetrators, the international community and sometimes by the victims or their descendants themselves. Consequently, the resulting scholarship has been quite modest compared to the abundance of publications on the Nazi Holocaust, the Armenian genocide or more current cases involving Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. In part, to compensate for this gap in the general literature of  genocide, the authors of this volume use a common theoretical framework coined by Helen Fein who classifies genocide in accordance to the goals pursued by the perpetrators into four categories … continue reading