Mass Atrocities: Definition and Relationship with Development

Khalfaoui, Anna

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“…Regarding perpetrators of atrocity crimes, Scheffer (2006) draws attention to the State and non-State actors who lead and plan. Based on the historical evidence, Khalfaoui (2020) finds that atrocity crimes were primarily committed by State officials and State-affiliated armed forces, while non-State armed organizations perpetrated a few. Aksenova (2019) indicates that mass atrocities are instances of the collective behaviour of the perpetrators.…”

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Criminology of Atrocity Crimes: Analysing the Aetiology of the Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar

Hossain

2023

Int. ann. criminol.

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The current paper examines the aetiology of persecution committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar from a criminological perspective. Criminological theories focusing on one level of analysis may not fully explain the incidents concerning the systematic implementation of policies of persecution against the Rohingya for decades. Thus, the author scrutinizes the factors which are involved in the aetiology of persecution at three different levels: macro (national), meso (organizational) and micro (local community and individual) within four dynamics – namely, motivation, opportunity, control and constraint. This paper employs the case study method and collects data through focus group discussions with the Rohingya in the Kutupalong refugee camp in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh. It limits its analysis to the data that covers the events of persecution against the Rohingya in Myanmar, such as revocation of their citizenship, deprivation of their fundamental rights, and different forms of atrocity crimes, from 1962 to 2019. It reveals that, despite the heterogeneity of the actions that led to atrocity crimes against the Rohingya, the military leaders in charge of Myanmar (and somewhat Myanmar’s civilian government), military personnel and other security force members, paramilitaries and vigilantes played various roles in the perpetration of such crimes.

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Criminology of Atrocity Crimes: Analysing the Aetiology of the Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar

Hossain

2023

Int. ann. criminol.

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The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and the Avoidance of Responsibility: Ending Atrocity Crimes in Northern Nigeria

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Aniche

2024

Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives From Emerging Countries

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Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism

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Goyes

2023

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Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of the commercial exploitation of the city’s violent past. The book describes how the city’s suffering has been appropriated by commercial forces to provide entertainment for global audiences. The profiting referred to in the title includes profits made by the global entertainment industry from the immense popularity of narco-series, as well as those made by Medellín’s tourism industry, which offers Escobar-themed tours, souvenirs, and collectibles, as well as less visible profits made by political and social actors who engage in the global mythmaking surrounding Escobar. The book offers a critique of how the global market economy allows unequal narrative power to those engaged in the processes of collective memory construction. Through interviews with those directly affected by drug violence, we show that these cultural forces have immediate symbolic and material consequences. Powerful commercial actors, such as Netflix, have turned one of the main perpetrators of the violence into a global icon. Victims of drug violence, on the other hand, not only face the possibility of their losses being consigned to oblivion, but are also excluded from cosmopolitan notions of justice and struggle against impunity.

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Mass Atrocities: Definition and Relationship with Development

Abstract: Mass atrocities consist of extreme violence inflicted on a large scale or in a deliberate manner, particularly on civilians and noncombatants, by State or non-State actors. Mass atrocities encompass the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression.

Cited by 15 publications

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Criminology of Atrocity Crimes: Analysing the Aetiology of the Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar

Criminology of Atrocity Crimes: Analysing the Aetiology of the Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar

The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and the Avoidance of Responsibility: Ending Atrocity Crimes in Northern Nigeria

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism

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