Month: August 2020

The FRC Genocide Podcast with retired Dean, Professor Gill Boehringer covers: 1) The feudal structure of wealth and power in the Philippines 2) The targeted extrajudicial killings of those “red-tagged” (that is, labelled “subversives”)  by the Duterte regime 3) The alarming rate of the persecution of people’s lawyers  and 4) The attacks on civil society including journalists Prof. Gill Boehringer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University School of Law, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Dean at the School. His research focuses on repressive states and the violation of human and environmental rights. For the past decade he

In this part II of 2 conversations, Daniel Feierstein discusses: 1) US National Security Doctrine as applied to Latin America and resultant genocides & other grave crimes in the region; 2) The fallacy of treating Auschwitz as “the yardstick” against which other genocides are measured; 3) Reorganizing internal societal relations as the goal of genocides; and 4) The pervasive problem of “the genocidal mind” that frames groups and their identities as “immutable” “fixed” & “permanent”. Daniel Feierstein holds a Ph.D, in Social Sciences by the University of Buenos Aires. He is the Director of the Centre of Genocide Studies at

Febriana Firdaus is an independent investigative journalist based in eastern part of Indonesia. She travels across the country, from Aceh to West Papua. She has written extensively stories from the remote places of West Papua, about the silent killing of the children in the highland by Indonesian military to the hidden chronic hunger in the palm oil plantation area. Febriana works have appeared in TIME, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Jacobin Magazine, The Economist, Mekong Review, Financial Times, Mongabay, New Naratif, Al Jazeera, among others. Currently, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian, covering general issues. In 2019, she received the

Rene C Mugenzi is a UK-based human right activist from Rwanda. He is also Chair of the Global Campaign for Rwandans Human Rights, also based in London. Rene has spoken on several platforms including universities, the House of Common, the European Union and the UN on human rights issues relating to Rwanda. In 2011, the UK Police foiled an assassination plot that has been planned by agents of the Rwandan government. Besides Rwandan human rights issues, Rene gas campaigned for the end of Myanmar’s ongoing genocide of Rohingya people. Rene Mugenzi, a UK-based Chairman of the Global Campaign for Rwandan