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Journey through Genocide Raffy Boudjikanian

Journey through Genocide By Raffy Boudjikanian

Journey through Genocide by Raffy Boudjikanian


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Summary

Journalist Raffy Boudjikanian speaks with genocide survivors from Darfur and Rwanda; and in eastern Turkey confronts the legacy of the Turkish government's denial of its responsibility for the Armenian genocide of 1915, an atrocity that resulted in the murder and exiling of many, including the author's ancestors.

Journey through Genocide Summary

Journey through Genocide: Stories of Survivors and the Dead by Raffy Boudjikanian

Powerful accounts by genocide survivors, a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain.

Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey - all visited by genocide, all still reeling in its wake. In Journey through Genocide, Raffy Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity.

In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced migrations, Boudjikanian looks back at three humanitarian crises. In Chad, meet families displaced by massacres in the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan, their ordeal still raw. In Rwanda, meet a people struggling with justice and reconciliation. And in Turkey, explore what it means to still be afraid a century after the author's own ancestors were caught in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Clear-eyed and compassionate, Boudjikanian breathes life into horrors that too often seem remote.

Journey through Genocide Reviews

This personal exploration of genocide asks important questions. * Publishers Weekly *
Thought-provoking and candid, Journey through Genocide is a dark yet necessary contribution to public and college library World History and Holocaust Studies collections. * Midwest Book Review *
As pleasurable a read as a book on stories of genocide could be... his tone is a measured one, a road that brings you to what he saw, but doesn't lavish on the gory details. * The Eastern Door *

About Raffy Boudjikanian

Raffy Boudjikanian is a national reporter with CBC Edmonton. He has worked as a journalist in a number of places around the world, from Nicaragua to France to Montreal. He lives in Edmonton.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • An Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Preparations and Goodbyes
  • Chapter 2: Planes, Paperwork, and Patience
  • Chapter 3: Victims of the Janjaweed
  • Chapter 4: The Country That Would Rebuild
  • Chapter 5: He Who Chases Genocide
  • Chapter 6: Lost Tourist in the Mist
  • Chapter 7: Rosette
  • Chapter 8: The Strangest Birthday
  • Chapter 9: Facing the Music
  • Chapter 10: The G Word
  • Chapter 11: Cover-Up City
  • Chapter 12: House and Home
  • Chapter 13: What To Do About the Past
  • Epilogue: Origins and Returns
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional information

NLS9781459740754
9781459740754
1459740750
Journey through Genocide: Stories of Survivors and the Dead by Raffy Boudjikanian
New
Paperback
Dundurn Group Ltd
2018-06-28
192
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