Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.

Spiritual Genocide – Reincarnation of Earth encompasses channeled information illustrating Earth's past history. This history is unfolding today and into the future, and is based on a topic in every scripture: "Thou Shall Not Kill." This book is rich in defining other archetypes with every chapter revealing hidden celestial truths. Every chapter is written as a mystical gate which is stylistically related and adventurous. Every chapter is like a photograph in God's album surveying the past, present, and the possible future of this unremitting heavenly war and its everlasting effect on Earth and her population. While some photographs bring joyful memories of Earth being God's heartbeat, before her separation from him during the heavenly war, some reveal the celestial truth behind the inexplicable mysteries of Earth's vortices (Mt. Shasta, The Pyramids, Mt. Kailash etc.) and vortexes (Bermuda Triangle, Mohenjo-Daro, Arctic and Antarctic Circles etc.) that continue to baffle scientists, geologists, and many others in their quest for spiritual knowledge. A spiritual analysis of some of the cataclysmic photographs predicts the possible future of Earth. This could be analogous to Mars or the sunken Lemuria or the Lost Continent of Atlantis; there could either be a new Earth or no Earth at all in the future celestial album. Some historical snapshots describe wretchedness where mass atrocities such as the Holocaust, genocides, wars, world wars, nuclear disasters, abortions, murders, September 11 attacks, etc. show that Earth's soil is losing its fertility and the quality of its harvest--her inhabitants--is being reduced. They are also subject to devitalization. Though the mystery of devitalization entails the deciphering of DNA codes, so as to trace the initial reincarnation of Earth and the human soul, the book's chapters will unlock the key mystery that the cosmos (including Earth, planets, and extraterrestrials) has reincarnated numerous times and is reincarnating as per its karmic activity for spiritual ascension. Based on the current threat of nuclear disaster and mass atrocities (including shootings) that are closing the traditional doors of churches, temples, and synagogues, these photographs will reveal the possibility that the celestial windows for Earth and her inhabitants are closing with no doors to escape. Are the current meteorological changes depicting that when one wants to plant a garden, the soil has to be rich in order for the new crops to grow? This book will reveal that if the quality of the Earth and soil is diminished, because of mass atrocities that have occurred since Earth's inception and the effects of present nuclear threats, the crops may not grow. The Spiritual Genocide – Reincarnation of Earth captures the essence of the author's beliefs and further explains the mysteries of the universe. For thousands of years humans have been destroying Earth. This divinely inspired book is the truth about man's veiled secrets--the denial of their own soul truth and the attempt to unconsciously place fault on other human beings for their karma. This is an awakening of truth that each soul is responsible for in their ascension with God. This spiritual book is a spiritual initiation for entering into God's heart and pure love. It is a spiritual initiation of the birthing of dreams for believers and non-believers of faith. This book is guidance for everyone, as we all have sorrows and tragedies that been felt for centuries on Earth. It provides a link to all souls existing today. The author hopes that "Spiritual Genocide-Reincarnation of Earth" is a resource for all souls who are lost and forgotten. Hope this book provides them hope, joy and inspiration.

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We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.

This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft of the Black Hills from the Sioux.

The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.

After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what tribes. However over the past decade there has been a rising movement to accurately describe Native cultures and histories. In particular, people have begun to explore the experience of urban Indians -- individuals who live in two worlds struggling to preserve traditional Native values within the context of an ever-changing modern society. In Genocide of the Mind, the experience and determination of these people is recorded in a revealing and compelling collection of essays that brings the Native American experience into the twenty-first century. Contributors include: Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Maurice Kenny, as well as emerging writers from different Indian nations.

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.