A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

On revisionist architecture.

Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

Two brothers divided by Central African Republic’s civil war.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

A history of humanitarian intervention.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

How the illegitimate son of Liberian ex-President (and accused cannibal) Charles Taylor went from being a small time Florida hoodlum to one of Africa’s most notorious killers.

Kurdistan is the safest and most stable region in Iraq and at the center of its modern history is Amna Surak Prison, ground zero for both a genocide and an uprising.