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Killing, disappearance, torture, and so on and so forth. but in the presence of a mass grave where members of my family lie still today, and lauterpacht�*s family co—mingle with my family, i found it — i was overwhelmed. i found it impossible not to feel a sense of kinship and connection. and in that moment it was a sort of an epiphany. i understood what lemkin was doing — he was recognising the reality that people get murdered en masse because they happen to be a member of a group that's hated at a particular moment in time and place, and the law needs to reflect that. the problem wit...
Lemkin says "no". people get killed en masse, not because what they've done but, because they are a member of a group. the law must protect them as a group. "no," says lauterpacht. "if you protect them as a group, you will replace "the tyranny of the state with the tyranny of the group." and i think that has, to a certain extent, happened. because you, in a sense, fall into the trap that the nazis set. yes. when lemkin published his book, axis rule, in november 19114, he received an extraordinary letter from a friend of his that said, "look, i'm looking to make this public. "i don't want to cr...
It has had on you going to visit the region known as galicia. it's been variously polish, and occupied—german and russian, and currently, i think, the town where some of yourfamily is from is ukraine. you've been to this region, a troubled region, and you went to the village where your grandmother was from and you then said... great—grandmother. "i was told about the mass grave," you said, "in the village where my grandmother is from. "i visited and i realised that we are defined "by the community, the group, the tribe of which we "are a member." so, in essence, when you saw what happened ...
I'm with lauterpacht intellectually. essentially, i think that every single human being — because they're a human being — has the right not to be subject to that sort of atrocity — killing, disappearance, torture, and so on and so forth. but in the presence of a mass grave where members of my family lie still today, and lauterpacht�*s family co—mingle with my family, i found it — i was overwhelmed. i found it impossible not to feel a sense of kinship and connection. and in that moment it was a sort of an epiphany. i understood what lemkin was doing — he was recognising the realit...