Case Studies
All the stages published in long-form article case studies, with authentic testimony, court transcripts, analysis, and most importantly: a call to action to turn the ten stages of genocide into ten stages of change. See ‘Actions’ at the end of each case study.
Stage 1: Classification
Case Study: Darfur, Sudan.Stage 2: Symbolization
Case Study: Cambodia.Stage 3: Discrimination
Case Study: Afghanistan.Stage 4: Dehumanization
Case Study: Rwanda.Stage 5: Organization
Case Study: Myanmar.Stage 6: Polarization
Case Study: Bosnia & Herzegovina.Stage 7: Preparation
Case Study: The Holocaust.Stage 8: Persecution
Case Study: Xinjiang.Stage 9: Extermination
Case Study: Armenia.Stage 10: Denial
Case Study: Armenia.
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Three witnesses (a fighter in the Jebel Marra, a poet on the TEDMED stage, a survivor in a Chad hospital) and how “us and them” became “us or them.”
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How the Khmer Rouge turned the krama into a marker for death, and how Cambodians like Tep Vanny took it back.
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The Hazara face relentless, systematic attacks under Taliban rule. Women’s rights regress to repression and silence.
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How propaganda and radio taught neighbors to see Tutsi as less than human, told through the survivors who lived it.
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The fifth stage, organization, seen through the machinery of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Eyewitness testimony in this piece has been redacted to protect the safety of its sources.
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‘My youngest boy… those little hands. I imagine them picking strawberries, holding books, going to school. Every morning I cover my eyes so I don’t see other children heading to school, husbands walking to work, holding hands.’
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The seventh stage of genocide, preparation, is explored through the lens of the Holocaust, and specifically the Einsatzgruppen and Wannsee Conference as well as testimony by Edward Anders who narrowly escaped a grim fate at Skede Beach.
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Persecution of the Uyghurs, from camp survivors’ testimony to the forced-labor supply chains that end in our own shopping carts.
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The final Ten Stages installment: extermination and denial, from the 1921 Tehlirian trial to Artsakh, Darfur, and Cambodia.