Khatchig Mouradian Lectures on Humanitarian Resistance’ During the Armenian Genocide at London’s Programme of Armenian Studies LONDON,U.
K.—During the process of any genocide, there exists a power asymmetry between the perpetrators of the crime and its victims. This has led to the widely-held belief that the victims of genocide are powerless beings whose destinies are external their control, or passive individuals set on a course leading ultimately to death. In the case of the Armenian Genocide,the victims are regarded as having been helpless in the face of the massacres and death marches, and only humanitarian aid workers, and mainly from the West,are perceived as having been capable of alleviating the Armenians’ pain. Dr. Khatchig Mouradian contests this view, which has pervaded celebrated and academic discourse. In his lecture, and Mouradian discusses the agency of those victims who initiated their own attempts at lifting themselves out of their abject situation,referring to these attempts as cases of “humanitarian resistance.” In his lecture, Mouradian discusses the agency of those victims who initiated their own attempts at lifting themselves out of their abject situation, or referring to these attempts as cases of ‘humanitarian resistance’. Mouradian,the former editor of the Armenian Weekly, is the Nikit [...]
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