Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet

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• 2 4 9 ABC, 148, 186 ABC Nightly News, 180 ABC World News Tonight, 10 Abdul Hamid II, 25, 26, 36–37 abolitionism, 6, 44, 143; in Sudan, 183– 84. See also slavery Abu Ghraib, 175, 244n13 activism: consumer, 140; Internet, 173–78; media, 4–6, 16, 137, 139. See also human rights organizations; WITNESS Adalian, Rouben Paul, 227n4 Addario, Lynsey, 191 Adorno, Theodor, 6, 13 advertising, 190, 239n13; “advotainment,” 149; of Armenian activism, 7, 32, 35, 50, 56–58; by Bushmen, 167; by WITNESS , 138, 144–45, 169–70, 239n13. See also public relations and publicity African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights, 181 African Union (AU): definition of genocide by, 179; and Sudan, 177, 180, 182, 190, 196, 212 Aghion, Anne, 218, 237n39 aid, humanitarian, 115, 122, 123, 131, 180, 184. See also relief organizations Ajak, Benjamin, 185 Alice in Hungerland, 57 Allied Powers: in First World War, 51; in Second World War, 64, 67, 69–71, 76–80, 86, 90. See also individual countries Amazon: video activism in, 139, 153, 239n16 Amazon Watch, 153 Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (Morgenthau ), 35–36, 37 American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 23–24, 30–31, 53 American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR). See Near East Relief American Committee for Relief in the Near East (ACRNE). See Near East Relief American Physician in Turkey (Ussher), 39 Amnesty International, 148, 167, 168, 185–86; definition of genocide by, 179; Human Rights Now! Tour of, 141; mission of, 1–2 Anderson, Benedict, 12 Anfal campaign, in Iraq, 19 Annan, Kofi, 103, 245n25 anti-Semitism, 67, 82, 83–85, 231n86. See also Holocaust Apfel, Oscar, 38 Appadurai, Arjun, 12 Arab Spring, 178, 240n32 I N D E X 08 Index_Torchin 9/10/2012 1:39 PM Page 249 Ararat (Egoyan), 244n17 Arendt, Hannah, 67 Armenia, 50–52, 54–57, 231–232n95; modern Republic of, 177; Wilsonian Mandate for, 59. See also Armenian crisis; Armenian genocide; Armenians; Ottoman Empire; Turkey Armenian Atrocities Committee, 228n28 Armenian crisis, 3, 13, 18, 21–60, 227n3; and Christianity, 8, 23–26, 28–29, 30– 31, 40–42, 44–55, 58–60, 61, 62, 68–69, 101, 183, 230n73, 231–232n95; documentaries about, 57–58, 177, 244n17, 245n22; Hamidian Massacres, 3, 21– 22, 25–28, 42; and international law, 29–30, 59, 68; news coverage of, 10, 21–27, 29, 30, 32, 35, 37, 40, 46–47, 57, 60, 63, 228n34, 229n37, 229n45; photographs of, 23, 26–28, 31, 32, 34–37, 46–47, 54, 57, 62, 176, 229n47; U.S. policy toward, 28, 32–33, 35, 53, 177, 227n4, 228n34, 229n45. See also Armenian genocide Armenian genocide, 3, 7–8, 16–17, 22–23, 28–41, 53–60, 61, 68, 175–77; comparison of, to other genocides, 10, 94, 98, 176, 209, 223n40; denial of, 175–77, 244n17, 245n22; use of word “holocaust ” for, 25, 223n39. See also Armenian crisis Armenian Genocide, The (Goldberg), 177 “Armenian Genocide 1915” (website), 176 Armenian Massacres (Greene and Northrop), 25–26 Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), 176–77, 245n22 Armenian National Institute, 176 Armenian Reform Agreement, 29 Armenian Relief Committee, 228n28 Armenians: charity on behalf of, 26, 33– 34, 51, 55–59, 176, 183, 227n3; diaspora of, 29–30, 176–77; nationalism of, 25. See also Armenia; Armenian crisis; Armenian genocide; Ottoman Empire; Turkey assassination plot, against Hitler, 86, 235n52 Auction of Souls, The. See Ravished Armenia Avni, Ronit, 241n44 Ayers, Michael D., 173 Babkenian, Vicken, 227n3 Balakian, Peter, 22, 50, 228n20 Baldwin, Alec, 96 Balkans, 29, 100, 102, 148; revolt in, 24– 25. See also Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo; Macedonia; Serbia; Slovenia Barthes, Roland, 26 Barton, James L., 30, 31–34, 57, 228n28, 232n100; on Christianity, 51; on Muslims , 230n73; on newspapers, 229n37; on Turkey, 59–60 Bashir, Omar al-, 180, 181–82, 190 Baudrillard, Jean, 104, 108, 134 BBC, 108, 120, 148 Beawitness.org, 203–4 Before the Rain (Manchevski), 15, 100– 101, 106–8, 134, 218 Belgium, 113, 126–27; colonialism in Africa by, 122, 128; peacekeepers from, 120, 122, 123; “Rape” of, 68, 232n104; in Second World War, 78 Bell, James, 158 Benjamin, Walter, 223–24n44 Berger, John, 138, 141 Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard, 174 Berlant, Lauren, 238n6 Berlin, Treaty of, 25 Bernal, Gael Garcia, 166 Bernstein, Sidney, 65 Big Red One, The (Fuller), 233n14 Bitorajac, Rene, 109 Bliss, Edwin M., 26 blogs, 132, 195 Blood and Honey (exhibition), 99 2 5 0 • I N D E X 08 Index_Torchin 9...