Palestine has taught millions of people to recognise the language of genocide, forced displacement and collective human insecurity. But Palestinians are not the only people living beneath the threat of group destruction. From Darfur and Tigray to the Rohingya, Yazidis and eastern Congo, extending that understanding beyond Palestine may be one of the most important lessons we can learn.
For more than three decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced one of the deadliest sustained conflicts since World War II, resulting in millions of deaths and the displacement of entire communities. Often described as “too complex” to understand, the crisis is more accurately defined by familiar forces: colonial extraction, foreign intervention, ethnic fragmentation, and the global demand for natural resources.
A newborn taken within the first hour. A mother told she failed a culturally biased test. Decades after the Little Danes experiment, Greenlandic children are still being removed by the Danish state. This article exposes how Europe’s newest Stolen Generation is being created — and why the world must pay attention.