{"id":89107,"date":"2017-03-27T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=89107"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:05:19","slug":"genocides-have-no-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/genocides-have-no-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocides Have No Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/genocides.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/genocides.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/genocides.png 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/genocides-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>20 Mar 2017 &#8211; <\/em>Genocides are what students of politics call &#8216;path-dependent&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall.<\/p>\n<p>Genocide starts with a small group of racists, with multiple motives and multiple strategic aims, out of a genocidal plan.<\/p>\n<p>Then genocidal ideas and worldviews are promoted in society.<\/p>\n<p>Soon these ideas begin to fill the air in society at large: the people breath them actively.<\/p>\n<p>They cannot get enough of it, in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Once genocidal view reaches the level of essential social Oxygen the perpetrating society has lost its ability to be awaken from the national nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Typically genocidal peoples de-humanize their target group (s).<\/p>\n<p>In the process, the perpetrating people destroy their own collective humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the destruction of the victim group(s), the perpetrating dominant groups (and those who chose to NOT lift their fingers even when they become aware of Evil engulfing their society at large) set in motion the process of self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Even among those who are pained by their knowledge of their own society&#8217;s genocide learn to develop indifference or\u00a0feel constrained to publicly display their empathy with Rohingya victims.<\/p>\n<p>All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zarni.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zarni.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><em>Dr. Maung Zarni is a Burmese activist blogger, Associate Fellow at the University of Malaya, a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a><em>, founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, and<\/em> <em>a nonresident scholar with the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> <em>He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net\/2017\/03\/genocides-have-no-winners.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 maungzarni.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genocides are what students of politics call &#8216;path-dependent&#8217;. Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall. All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}