From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens

UMD’s Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee will host Dr. Melanie O’Brien. who will discuss her most recent book which studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. O’Brien deftly illustrates how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate and applies the pattern of rights violations to the Rohingya Genocide.