Long-form writing that takes contested words apart — genocide, terrorism, liberation — using the same analytical frame as the case dossiers, with sources cited inline.
A neutral walk through the evidence and the rebuttals, element by element, using the same legal test a court would apply. It reaches no verdict — because the central question is still being litigated.
When civilians die by the tens of thousands, which one is it? A guide to the legal ladder — and why the body count, however horrifying, is not what decides the top rung.
Insurgencies and anti-colonial wars produce some of history's most eliminationist language — yet the genocide label lands on almost none of them. Why the line is intent and protected-group status, not brutality.
A plain-language guide to the 1948 Genocide Convention — the five acts, the two-element test, and how courts distinguish genocide from other mass atrocities.
Annihilationist rhetoric from wars and campaigns most people do not call genocide — and why a shocking quote is not enough to prove the second.