But there is much more happening in the atrocity archiving. Such memorial projects, curated and open for interpretation, are at first glance a campaign against forgetting. Of a slightly different nature is the Indian Memory Project. The 1947 Partition Archive, peopled-sourced, is one of the rare ones in India. Then when you meander into the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill’s library, you enter, if you so choose, the Chinese Cultural Revolutions archives. Yale also hosts the celebrated Fortunoff Archives of the Holocaust with over 4,000 survivor testimonies. The first question that strikes even the mentally prepared reader when stepping (metaphorically) into the Genocide Studies Program of Yale University is: how many genocides there have been in the history of modern humanity? The site lists 16, and one “Other”, such extinction events, from the Amazons to the present.
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