Saturday, March 31, 2018

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ethnic Cleansing

Thank you too AB.  Now we can finally lay to rest the ghost of Jewish essentialism in the Holocaust.  This does not lessen the Jewish burden in the Holocaust but explains why this hapoened; because they were the single most populous members of the minority (Something akin to the position of the Scots in the UK today) so they form the arrowhead of minority resistance to tyranny of the majority (and receive the hardest knocks for such resistance in order to break that resistance or render it ineffectual.)



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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ethnic Cleansing

Wow! Many of us are VERY grateful to our Big Sister and intellectual Supremo GE, indeed for such a priceless bibliography. In fact, I needed  such information when I taught my award-wining "Blacks and Jews in History" seminar at Indiana University. The constant argument between Black and Jewish students was: which was more horrific, Slavery or Hitler's anti-Jewish Pogrom/Holocaust?


Also, Jewish students would often say to Black students in the seminar that "since Blacks did not die in the Holocaust", the Black students think that slavery was a lot more horrible. Yet,  the books by Lusane and Massaquoi could have helped to elucidate facts about Hitler's Black victims. In fact, for my seminr a regular bibliographic staple included African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict (1998), edited by V.P. Franklin and others (et al). There were crucial chapters like "Black Sacrifice, Jewish Redemption" , "The Southern Jewish Community and the Struggle for Civil Rights" and "Black Zionism: Marcus Garvey and the Jewish Question". In fact, in discussing ethnicity in Jewish history in the class, we relied on The Russian Jew  edited by Bernheimer.


As my Yoruba brothers and sisters would say, Big Sister GE, "Ese pupo" ( "thank you very much")!


A.B. Assensoh.


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GE.

Thanks for this bibliographical  update. I consider myself a Holocaust specialist yet when we studied the Holocaust in the UK it was not possible to get a SINGLE publication on the fate of the Blacks in Germany during the Nazi era.  The bookstores and library bookshelves were completely deodorized of them  ( and it is still largely the case) so that it was made to look like it was a straight confrontation between only the Jews and the Nazis.  All in a bid to make it look like Blacks are owed no reparations (an inverted racism - after all they are fully BLACK in a way Jewish ideological separatism isnt.). 

 This deliberate deodorization of potentially offensive material was to the extent that when I sought to watch a notorious film The Wandering Jews at the British Film Institute I found that the real film had been replaced in the jacket with another harmless material that had nothing to do with the subject.

My African American students regularly put me on the spot on this account later and since there were no publications to support systematic victimization of Blacks in the Holocaust as a group we all sought  agreement in the Toni Morrison epigram that the trans Atlantic  Slave Trade was a holocaust larger by several proportions in magnitude.



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I   found this  piece  quite balanced and informed as well but thought that the itemized list  of  the victims of ethnic cleansing in Germany should be expanded.


Don't forget Hitler's Black  holocaust victims.

Many Africans from the German colonies and other African countries as well as African American POWs and   Black Germans,  were sent to the concentration camps and died there. See Clarence Lusane. (2003). Hitler's Black Victims as well as Hans Massaquoi(1999). Destined to witness-Growing up Black in Nazi Germany.




GE

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Yes indeed, thanks

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim
Senior Fellow
Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja
Follow me on twitter @jibrinibrahim17

On 30 March 2018 at 17:05, Anthony Akinola <anthony.a.akinola@gmail.com> wrote:
Balanced and educative-we are warned of possible outcomes when law enforcement agencies have been compromised by the state and its corrupt politicians.The literature on the fall of the First and Second Republics is instructive.
Anthony Akinola
Oxford, UK

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Jibrin Ibrahim <jibrinibrahim891@gmail.com> wrote:

Alleged Ethnic Cleansing and the Military

Jibrin Ibrahim, Friday column, Daily Trust, 30th March 2018

Nigeria's former Defence Minister and Chief of Army Staff, T. Y. Danjuma, on Saturday accused the Nigerian armed forces of aiding the on-going killings in the country, especially the deadly attacks in his home State of Taraba. "The armed forces are not neutral," General Danjuma said at the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University in Jalingo; "They collude with the armed bandits to kill people, kill Nigerians." He added that the armed forces rather than protect the people, "facilitate" the movement of armed attackers and often provide cover for them. His conclusion was chilling: "If you wait for the armed force to stop the killing, you all die one-by-one," The way forward he said was for the people to defend themselves.

There has been a national debate on his comments. This is partly because he rarely speaks and when he does people listen. People also know he is a close confidant of President Buhari and the expectation is that if he has a message for the Government, he has the access to directly reach the summit of the State. The consensus therefore might be no one is listening to him so he decided to speak out to create impact. The other reason for concern is that people know he chooses his words carefully so this is not an outburst but a decision to openly rebuke and express his disgust against the institution, the Nigerian army that made him.

Many people feel that his statement might push people towards arming themselves and creating anarchy as they give up on security agencies and procure arms to descend on their neighbours who they have re-categorised as enemies. This is my own main concern. We all know that the armed forces often overreach themselves and violate the rights of people. We also know that currently, the armed forces are deployed in at least 32 States in the country where hey are engaged in operations. I recently served on the Presidential Panel Investigating Alleged Human Rights abuses by the military and there are three things that struck me from the evidence we heard. The first is that there are indeed human rights violations by the military but it is not systematic. The second is that when communities are asked whether the military should be withdrawn from their area, the universal response was NO because there are security concerns that only the military could handle. The third issue is that for most Nigerians, the police, who should normally be the agency to handle civil conflicts, is so bad that the military is the only viable option for now. It is for this reason that I am concerned about the blanket condemnation of the military by General Danjuma.

The other concern I have is the assertion by the General that: "There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and of course, some riverine states in Nigeria. We must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up." He did not say who was committing the genocide against whom. The assumption among those listening to the General is that the genocide is by "Fulani herdsmen" against indigenous communities in Taraba State. If indeed this is the assumption, then there is a problem. Taraba State is one area where there are credible reports of large-scale massacre of Fulani pastoralists and there is evidence that the killings go both ways. We need to be careful about the way in which we use concepts such as ethnic cleansing.

The term "ethnic cleansing" came into wide usage in the 1990s, to describe the treatment suffered by particular ethnic groups during conflicts that erupted after the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. It would be recalled that after the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence in March 1992, Bosnian Serb forces waged a systematic campaign of forced deportation, murder, torture and rape with the aim of expelling all Bosnian Muslim and Croatian civilians from the territory of eastern Bosnia. This violence culminated in the massacre of as many as 8,000 Bosniak men and boys at the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. In his 1993 article "A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing," published in the magazine Foreign Affairs, Andrew Bell-Fialkoff writes that the aim of the Serbian campaign was "the expulsion of an 'undesirable' population from a given territory due to religious or ethnic discrimination, political, strategic or ideological considerations, or a combination of those."

Using this definition, historians have rolled back the term to apply to the aggressive displacement of Native Americans by European settlers in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries as ethnic cleansing. The case of Rwanda in the 1990s is also categorized as ethnic cleansing because members of the majority Hutu ethnic group massacred hundreds of thousands of people, mostly minority Tutsis, from April to July 1994. The most prominent example of extremist nationalism-fuelled ethnic cleansing was that of the Hitler regime in Germany and its campaign against Jews in German-controlled territory from 1933 to 1945. This movement began with cleansing by deportation and ended in the horrific "final solution"—the destruction of some 6 million Jews (along with some 250,000 Gypsies and roughly the same number of homosexuals) in concentration camps and mass killing centres. The term ethnic cleansing is often linked to genocide, and is today considered to be "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes." We therefore need to be care about the way we use it.

The allegation by General Danjuma about the lack of neutrality of the armed forces is serious and should be thoroughly investigated. We live in a country with a long history of lack of neutrality of security agencies. During the First Republic, the NPC regime of Tafawa Balewa declared a State of Emergency in the Western Region to give the police full "freedom" to harass the opposition. In the North, the Native Authority Police was used as an instrument to harass and intimidate the opposition and these practices played a major role in eroding the legitimacy of the democratic order leading to regime collapse. During the Second Republic, the police were also used to intimidate the leadership of the opposition states and state police commissioners acted as if they were alternate governors posted to impose the "federal might". This created a huge political anomaly as state governors are supposed to be in charge of peace, security, law and order in their states. Now that the military is deployed all over the country on operational duties, the feeling of lack of neutrality could pose a real problem of State legitimacy.

 

 

 

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim
Senior Fellow
Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja
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