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Ologies with Alie Ward
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A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. linktr.ee/alieward
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Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY) with expert Dr. Dirk Moses. www.alieward.com/ologies/geno... Pass it on.

VOICEOVER: So genocide from a legal and a punitive standpoint is very difficult to prove no matter what the civilian toll or the horrors. Now if it's hard to prosecute, then is there ever even a consequence? Or a deterrent? ALIE: And you mentioned locked away for decades, possibly forever. Is there a very different punishment or reparations? Why would a country that is already, say, committing atrocities or has committed atrocities wanna avoid that label if they did the things that they did? DR. DIRK MOSES, GENOCIDOLOGIST: Yeah. It's a good question. So when the Darfu case was raging 20 years ago -- you know, which is a region in Sudan -- and was widely regarded as genocide here in particular in the U.S., the U.N. sent in an investigative committee, or commission, and it said that crimes against humanity were being committed but not genocide. And there was an audible sigh of relief in the African Union saying, “Well, okay. Nothing to see here. It's not genocide; it's just crimes aga
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This episode was…whew. So good though.

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Ologies with Alie Ward
@ologies.bsky.social
A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. linktr.ee/alieward
3.8k followers36 following87 posts
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