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    National Post , Canada
    October 17, 2014 Friday

    Don't try genocide, and other lessons from the 20th century's brutal struggles

    by David Berry, National Post


    "Watchers of the Sky"

    This brief history of genocide centres itself around the story of
    Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term over the course of trying
    to convince the world to finally address the issue. While Lemkin was
    first drawn to the issue after the Armenian genocide, and had it
    driven home when the Nazis forced him to flee Poland in 1940, his
    story is woven into a survey of the genocides that keep happening
    across the 20th century, delving particularly into Srebrenica, Rwanda
    and Darfur. Though it takes a high-minded approach - the emphasis here
    is on the necessity of collective action - its wide scope keeps the
    documentary overly academic, surprisingly drained of humanity
    considering its subject. As the movie itself says, no one is on the
    side of genocide, but few people actually seem to do anything about
    it; for all its smart rhetoric, Watchers has little tangible insight
    into why we shrug until its too late, but a lot of time for sober
    disappointment about the fact.

    "Watchers of the Sky" opens Oct. 17 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto.




    From: A. Papazian
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