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Publication Instance Details #2873

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Genocide State Violence Gender-based violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War War: Vietnam War Genocide: Holocaust Genocide: Rwandan Genocide Genocide: Bosnian Genocide Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century) Genocide: Cambodian Genocide
Irish Context	Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of this poem refuses to accept ambivalence in relation to human rights abuses - cases of genocide, wars, massacres, and colonial atrocities. Numerous events and people are alluded to in the poem, including the Holocaust, Bosnian Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Pol Pot (Cambodian Genocide), My Lai, Wounded Knee, Katyn USSR massacre, Amristar (British colonial massacre of Indians), Deir Yassin, and atrocities committed by King Leopold II in the Congo Free State. There is an explicit reference to pedophilia as an abuse of the rights of the child. The speaker accuses the mainstream media of complicity by not condemning such atrocities outright.