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Follow the story of 20th - 21st Century Genocide as told by a man who wrote a thesis and created a human rights early warning system that helped stop genocide, massacres and starvation in hot spots around the world. From 2000 - 2004 a group of twenty-something human rights activists raced against horrible unfolding events around the world to pre
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Richard O’Brien is a poet, translator and academic based in Birmingham, UK.
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