Replacing the invisibility of genocide remembrance with indivisibility

Greece should advocate a new approach to genocide remembrance. Currently genocides are memorialized on a parochial basis. Different days throughout the year commemorate different genocide victims: January 27 for the Jewish holocaust, April 7 for the Tutsi genocide, April 24 for the Armenian genocide, May 19 for the Pontic Greek genocide, May 20 for the Cambodian genocide, August 2 for the Roma genocide, August 7 for the Assyrian genocide, September 14 for the Asia Minor Greek genocide, etc. These days of remembrance pass by unrecognized for the most part by anyone other than the victims' descendants. Thus, in effect, the parochial approach promotes the "invisibility" of genocide and does little to make genocide less likely. 

Israel Charny, the renowned genocide scholar, well explained the limitations of a proprietary and parochial approach to genocide. Using poignant...