Culturacide

They began immediately with the destruction of Turkish Mosques and all other Islamic monuments throughout the entire 19th century. With this ethnicide and culturacide, they entirely erased every Turkish and Islamic trace in Serbia.

Being in Tibet and in Urumqi in the 1990s—I was in Urumqi six, seven years ago—how different is it today, in your opinion? What I saw was not just modernization. I saw the cultural shift, or the culturacide, if you may, in both places.

As Jolene Rickard observes, Indigenous artists “have densely packed cultural survival kits that transfer knowledge from one generation to the next, despite unremitting attempts at genocide, culturacide, and other forms of political and philosophical erasure.[…]”

It was through research into these empty spaces and untold stories of the district’s forgotten histories that we were able to recognize tendencies of genocide, “culturacide,” removal and resistance to these forces that span from the 17th century until the present.

In 213 BC, Qin Shih Huang lit China’s first bonfire of books, followed by a live-burial of writers, (Zhang Jie, p179), barely a year after the following proscription: […] This proscription is still being posted in some language on Earth. Some Dear Leader, natural culturacide, will take heart.