“Publicity,” Louis Brandeis wrote in 1913, “is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
When Brandeis was appointed to the Supreme Court three years later, a genocide was being perpetrated against ethnic Armenians. Numbering approximately 2.1 million in 1914, over the next few years, mass executions and intentional starvation would cull the Armenian population by half, while systematic expropriation and deportation of those who survived would result in one of the century’s greatest diasporas, with only around 450,000 in-country in 1918.
The post “Aurora’s Sunrise” Sheds Unique Light on Armenian Genocide and the Power of Publicity appeared first on Random Lengths News.