August 18, 2000

Scholars Say 'Encarta' Editors Asked Them to Tone Down Text on Armenian Genocide; English Professor Says Peers Suppress Ethics to Follow Theoretical Fashions

By JEFF SHARLET and SCOTT HELLER

THE OTHER SIDE OF GENOCIDE: Covering up genocide is a tricky business. Probably the best place to start is with the word itself. Coined in 1944 to describe Nazi Germany's systematic murder of millions, it's since been disputed in nearly every other usage, from the U.S. government's early waffling on whether Rwanda's Hutu annihilation of the Tutsis qualified, to the Turkish government's continuing campaign to convince the world that several hundred thousand starved