‘HOMO HOMINI LUPUS’
“racism, bigotry and greed as causes of intolerance, hate,
escalating violence, mass murders and ethnic cleansing”
“Mala tempora currunt”: after decades of hope that followed the major conflicts of the XX century, it seems that violence is spreading out again, in our frail “modern” world. Social, political and economic uncertainties grow, and they are fuelling the worst part of our being. Racism, Bigotry and Greed represent the major source of the river of hate that flows through the human society and sweep our most important ‘values’ away… We, as Poets, cannot remain silent…
Link to the Forum web-page:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/17-homo-homini-lupus
or
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/17-homo-homini-lupus
How this project was born:
On Sept. 18, I was asked by the poet friend Sayeed Abubakar if we could do something, as a group of poets, for the Rohingya people. I brought such request to the attention of our Group [about the so called “Rohingya crisis”, you can read also this analysis from the WP: The ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Rohingya *], specifying that we can’t publish a book exclusively focused on the Rohingyas (if we did, we should accept any request to consider single situations.. and we simply can’t afford this — indeed, following such “policy/guideline”, we could not accept to single out the ISIS issue a few months ago, and opted for a more general theme [see the “Terror .2” book: ‘United We Stand – Poets Against Terror’]). This is the reason why I opted for the broader theme under the title “HOMO HOMINI LUPUS”.
[*] Ethnic cleansing is the systematic deliberate removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.
The forces applied may be various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), intimidation, as well as mass murder and genocidal rape.
Ethnic cleansing is usually accompanied with the efforts to remove physical and cultural evidence of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction of homes, social centers, farms, and infrastructure, and by the desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and places of worship (Wikipedia).
Since the 1990s, ethnic cleansing has become one of the most widely known forms of violence directed against groups. Ethnic cleansing is related to genocide, but [..] is focused more closely than genocide on geography and on forced removal of ethnic or related groups from particular areas (The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies).
“HOMO HOMINI LUPUS” — to those who don’t like my title [sorry for these ancient memories from my high school years! BTW, hands up those who remember the ‘Asinaria’, by Plautus… ] : to get your pardon, I’m going to start a new editorial project soon, with a free theme.. It’ll be our 2nd Autumn project. Stay tuned!
By Fabrizio Frosini
Poets Unite Worldwide 