Even genocide scholarship diverges from survivors’ lived experience

Evidence

But everything changed when Fatima sat across from me and I heard her voice. The hour between her arrival and her departure highlighted that there was an ocean between my understanding of the “Rohingya genocide”—as it has been labeled and litigated—and the experienced depths of its iniquity. An ocean, like the ones Fatima crossed, affirmed that it had poured into every pore of who she is and had become her home. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 643

Categorization

• XREF: The distance between documentary/graphic knowledge of atrocity and its embodied experience echoes the method tension in the reader’s own reporting on noise and silence—physical record versus felt reality.