Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000
lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is
Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the
survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts
players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how
they can take action in the real world. Creating the Witness
examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual
witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book
asks, how do visual media work to produce witnesses-audiences who
are drawn into action? The argument is a detailed critique of the
notion that there is a seamless trajectory from observing an
atrocity to acting in order to intervene. According to Leshu
Torchin, it is not enough to have a camera; images of genocide
require an ideological framework to reinforce the messages the
images are meant to convey. Torchin presents wide-ranging examples
of witnessing and genocide, including the Armenian genocide, the
Holocaust (engaging film as witness in the context of the Nuremburg
trials), and the international human rights organization WITNESS
and its sustained efforts to use video to publicize human rights
advocacy and compel action. From a historical and comparative
approach, Torchin's broad survey of media and the social practices
around it investigates the development of popular understandings of
genocide to achieve recognition and response-both political and
judicial-ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human
rights.
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