On the 11th day of the 11th month, @TheRestHistory looks at how the Great War has been commemorated: the origin of the various rituals, their evolution over the past century, and their status today.
Anyone interested after listening to this episode in reading Kipling's great short story The Gardener, you can find it here: greatwar.nl/books/gardener…
On Thursday, I went to @warstudies to see an extraordinary dramatisation of the Yazidi genocide: a 12 minute virtual reality tour through the horror that destroyed Sinjar & its neighbouring villages in 2014.
I felt myself transported back to the scenes of devastation I witnessed back in 2016, when I visited Sinjar, & saw how utterly the lives of the Yazidis had been destroyed. It was though these photos I took then were coming back alive. All it needed was the heat & the stench.
When I spoke to this man, I assured him the world would not forget the Yazidis. He told me otherwise. 'Muslim countries care about Muslims, Christian countries care about Christians. But there are no Yazidi countries."