ethnic conflict

"In the closing stages of Sri Lanka's civil war, Malini and her family are herded by soldiers to the coast-- where they will act as human shields. Malini's father tells her to hide in the forest with her younger sister, Banni. But once the shelling begins, Malini realizes they're not safe there, and they must travel inland to their grandfather's village. But how will they survive? Who can she trust? And will she ever see her parents again?"--Back cover.

"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI--conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--Provided by publisher.

Terrorized because of his family's political beliefs, PK, a young, white South African orphan, turns to a wise old prisoner who teaches him how to box. As PK grows to manhood, his skill gives him a sense of justice and the confidence to take on the unjust system he sees around him.

A history of human rights violations and political violence during the civil war in Sri Lanka that started in 1983.

Mac McClelland draws on her travels in Thailand and her interactions with the associates of a United States-designated terrorist organization to explore the origins, impact, and implications of the war against Burma's dictatorship.

Presents a history of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, looking at how it began in the provinces with the ethnic anger of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers and the direction the civil war took after Britain and the United States stepped into support the Manchus.

Presents an overview of the crisis in Darfur and the systematic slaughter of the people by the Sudanese army and militia bands called the janjaweed; and examines the causes of the conflicts and efforts by the international community to bring the violence to an end.