genocide

Examines the issue of genocide--the systematic destruction of a group of people, explaining the nature and causes of genocide, and looking at how the world community is working to keep it from happening.

Examines the history of the Herero genocide by the German army in the early 1900's.

Examines the strategies and results of organized reactions to mass violence and genocide, discussing the war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; truth commissions in South Africa, Argentina, and East Germany; and reparations in America, also addressing the issues of vengeance, forgiveness, and facing history.

Ties the teaching of the Holocaust to an analysis of the genocides in Armenia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and Rwanda; and examines representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and the arts.

The author maintains that a greater threat of genocide originates from smaller groups of powerful leaders and focuses on three types of mass killings in the twentieth century: Communist killings, ethnic genocides, and counter-guerrilla campaigns.

Story of the author's journey into Rwanda in 1994 as part of a BBC team recording a documentary on the country's genocidal war, recalling the horrors of the conflict that resulted in the murder of up to one million Tutsis by the Hutus in only one hundred days.

The author, a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, shares his opinions about the United Nations' failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide, and argues that the bureaucratic culture of the organization allowed the U.N. to ignore its ethical commitment to try to stop the killings.

Identifies the killing of the Tutsi people in Rwanda by the Hutus as one of three full-fledged incidents of genocide, and argues that the international community failed to take appropriate action that would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Describes what the United States and its international allies did and did not do in the face of state-sponsored slaughter in the last decade of the twentieth century in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor.

Draws from historical sources, trial records, memoirs, poems, and fiction to examine the origins, conduct, and effects of four major instances of genocide during the twentieth century, including Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia.