genocide

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genocide

An ordinary man

an autobiography
2006
Paul Rusesabagina recounts the story of his life, describing what it was like to grow up on a small farm in Rwanda, how he became the first Rwandan general manager of a Belgian-owned hotel, and how he helped his fellow countrymen during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The bone woman

a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
2004
Forensic anthropologist Clea Koff chronicles the experiences she had during her involvement in the UN International Criminal Tribunal's missions to Rwanda to uncover physical evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Vision of the future

1999
The conclusion of the two-volume series "The Hand of Thrawn" finds Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia headed deep into enemy territory to learn the identity of those responsible fora horrific act of genocide.

Who fears death

2010
In a post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, a clan of aggressive people, the Nuru, plan the total destruction of the Okeke; but one member of the tribe manages to escape and wanders into the desert where she gives birth to a daughter, whose special powers will allow her to put an end to the genocide of her people.

Pol Pot

anatomy of a nightmare
2005
Chronicles the life of Pol Pot, focusing on the years he spent as ruler of Cambodia and describing his efforts to exterminate any Cambodians who held onto old beliefs and ideas that went against Pol Pot's vision of an egalitarian utopia.

The history and sociology of genocide

analyses and case studies
1990
An exploration of genocide that examines its history, offers more than two dozen examples of genocide since antiquity, discusses motives of perpetrators and their role in the establishment and maintenance of empires, and includes case studies.

Paul Kagame and Rwanda

power, genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front
2004

Revolution and genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia

2006
Genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups. In Ethiopia it was used to terrorize and justify political killings.

Facing the Khmer Rouge

a Cambodian journey
2011
Ronnie Yimsut is now a senior landscape architect for the USDA Forest Service and he and his family reside in Greenfield, Wisconsin.

Behind the killing fields

a Khmer Rouge leader and one of his victims
2010
Huon Chon is the top Khmer Rouge leader still living. Interviews with him follow his journey as a dedicated freedom fighter who became a killer accused of crimes against humanity. Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant and is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died in the Killing Fields.

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