genocide

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994 Hutu extremists murdered over a half million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda using unspeakable methods. Little or nothing was done by the international community to stop the genocide.

In 1993 the violence in Rwanda spilled over into Burundi and the centuries-old battle between the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes of Africa came to Gilbert Tuhabonye's school. As a Tutsi he wasn't too worried because his country had always had peaceful relationships between Hutus and Tutsis. All that changed in a single day when the Hutus won the recent election. The Hutus came to his school, forced more than one hundred Tutsi children and teachers into a small room, and slashed and burned what they could. When it was over, Gilbert found himself the sole survivor. Today he lives in Texas and is a world-class athlete, running coach, and celebrity.

Romeo Dallaire was the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994. His small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the world's major powers and caught up in civil war and genocide. He and his forces managed to rescue thousands but his calls for support went unanswered and he still witnessed the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in one hundred days. He is the highest ranking military officer ever to suffer openly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Examines the political, economic, and cultural factors that led to the 2004 Darfur crisis in Western Sudan, during which Arab Janjaweed militias engaged in a campaign of violence against the residents of Western Sudan.

Contains a full narrative account of the events surrounding the mass killing of one million people in Rwanda in 1994.

Contains essays by a variety of authors in which they discuss issues related to genocide, covering the Holocaust, European colonialism and indigenous Americans, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

Contains entries that provide information about people, places, and events associated with genocide; grouped in major sections that explore the events of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the denial of genocide.