genocide

Includes the Ottoman state and its non-Muslim population--The Union and progress era--Turkish nationalism--What led to the decision for genocide?--The decision and its aftermath--The question of punishing the "Turk"--Ottoman government initiatives--The turkish national movement's position on the genocide--The final phase of the trials--Why the postwar trials failed.

An incisive look at the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, raising new questions about how we can keep such tragedies from recurring.

"The world invoked its vow 'Never Again!' after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have once more been used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur. FRONTLINE asks why the international community and the United Nations have once again failed to stop the slaughter".

Selects and describes those books, from the profusion of Holocaust materials, that best explore the wide-range of human responses to the Holocaust, on the part of the victims, victimizers, and rescuers.

Antisemitism -- Authoritarianism and Conformity -- Aggression and Violence -- Practicing for Genocide: Euthanasia in Nazi Germany -- Hitler -- Leading Nazis -- Surviving the Ghettos and Camps -- Complicity or Resistance? -- Rescuers and Bystanders -- Holocaust Survivors in the Postwar World -- Explaining the Past and Predicting the Future -- Remembering the Holocaust.

"This is a story from the Rwanda of 1994. Life was difficult enough in Rwanda for a boy in the early 1990s, and Faustin's father did not make it any easier with inexplicable rules and dark secrets. Teachers at school began to emphasize the division between the Tutsis and Hutus, a division that made its way to the soccer field"--Back cover.

"This book discusses the history behind the as-yet-unfinished struggle to secure fundamental rights and freedoms for all Africans."--Provided by publisher.

Rwandan translator Louise Mushikiwabo recounts her journey into the past to learn the truth behind her family's murder nearly sixty years earlier.

Concentration camps, the epicenters of Nazi atrocities, represent a harrowing chapter of world and human history. Part of a highly organized system intended to decimate Europe's Jewish population and other groups deemed undesirable by Adolf Hitlers regime.