atrocities

Denise Affon?o chronicles the experiences of her family in the years following the Khmer Rouge's take over of Cambodia in April 1975, describing how she, her husband, and her children, were deported to a labor camp where they endured hard labor, famine, sickness, and death.

Jean Hatzfeld offers an inside look at the motives behind the genocidal massacre of almost a million people in Rwanda more than a decade ago, interviewing ten of the killers and examining why they killed thousands of men, women, and children.

A collection of true stories recounting the history, hopes, fears, and resilience of dozens of Darfurians who survived the violence of the 2003 rebellion against the Sudanese government.

"Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past ... a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception--and horror--as finally there is only one left standing."--Amazon.com.

Francois Bizot recounts the experiences he had during his arrest and captivity in Cambodia in 1971.

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.

Startling evidence offers proof of the Turkish government's attempt to eliminate the Armenian population in 1915.

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.