atrocities

Discusses the history of the world using historical and statistical records to focus on conflicts, atrocities, and genocide of human history and listing the one hundred worst atrocities.

Norma, a radio host for an unnamed South American country ravaged by civil war, reads the names of missing persons to her listeners, and finds her life altered when a boy appears from the jungles with information on Norma's long missing husband.

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.

A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United States by an uncle who was living in Oregon.

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

Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.

An inside look at Cambodia under the dictatorship of Pol Pot that reviews his rise to power, the fall of his regime, and other related topics.

Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the atrocities committed in Cambodia's "killing fields" by the Khmer Rouge.

American journalist Scott Peterson describes the violent events that have torn apart Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda during the 1990s, including the involvement of the U.S.

Presents twelve essays that argue opposing points on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, covering its causes, the world's reaction, and the country's rebuilding, and includes an introductory overview, a chronology, and a further reading list.