political atrocities

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The Spanish holocaust

inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain
2012
Examines what author Paul Preston terms "the Spanish Holocaust", charting twentieth-century Spain under General Franco in which hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children were systematically wiped out.

Lost City Radio

a novel
2007
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.

Fires of hatred

ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe
2001
A history of ethnic cleansing that examines myths about its causes, and the connections between several examples--including not only the Nazi attack on the Jews, but also the Armenian genocide of 1915 and many violent expulsions of populations throughout Europe, up to the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

The quality of mercy

Cambodia, Holocaust, and modern conscience
1984
Discusses the Cambodian famine in 1979 and how the Western world reacted to it.

Fires of hatred

ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe
2002
A history of ethnic cleansing that examines myths about its causes, and the connections between several examples--including not only the Nazi attack on the Jews, but also the Armenian genocide of 1915 and many violent expulsions of populations throughout Europe, up to the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Let history judge

the origins and consequences of Stalinism
1972

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.

You will see fire

a search for justice in Kenya
2012
John Kaiser, an obscure American missionary, denounced the regime of Daniel arap Moi in Kenya, and became an improbable icon to a country strugging to escape that regime. Few knew that Kaiser was also a manic depressive. When Kaiser was found dead, the FBI ruled it a suicide. Kenyans were convinced he had been murdered. In a post-Moi Kenya, what happened to Kaiser was finally revealed.

Journey into the whirlwind

2002
In the late 1930's Eugenia Ginzburg was a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party. Her loyalty was such that she would have died for the party. Instead, she fell victim to one of Stalin's purges and was sent to prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. She became one of the many individuals who never knew why they were sent to Siberia.

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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