Genocide and ethnic cleansing Books

Book SynopsisThe purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on the Holocaustthe only case with which they are familiar. Many of them have read Elie Wiesel's eloquent masterpiece Night in secondary school, and some may have read The Diary of Anne Frank. A few students might even know that a genocide occurred in Rwanda or Darfur. Like most people, however, they equate genocide simply with mass killing, and assume that genocide must by definition entail millions of deaths. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word genocidemeaning to kill a people originally defined it a colonial crime of destroying the national patterns of the oppressed and imposing the national patterns of the oppressors. This was a process, Lemkin said, that was intended to destroy a people's culture thatcould sometimes but not necessarily always result in mass murder. Students need to know that after World War II the great powers undermined and co-opted the process of writing the1948 Genocide Convention at the UN. It was written very carefully to remove from the definition of genocide the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the US and Canada; racial lynching and Jim Crowism in the US; the elimination of backwards people to protect human progress in pre-apartheid South Africa, New Zealand and Australia; the mass murder of colonial subjects and repression of racial minorities at the hands of European security forces the world over; the mass murder of political opponents in Latin America; the mass murder of economic or social groups in the Soviet Union; and the blanket removal of any mention of famine and sexual violence as acts that could constitute genocide. Instead, they simply used the Holocaust as a template and succeeded in distorting what Lemkin originally meant by genocidethe murder of a people by destroying their social and cultural connections.Students should also know that Lemkin's ideas were most strongly supported at the UN by member states that were former coloniesnamely Egypt, India, Pakistan, China and the Philippinesand by women within many of the delegations that were working to prevent the UN from succeeding in outlawing genocide, such as those from the US and the UK. When students learn this history can begin to think critically about what international law is and which systems of power international law serves. However, they also need a textbook that guides them to think critically and imaginatively about genocide and the 1948 UN Convention without reducing genocide and the UN Genocide Convention to a crude and cynical analysis of global power struggles. In other words, they need a book that is honest and that resists the temptation to spin ahistorical morality tales.

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Book SynopsisGenocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important but under-researched dimension: the involvement of the US and other liberal democracies in actions that are conventionally depicted as the exclusive province of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Many of the authors are eminent scholars and/or renowned activists; in most cases, their contributions are specifically written for this volume. In the opening and closing sections of the book, analytical issues are considered, including questions of responsibility for genocide and war crimes, and institutional responses at both the domestic and international levels. The central section is devoted to an unprecedentedly broad range of original case studies of western involvement, or alleged involvement, in war crimes and genocide. At a moment in history when terrorism has become a near universal focus of public attention, this volume makes clear why the West, as a result of both its historical legacy and contemporary actions, so often excites widespread resentment and opposition throughout the rest of the world.Trade Review'This exceptionally well selected, brilliantly edited collection of writings provides the most comprehensive treatment of Western responsibility for mass atrocity yet published. The cumulative impact of the volume is a devastating indictment of state terrorism as practised by the West, both historically, and now after September 11 in the name of "anti-terrorism." ' Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University 'In the names of millions of forgotten victims, from Wounded Knee to My Lai, a brilliant tribunal of scholars assail the himalayan hypocrisy of "Western humanitarianism." ' Mike Davis, author of Late Victorian Holocausts ‘Like communist and third world regimes, Western states have been opponents, bystanders, accomplices and perpetrators of genocide and war crimes. In different cases, they have also variously ignored, denied, covered up, re-examined, recanted, and refused to apologise for their roles. Is there a pattern here? "Genocide, War Crimes & the West" is definitely worth reading. In case studies and thematic essays, the authors offer a variety of answers and raise important new questions about democracy, foreign policy, and international law, uncovering the complexity along with the complicity in the West‘s relationships and approaches to genocide and war crimes.‘ Ben Kiernan, Yale University, and editor of Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia. 'This book documents one of the darkest chapters in recent history. It tells the story of what the "First World" - the Western democracies, most prominently the United States -- have done mainly against countries and peoples in the South and in the former socialist world. It is a history of aggression, indiscriminate bombing, war crimes, and massacres since the 1970s, the story of Western complicity in genocide in the South and East, and worse, it is about genocide committed by these democracies themselves. This path-breaking book fills a huge void; it carefully accounts for serious crimes that others have shamefully avoided, omitted or denied.' Christian P. Scherrer, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan; author of Genocide and Crisis. ‘A revealing compendium of studies regarding the crimes against humanity committed by "Western democracies." This book should give citizens a better sense of those parts of our history that remain largely unexamined and untaught.‘ Michael Parenti, author of "The Terrorism Trap" and "The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People‘s History of Ancient Rome"Table of Contents Contents Part I: Overview 1. Introduction: Genocide, War Crimes and the West - Adam Jones 2. Shades of Complicity: Towards a Typology of Transnational Crimes against Humanity - Peter Stoett Part II: Genocide, War Crimes and the West 3. Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa: Genocide and the Quest for Recompense - Jan-Bart Gewald 4. Genocide by Any Other Name: North American Indian Residential Schools in Context - Ward Churchill 5. The Allies in World War Two: The Anglo-American Bombardment of German Cities - Eric Langenbacher 6. Torture and Other Violations of the Law by the French Army during the Algerian War - Raphaëlle Branche 7. Atrocity and Its Discontents: U.S. Double-Mindedness about Massacre, from the Plains Wars to Indonesia - Peter Dale Scott 8. Bob Kerrey's Atrocity, the Crime of Vietnam, and the Historic Pattern of U.S. Imperialism - S. Brian Willson Document 1 (1) Inaugural Statement to the Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal (1966) -- Jean-Paul Sartre 9. Charles Horman et alia vs. Henry Kissinger: U.S. Intervention in 1970s Chile and the Case for Prosecutions - Mario I. Aguilar 10. The Wretched of the Nations: The West's Role in Human Rights Violations in the Bangladesh War of Independence - Suhail Islam and Syed Hassan 11. Indicting Henry Kissinger: The Response of Raphael Lemkin - Steven L. Jacobs 12. Crimes of the West in Democratic Congo: Reflections on Belgian Acceptance of "Moral Responsibility" for the Death of Lumumba - Thomas Turner 13. In the Name of the Cold War: How the West Aided and Abetted the Barre Dictatorship of Somalia - Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi 14. The Security Council: Behind the Scenes in the Rwanda Genocide - Linda R. Melvern 15. U.S. Policy and Iraq: A Case of Genocide? - Denis J. Halliday Documents 2 & 3 (2) Criminal Complaint against the United States and Others for Crimes against the People of Iraq - Ramsey Clark (3) Letter to the Security Council (2001) - Ramsey Clark 16. The Fire in 1999? The United States, Nato, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia - David Bruce Macdonald 17. Collateral Damage: The Human Cost of Structural Violence - Peter G. Prontzos Part III: Truth and Restitution 18. Institutional Responses to Genocide and Mass Atrocity - Ernesto Verdeja 19. International Citizens' Tribunals on Human Rights - Arthur Jay Klinghoffer 20. Coming to Terms with the Past: The Case for a Truth and Reparations Commission on Slavery, Segregation, and Colonialism - Francis Njubi Nesbitt Document 4(4) Declarations on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - World Conference against Racism: Part IV: Closing Observations 21. Afghanistan and Beyond - Adam Jones 22. Letter to America - Breyten Breytenbach Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War I, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and Turks who had lost their lands in the war against the Balkans, over 1 million Armenians were murdered, starved, raped and left to die. Following the War, as the Nationalist movement began to rise up from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the allies tried to persecute the perpetrators of the genocide, in a series of trials where the term 'crimes against humanity' was first used, Turkey was allowed to hide its recent history. It has remained hidden ever since. As the nation attempts to enter the European Union, the question of 1915 has become ever more important with the arrest of writers such as Orhan Pamuk, and the introduction of Turkey into the EU.Trade ReviewThe first lucid and comprehensive study of a historical fact - the Armenian Genocide of 1915. * Morning Star *

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Book SynopsisThis study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now. In 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly because the German policy not to pay reparations for the Namibian genocide contrasts with its long-standing Holocaust reparations policy. The Herero case bears not only on transitional justice issues throughout Africa, but also on legal issues elsewhere in the world where reparations for colonial injustices have been called for. This book explores the events within the context of German South West Africa (GSWA) as the only German colony where settlement was actually attempted. The study contends that the genocide was not the work of one rogue general or the practices of the military, but that it was inexorably propelled by Germany's national goals at the time. The book argues that the Herero genocide was linked to Germany's late entry into the colonial race, which led it frenetically and ruthlessly to acquire multiple colonies all over the world within a very short period, using any means available. Jeremy Sarkin is Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and is at present Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is also an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and of the State of New York. A graduate of theUniversity of the Western Cape and of Harvard Law School he has been visiting professor at several US universities where he has taught Comparative Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe): University of Cape Town Press/JutaTrade Review[A] fine book. * WASHINGTON MONTHLY *Underscores the many issues that are still unresolved and will hopefully inspire further historical research. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *Brings to light another dark chapter in Germany's history, a scholarly addition to any world history collection. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Aetiology of a genocide Annihilating 'the African tribes with streams of blood & streams of gold': implementing the genocide Did the Kaiser order the genocide? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary Till The Tenth Generation, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp.

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Book SynopsisNew York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India - one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, they silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military - an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, The Blood Telegram tells this thrilling story for the first time. Bass makes clear how the United States' embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mould Asia's destiny for decades, and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissinger's hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.Trade ReviewA gripping and well-researched book . . . Sheds fresh light on a shameful moment in American foreign policy . . . with admirable clarity. * The Economist *A riveting read with direct relevance to many of the most acute foreign-policy debates of today. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *This is a dark and amazing tale [and] an essential - Nixon and Kissinger spent the decades after leaving office burnishing their images as great statesmen. This book goes a long way in showing just how undeserved those reputations are. * The New York Times Book Review *A superb book - Bass deploys White House recordings, including several new transcripts, to excellent effect, and . . . the book contains enough material to make the reader sick . . . Astonishing . . . A morally serious book that nevertheless reads like a first-rate novel. * The Times Literary Supplement *A profoundly disturbing account of the hitherto hidden role of Nixon and Kissinger in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands . . . Bass has defeated the attempted coverup through laborious culling of relevant sections of the Nixon White House tapes, declassified State Department documents and interviews with former officials, American and Indian, who were involved . . . After reading Bass's account of this shameful episode, one has to . . . conclude that where the Bengalis were concerned, Kissinger and Nixon simply did not give a damn. -- Neil Sheehan * The Washington Post *Gary Bass has provided us with a helpful reminder of Nixon's true character. In 'The Blood Telegram', Bass expertly recounts the stunning indifference of Nixon and . . . Henry Kissinger to the reports from US diplomats of Pakistani genocide . . . Vivid, often disquieting detail from Oval Office tapes unearthed by Bass . . . Bass has performed an essential function. * The Guardian *Absorbing . . . Bass draws up a severe indictment of Nixon and Kissinger. -- Pankaj Mishra * The New Yorker *Blistering . . . a must-read. * New York Post *A stellar new book . . . Astonishing . . . a meticulously researched and searing indictment of the shameful role the United States played . . . The book tells of the damage wrought when world leaders abandon rational calculation and allow their country's interests to be subordinated to personal prejudices and animosities. * Foreign Policy *Devastating . . . Excellent . . . Bass has written an account - learned, riveting, and eviscerating - of the delusions and the deceptions of Nixon and Kissinger. Steeped in the forensic skills of a professional academic historian, he also possesses the imaginative energies of a classical moralist, and he tells the story of the choices and the decisions that led to the slaughter in Bengal . . . appropriately as a moral saga . . . Indispensable. -- Sunil Khilnani * The New Republic *Bass takes us inside the Oval Office to reveal the scandalous role America played in the 1971 slaughter in what is now Bangladesh. Largely unknown here, the story combines the human tragedy of Darfur, the superpower geopolitics of the Cuban missile crisis and the illegal shenanigans of Iran-contra . . . [A] harrowing tale. -- Peter Baker * The New York Times *Bass has written the definitive account of the political machinations behind one of the worst (and most widely ignored) humanitarian crises of the 20th century . . . Bass also offers Americans much-needed context about America’s pre-9/11 involvement in a region where it still finds itself with bloody hands . . . 'The Blood Telegram' offers a nuanced yet unflinching look at the juxtaposition of geopolitics and humanitarian crisis. Bass shines a much-needed spotlight on yet another dark corner of modern American history. -- Nick Turse * The Daily Beast *With urgent, cinematic immediacy, Gary Bass reconstructs a critical--and, to this day, profoundly consequential--chapter of Cold War history defined by appalling American complicity in genocidal atrocity, and terrifyingly high-stakes superpower brinksmanship. It is a story of immense scope, vividly populated by figures of enduring fascination, and ripe with implications for the ongoing struggle to strike a more honourable balance between wartime realpolitik and our ideals of common humanity. -- Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our FamiliesIt was a non-subject for scholars, a no man's land for knowledge . . . [u]ntil the arrival of a memorable book by Gary Bass . . . While doing justice to the victims, also, for the first time, draws out for us its lessons . . . The book is also a tribute to politics in its true sense . . . I do want readers to be aware of the appearance of Gary Bass' book, which I hope will be widely read (and translated into French!) . . . A return to Bangladesh is required reading. -- Bernard-Henri Levy * Le Point *Gary Bass has excavated a great tragedy, one that's been forgotten by Americans but is seared into the memory of South Asians. His talents as a scholar, writer, and foreign-policy analyst are on full display in this brilliant work of narrative history. Nixon and Kissinger come damningly alive on the pages of a book that shows, like nothing else I've read, the folly that goes by the name of 'realism'. -- George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New AmericaGary Bass has done it again, uncovering a dark chapter in the historical record and bringing it vividly to light, forcing us to confront who we were then and who we are now. 'The Blood Telegram' is a richly textured story with many fascinating layers, from the moral bankruptcy of U.S. leaders in the face of genocide to the multi-faceted politics of South Asia and the lasting geopolitical legacy of these events. It's also simply hard to put down! -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of A New World OrderGary Bass is unique: an investigative historian who explores the past in a masterly way that combines the best of journalism and scholarship. His latest book reads like an urgent dispatch from the frontline of genocide, a lucid and poignant description of a moral collapse in American foreign policy. Bass has painstakingly written a vital history--and a story, in the best sense of the word--that we must come to grips with. -- Peter Maass, author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War'The Blood Telegram' convincingly unravels the rather shocking truth of the American position in the Pakistan crisis in a well-written narrative . . . This book has the potential to fuel international lawyers to research the legal consequences of the passive stance taken by Nixon and his underlings. * LSE Review of Books *Bass, a reporter turned academic, displays great forensic skill, using secret Whitehouse tapes to show how Nixon and Kissinger covered up their responsibility for the slaughter. Even now, much material remains a secret. * History Today *

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Book SynopsisThe assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently reawakened to their Armenian heritage, in the process reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering they endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate about Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and books were published about the extermination of the minorities. The silence had been broken. After the First World War, Turkey forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands, to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, 'a century of genocide'.Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price a society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities - like the Kurds today - nor have an open and democratic society without addressing its original sin: the Armenian Genocide, on which the Republic was founded.Trade Review'Cheterian's straightforward historical account does not shy away from a more disturbing aspect of the genocide's legacy where the quest for justice denied over generations spills over into the violence of reprisals, revenge, and terrorism' * LA Review of Books *‘Open Wounds provides a comprehensive insight into many relevant issues with regard to the consequences of denial for Armenians and other minorities such as the Kurds . . . an impressive account of how survivors and successive generations resisted erasure through Armenian historiography, memory politics and the composition and evolution of the diaspora’.'Cheterian's book offers one of the most complete tellings of the twisted, emotional story of the decimation of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, during the fury of World War I and the story of the political struggle over the massacre in the century since it occurred.' * Foreign Affairs *'In this extraordinary and beautifully-written book, Cheterian tells us the little known story of the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. He reaches into the history and present-day politics of Armenians and Turks to tell a story and provide explanations that have been neglected or elided by others. There is no other text like this.' * Ronald G. Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, University of Chicago and former chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies *

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Book SynopsisAccording to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years. For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 'national races', denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement. In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first.Trade Review`The persecution of Rohingyas rests on a belief that they are outsiders ... Ibrahim debunks these claims in his essential new book, claiming that Rohingyas were in Arakan well before 1784, and may even have arrived there before the Buddhist Rakhine. Ibrahim offers a credible genealogy that links Rohingyas to Indo-Aryan groups who arrived from the Ganges Valley as early as 3000 BC.' * London Review of Books * `Ibrahim dwells on the history of the Rohingya in order to give an account of how and why they have come to arouse such fear and loathing. ... [his] analysis is excellent.' * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisThe Famine in Ireland is still a very current and emotive subject which draws readers from all spheres. This book tells a story not unique to Cork and of interest to a national population.Explores the many areas of life in Cork Workhouse (now St Fin Barre's Hospital).Includes new research on medicine, lifestyle, economics, politics, diet, sociology and statistics.Sketches in the background to the introduction of the warehouse system in the British Isles, under the Poor Law.

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Book SynopsisIn the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state. Contents includes: GERMANY Dachau, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, Niederhagen/Wewelsburg, Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora-Nordhausen, Arbeitsdorf. AUSTRIA Mauthausen. BELGIUM Breendonk, Mechelen: Caserne Dossin. CZECHOSLOVAKIA Theresienstadt. ESTONIA Vaivara/Klooga. FRANCE French Transit Camps, Natzweiler-Struthof, Wiesengrund/Vaihingen. HOLLAND Westerbork, Amersfoort, Herzogenbusch/Vught. ITALY Fossoli, Bolzano, Risiera di San Sabba. LATVIA Riga-Kaiserwald. LITHUANIA Kauen. NORWAY Falstad, Grini. UNITED KINGDOM Alderney, Channel Islands. BERLIN Wannsee Conference and Operation Reinhard'. POLAND The Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek-Lublin, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof-Danzig, Krakow-Plaszow, Auschwitz , Birkenau, War Crimes Trials.

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Book SynopsisWinston and Gail Ramsey This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the Second World War. It would be easy to assume that the administration of each country was carried out on a somewhat ad hoc basis, but streams of detailed orders and decrees were enacted to cover all aspects of everyday life . . . from finance to crime. Dr Raphael Lemkin was a Polish émigré and the person who coined the term `genocide’ during his study of international law concerning crimes against humanity which he began in 1933 — the year that the Nazis assumed power in Germany. Dr Lemkin’s much-acclaimed work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe was published in 1944 and extracts from it now form the framework on which we have built this `then and now’ coverage of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, Memel, Albania, Danzig, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Monaco, the Channel Islands, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Baltic states, the Soviet Union, Romania, Italy and Hungary. Individual chapters also cover the most serious crimes committed by the occupier: the destruction of whole villages in Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands and Greece, and the genocidal acts carried out in Italy, Greece and Belgium, although nothing can equal the wholesale slaughter enacted in the Balkans and the USSR. It has been estimated that the Axis occupation of Europe cost between 20 and 25 million civilian lives, apart from the deaths of at least 16 million servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price in trying to put Europe back together again. It is a debt that can never be repaid. SIZE 12”×8½”   368 PAGES   OVER 1,000 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN 9 781870 067935  £39.95

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Book SynopsisWar in the Balkans in the 1990s displaced millions, including nearly 20,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina to the American city of St Louis. This text looks at the impact of the war and the reality of ""ethnic cleansing"" in the life of one extended Bosnian family in St Louis.

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Book Synopsis'An indispensable account' – Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' – The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' – Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A ‘RE-EDUCATION’ CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million Uyghurs have been seized by the Chinese authorities and sent to ‘re-education’ camps, in what the US Government and human rights groups describe as a genocide. Few have made it out to the West. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji. For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, freezing cold, forced sterilisation, and a programme of de-personalisation meant to destroy her free will and her memories. This intimate account reveals the long-suppressed truth about China’s gulag. It tells the story of a woman confronted by an all-powerful state bent on crushing her spirit – and her battle for freedom and dignity. Extract ‘In the camps, the ‘re-education’ process applies the same remorseless method to destroying all its victims. It starts out by stripping you of your individuality. It takes away your name, your clothes, your hair. There is nothing now to distinguish you from anyone else. 'Then the process takes over your body by subjecting it to a hellish routine: being forced to repeatedly recite the glories of the Communist Party for eleven hours a day in a windowless classroom. Falter, and you are punished. So you keep on saying the same things over and over again until you can’t feel, can’t think anymore. You lose all sense of time. First the hours, then the days.’ - Gulbahar Haitiwaji Reviews 'Gulbahar's memoir is an indispensable account, which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the newly built prison's permanent reek of white pain. It closely corresponds with other witness statements, giving every indication of being very reliable. Most impressive is her psychological honesty.' – John Phipps, Sunday Times 'Huge efforts have been made to obfuscate the realities of life in the camps (even speaking openly in Xinjiang about them can lead to incarceration). Although their existence has been well documented abroad and grudgingly admitted by the Chinese state, relatively few first-hand accounts of what actually goes on inside them have emerged. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji's moving and devastating How I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp.' – Roderic Wye, Literary Review 'There follows an intimate, highly sensory self-portrait, created with the help of Rozenn Morgat (a journalist with Le Figaro), of an educated woman passing through a system that appears at turns cruel, paranoid, capricious and devastatingly effective. It begins with the confiscation of Haitiwaji's passport and a police interrogation during which she is shown a photograph of her daughter attending a Uyghur demonstration in Paris. One of the interrogators starts bawling at her - "Your daughter's a terrorist!" and before long Haitiwaji is plunged into a bewildering world of shackles, bunks and beaten-earth floors; grey gruel and stale bread served up by deaf-mute cooks selected for their silence; the sounds and smells of the communal toilet-bucket; and the buzz of security camera motors as they scan the cell.' ***** – Christopher Harding, Sunday Telegraph Translated from the French book Rescapée du goulag chinois (Équateurs), How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp is a riveting insight into an authoritarian world. A true story, it reads like a 21st Century version of George Orwell's 1984 set in modern China. Extract In the camp, I wasn’t Gulbahar, but Number 9. I was forbidden from speaking Uighur, or from praying. There was something extra about the taste of the vile slop that filled our bowls. Were they drugging our meals to make us lose our memories? Physically and mentally, I became a ghost. My weight plummeted. The blinding light worsened my vision, and beneath my eyes, heavy rings made two pockets of shadow. My heart beat so weakly that I could no longer feel it when I pressed my palm to my chest. Whenever I was deemed to have broken the rules, I was slapped or, on one occasion, shackled to a bed for a fortnight. I underwent hundreds of hours of nightmarish interrogations, until chaos gradually took over my soul. Every week, women were taken away and we never saw them again. At night, we’d wake to terrifying screams, as if someone was being tortured upstairs. We listened in silence, absolutely still, to howls that pierced the night. They were the cries of women going mad, begging guards not to hurt them any more. Death lurked in every corner. When the footfalls of guards woke us in the night, I thought our time had come to be executed. When a hand viciously pushed hair-clippers across my skull, I shut my eyes, thinking I was being readied for the scaffold, the electric chair, or drowning. For two years, my husband, Kerim, and two daughters, Gulhumar and Gulnigar, had no idea where I was. They imagined the worst. They believed me dead. I was born into a Uighur family that had lived in Xinjiang for generations. This jewel, more than six times the size of the UK, is at the far western end of China. Its riches include gold, diamonds, natural gas, uranium, and – above all – oil. Since being annexed by the China, we Uighurs have been the stone in the Beijing regime’s shoe. Xinjiang is far too rich a strategic corridor for it to lose and President Xi Jinping wants it cleansed of separatist populations. In short, China wants a Xinjiang without Uighurs. Buy the book to carry on readingTrade Review'Gulbahar's memoir is an indispensable account, which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the newly built prison's permanent reek of white pain. It closely corresponds with other witness statements' – Sunday Times 'Although [the camps'] existence has been well documented abroad and grudgingly admitted by the Chinese state, relatively few first-hand accounts of what actually goes on inside them have emerged. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji's moving and devastating How I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp' – The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait, created with the help of Rozenn Morgat (a journalist with Le Figaro), of an educated woman passing through a system that appears at turns cruel, paranoid, capricious and devastatingly effective.' – Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars)'Gulbahar's memoir is an indispensable account, which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the newly built prison's permanent reek of white pain. It closely corresponds with other witness statements, giving every indication of being very reliable. Most impressive is her psychological honesty.' – John Phipps, Sunday Times 'Huge efforts have been made to obfuscate the realities of life in the camps (even speaking openly in Xinjiang about them can lead to incarceration). Although their existence has been well documented abroad and grudgingly admitted by the Chinese state, relatively few first-hand accounts of what actually goes on inside them have emerged. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji's moving and devastating How I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp.' – Roderic Wye, Literary Review 'There follows an intimate, highly sensory self-portrait, created with the help of Rozenn Morgat (a journalist with Le Figaro), of an educated woman passing through a system that appears at turns cruel, paranoid, capricious and devastatingly effective. It begins with the confiscation of Haitiwaji's passport and a police interrogation during which she is shown a photograph of her daughter attending a Uyghur demonstration in Paris. One of the interrogators starts bawling at her - "Your daughter's a terrorist!" and before long Haitiwaji is plunged into a bewildering world of shackles, bunks and beaten-earth floors; grey gruel and stale bread served up by deaf-mute cooks selected for their silence; the sounds and smells of the communal toilet-bucket; and the buzz of security camera motors as they scan the cell.' ***** – Christopher Harding, Sunday TelegraphTable of ContentsPreface. Rozen Morgan, Le Figaro journalist and co-author, introduces the story of Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uyghur woman who was tricked into returning to China and imprisoned in its ethnic 're-education' camps. The introduction contains an overview of the persecution of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang Table of Contents. Lists the chapters for this first-hand account by a survivor of China's prison camps, amid the Chinese Communist Party's apparent genocide of members of the Uyghur minority people in the Xinjiang province, in north-west China 1. A Family Wedding. The boisterous Uyghur wedding of Gulbahar's daughter, Gulhumur, sets the scene on the happy days enjoyed by the Haitiwaji family in exile in France. Gulbahar explains her family's history and story in their homeland of Xinjiang, while outlining the persecution of the Uyghurs 2. China Calling. A representative at Gulbahar's former employer asks her to return to China to sign some pension papers. By then Gulbahar had joined her engineer husband Kerim in France. Despite rising persecution of Uyghurs, Gulbahar has returned to Xinjiang several times without incident 3. A Police Interview. When she arrives back in Xinjiang, Gulbahar is questioned and then arrested and grilled by police about whether she supports Uyghur independence, whether she has any links to the World Uyghur Congress, and her daughter's appearance at a Uyghur protest rally in Paris 4. Communist Party Glories. Gulbahar, a Uyghur woman who has committed no crime other than being a Uyghur (Uighur) in Xinjiang, is taken to a prison camp where she is taught to celebrate the glories of the Chinese Communist Party. In the cell, the Uyghur language is banned. Only Mandarin is allowed. 5. Shackled to a Bed. In Cell 202 in a Xinjiang detention centre, Gulbahar discovers the harsh lessons meted out to Uyghur prisoners in the Chinese Communist Party's 're-education' gulag. Xinjiang is earmarked for a key road in Xi Jinping's 'Belt & Road' initiative, also known as China's New Silk Roads 6. Inside Cell 202. Unshackled, Gulbahar is given her original clothes and told she will be leaving for a 'school' where she will be formally 're-educated' out of Uyghur culture and shown a new more fulfilling life as a humble and devoted servant of the Chinese Communist Party 7. ‘School’ with Xi Jinping. At her new 'school' in Baijiantan, Xinjiang, Gulbahar monotonously recites patriotic songs and slogans aimed at ensuring Uyghurs obey the Chinese Communist Party. Mentions Tiananmen Square, communist indoctrination, Chinese patriotic songs 8. Nadira Vanishes. All of a sudden, Gulbahar's cell-mate Nadira, a fellow Uyghur woman, goes missing: no-one knows what has happened to her. At night, Gulbuhar hears the screams of other inmates held in the 'reeducation' facility – Muslim persecution in Xinjiang, Uighur re-education camp, Xi Jinping 9. A Reunion with Hope. Gulbahar is reunited with her two sisters, during a brief visit to the re-education facility at Baijiantan. She asks for news of Kerim, Gulhumur and Gulnigar in France. Mentions Uyghur guards, Uighur genocide, Uighur humans rights abuses, Ürümqi 10. ‘Re-education’ is Working. The endless repetition of songs and slogans starts to erode Gulbahar's soul, diminishing her ability to keep hold of their own feelings and mental stability. Gulbahar is proud of her Uyghur culture, but her own personality and culture are slowing slipping away 11. Losing Body and Mind. After a year's detention, Gulbahar's health starts to deteriorate along with her mental health. The camp's medical staff inject her with "a vaccination" which stops the periods of younger Uyghur women inmates. China has been accused of forcibly sterilising Uyghur women 12. World Discovers the Camps. The 'relentless clockwork of brainwashing' at the re-education camp finally succeeds in demoralising Gulbahar, as China's campaign against Uyghurs is stepped up with authorities collecting DNA, fingerprints, retinal scans, and blood types of millions of citizens 13. France Discovers Gulbahar. The plight of the Uyghurs becomes better known around the world. Meanwhile France's foreign ministry becomes 'aware' of Gulbahar's fate and starts to negotiate with the Chinese authorities for her release. Mentions Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch 14. Moved to a Bigger Camp. Amid protests and diplomacy from France, Gulbahar - 'Number 9' - is moved to an even bigger camp in Xinjiang, where she is told she is about to face her trial. Mentions Uyghur protest in Paris, Uyghur trial, Uighur persecution, Uyghur prison warders 15. ‘No 9. Your Turn!’. Gulbahar is tried in a Kafkaesque hearing at her prison camp, with a cameraman filming the proceedings for the Chinese Communist Party. She is sentenced for seven years imprisonment, seemingly for nothing other than the crime of being a Uyghur woman in Xinjiang province. 16. Where is Gulbahar? Gulbahar's daughter Gulhumar is interviewed on France 24 about her mother's fate, drawing the French public's attention to her incarceration in China. Meanwhile, the Xinjiang Victims Database, maintained by people of the diaspora, reveals the sheer number of Uyghurs sucked into China's gulag 17. Letting Myself Die. After more than a year in detention and facing a meaningless birthday incarcerated in China's desert prisons for Uyghurs, Gulbahar decides to let herself die. Then she realises, amid the interrogations, that the Chinese do not have enough evidence to keep her locked up 18. Battles With Tasqin. Gulbahar undergoes interrogation by a policeman called Tasqin. Relentlessly, he tries to get Gulbahar to confess her 'crimes'. Mentions Karamay, Uighur diaspora, Chinese jails, Uighur re-education, Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur leader, Uyghur terrorism 19. Freedom? Still locked up in the prison in Xinjiang, Gulbahar is - amazingly - told she can go free by Tasqin. She is unaware of the diplomatic pressure the French government is exerting on China with the aim of securing her release. Mentions Uyghur minority, Uighurs imprisoned, Uyghur imprisonment 20. Fruit and Mint Tea. Freed from the re-education camp system where she has been kept by the Chinese authorities for the past two years, Gulbahar is transferred to an apartment block in Karamay, Xinjiang. There she is guarded by eleven Chinese police officers. Her police guards encourage her to eat. 21. Phoning Home. Under house arrest, Gulbahar is allowed to phone home to her family in France, whose diplomats have been urging China to allow her to return to her family. Some of Gulbahar's guards are Uyghurs. Don't they realise that the Chinese want to wipe the Uyghurs off the face of the earth? 22. Monitored All Day. The Chinese secret police encourage Gulbahar to bulk up her camp-ravaged body by eating. She is told that she cannot skip meals. She is also told to urge her family to remove all negative mentions of China's mistreatment of the Uyghurs from social media posts 23. Back in Karamay. Accompanied by her secret police minders, Gulbahar is taken to a shopping mall where she is allowed to purchase new clothes to improve her appearance. Mentions Uyghur city, Kashgar, Tian Shan mountains, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Silk Road, Taklamakan Desert, Sinicisation 24. Cooking for the Secret Police. As she continues her bizarre apartment life, Gulbahar feeds her secret police monitors. After two years in the re-education camps, she begins to rediscover the momentum of ordinary life, as a free Uyghur. She dreams that one day she will be reunited with her family. 25. The Truth is Voiceless. Gulbahar muses how Uyghurs in Xinjiang are forbidden from telling their story. They must remain mute to the outside world while they undergo the most vicious persecution by the Hans Chinese authorities. Gulbahar is allowed to meet her sisters and mother 26. Closing My File. When she returns to the apartment in Karamay, in the swelling heat of a Xinjiang summer, her house arrest is lifted and she is moved to a hotel room. At a short hearing, a judge overturns the seven-year prison sentence she received earlier and pronounces that she is innocent 27. Landing. On 21st August 2019, after more than two years lost in China's re-education camp system, Gulbahar Haitiwaji flies home to her family in France. Mentions French foreign policy, Uyghur internment, Uighurs interned in Xinjiang, Uyghur minority, Uyghur genocide biography, Amnesty Afterword by Rozenn Morgat. Gulbahar is still haunted by her experiences as a persecuted Uyghur, Morgat writes. 'Poor sleep from short, restless nights keeps her in a state of constant, nagging fatigue. Her vision has also deteriorated badly and she has violent headaches Acknowledgements. Rozenn Morgan thanks the many people who made it possible to tell Gulbahar's extraordinary story. 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Book Synopsis"The challenge was not just to survive, but to survive without losing our humanity." ~ Mac and Simone Leng The Cambodian Genocide claimed the lives of an estimated two million people - more than one-fourth of the total Cambodian population. Under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, cities were evacuated and the population dispersed and forced into labor camps, where scores died of starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Pol Pot targeted for extermination certain minorities, the educated, and all those who had any connection with the former regime. Cambodia was to return to the "Year Zero," a pre-history - where no hint of Western influence would exist. Because Mac Leng was a former school principal and an army intelligence officer under the Lon Nol regime, he had a double target on his back. Mac and Simone Leng survived almost unendurable conditions for three years, eight months, and twenty days. This is their heartrending story of resilience, courage, and the power of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable terror. INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide is a Cambodian couple's moving, personal, and straightforward story of living through one of the major disasters of the twentieth century. Millions of the Cambodian survivors of the 1975-1979 genocide have their own heart-rending accounts of what happened to them, packed like this book with dramatic, tragic events, individually experienced but in many respects similar because of the nature, ambition, and power of the Pol Pot regime. Surprisingly few of their accounts have appeared in English. This is a valuable addition to what we know. ~ Ben Kiernan, author of H ow Pol Pot Came to Power and T he Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge , 1975-1979, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale University A family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance . ~ Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S. Ambassador to JordanTHE IMPORTANCE OF INVISIBLE : INVISIBLE is a powerful story of survival against overwhelming odds during the nightmare years of the Cambodian Genocide. Very few first-person accounts of survival of the Cambodian Genocide exist, as most educated Cambodians were exterminated. The story of the survivors is framed in an account of the context of the Cambodian Genocide - how the murderous regime of Pol Pot came to power. Horrifying details of actual conditions during the Genocide are presented. Simultaneously, the book presents an uplifting message of the importance of humanity during even the most perilous of times. Love for family is a strong theme. The book fills a gap in the literature on the Cambodian Genocide, which is not well understood by most. The book is appropriate as required reading in any university course on genocide and human rights or in high school curricula. The book is suspenseful as the reader follows the journey of the Leng family from the killing fields to freedom. (Mac Leng worked on the film, The Killing Fields, as a consultant after he moved to the United States.) The book has implicit commentary on the important role of immigrants in the United States and the follies of U.S. foreign policy during the Viet Nam War era.Trade ReviewThis is a valuable addition to what we know. -- Ben Kiernan, author of How Pol Pot Came to Power and The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, A Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale UniversityA family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance. -- Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S.

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Book SynopsisReassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.James Tyner reinterprets the place of agriculture under the Khmer Rouge, positioning it in new ways relative to Marxism, capitalism, and genocide. The Cambodian revolutionaries' agricultural management is widely viewed by critics as irrational and dangerous, and it is invoked as part of wider efforts to discredit leftist movements. Researching the specific functioning of Cambodia's transition from farms to agriculture within the context of the global economy, Tyner comes to a different conclusion. He finds that analysis of "actually existing political economy"—as opposed to the Marxist identification the Khmer Rouge claimed—points to overlap between Cambodian practice and agrarian capitalism.Tyner argues that dissolution of the traditional Khmer family farm under the aegis of state capitalism is central to any understanding of the mass violence unleashed by the Khmer Rouge. Seen less as a radical outlier than as part of a global shift in farming and food politics, the Cambodian tragedy imparts new lessons to our understanding of the political economy of genocide.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. "Revolution Is the People's War" 2. "Be Masters of Your Own Destiny!" 3. "We Are Building Socialism in the Cooperatives" 4. "Currency Is a Most Poisonous Tool" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic TitleFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway “others” into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?Trade Review"This serious, balanced, and compelling account of American ambivalence is sober but important reading. It could not be more timely." -- Edward C. Luck * School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University *"Genocide will not happen again if societies and governments respond properly. Sober and strong, this book focuses on the USA and its citizens and is an invitation to all to do what is possible and right." -- Andrea Bartoli * Dean, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University *"A powerful and well-researched reality check thoughtfully reminding us of the enormous amount of research on domestic politics and foreign policy that remains to be done before genocide prevention can become a functioning international norm." -- Frank Chalk * Professor of History and Research Director, MIGS, Concordia University *“Mayroz’s book helps all of us, governmental or not, American or not, to look inward to see whether we are doing the right thing, and enough of it." * World Nutrition *"“[S]tudents and scholars interested in human rights would be well advised to seek out this book. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“[A] significant contribution to the study of the United States’ relationship with genocide…methodical and comprehensive…tightly filled with significant research and findings…contributes to bridging the gap between academic scholarship and policy. [E]ssential reading for scholars, students, activists, civil society actors, elected officials, and members of nongovernmental and intergovernmental institutions." * Genocide Studies & Prevention *Interview with the book Author: Eyal Mayroz, “Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur,” at: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/eyal-mayroz-reluctant-interveners-americas-failed-responses/id426479249?i=1000456774261 * New Books in World Affairs podcast *Radio Adelaide interview with Eyal Mayroz * Radio Adelaide *2SER Radio interview with Eyal Mayroz * 2SER Radio *"Outstanding Academic Titles 2020: International Relations: Five International Relations titles selected from the Choice Reviews 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles list" * Choice *Table of ContentsAmerica's relationship with genocide A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide? Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic TitleFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway “others” into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?Trade Review"This serious, balanced, and compelling account of American ambivalence is sober but important reading. It could not be more timely." -- Edward C. Luck * School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University *"Genocide will not happen again if societies and governments respond properly. Sober and strong, this book focuses on the USA and its citizens and is an invitation to all to do what is possible and right." -- Andrea Bartoli * Dean, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University *"A powerful and well-researched reality check thoughtfully reminding us of the enormous amount of research on domestic politics and foreign policy that remains to be done before genocide prevention can become a functioning international norm." -- Frank Chalk * Professor of History and Research Director, MIGS, Concordia University *“Mayroz’s book helps all of us, governmental or not, American or not, to look inward to see whether we are doing the right thing, and enough of it." * World Nutrition *"“[S]tudents and scholars interested in human rights would be well advised to seek out this book. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“[A] significant contribution to the study of the United States’ relationship with genocide…methodical and comprehensive…tightly filled with significant research and findings…contributes to bridging the gap between academic scholarship and policy. [E]ssential reading for scholars, students, activists, civil society actors, elected officials, and members of nongovernmental and intergovernmental institutions." * Genocide Studies & Prevention *Interview with the book Author: Eyal Mayroz, “Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur,” at: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/eyal-mayroz-reluctant-interveners-americas-failed-responses/id426479249?i=1000456774261 * New Books in World Affairs podcast *Radio Adelaide interview with Eyal Mayroz * Radio Adelaide *2SER Radio interview with Eyal Mayroz * 2SER Radio *"Outstanding Academic Titles 2020: International Relations: Five International Relations titles selected from the Choice Reviews 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles list" * Choice *Table of ContentsAmerica's relationship with genocide A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide? Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities. Trade Review“Destroy Them Gradually focuses our attention on spatial techniques of displacement and their prominent role in group destruction. Basso offers a compelling argument for taking displacement seriously as a crime and demonstrates the new and profound insights one gains when giving fuller attention to questions of when, where, and why this method of atrocity is deployed.”— Andrew Woolford, author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada a "In this brilliant intervention, Andrew Basso demonstrates that displacement constitutes its own understudied method of mass violence. Basso reveals the role of displacement in historical atrocities and, as we nosedive into intense climate change, how it is rapidly becoming perhaps the most prevalent form of mass destruction. Anyone concerned with the future of mass violence should read this timely contribution."— Benjamin Meiches, Benjamin Meiches, associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University oTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part I: Displacement Atrocity Crimes Chapter 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement Chapter 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes Part II: German South-West Africa Chapter 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652-1904) Chapter 4 Extermination: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908) Chapter 5 Inescapability: The Nama Genocide (1905-1908) Part III: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey Chapter 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1915) Chapter 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914-1925) Chapter 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1897) Part IV: Central and East Europe Chapter 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (9th Century-1945) Chapter 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of the Germans (1944-1950) Chapter 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933-1945) Part V: Climate Violence and Conclusions Chapter 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement in the 21st Century Chapter 13 Farce: To Destroy Them Gradually? Chapter 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead, contributing to growing tensions, population movements, and resource scarcity. Meanwhile, the methods by which groups and group life are threatened, and the means by which violence is incited and perpetrated, continue to evolve. Such divergent crises, even when they overlap or intersect, confound definition and label. This book seeks not to answer the question 'What is genocide?' but rather 'What is genocide studies?' When Raphael Lemkin coined the term 'genocide' in 1944, he could not have foreseen what the world would look like today. Now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead, contributing to growing tensions, population movements, and resource scarcity. Meanwhile, the methods by which groups and group life are threatened, and the means by which violence is incited and perpetrated, continue to evolve. Such divergent crises, even when they overlap or intersect, confound definition and label. This book seeks not to answer the question 'What is genocide?' but rather 'What is genocide studies?' When Raphael Lemkin coined the term 'genocide' in 1944, he could not have foreseen what the world would look like today. Now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive depiction of the causes and consequences of the Rohingya crisis, based on detailed ethnographic narratives provided by hundreds of Rohingya people who crossed the border following the Clearance Operation in 2017. The author critically engages with the identity politics on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, and the categorisation of the Rohingya as the people of ‘no-man’s land’ amidst the socio-political and ethno-nationalist dynamics of colonial and postcolonial transition in the region. He then interrogates the role of the international community and aid industry, before providing in-depth policy recommendations based on his own experience working with Rohingya refugees. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, policymakers and NGOs in the fields of migration studies, anthropology, political science and international relations.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Voices of Rohingya: Contexts & Idea-Settings.- Chapter 2: Research on Rohingya Refugees:MethodologicalChallenges & Textual Inadequacy .- Chapter 3: Research on Rohingya Refugees: Methodological Challenges & TextualInadequacy .- Chapter4:The State, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: The State, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty:TheRohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh.- Chapter 6: The State, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh.Chapter 7: Intensity of Brutality: Dealing as if the Rohingyas are ‘Subhuman’.- Chapter 8: The Rohingya in Transition: Atrocious Past, CriticalPresent and Uncertain Future.

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Book SynopsisAt the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness such atrocities as committed by the Nazi regime. While, arguably, there has been no such great loss of human lives as during WWII, genocidal incidents have and still take place. After WWII, we have witnessed the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, to name only a few. The responses to these atrocities have always been inadequate. Every time the world leaders would come together to renew their promise of ‘Never Again’. However, the promise has never materialised. In 2014, Daesh unleashed genocide against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq. Before the world managed to shake off from the atrocities, in 2016, the Burmese military launched a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. This was followed by reports of ever-growing atrocities against Christian minorities in Nigeria. Without waiting too long, in 2018, China proceeded with its genocidal campaign against the Uyghur Muslims. In 2020, the Tigrayans became the victims of ethnic targeting. Five cases of mass atrocities that, in the space of just five years, all easily meet the legal definition of genocide. Again, the response that followed each case has been inadequate and unable to make a difference to the targeted communities. This legacy does not give much hope for the future. The question that this books hopes to address is what needs to change to ensure that we are better equipped to address genocide and prevent the crime in the future.Table of ContentsForward by Baroness Helena Kennedy QCIntroduction1. Genocide as the Crime Above All Crimes2. The Chinese Government's Genocide of Uyghurs3. The Burmese Military's Genocide4. The Daesh Genocide Against Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq5. The Genocide in Nigeria - A Mirror Image of Darfur6. Other Situations of Concern7. Why Are They Getting Away with Genocide?

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Book SynopsisThe book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidencesurrounding it. This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard to these events. The authenticity of the killing orders signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha and the memoirs of the Ottoman bureaucrat Naim Efendi have been two of the most contested topics in this regard. The denialist school has long argued that these documents and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims. Taner Akçam provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and demonstrates clearly why the documents can be trusted as authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population. As such, this work removes a cornerstone from the denialist edifice, and further establishes the historicity of the Armenian Genocide.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionThe Story and Authenticity of Naim Efendi and His MemoirsEven If the Memoirs Are Authentic, Could the Documents Still Be Forgeries?Subjects and Events Mentioned by Naim Efendi Corroborated in Ottoman DocumentsAppendix AAppendix B: Dr. Avedis Nakkashian’s Letter to AndonianAppendix C: Aram Andonian’s Letter to Mary TerzianAppendix D: Consul W. Rössler’s Letter to Dr. LepsiusAppendix E: Memorandum to the Lawyers of Soghomon TehlirianAfterword

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