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Book SynopsisTheseoriginal essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Samuel Totten 1. US Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia (1965–1966) by Kai M. Thaler Essay Documents 2. The Bangladesh Genocide and the Nixon–Kissinger “Tilt” (1971) by Salim Mansur Essay Documents 3. “Our Hand Doesn’t Show”: The United States and the Consolidation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile (1973–1977) by Christopher Dietrich Essay Documents 4. Mass Killing at a Distance: US Complicity in the East Timor Genocide and International Structural Violence (1975–1999) by Joseph Nevins Essay Documents 5. The US Role in Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976–1983) by Natasha Zaretsky Essay Documents 6. The United States Government’s Relationship with Guatemala During the Genocide of the Maya (1981–1983) by Samuel Totten Essay Documents 7. Calculated Avoidance: The Clinton Administration and the 100-Day Genocide in Rwanda (1994) by Samuel Totten and Gerry Caplan Essay Documents Afterword by Samuel Totten Appendices List of Crimes Against Humanity United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Acknowledgments About the Authors Index
