[PDF] Silent Genocide eBook

Author : Etelle Higonnet
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 141281569X

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Quiet Genocide reviews the legal and historical case that genocide occurred in Guatemala in 1981-1983. It includes the full text of the genocide section of a United Nations sponsored Commission on Historical Clarification in Guatemala (CEH), brokered by the UN. In its final report, the CEH's rigorously reviewed abuses throughout the whole country. However, the memory of the Guatemalan dirty war, which predated the genocide and continued for over a decade of the heightened killing, has rapidly faded from international awareness. The book renders a historical picture of the 1948 Genocide Convention and its unique status in international law. It reminds readers of the difficulty of preventing and punishing genocide as illustrated by the ongoing tragedy of Darfur; anddiscusses the evolution of international and hybrid tribunals to prosecute genocide along with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Then, it sketches a brief history of Guatemala with a focus on genocide It explores how internal and global politics were an expression of structural violence, designed to ensure cheap, abundant, and quiescent Indian labor for coffee planters.á The volume provides the commission's general considerations, legal definitions, methodology, period of analysis, and victim groups, and finds that genocide had been perpetrated against five indigenous Guatemalan groups. By translating the genocide argument of the CEH into English and framing it in a lively, accessible way, this volume recovers the past, sets the record straight, and promotes accountability. This exploratory effort provides insight into the world of transitional justice and truth commissions, and valuable insights about how to engage with the question of genocide in the future. These findings shed light on a crucial and dark chapter of trans-American Cold War history, and will thus be of interest not only to scholars focused on Guatemala, but also on Central America and even more broadly, on the Cold War.

Author : Jared Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742552371

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In the spring of 1994, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and Moderate Hutus were killed in a horrific genocide. One Hundred Days of Silence is a scathing look at the challenges of humanitarian intervention, the history of U.S. policy toward the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the role of genocide in the larger context of strategic studies. It looks at the principal questions of what the U.S. knew, and why it didn't intervene, and how non-intervention was justified within the American bureaucracy.

Author : Alfred Frankowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1538150018

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Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism. As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

Author : D. Rothenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137011149

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This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a truth commission that exposed the details of 'la violenca,' during which hundreds of massacres were committed in a scorched-earth campaign that displaced approximately one million people.

Author : Andrew Wallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0857723820

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FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly providing military, financial and diplomatic support to the genocidaires all along. Based on new interviews with key players and eye-witnesses, and previously unreleased documents, Walliss' book tells a story which many have suspected, but never seen set out before. France, Wallis discovers, was keen to defend its influence in Africa, even if it meant complicity in genocide, for as French President Francois Mitterrand once said: "in countries like that, genocide is not so important". Wallis's riveting expose of the French role in one of the darkest chapters of human history will provoke furious debate, denials, and outrage.

Author : Don Cheadle
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : History
ISBN :

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Presents a call to action on behalf of the genocide victims of Sudan's Darfur, describing the brutalities taking place there and outlining six strategies for making key differences.

Author : Joyce Apsel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135920206

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This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence Developments in teaching about genocide Critical analyses of military humanitarian interventions and post-violence justice and reconciliation The combination of critical scholarship and innovative approaches to familiar subjects makes this essential reading for all students and scholars in the field of genocide studies.

Author : Memory Grace
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2013-04-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781484123799

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Memory Grace: Attachment 15: The silent genocide of the Boer Nation in South Africa Descriptions of attacks on the lives of whites in southern Africa. Where excessive violence is used to perpetrate a crime, it is hate crime. Excessive violence is where more force is used than required for the attackers to achieve their goal such as stealing an object. A victim can be put out of any action of defending themselves merely by being tied up, or by receiving a single gunshot wound in the arm or leg. Most attacks on White South Africans are on the elderly by gangs of Black members. The attacks we note are by no means all the attacks in the year we mention, but contain information pertinent to our study, such as age of the victim, intensity of the violence used, and value of goods stolen, if noted. Our information is based on newspaper articles in the social media, as well as on information taken from court cases published in the media, of Black on White crime. We could not find any reports of White on White, nor White on Black, hate crime which involved physical assaults, torturing or murder, where the attackers broke into the homes of their victims, neither cases wherein the attackers were not very well acquainted with their victims. Taken from the same media sources, we find hardly any attacks pre 1993 in rural areas and pre 2002 in urban areas. We also find that in most cases, women are raped, but for their privacy, it is seldom mentioned. Please note that where possible, we add the title of media articles pertaining to the cases we offer at the bottom of each case, underlined. The dates of media reports may not correspond to the actual date of the attacks. We are listing the following attacks dating back to the earliest records of such attacks which we could find on the lives of Whites by Blacks since 1985 to show the intensity of emotion evident through the excessive violence used on unsuspecting and unarmed victims. NOTE: this report is presented in book form with missing page numbers. but the murders are in chronological order starting in 1985 and the page numbers at the top of the page may not appear in your book. there was no time to make the neccessary edits to correct this. Please forgive the error of the missing page numbers as the urgency of this accumulated information cannot be delayed. This list describes genocide crimes 462 pages of victims names, dates and descriptions of boer murders by blacks Page 1 PIETERSE Piet was tortured, dragged behind a vehicle for 30 meters and beaten to death with a crowbar on the farm Myrtle, Senekal. 1 Jan 1985. Page 462 - 2013: UNNAMED TLOUNG VILLAGE, MAHIKENG woman aged 98 was attacked inside her home on the weekend. Her grandson came across her corpse where it lay on the floor, covered by a blanket. There was dry blood on the carpet, and under the blanket. Marks on her face and neck indicate that she had been strangled. She had also been raped. Northwest. 21 Jan 2013 All proceeds from this book will be used in the Stop Boer geNOcide campaign.

Author : Robert Gellately
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521527507

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Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial Japan. Several authors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peoples in Africa, North America, and Australia. As well, there is extensive coverage of the post-1945 period, including the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Bali, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, East Timor, and Guatemala. The book emphasizes the importance of comparative analysis and theoretical discussion, and it raises new questions about the difficult challenges for modernity constituted by genocide and other mass crimes.