Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and WitnessesCutting-edge in its scope and approach, this unique volume offers first-person accounts of modern genocides to enable readers to more fully examine genocidal experiences and better understand the horror of such events. From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accounts—diary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and more—illuminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The book begins with the Herero Genocide (1904–1907) and ends with a consideration of the atrocities in Darfur. Each of the 50 documents features a brief introduction that provides basic and essential information such as who created it as well as when, where, and why. The work concludes with an analysis comprised of scholarly commentary, additional contextual information, and a list of questions that will serve as a springboard for student discussion of history and of the nature of survival in the face of evil.
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Increasingly, however, the Germans exploited the native laborers (often transforming them into de facto slaves), raped their women, and encroached onto their lands without compensation. In 1903, the Nama people, under the leadership of ...
Government officials at Trebizond picked up some of the prettiest Armenian women of the best families. After committing the worst outrages on them they had them killed. Cases of rape of women and girls even publicly are very numerous.
... the mass killing of the men; the use of armed bands of civilians organized by the Turkish government to attack women and children; mass deportations of Armenians; and mass rape of Armenian women as a weapon of genocide.
Shostas (“Shotas”), irregular forces ac- companying death marches, were given the authority to rape and dismember women. They were sent to ensure that the women and children progressed toward their final destination in the Syrian Desert ...
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3 THE HOLOCAUST | 67 |
4 THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE | 119 |
5 THE GUATEMALAN GENOCIDE | 149 |
6 THE EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE | 169 |
7 THE KURDISTAN GENOCIDE | 189 |
8 THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE | 199 |
9 THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE | 241 |
10 THE DARFUR GENOCIDE | 281 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 297 |
About the Author | 305 |
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