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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Survivor accounts chronicle events either directly witnessed by their authors or told to them by others at the time of their ordeals. It is these events—and, more universally, the truth—that genocide survivors attempt to impart to their ...
I remembered when I was relieved, and told the lieutenant, who was sitting on the ground by our burned-out fire. Before dawn we got up, discovered the exact place in the bush, and stealthily surrounded it.
I told him. “Well,” remarked the soldier, “if he is keen on dying he had better have this also.” With that he stooped down and drove his bayonet into the body of the prostrate Herero, ripping up his stomach and chest and exposing his ...
I fell ill and wanted to go back, but I was told that as long as the Armenians in my charge were alive I would be sent from one place to the other. However I managed to include my batch with the deported Armenians that had come from ...
The Government told the Committee how many rifles ought to be delivered from that city, and claimed to know who had most of them. Representatives of the Committee spoke to the people in the churches, and promised that if they would ...
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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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Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and ... Paul R. Bartrop Pregled nije dostupan - 2014 |