Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide
This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone researching the scourge of mass murder in the 20th and 21st centuries, effectively using primary source documents to help them understand all aspects of genocide.

This illuminating primary source collection closely examines and analyzes primary documents related to genocides, focusing on genocidal events from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Thematically organized into eight sections, each document comes with an introduction and analysis written by the author that helps provide the crucial historical background for the users of this title to learn about the complexities of genocide.

The first section considers a range of definitional matters relating to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; the second section relates to warnings of impending genocide, and how they have been received; the third considers atrocities and how they have been perpetrated; the fourth is an examination ofexamines a range of resistance initiatives that have been taken in response to genocide; the fifth looks at reactions to genocide from outside actors; the sixth considers the ways in which states have intervened to stop genocide; the seventh relates to post-genocide justice measures; and the eighth section relates to how states and NGOs have sought to prevent genocide.

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Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide
This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone researching the scourge of mass murder in the 20th and 21st centuries, effectively using primary source documents to help them understand all aspects of genocide.

This illuminating primary source collection closely examines and analyzes primary documents related to genocides, focusing on genocidal events from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Thematically organized into eight sections, each document comes with an introduction and analysis written by the author that helps provide the crucial historical background for the users of this title to learn about the complexities of genocide.

The first section considers a range of definitional matters relating to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; the second section relates to warnings of impending genocide, and how they have been received; the third considers atrocities and how they have been perpetrated; the fourth is an examination ofexamines a range of resistance initiatives that have been taken in response to genocide; the fifth looks at reactions to genocide from outside actors; the sixth considers the ways in which states have intervened to stop genocide; the seventh relates to post-genocide justice measures; and the eighth section relates to how states and NGOs have sought to prevent genocide.

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Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide

Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide

by Paul R. Bartrop
Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide

Modern Genocide: A Documentary and Reference Guide

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This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone researching the scourge of mass murder in the 20th and 21st centuries, effectively using primary source documents to help them understand all aspects of genocide.

This illuminating primary source collection closely examines and analyzes primary documents related to genocides, focusing on genocidal events from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Thematically organized into eight sections, each document comes with an introduction and analysis written by the author that helps provide the crucial historical background for the users of this title to learn about the complexities of genocide.

The first section considers a range of definitional matters relating to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; the second section relates to warnings of impending genocide, and how they have been received; the third considers atrocities and how they have been perpetrated; the fourth is an examination ofexamines a range of resistance initiatives that have been taken in response to genocide; the fifth looks at reactions to genocide from outside actors; the sixth considers the ways in which states have intervened to stop genocide; the seventh relates to post-genocide justice measures; and the eighth section relates to how states and NGOs have sought to prevent genocide.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440862335
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/12/2019
Series: Documentary and Reference Guides
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 8.80(w) x 11.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Paul R. Bartrop is Professor Emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is the author and co-author of several books, including Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016), Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses (2014) and Genocide: The Basics (2014). He is also the co-editor, with Michael Dickerman, of the award-winning four-volume The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (2017) and Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016).
Professor Bartrop is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies and in 2022 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Reader's Guide to Related Documents
Preface
Introduction
1. Definitions
Raphael Lemkin Introduces the Term "Genocide"
United Nations Convention on Genocide
The Proxmire Act
Rudolph Rummel Introduces the Term "Democide"
Monroe C. Beardsley on Ethnocide
Defining Ethnic Cleansing
The United Nations on Crimes against Humanity
Defining War Crimes
2. Warnings
Armenia: "The Ten Commandments" of the Committee of Union and Progress
Armenia: Report from the German Ambassador in Constantinople
Holocaust: Adolf Hitler Warns the Jews of Europe
Rwanda: "The Ten Commandments of the Hutu"
Rwanda: The "Genocide Fax"
Yugoslavia: Slobodan Miloševic's Gazimestan Speech
The Eight Stages of Genocide
A Genocide Early Warning System
3. Atrocities
German South-West Africa: The "Extermination Order"
Armenia: Deportation from Zeitun
Holocaust: The Gerstein Report
Cambodia: Testimony of Teeda Butt Mam
Guatemala: Testimony of Jesús Tecú Osorio
Bosnia: Testimony of Borislav Herak
Rwanda: Testimony of Révérien Rurangwa
4. Resistance
Armenia: The Resistance at Van
Armenia: Testimony of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher
Holocaust: Unaish Hilari, the Jewish Partisan
Holocaust: Mordecai Anielewicz's Last Letter
Holocaust: The Stroop Report
East Timor: Senator Claiborne Pell Report on Resistance
Rwanda: The Bisesero Resistance
5. Reactions
Armenia: Joint Allied Declaration, May 24, 1915
Holocaust: Joint Allied Declaration, December 17, 1942
Holocaust: The Moscow Conference
Bosnia: The United Nations Condemns Ethnic Cleansing as Genocide
Rwanda: U.S. Discussion Paper
Darfur: Dr. Mukesh Kapila Blows the Whistle
Darfur: U.S. Secretary of State Affirms Genocide
6. Interventions
Bosnia: The Establishment of UNPROFOR
Bosnia: U.S. Condemnation of the Srebrenica Massacre
Rwanda: The Establishment of UNAMIR
Rwanda: UN Generals Defy the Security Council
Rwanda: Expansion of UNAMIR's Mandate
East Timor: Australian Reports on INTERFET
7. Justice
Armenia: The Tehlirian Trial
Holocaust: Charter of the International Military Tribunal
Holocaust: Judgment of the International Military Tribunal
Bosnia: Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Cambodia: U.S. Genocide Justice Act 1994
Rwanda: The Akayesu Verdict and Sentence
Cambodia: Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers
8. Prevention
Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report of the Carnegie Commission
Rome Statute Establishing the International Criminal Court
The Brahimi Report
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers
Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities
The Will to Intervene (W2I)
Barack Obama: Directive to Create an Atrocities Prevention Board
Chronology
Bibliography
Index

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