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Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, most wars have been civil wars. This book considers how civil wars start, how they are funded and fought and the catastrophic effects they have on the civilians living in the countries involved. It also looks at the atrocities described as genocides, the attempts to destroy an ethnic, religious, national or racial group. It asks readers to think about what they can do to help victims and their families, such as supporting charities who help people to find sustainable ways of living in the aftermath of a civil war.

Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues: the need for a measuring scale that encompasses differences and similarities between seemingly divergent cases of the crime; the complicity of bureaucracies, the healing professions and the churches in this 'crime of crimes'; the quest for historical justice for genocide victims generally following the Nuremberg Trials; the fate of children in the Nazi and postwar eras; the 'worthiness' of Armenians, Jews and Romani people in twentieth century Europe; and the imperative to tackle early warning signs of an incipient genocide. Colin Tatz is a founding director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, visiting fellow in Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University, and honorary visiting fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. He teaches and publishes in comparative race politics, youth suicide, migration studies, and sports history.

A frank and hopeful meditation on the recurring tragedy of genocide in which the author argues that if we are to successfully confront, prevent or control the most egregious aspects of genocidal violence, we must create containing political institutions and social mechanisms.

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The persecution of Christians in the Islamic East is discussed. Some 75% of those suffering religious persecution are Christians. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Entries -- List of Primary Documents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Causes -- Consequences -- Perpetrators -- Victims -- Bystanders -- International Reaction -- A-Z Entries -- Primary Documents -- Perspective Essays -- What Was the Primary Cause of the Darfur Genocide? -- Is the Conflict in Darfur an Example of a Just Case for Intervention? -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor.

IF WE ACCEPT COLIN POWELL'S ASSURANCE THAT GENOCIDE HAS BEEN COMMITTED IN SUDAN'S DARFUR REGION, THEN DON'T WE HAVE A LEGAL OBLIGATION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT — OR IS THIS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE ALTOGETHER?

In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the phenomenon of "genocides by the oppressed," that is, retributive genocidal actions carried out by subaltern actors, has received almost no attention. The prominence in such genocides of non-state actors, combined with the perceived moral ambiguities of retributive genocide that arise in analyzing genocidal acts "from below," have so far eluded serious investigation. Genocides by the Oppressed addresses this oversight, opening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights. Focusing on case studies of such genocide, the contributors explore its sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.

There are few parallels to the human holocaust that took place in Burundi in
1972 in the wake of a tortuous competitive struggle between the country's two
major ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Scarcely noticed (let alone
understood) by public opinion anywhere, the killings are conservatively estimated
to have caused between 80,000 and 100,000 deaths. Approximately 3.5 percent of the
country's total population (3.5 million) were physically wiped out in a period of
a few weeks. In comparative terms this is as if England had suffered a loss of 2
million or the United States about 8 million people. To speak of "selective
genocide" in describing the outcome of such large-scale political violence seems
scarcely an exaggeration.

There are few parallels to the human holocaust that took place in Burundi in 1972 in the wake of a tortuous competitive struggle between the country's two major ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Scarcely noticed (let alone understood) by public opinion anywhere, the killings are conservatively estimated to have caused between 80,000 and 100,000 deaths. Approximately 3.5 percent of the country's total population (3.5 million) were physically wiped out in a period of a few weeks. In comparative terms this is as if England had suffered a loss of 2 million or the United States about 8 million people. To speak of "selective genocide" in describing the outcome of such large-scale political violence seems scarcely an exaggeration.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Seized of Sorrow -- Part 1: History and Culture -- 1. Genocide and Global/World History: Reflections -- 2. Genocide and Holocaust -- 3. Motivations and Justifications for Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 4. Genocide and the West -- 5. Religion, Genocide, and Islamic State -- 6. The Bangladeshi Genocide in Comparative Perspective -- 7. The Rohingya: Genocide in Myanmar? -- 8. Challenges of Genocide Intervention -- 9. Chomsky and Genocide -- 10. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents -- 11. Denying Rwanda, Denying Congo -- Part 2: Gendering Genocide -- 12. Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide -- 13. Gendering Rwanda: Genocide and Post-Genocide -- 14. Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides -- 15. Sexual Violence against Males in War and Genocide: Advances, Obstacles, Challenges -- 16. Interview by Noah Berlatsky -- 17. Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Men and Boys -- 18. Interview by Rosanna Deerchild on CBC Unreserved -- Coda: What Leads to Genocide? -- Index.