Forged in Massacre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forged in Massacre write by David Pizzo. This book was released on 2001. Forged in Massacre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Centuries of Genocide
Centuries of Genocide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Centuries of Genocide write by Samuel Totten. This book was released on 2013. Centuries of Genocide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells out definitional issues, as well as the promises, complexities, and barriers to the prevention and intervention of genocide. To help the reader learn about the similarities and differences among the various cases, each case is structured around specific leading questions. In every chapter authors address: Who committed the genocide? How was the genocide committed? Why was the genocide committed? Who were the victims? What were the outstanding historical forces? What was the long-range impact? What were the responses? How do scholars interpret this genocide? How does learning about this genocide contribute to the field of study? While the material in each chapter is based on sterling scholarship and wide-ranging expertise of the authors, eyewitness accounts give voice to the victims. This book is an attempt to provoke the reader into understanding that learning about genocide is important and that we all have a responsibility not to become immune to acts of genocide, especially in the interdependent world in which we live today. Revision highlights include: New chapters on genocide of Native Americans in the nineteenth century, genocide in Australia, and genocide in the Nuba Mountains New chapter authors on Herero genocide and Rwanda genocide Consolidation of the 3 chapters on the Holocaust into one focused case Several chapters from past editions that were omitted are now available on a companion website (Indonesia, Burundi, indigenous peoples)
Led by Faith
Led by Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Led by Faith write by Immaculee Ilibagiza. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Led by Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. Immaculée’s remarkable story of survival was documented in her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.In Led By Faith, Immaculée takes us with her as her remarkable journey continues. Through her simple and eloquent voice, we experience her hardships and heartache as she struggles to survive and to find meaning and purpose in the aftermath of the holocaust. It is the story of a naïve and vulnerable young woman, orphaned and alone, navigating through a bleak and dangerously hostile world with only an abiding faith in God to guide and protect her. Immaculée fends off sinister new predators, seeks out and comforts scores of children orphaned by the genocide, and searches for love and companionship in a land where hatred still flourishes. Then, fearing again for her safety as Rwanda’s war-crime trials begin, Immaculée flees to America to begin a new chapter of her life as a refugee and immigrant—a stranger in a strange land.With the same courage and faith in God that led her through the darkness of genocide, Immaculée discovers a new life that was beyond her wildest dreams as a small girl in a tiny village in one of Africa’s poorest countries.It is in the United States, her adopted country, where Immaculée can finally look back at all that has happened to her and truly understand why God spared her life . . . so that she would be left to tell her story to the world.
Centuries of Genocide
Centuries of Genocide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Centuries of Genocide write by Samuel Totten. This book was released on 2022-10-03. Centuries of Genocide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The new edition of this market-leading textbook includes a revised introduction and updated chapters with new research and insights. Four new case studies of twenty-first-century genocides bring this horrific history up to the present moment: the genocide perpetrated by the government during Argentina’s "Dirty War," the genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and China’s genocide of the Uyghurs. Powerful survivor testimonies bring the essays to life and help readers grapple with the difficult lessons presented throughout the book.
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Vengeance and Forgiveness write by Martha Minow. This book was released on 1998. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book on justice & healing after horrific violence. Remembering & forgetting, judging & forgiving, reconciling & avenging, grieving & educating - Minow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, as individuals & societies confront past horrors.
