Bearing Witness: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern World
It is a profoundly sad fact that
one of the hallmarks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is the emergence of genocide
as a way of waging war. Before 1944, there was not even a name
for the systematic slaughter of a large mass of innocents?killed because of their
nationality, ethnicity, race, or religion?in order to annihilate and eliminate
the entire group. In the decades since the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide,
we?ve become sickeningly familiar with the term. This series examines the
major genocidal acts of modern history by analyzing the typical dynamics that
give rise to extreme mass violence, the manipulations of politicians, the
pathology of the perpetrators, the experience of the victims, and, in the
aftermath, the attempts to achieve both justice and reconciliation. In reviewing
these dark chapters of the modern era, it is hoped that, in the act of
remembering, we will never allow this history to be repeated.
? Conforms to
high school social studies/history curriculum standards
? Essential reading for all young people, who must be educated in the atrocities of the twentieth
century if we have any hope of successfully standing together against similar crimes
against humanity in the twenty-first century
? Series includes a groundbreaking title on
the fiercely debated issue of cultural genocide and Canada?s treatment of the
First Nations peoples
? Includes the most up-to-date facts, statistics, and
revelations arising from such sources as justice and reconciliation commissions
and World Court proceedings
