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Language
English
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Description
The incredible true story of Chucky Taylor, the only American ever convicted of torture.
Chucky Taylor was an average American teenager, until he got a call from his father, a man who would become the infamous dictator of Liberia. Arriving in West Africa and reunited with his father, Chucky soon found himself leading a murderous militia group tasked with carrying out the president’s vendettas. Young and drunk on power, and with
6) The great big book of horrible things: the definitive chronicle of history's 100 worst atrocities
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A documentary of South Africa's quest for restorative justice following four cases that come before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)...
10) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
As his country descends into madness, five star hotel manager Paul Rusesabigina sets out to save his family. But when he sees that the world will not intervene in the massacre of minority Tutsis, he finds courage to open his hotel to over 1,200 refugees. This is the true story of one man's brave stance against savagery during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the Nazis came to power in Germany and the systematic brutalization they perpetrated on such groups as the Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, and others.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
עברית
Description
An animated motion picture based on events in the director's own life, involving his attempts to both remember and verify his wartime experiences. After not being able to recall the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the Lebanon War, Ari attempts to unravel the mystery by traveling around the world to interview old friends and comrades. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, his memory begins to return in illustrations that...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The Torture Papers consists of the "torture memos" and reports written by U.S. government officials to prepare the way for and to legitimize coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and Abu Ghraib. This volume of documents presents for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The Bush Administration, concerned about the legality of harsh interrogation...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate." "The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark...
17) QB VII
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998], c1970
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Depicts the courtroom battle which ensues when an American novelist libels a distinguished British physician.
18) Kosovo
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Examines the genocide and persecution of the Serbs against the Albanian people of Kosovo.
20) Sri Lanka
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Examines the genocide and persecution of Sri Lanka people, providing a history and overview of the conflict between the Sinhala majority and Tamil minority.
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