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Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
RWANDA - 1994: An inter-ethnic genocide erupts on an industrial scale. What happened in Rwanda was not simply spontaneous; it was a planned genocide. Lists were made. Weapons were collected. The radio station, RTLM (Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines), spent months conditioning their audiences to believe that one sector of their population -- the Tutsi -- represented a threat. This highly-intricate film follows several characters from different...
2) Genocide
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Examines the issue of genocide from a variety of international perspectives.
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Dictator in the Dock short film series brings viewers into the courtroom as former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt stands trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala. This historic case marked the first time, anywhere in the world, that a former head of state was tried for genocide in a national court, in the country where the crimes were committed. It is also the first time in the history of South or North America, that the...
9) Testimony
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire...
10) Who fears death
Author
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
12) 100 days
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set in the breathtaking natural beauty of the Rwanda countryside, this first ever fiction film made about the Rwanda civil war tells a powerful story of genocide and human survival with compassion and integrity.
13) Born of legend
Author
Series
The League volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn't in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what he believes is his dying breath, he saves a boy born to an extinct...
Author
Series
The League volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he lays his betrayers in their graves. Ten years later, he...
15) East Pakistan
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Examines the genocide and persecution of the Pakistani people.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Dictator in the Dock short film series brings viewers into the courtroom as former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt stands trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala. This historic case marked the first time, anywhere in the world, that a former head of state was tried for genocide in a national court, in the country where the crimes were committed. It is also the first time in the history of South or North America, that the...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think." --
Author
Series
Course of empire volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
'Responding to rumors of a disease outbreak, an American spy discovers thousands dead in Tibet as the result of a Chinese weapons test based on genetic traits in the first novel in a new techno-thriller series.' --wordery.com.
19) All About Darfur
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Arabic
Description
A Sudanese immigrant to the UK returns to her homeland to understand why the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories has become the scene of one of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent history. Director Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a...
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"This encyclopedia examines the entire history of crimes against humanity, during both war- and peacetime. With more than 500 entries, it covers a wide range of relevant topics: human rights, war criminals, war crimes trials, examples of genocide, international organizations and international law concerning war crimes, and more. This revised edition also includes updated information on recent human rights and war crimes trials. Also included is a...
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