Author(s): Various
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 64
Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-08-15
Dimensions: 273.05 x 330.2 x 101.6mm
Publication City/Country: United States
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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.