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Atrocities

Hotel Rwanda

The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

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HOT

The Holocaust and Other Genocides

Ties the teaching of the Holocaust to an analysis of the genocides in Armenia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and Rwanda; and examines representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and the arts.

940.53
HOL

The Rwanda Genocide

This is a collection of articles focusing on the causes of the Rwanda genocide in 1994 and the failure of the international community to respond to the Rwanda genocide.

967.57
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When Broken Glass Floats

Chanrithy Him

A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United S

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HIM

Rape Warfare

Beverly Allen

Discusses the military policy of rape for the purpose of genocide by members of the Yugoslav Army and the Bosnian Serb military, focusing on the peculiar logic of pregnancy-aimed rape; and calls for p

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ALL

Comfort Woman

Maria Rosa Henson

Maria Rosa Henson tells the story of her experiences as a teenager who was forced into service as a "comfort woman"--a sexual slave for Japanese troops employed in the Philippines during World War II.

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HEN

Eyewitness to a Genocide

Michael N. Barnett

The author, a political officer at the U.S.

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BAR

Srebrenica

Jan Willem Honig

Examines the 1995 deportation and execution of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and the Serbian force's actions that led to the incident.

949.742
HON

Koba the Dread

Martin Amis

British novelist Martin Amis describes the harsh realities--including slave labor and famine--of the Soviet Union in the early and mid-twentieth century, and examines the beliefs of Communist apologis

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AMI

Children in War

Alan Raymond

Presents the stories and artwork of children from Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland who have witnessed atrocities in their wartorn homelands.

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