Earth Threat #6: Genocide
Explore the devastating reality of genocide with essential books on Earth Threat #6. From Philip Short's definitive Pol Pot biography to Roméo Dallaire's harrowing Shake Hands with the Devil and Gourevitch's classic on Rwanda, this curated list offers profound insight into history's darkest crimes against humanity.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
In 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy for the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi majority.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
by Roméo Dallaire
A Canadian general and former United Nations peacekeeper shares his harrowing eyewitness account of the genocide in Rwanda, revealing how he and his men managed to rescue thousands of people despite the orgy of bloodletting that was erupting all around them. Reprint.
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American Holocaust
by David E. Stannard
This controversial treatise focuses on the social and cultural issues involved in the invasion of the Americas by European nations. It describes the suppression or extermination of native cultures, and focuses on the cultural and ideological principles behind the colonization efforts.
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Pol Pot
by Philip Short
A portrait of the Cambodian despot whose rule saw the deaths of one-fifth of the country's population documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into radical egalitarianism.
