The Genocide: Home

Examines the topic of genocide through a series of essays.

This book focuses on the genocides of the twentieth century, explaining what genocide is and discussing it in light of international law. the approach is thematic, examining causes, implementation, results, justice, and the survivors.

Discusses the age-old origins of genocide, and recounts the destruction of the Native Americans, the massacre of the Armenians, the Ukrainian famine, the murder of Jews and others in the Holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, and contemporary examples such as Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda.

In the five decades after the Nuremberg trials, not one single international trial for war criminals took place until 1993. In that year a court was finally set up -- at the urging of Aryeh Neier and other high-profile activists -- to judge and sentence war criminals from the former Yugoslavia. In War Crimes, Neier argues for the creation of a permanent tribunal at the U.N. and shows how the continuing absence of such a tribunal is the result of paranoia on the part of governments worldwide. He addresses conflicts in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Cambodia, and the occupied territories of Israel. This is a powerful and sure-to-be-controversial book.

Most migration is a matter of push and pull, but this book is all about push - things are so bad for you that you will go anywhere to get away, often in the clothes you stand up in, taking only what you can carry. What could be so bad that you flee, leaving everything else behind?