Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective
Offers actual studies of genocide in India, China, Colonial Africa, the Soviet Union, Burma and the former Yugoslavia. Beyond narrating the most horrendous atrocities, the book focuses on the nature of gross human rights violations and how best to stop them or at least intervene.
eBook, English, ©1998
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, ©1998
Case studies
1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages)
9780585357256, 0585357250
47008422
What is genocide?
A conceptual perspective
Hunger as a low- technology waepon: with special reference to genocide
The tragic circle of famine, genocide, and refugees
The consequences of ideological genocides and their role in prevention
Some antecedents of the holocaude denial literature
On Jewish resistance: an essay on perceptions
Prevention without prediction
Rethinking the conceptualization of genocide and gross human rights violations
On the prevention of unpunished crimes
A summation
Preliminary considerations
The language of data
Sources of data
Kinds of data for contemporary cases
Quality of data
Pre-twentieth-century perpetrators
Perpetrators in India
Perpetrators in China
Perpetrators in Colonial Africa
More twentieth-century cases
The relevance of history for the case of the former Yugoslavia
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