num_pages: 446
description: A selection of 24 from the 60 papers presented at the October 1998 Conference on Genocide in Sacramento, California consider such aspects as the political determinants of ethnic genocide, Gypsies and the Holocaust, the structure of obligations in international humanitarian law and its implications for conceptions of citizenship, why the international community failed and continues to fail Rwanda, Armenian genocide and the survival of children, the Austrian encounter, the Japanese press and the Rwandan genocide, how the American schooling system has betrayed the history and legacy of genocide, and the trivialization of genocide in the case of Rwanda. No credentials or background are offered for the contributors. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Anatomy of Genocide: State-Sponsored Mass-Killings in the Twentieth Century
titlecomplete: Anatomy of Genocide: State-Sponsored Mass-Killings in the Twentieth Century (Edwin Mellen Press Symposium Series, 58)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr