Genocide in the Middle East
Subtitle: the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan
By: Hannibal Travis.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9781594604362
Subjects: Genocide; Genocide -- Middle East -- History
Description: "Genocide in the Middle East describes the genocides of the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of the Kurds and other persons living under Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq in the late 1980s; and of the Dinka, Nuba, Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples of Sudan from the 1970s to the present. Travis situates these crimes in their historical context, as outgrowths of intolerant religious traditions, imperialism and the rise of the nation-state, Cold War insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and the global competition for resources and markets at the expense of indigenous peoples. He engages in a thorough investigation of the case law on genocide, including detailed accounts of the prosecutions of the leaders of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, of Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials after Operation Iraqi Freedom, and of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other leaders of Sudan by the International Criminal Court. Finally, the book explores emerging problems of genocidal terrorism, cultural genocide, and structural genocide due to starvation, disease, and displacement. The field of genocide studies has grown rapidly in recent years, fueled by interest in the Armenian genocide, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the widespread massacres in southern Sudan and Darfur. While several comparative studies of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and other genocides have been published, none of them focuses on genocide in the Middle East and North Africa since the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive history of genocide in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It will be of interest to general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, academics, journalists, and legal professionals"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Table of contents: title: Before "genocide": the evolution of a law to regulate armed conflict; title: From "barbarism" to "genocide": outlawing mass murder; title: A "crime against all" : legal and theoretical approaches to genocide; title: Civilizing "idolatrous people" : religion and genocide; title: "Pillaged mercilessly" : the birth of the Arab and Turkish empires; title: "A gigantic plundering scheme" : the Armenian genocide; title: "Native Christians massacred" : the genocide of the Assyrians; title: "A virgin field" : the genocide of the Ottoman Greeks; title: "Great schemes" : the Middle East from Lausanne to Munich; title: The "elimination of Asiatic influence" : genocide in World War II; title: "The greatest danger" : cold war genocides; title: "We razed their houses": the Anfal campaign; title: Death by "resource curse" : post-cold war genocides; title: "Imagine" : genocide in southern Sudan; title: Sudan liberation : genocide and response in Darfur and eastern Chad; title: Denying the "other" : Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and genocidal terrorism; title: "Mass extermination" in Iraq: at what stage genocide?; title: "An effective remedy" : prosecutions or reparations?.