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What is Genocide?
A definition of genocide and the difficulty in bringing those responsible to trial. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1701562.stm

Armenia

eBook: Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities against the Armenian people. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600034&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Armenian Genocide
An article which discusses the 1915 genocide in Armenia. http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html

A Day to Remember
Remembering April 24 and the Armenians who died on that day. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc3.htm

Armenia: 1.5 million dead
The tragedy of those who died in Armenia. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/armenians.htm

Armenian Genocide
Facts about the Armenian genocide. http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/genocide.html

Bosnia

eBook: Bosnia and Herzegovina
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities against the Serbs. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600055&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Fall of Srebrenica
War crimes and genocide during the fall of the city. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/bosnia/

Milosevic faces charges
Former Yugoslavia president faces genocide charges. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/30/newsid_2510000/2510299.stm

Bosnia: 200,000 dead
The tragedy of war and those that were killed. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm

U.N. Tribunal
The tribunal formed for the crimes committed in the formerYugoslavia. http://www.un.org/icty/index.html

Burundi

eBook: Burundi
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities in Burundi. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600057&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Woman’s mission for Burundi children was sparked by genocide
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/burundi_womans_mission.html

Burundi: Current situation
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/burundi/contents/02-current/

UN chief confirms death toll as fears of Burundi genocide grow
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950328/ai_n13974006

Burundi honors 'heroes' who resisted genocide
http://www.sfcg.org/documents/articles/story.htm

Cambodia

eBook: Cambodia
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities of the killing fields in Camboida. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600059&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Cambodia: Two Million Dead
The tragedy of those killed during Pol Pot's regime. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm

Cambodia Genocide Project
A study of the millions killed over three years. http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

Pol Pot's Shadow
The aftermath of Cambodia after Pol Pot's regime. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/

Pol Pot
The life and death of Pol Pot. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9804/15/pol.pot.915pm/

El Salvador

eBook: El Salvador
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities in El Salvador. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600112&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

El Salvador Civil War
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/enemiesofwar/elsalvador2.html

Civil War
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/elsalvador2.htm

Profile: El Salvador
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1220684.stm

Guatemala

eBook: Guatemala
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities of the Guatemalan genocide. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600152&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Guatemala 1982
Before and after the genocide and those who died. http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_guatemala.html

Genocide probe
Who is to blame for the genocide in Guatemala? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/286402.stm

Placing Blame For Genocide
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/16/MN94314.DTL

State violence in Guatemala
An online book that covers the violence in Guatemala between 1960 to 1996. http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ciidh/qr/english/index.htm

Iraq (Hussein's violent campaigns against the Kurds)

eBook: Iraq
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities against the Kurds. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600195&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Guns, Money and an Endless Dream
Kurds struggle amongst themselves as they cling to their ultimate dream of statehood while they are forced to deal with Iraq's Saddam Hussein in a journal article from the Student Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/

Killing of Kurds Genocide
The BBC News reports that a court in The Hague has ruled that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was an act of genocide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4555000.stm

Saddam Hussein Arraigned before Iraqi Court, July 1, 2004
In the Student Resource Center online reference book, Historic World Events, it states that after the Gulf War, Hussein was held responsible for the killing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the 1980s. http://galenet.galegroup.com/

Geoncide in Iraq
A Middle East Watch Report on the Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/

113 Kurds are Found in a Mass Grave
U.S. investigators have exhumed the remains of 113 people from a mass grave in southern Iraq that may hold at least 1,500 victims of Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurdish minority in the 1980s
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/
AR2005042901191.html

Namibia

eBook: Namibia (German South West Africa and South West Africa)
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the war against the Herero. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600245&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Namibia 1904
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_namibia1.html

A Bloody History: Namibia's colonisation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1514856.stm

Germany regrets 'Namibia genocide'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3388901.stm

Russia under Stalin's Regime -- Ukrainian Genocide (Holodomor)

eBook: Ukraine (Famine)
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the Ukraine famine. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600345&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Ukrainian Genocide of 1932 - 1933
The Home page for the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation. http://www.ukrainiangenocide.com/

Ukrainian Famine
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html

Holodomor
The Holodomor Memorial Website mission helps uncover the cause of the
Ukrainian Holodomor (famine-genocide) of 1932-1933.
http://www.holodomor.org/

Rwanda

eBook: Rwanda
An article from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity detailing the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide. http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&docType=EBKS.Article&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3434600302&userGroupName=dist214_gvrl&version=1.0&source=gale

Rwanda: 800,000 dead
The tragedy of those killed during the conflict between ethnic tribes. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/rwanda.htm

U.N. Tribunal
The tribunal for crimes against humanity in Rwanda. http://www.ictr.org/

Triumph on Evil
Focus the the massacre of 800,000 within 3 months. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/

Leave None to Tell the Story
Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/

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