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Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
This three volume set covers the Nazi Holocaust, "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, tribal warfare in Rwanda and more. The Encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity. It also delves into depictions and manifestations of the phenomenon, such as propaganda, sociological and philosophical explanations, literature and film.
http://find.galegroup.com/

Biography Resource Center
Use this site to find biographies on world leaders and influential figures. http://galenet.galegroup.com/

World History - Modern Era
Click on Township HS Dist 214 log in here.
http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/login.aspx

Student Resource Center
Use this site to find stories and other news about your country. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC?locID=dist214

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
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
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/

Bosnia Genocide
How Yugoslavia was divided into Bosnia. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/bosnia_genocide.htm

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

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Articles on the crimes committed in Bosnia & Herzegovina. http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/bih-summary-eng

Burundi

eBook: 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
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 in Cambodia
How Pol Pot terrorized Cambodia. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/pol_pot.htm

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
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
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

Operation PB Success
This was the CIA organized covert operation that overthrew the president of Guatemala.
http://experts.about.com/e/o/op/Operation_PBSUCCESS.htm

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

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
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)
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

Nambia 1904
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_namibia.html

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

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

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

eBook: 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.eyewitnesstohistory.com/knee.htm

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
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/

Genocide in Rwanda
The one hundred day massacre in Rwanda. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

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last updated: June 25, 2008