HIS 229: History of Genocide

Oakton Community College
Department of Historical and Policy Studies

Professor W. A. Sarti
Professor of History

Email Prof. Sarti at wsarti@oakton.edu

Class Twitter Page

http://twitter.com/GenocideClass (contact professor for login and password)

General Genocide Informational Links

The Crime of Genocide http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/reports/dsetexhe.html

Convention on Genocide http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.htm

The Definition of Genocide – United States Holocaust Museum http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043

Gendercide http://www.gendercide.org

Genocide Watch http://genocidewatch.org/

Office of the Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser

Preventing Genocide http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/

Rafael Lemkin – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org

Rafael Lemkin defined the word genocide http://www.peaceheroes.com/PeaceHeroes/lemkin/html

Links about Specific Genocides

Armenian Genocide http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

Armenian Genocide 1915 Recognition Struggle http://www.genocide1915.info/

Fact Sheet: Armenian Genocide http://umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/genocide.html

Ukrainian Famine/Genocide 1932-33 http://www.faminegenocide.com/

Ukrainian Famine/United Human Rights Council http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/ukraine_famine.htm

Ukrainian Famine/Genocide 1932-1933 http://www.holodomorct.org/

Statistics of Japanese Genocide and Mass Murder http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP3.HTM

John G. Magee and the Nanking Massacre http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ07032/yuen/johngmagee.html

John Rabe, the Good German of Nanking http://www.john-rabe.de/english/cv/cv.htm

The Worst Genocides of the 20^th Century http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

The Holocaust History Project http://www.holocaust-history.org/ and www.ushmm.org

Cambodian Genocide Program/Yale University http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

Genocide in Rwanda/United Human Rights Council http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

Rwanda: The Wake of Genocide http://www.rwanda-genocide.org/

Bosnian Genocide http://www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide

Holocaust Museum Houston – Genocide in Bosnia http://www.hmh.org/ed_genocide_bosnia.shtml

Gendercide Watch: Case Study Bosnia Herzegovina http://www.gendercide.org/case_bosnia.html

Sudan Genocide/Genocideintervention.net http://www.genocideintervention.net

Genocide in Darfur, Sudan/Darfur Scorecard http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur

Threat of Genocide in Sudan http://www.adl.org/sudan/

Genocide Denial

AllAfrica.com Rwanda: Researchers Cautioned Against Genocide Denial http://www.allafrica.com/stories/2011085051063

Confronting Genocide Denial/Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/facingtoday/confronting-genocide-denial

Confronting Holocaust Denial http://www.aei.org/article/25318

No Place for Denial http://www.noplacefordenial.com

What You Can Do

Genocide Intervention Network http://www.genocideintervention.net/

1-800-Genocide/Genocide Intervention Network http://www.1800genocide.com

Have Fun Do Good http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-can-i-do-about-genocide-interview.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – preventing genocide http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/action/what_can_i_do

Articles of Interest

Advocates Demand Rwanda’s Immediate Release of US Attorney Erlinder

http://afjn.org/component/content/article/53-alerts/826--advocates-demand-rwandas-immediate-release-of-us-attorney-erlinder.html

The Atlantic, September 2001, "Bystanders to Genocide" http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/09/power.htm

Atlantic Unbound, Interviews, "Never Again, Again" http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-03-14.htm

Bolivia: Senior Officials Jailed Over 2003 Protests http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14725689

Conversation with Philip Gourevitch http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Gourevitch/gourevitch-con0.html

Genocide (1982) Film directed by Arnold Schwartzman. Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal, Neville Chamberlain http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082443/

The New York Times, June 2008, “The Weapon of Rape” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/opinion/15kristof.html?pagewanted=print

The New York Times, September 1998, “U.N. Tribunal, in First Such Trial Verdict, Convicts Rwandan Ex-Mayor of Genocide”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/world/un-tribunal-in-first-such-trial-verdict-convicts-rwandan-ex-mayor-of-genocide.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print

The New York Times, September 1998, “When Rape Becomes Genocide”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/05/opinion/when-rape-becomes-genocide.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print

The New York Times, March 1998, “An Ex-Bosnian Serb Commander Admits Rape of Muslims in War”

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/world/an-ex-bosnian-serb-commander-admits-rape-of-muslims-in-war.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print

The New York Times, November 2006, “Bosnian War Crimes Court Sentences Ex-Soldier”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/europe/15bosnia.html?pagewanted=print

The New York Times, October 2007, “Rape, Epidemic Raises Trauma in Congo War” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html

The New York Times, April 2009, “Long Sentences for Atrocities in Sierra Leone” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/world/africa/09leone.html?_r=1

The New York Times, March 2009, “Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s Leader” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/world/africa/05court.html

The New York Times, January 2010, “Orphaned, Raped, and Ignored” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31kristof.html

The New York Times, July 2009 “Impunity No More” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/opinion/02iht-edocampo.html

Rwanda Arrests US Lawyer for Genocide Denial http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/30/Rwanda-arrests-US-attorney/UPI-43861275237329/

Rwanda Genocide – Times Topics-New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international/countriesandterritories/rwanda/genocide/index.html

Ukrainian History Articles on Ukrainian Famine http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/

Ukrainian Genocide Reading List http://www.ukrainiangenocide.org/esuggestedreadinglist.html

Ukrainian ‘genocide by starvation’ – Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4193129.ece

Book List ** under construction **

If you go to this website, http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/books-about-genocide you will find a list of books about genocide. You will also find support for starting book clubs and discussion groups about genocide.

Movies of Interest ** under construction **

Teaching Websites

American University Washington College of Law http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center/rwanda/lesson.cfm

Armenian Resource Library for Teachers http://www.teachgenocide.org

The Genocide Education Project http://www.genocideeducation.org/

Teaching the Armenian Genocide: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies http://www.chgs.umn.edu

Tolerance and Genocide/Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/

Updated: 9 September 2011
Created by: wsarti@oakton.edu

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