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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide

Don't Look Left - A Diary Of Genocide (Paperback): Atef Abu Saif Don't Look Left - A Diary Of Genocide (Paperback)
Atef Abu Saif; Foreword by Chris Hedges
R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R21 (7%) In Stock

On October 7, Israeli territory around the Erez border of Gaza Strip was invaded by Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, killing over 1,000 people. In response to this, the people of Gaza have been subjected to nearly eight months of wholesale genocide. Over 36,000 civilians have been killed, an estimated million made homeless and displaced, tens of thousands injured, and an entire population traumatised. Never in living history has such an atrocity been perpetrated in plain sight of the world’s leaders and mainstream media, who have all managed to give it their complete backing. Images and video clips of hourly horrors and tragedies have spread around the world, combatted by fake news propagated not by dark conspiratorial corners on the web, but by corporate media outlets and politicians.

Baseless Israeli propaganda and deliberately-biased framing has been fed to journalists and repeated, without question, on the front pages of the world’s newspapers and in the mouths of TV pundits and politicians.

One of the few voices of Gaza to make it out into Western media has been that of writer Atef Abu Saif, whose edited diary entries have been occasionally serialised in The New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde and elsewhere. Here, the complete, unedited diaries show the journey of a man who arrived in Gaza just a few days before October 7 as a government minister and ended the period, like most other Palestinians, living in a tent in a refugee camp.

The Killing of Death - Denying the genocide against the Tutsi (Paperback): Roland Moerland The Killing of Death - Denying the genocide against the Tutsi (Paperback)
Roland Moerland
R2,924 Discovery Miles 29 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study deals with the phenomenon of genocide denialism, and in particular how it operates in the context of the genocide against the Tutsi. The term genocide denialism denotes that we are not dealing with a single act or type of (genocide) denial but with a more elaborate process of denial that involves a variety of denialist and denial-like acts that are part of the process of genocide. From this study it becomes clear that the process of genocide thrives on a more elaborate denial dynamic than recognized in expert literature until now. This study consists of three parts. The first theoretical part analyses what the elements of denial and genocide entail and how they are (inter)related. The exploration results in a typology of genocide denialism. This model clarifies the different functions denial performs throughout the process of genocide. It furthermore explains how actors engage in denial and on which rhetorical devices speech acts of denial rely. The second part of the study focuses on denial in practice and it analyses how denial operates in the particular case of the genocide against the Tutsi. The analysis reveals a complex denial dynamic: not only those who perpetrated the genocide are involved in its denial, but also certain Western scholars, journalists, lawyers, etc. The latter were originally not involved in the genocide but recycle (elements of) the denial discourse of the perpetrators. The study addresses the implications of such recycling and discusses whether these actors actually have become involved in the genocidal process. This sheds light on the complex relationship between genocide and denial. The insights gained throughout the first two parts of this study have significant implications for many other actors that through their actions engage with the flow of meaning concerning the specific events in Rwanda or genocide in general. The final part of this study critically reflects on the actions of a variety of actors and their significance in terms of genocide denialism. These actors include scholars from various fields, human rights organisations, the ICTR, and the government of Rwanda. On a more fundamental level this study critically highlights how the revisionist scientific climate, in which knowledge and truth claims are constantly questioned, is favourable to genocide denialism and how the post-modern turn in academia has exacerbated this climate. Ultimately, this study reveals that the phenomenon of genocide denial involves more than perpetrators denying their genocidal crimes and the scope of actors and actions relevant in terms of genocide denialism is much broader than generally assumed.

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine - From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (Paperback, Updated... The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine - From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (Paperback, Updated Edition)
Michael Scott-Baumann
R416 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An accessible chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter conflicts in history, with profound global consequences. In this book, Middle East expert Michael Scott-Baumann succinctly describes its origins and charts its evolution from civil war to the present day. Each chapter offers a lucid explanation of the politics and ends with personal testimony from Palestinians and Israelis whose lives have been impacted by the dispute.

While presenting competing interpretations, Scott-Baumann examines the key flash points, including the early role of the British, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the Six-Day War of 1967, and the Trump administration’s peace plan, pitched as “the deal of the century,” in 2020. He delineates both the nature of Israeli control over the Palestinian territories and Palestinian resistance―going to the heart of the clashes in recent decades. The result is an indispensable history, including a time line, glossary, and analysis of why efforts to restore peace have continually failed and what it will take to succeed. 45 B&W maps and images

The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover): Gerard Dedeyan, Ago Demirdjia, Nabil Saleh The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
Gerard Dedeyan, Ago Demirdjia, Nabil Saleh
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Die Herero-Opstand 1904-1907 (Afrikaans, Paperback): Gerhardus Pool Die Herero-Opstand 1904-1907 (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Gerhardus Pool
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die Herero-opstand 1904–1907 is ’n heruitgawe van ’n boek wat ses keer tussen 1976 en 1979 deur HAUM gepubliseer is. Die lotgevalle van die Hererovolk word in hierdie boek geskets, ’n stuk geskiedenis wat ’n sentrale plek in Namibie se kleurryke geskiedenis beklee. Die opstand van die Herero’s in 1904 teen Duitse koloniale gesag kan beskou word as die enkele gebeurtenis wat die gebied se volksverhoudinge die ingrypendste verander het. Die Herero-opstand 1904–1907 vertel van die geleidelike opbou na die konflik, die skielike uitbarsting van geweld en die tragiese afloop vir die Herero’s toe duisende verhonger het en hulle grond en politieke seggenskap verloor het.

Do Not Disturb - The Story Of A Political Murder And An African Regime Gone Bad (Paperback): Michela Wrong Do Not Disturb - The Story Of A Political Murder And An African Regime Gone Bad (Paperback)
Michela Wrong
R330 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R35 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Do Not Disturb is a dramatic recasting of the modern history of Africa’s Great Lakes region, an area blighted by the greatest genocide of the twentieth century. This bold retelling, vividly sourced by direct testimony from key participants, tears up the traditional script.

In the old version, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrows a genocidal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that makes Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. The new version examines afresh questions which dog the recent past: Why do so many ex-rebels scoff at official explanations of who fired the missile that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi? Why didn’t the mass killings end when the rebels took control? Why did those same rebels, victory secured, turn so ruthlessly on one another?

Michela Wrong uses the story of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s murder.

Betrayed Armenia (Hardcover): Diana Agabeg Apcar Betrayed Armenia (Hardcover)
Diana Agabeg Apcar
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Five Categories of Collective Criminality - Exhaustive Research on Collective Responsibility for Crimes Prosecuted by the... Five Categories of Collective Criminality - Exhaustive Research on Collective Responsibility for Crimes Prosecuted by the International Courts and Tribunals (Hardcover)
Dubravka Polic
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
People Love Dead Jews - Reports from a Haunted Present (Paperback): Dara Horn People Love Dead Jews - Reports from a Haunted Present (Paperback)
Dara Horn
R463 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture―and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks―Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.

Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life―trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study―to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past―making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Fragile Peace (Hardcover): Borko B Djordjevic Fragile Peace (Hardcover)
Borko B Djordjevic
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Black Wall Street 100 - An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma (Hardcover): Hannibal B Johnson Black Wall Street 100 - An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma (Hardcover)
Hannibal B Johnson
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of Gombin, Poland (Hardcover): A Shulman, Leon Zamosc, Ada Holtzman Memorial Book of Gombin, Poland (Hardcover)
A Shulman, Leon Zamosc, Ada Holtzman
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Devenishki Book; Memorial Book (Hardcover): David Shtokfish Devenishki Book; Memorial Book (Hardcover)
David Shtokfish; Compiled by Adam Cherson
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region - Part II - Shoah - Memorial Book of Twenty - Three Destroyed Jewish Communities in the... Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region - Part II - Shoah - Memorial Book of Twenty - Three Destroyed Jewish Communities in the Svintzian Region (Hardcover)
Shimon Kantz; Translated by Anita Frishman Gabbay, Janie Respitz
R2,174 Discovery Miles 21 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of Vishnevets - Translation of Sefer Vishnivits (Hardcover): Chayim Rabin Memorial Book of Vishnevets - Translation of Sefer Vishnivits (Hardcover)
Chayim Rabin; Translated by Ellen Garshick, Sara Mages
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of Suwalk - Translation of Yisker Bukh Suvalk (Hardcover): Berl Kagan Memorial Book of Suwalk - Translation of Yisker Bukh Suvalk (Hardcover)
Berl Kagan; Coloured by Jonathan Wind; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
R1,758 Discovery Miles 17 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region - Part I - Life - Memorial Book of Twenty - Three Destroyed Jewish Communities in the... Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region - Part I - Life - Memorial Book of Twenty - Three Destroyed Jewish Communities in the Svintzian Region (Hardcover)
Shimon Kantz; Translated by Anita Frishman Gabbay, Meir Razy
R1,642 Discovery Miles 16 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Holocaust of Iraq - A Theory about the Crimes of the Members of Agent Parties in Iraq (Hardcover): Maan Khalil Al-Omar Holocaust of Iraq - A Theory about the Crimes of the Members of Agent Parties in Iraq (Hardcover)
Maan Khalil Al-Omar; Revised by Jihan Asim Al-Taie; Translated by Kais As-Sultany
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Translation of Ratno Yizkor Book - The Story of the Destroyed Jewish Community (Hardcover): Nachman Tamir Translation of Ratno Yizkor Book - The Story of the Destroyed Jewish Community (Hardcover)
Nachman Tamir; Produced by Lynne Siegel; Cover design or artwork by Nina Schwartz
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Near Normal Man - Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope (Hardcover): Ben Stern, Charlene Stern Near Normal Man - Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope (Hardcover)
Ben Stern, Charlene Stern
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Atrocity Labelling - From Crimes Against Humanity to Genocide Studies (Hardcover): Markus P. Beham Atrocity Labelling - From Crimes Against Humanity to Genocide Studies (Hardcover)
Markus P. Beham
R3,085 Discovery Miles 30 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime Against Humanity. Such atrocity labels have been popularized among international lawmakers but with little insight offered into how and when these terms are applied and to what effect. What constitutes an event to be termed a genocide or war crime and what role does this play in the application of legal proceedings? Markus P. Beham, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, unpicks these terms to uncover their historical genesis and their implications for international criminal law initiatives concerned with atrocity. The book uniquely compares four specific case studies: Belgian colonial exploitation of the Congo, atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, the Armenian genocide and the man-made Ukrainian famine of the 1930s. Encompassing international law, legal history, and discourse analysis, the concept of 'atrocity labelling' is used to capture the meaning underlying the work of international lawyers and prosecutors, historians and sociologists, agenda setters and policy makers.

Deliverance - The Diary of Michael Maik - In Memory of the Destroyed Jewish Community of Sokoly, Poland (Hardcover): Michael... Deliverance - The Diary of Michael Maik - In Memory of the Destroyed Jewish Community of Sokoly, Poland (Hardcover)
Michael Maik; Translated by Laia Ben-Dov; Edited by Avigdor Ben-Dov
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorial Book of Tluste, Ukraine - Translation from Sefer Tluste (Hardcover): Gavriel Lindenberg Memorial Book of Tluste, Ukraine - Translation from Sefer Tluste (Hardcover)
Gavriel Lindenberg; Translated by Sara Mages; Cover design or artwork by Nina Schwartz
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
After Dictatorship - Instruments of Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Systems (Hardcover): Peter Hoeres, Hubertus Knabe After Dictatorship - Instruments of Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Systems (Hardcover)
Peter Hoeres, Hubertus Knabe
R2,276 R1,838 Discovery Miles 18 380 Save R438 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Numerous studies concerning transitional justice exist. However, comparatively speaking, the effects actually achieved by measures for coming to terms with dictatorships have seldom been investigated. There is an even greater lack of transnational analyses. This volume contributes to closing this gap in research. To this end, it analyses processes of coming to terms with the past in seven countries with different experiences of violence and dictatorship. Experts have drawn up detailed studies on transitional justice in Albania, Argentina, Ethiopia, Chile, Rwanda, South Africa and Uruguay. Their analyses constitute the empirical material for a comparative study of the impact of measures introduced within the context of transitional justice. It becomes clear that there is no sure formula for dealing with dictatorships. Successes and deficits alike can be observed in relation to the individual instruments of transitional justice - from criminal prosecution to victim compensation. Nevertheless, the South American states perform much better than those on the African continent. This depends less on the instruments used than on political and social factors. Consequently, strategies of transitional justice should focus more closely on these contextual factors.

Staszow Memorial Book - Translation of Sefer Staszow (The Staszow Book) (Hardcover): Elchanan Erlich, Jean-Pierre Stroweis,... Staszow Memorial Book - Translation of Sefer Staszow (The Staszow Book) (Hardcover)
Elchanan Erlich, Jean-Pierre Stroweis, Leonard Levin
R1,682 Discovery Miles 16 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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