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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.

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.

Becoming Evil - How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): James E. Waller Becoming Evil - How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
James E. Waller
R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He
outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. In this second edition, Waller
has revised and updated eyewitness accounts and substantially reworked Part II of the book, removing the chapter about human nature and evolutionary adaptations, and instead using this evolutionary perspective as a base for his entire model of human evil.

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
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Sacred Justice - The Voices and Legacy of the Armenian Operation Nemesis (Hardcover): Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy Sacred Justice - The Voices and Legacy of the Armenian Operation Nemesis (Hardcover)
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
R3,734 Discovery Miles 37 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims' narratives-the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

We Are Not Numbers - The Voices Of Gaza's Youth (Hardcover): Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey We Are Not Numbers - The Voices Of Gaza's Youth (Hardcover)
Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey
R380 R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A moving, immersive, and humanising essay collection charting the daily lives, struggles, and dreams of young people in Gaza.

A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.

These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.

We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.

In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback): Jeffrey... In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Jeffrey Veidlinger 1
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. 'Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched' - The Times 'A meticulous, original and deeply affecting historical account' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms - ethnic riots - dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems.

People Love Dead Jews - Reports from a Haunted Present (Paperback): Dara Horn People Love Dead Jews - Reports from a Haunted Present (Paperback)
Dara Horn
R440 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 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.

Betrayed Armenia (Hardcover): Diana Agabeg Apcar Betrayed Armenia (Hardcover)
Diana Agabeg Apcar
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 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
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R2,133 Discovery Miles 21 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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
R395 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 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

Fragile Peace (Hardcover): Borko B Djordjevic Fragile Peace (Hardcover)
Borko B Djordjevic
R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Devenishki Book; Memorial Book (Hardcover): David Shtokfish Devenishki Book; Memorial Book (Hardcover)
David Shtokfish; Compiled by Adam Cherson
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sociocide - Reflections on Today's Wars (Hardcover): Keith Doubt Sociocide - Reflections on Today's Wars (Hardcover)
Keith Doubt; Contributions by Jeffrey Boucher
R3,387 R2,384 Discovery Miles 23 840 Save R1,003 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wars have a destructive impact on society. The violence in the first case is domicide, in the second urbicide, in the third genocide, and in the fourth, the book introduces a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society. Through the lens of this neologism, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today's wars in countries such as Bosnia and Iraq. Sociocide: Reflections on Today's Wars rigorously formulates, develops, and applies the notion of sociocide as a Weberian ideal type to contemporary wars. Drawing upon sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and literature, Doubt analyzes war crimes, scapegoating, and torture and concludes by examining capitalism in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as a sociocidal force. Embedded in the humanistic tradition and informed by empirical science, this book provides a clear conceptual account of today's wars, one that is objective and moral, critical and humanistic.

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
R1,699 R1,435 Discovery Miles 14 350 Save R264 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,067 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R160 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 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
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R3,026 Discovery Miles 30 260 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

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