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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million
Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the
Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities.
Living under heavy censorship, and in an atmosphere of official
denial that the deaths were a genocide, how did Turkish Armenians
record their own history? Here, Talin Suciyan explores the life
experienced by Turkey's Armenian communities as Turkey's great
modernisation project of the 20th century gathered pace.Suciyan
achieves this through analysis of remarkable new primary material:
Turkish state archives, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly,
a kaleidoscopic series of personal diaries, memoirs and oral
histories, various Armenian periodicals such as newspapers,
yearbooks and magazines, as well as statutes and laws which led to
the continuing persecution of Armenians. The first history of its
kind, The Armenians in Modern Turkey is a fresh contribution to the
history of modern Turkey and the Armenian experience there.
In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days
to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and
traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes
and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five
years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated
300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it
what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European
history.Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually
unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of
Muslim Spain. It offers a remarkable window onto a little-known
period in modern Europe-a rich and complex tale of competing faiths
and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against
overwhelming odds.
Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United
Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide.
Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews
with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's
involvement in Rwanda. Barnett's new Afterword to this edition
includes his reaction to documents released on the twentieth
anniversary of the genocide. He reflects on what the passage of
time has told us about what provoked the genocide, its course, and
the implications of the ghastly events of 1994 and the grossly
inadequate international reactions to them.
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