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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Genocide. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994 (OCoLC)624399687 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George J Andreopoulos |
| ISBN: | 0812232496 9780812232493 |
| OCLC Number: | 29468223 |
| Description: | x, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the calculus of genocide / George J. Andreopoulos -- Theoretical issues relating to genocide: uses and abuses / Leo Kuper -- Redefining genocide / Frank Chalk -- Toward a generic definition of genocide / Israel W. Charny -- Genocide, terror, life integrity, and war crimes: the case for discrimination / Helen Fein -- Etiology and sequelae of the Armenian genocide / Richard G. Hovannisian -- Genocide in Kurdistan?: the suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) and the chemical war against the Iraqi Kurds (1988) / Martin van Bruinessen -- East Timor: a case of cultural genocide? / James Dunn -- The Cambodian genocide: issues and responses / Ben Kiernan. |
| Series Title: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George J. Andreopoulos. |
Abstract:
"The authors first examine the legal and social-theoretical criteria by which mass killings have been categorized as genocide and debate the extent to which various definitions may lead to conceptual misuse. Four case studies then cast the theoretical discussion into the historical realm by recounting the mass killings of the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire; the Turkish suppression of the Kurds and the Iraqi chemical warfare waged against its Kurdish population; the plight of the East Timorese after the Indonesian invasion; and the brutal fate of the Cambodians under Khmer Rouge rule." "This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, international law, political science, sociology, and history."--BOOK JACKET.
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