These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide. What makes the collection unique-and chilling-is the inclusion of declassified documents generated by the US government at the time: memoranda, telegrams, letters, talking points, cables, discussion papers, and situation reports. In his introduction, Totten offers a critical assessment of US foreign policy as it pertains to genocide and crimes against humanity, and discusses the differences between those two terms. In the chapters that follow, each author presents a detailed analysis of a particular case of crimes against humanity or genocide by a foreign government against its own citizens, and discusses why and how the United States government was complicit.
Author(s): Samuel Totten (ed.)
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 464
Tags: US Government, Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Essay......Page 30
Documents......Page 56
Essay......Page 77
Documents......Page 116
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Documents......Page 166
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Documents......Page 247
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Documents......Page 308
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Documents......Page 391
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Documents......Page 449
Afterword......Page 474
Appendix I: List of Crimes Against Humanity......Page 478
Appendix II: United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide......Page 479
Acknowledgments......Page 484
About the Authors......Page 485
A......Page 489
C......Page 490
F......Page 492
H......Page 493
J......Page 494
M......Page 495
N......Page 496
R......Page 497
S......Page 498
U......Page 499
W......Page 500
Z......Page 501
