Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds

The US Government's Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide

Buch | Softcover

512 Seiten

2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-3525-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas.

Introduction by Samuel Totten

1. US Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia (1965–1966) by Kai M. Thaler
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Documents

2. The Bangladesh Genocide and the Nixon–Kissinger "Tilt" (1971) by Salim Mansur
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Documents

3. "Our Hand Doesn’t Show": The United States and the Consolidation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile (1973–1977) by Christopher Dietrich
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Documents

4. Mass Killing at a Distance: US Complicity in the East Timor Genocide and International Structural Violence (1975–1999) by Joseph Nevins
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Documents

5. The US Role in Argentina’s "Dirty War" (1976–1983) by Natasha Zaretsky
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Documents

6. The United States Government’s Relationship with Guatemala During the Genocide of the Maya (1981–1983) by Samuel Totten
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Documents

7. Calculated Avoidance: The Clinton Administration and the 100-Day Genocide in Rwanda (1994) by Samuel Totten and Gerry Caplan
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Afterword by Samuel Totten
Appendices
List of Crimes Against Humanity
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2018
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-4426-3525-8 / 1442635258
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-3525-8 / 9781442635258
Zustand	Neuware