Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective written by Kurt Jonassohn and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations offers actual studies of genocide in India, China, Colonial Africa, the Soviet Union, Burma, and the former Yugoslavia. Beyond narrating the most horrendous atrocities, the book focuses on the nature of gross human rights violations and genocides, and how best to stop them. Jonassohn formulates a typology that distinguishes events that have different origins, occur in different situations, and follow different processes. This work is motivated by the hope that it might be possible to reduce the number of genocides and to intervene in those that do occur.