Genocides Aftermath

The twentieth century has been indelibly marked as the century of genocide, while the twenty-first continues to perpetuate this dark legacy. The term itself, genocide, was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 to capture the peculiarly heinous mass killings of both the Jews in Europe from 1942 to 1945 and the Ottoman Armenians from 1915 to 1923. The atrocities committed by the Hutus of Rwanda against the Tutsis and the events currently unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan perpetuate this legacy of genocide. Genocide's Aftermath takes up the hard moral dilemmas that have arisen in the wake of genocide and crimes against humanity. As we now attempt to rethink U.S. history through the lens of genocide, many historical occurrences, such as the national policy of slavery and the forcible removal of Native Americans from their lands, must be re-examined in the light of what we now identify as genocide. From the questions of guilt to the consideration of reconciliation and reparations, this volume of original essays represents the latest research in the moral issues that have developed in the aftermath of a century of genocide.