Related Links

Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
Human Rights Watch put together this report considered the authoritative account of the atrocities committed against the Iraqi Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1980s.

Genocide Studies Program
Documenting recent and ancient atrocities, the Genocide Studies Program at Yale conducts research, seminars, and conferences on issues relating to genocide, and provides training to researchers from affected regions.

INFORCE
The INFORCE foundation was born out of the collective experience of a group of forensic specialists active in the investigation of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. INFORCE personnel have worked with a variety of national and international organizations in investigating and documenting such crimes.

Prevent Genocide International
This educational group aims to eliminate genocide by linking people around the world, encouraging them to speak out and actively work toward the mitigation or prevention of atrocities.

Bibliography

Gellately, Robert, and Ben Kiernan. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Power, Samantha. A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Perennial, 2002.

Weitz, Eric. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton University Press, 2003.

NGS Resources

Nicholson, Dorinda Makanaõnalani. Remember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories. National Geographic Books, 2005.

Edwards, Mike W. "Eyewitness Iraq." National Geographic (November 1999), 2-27.

Hitchens, Christopher. "Struggle of the Kurds." National Geographic (August 1992), 32-61.

Niezabitowska, Malgorzata. "Remnants: The Last Jews of Poland." National Geographic (September 1986), 362-89.

White, Peter T. "Ancient Glory in Stone." National Geographic (May 1982), 552-89.