Dramatization The
Killing Fields(1984)
(R) Based
on the experiences of Dith Pran, a Cambodian journalist
- the film tells the tale of the Cambodian genocide
by one who was there
Stannard
argues that the decimation of the Native Americans
was the largest genocide in history. Carefully
researched, though he ignores some aspects of
pre-Columbian inter-tribal warfare
Barnett
worked on the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 1994,
and observed the U.N.'s reaction to the Rwandan
genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis
were murdered by Hutus over a period of about
three months. He describes the way in which the
United Nations made decisions and acted or failed
to act, and why.