Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good

Choosing the post‐Holocaust era as the starting point for his latest work, Paul R. Bartrop, a noted Holocaust and genocide scholar, evidences the sadly recurring acts of mass killings, ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, state violence and dehumanization from the Cold War through the present. The subject of his study are individuals who have perpetrated, suffered, witnessed, wrote about or attempted to stop genocide or crimes against humanity. To my knowledge, this is the first reference work that approaches the subject of genocide with biographies in the foreground. While Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda are examined in greater detail, the encyclopedia...