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These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide. What makes the collection unique-and chilling-is the inclusion of declassified documents generated by the US government at the time: memoranda, telegrams, letters, talking points, cables, discussion papers, and situation reports.In his introduction, Totten offers a critical assessment of US foreign policy as it pertains to genocide and crimes against humanity, and discusses the differences between those two terms. In the chapters that follow, each author presents a detailed analysis of a particular case of crimes against humanity or genocide by a foreign government against its own citizens, and discusses why and how the United States government was complicit.
Contents
Introduction by Samuel Totten1. US Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia (1965-1966) by Kai M. ThalerEssayDocuments2. The Bangladesh Genocide and the Nixon-Kissinger "Tilt" (1971) by Salim MansurEssayDocuments3. "Our Hand Doesn't Show": The United States and the Consolidation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile (1973-1977) by Christopher DietrichEssayDocuments4. Mass Killing at a Distance: US Complicity in the East Timor Genocide and International Structural Violence (1975-1999) by Joseph NevinsEssayDocuments5. The US Role in Argentina's "Dirty War" (1976-1983) by Natasha ZaretskyEssayDocuments6. The United States Government's Relationship with Guatemala During the Genocide of the Maya (1981-1983) by Samuel TottenEssayDocuments7. Calculated Avoidance: The Clinton Administration and the 100-Day Genocide in Rwanda (1994) by Samuel Totten and Gerry CaplanEssayDocumentsAfterword by Samuel TottenAppendicesList of Crimes Against HumanityUnited Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocideAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIndex
