Dirty hands and vicious deeds : the U.S. government's complicity in crimes against humanity and genocid / / edited by Samuel Totten

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795562203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario, Canada] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-4426-3527-4; 1-4426-3528-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (494 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 304.663
• Soggetti: Genocide - United States; Crimes against humanity - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE US Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia (1965–1966) -- CHAPTER TWO The Bangladesh Genocide and the Nixon–Kissinger “Tilt” (1971) -- CHAPTER THREE “Our Hand Doesn’t Show”: The United States and the Consolidation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile (1973–1977) -- CHAPTER FOUR Mass Killing at a Distance: US Complicity in the East Timor Genocide and International Structural Violence (1975–1999) -- CHAPTER FIVE The US Role in Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976–1983) -- CHAPTER SIX The United States Government’s Relationship with Guatemala during the Genocide of the Maya (1981–1983) -- CHAPTER SEVEN Calculated Avoidance: The Clinton Administration and the 100-Day Genocide in Rwanda (1994) -- Afterword -- APPENDICES -- Appendix I CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY -- Appendix II CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.