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Within the larger war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the warring parties carry out another war - that of sexual violence against women and girls. This report documents the frequent and sometimes systematic use of sexual violence in eastern areas of the country that are occupied by the Rwandan army and administered by its Congolese proxy, the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD). Report ...

"The civilian population of Burundi feels trapped between the two sides in the civil war, as both the armed forces and the rebels have use civilians as proxy targets. The civil war raging in Burundi since October 1993 has above all have been a war against civilians. When Major Pierre Buyoya took power in a July 1996 coup, he claimed that he was intervening to prevent an expansion of ethnic violence. ...

In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb. Walker meticulously draws on hundreds of original documents to examine the role of German scientists in the rise and fall of the Third Reich. He investigates whether most German scientists during Hitler's ...

Too often in conflict situations rape is referred to as a "weapon of war" - a term presented as self-explanatory. In this book, Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Drawing upon original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, the authors emphasize the importance ...

Documentation from the Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (Supreme Court of Law of the Nazi Party), Germany
 
 Included in the collection are verdicts given by the Supreme Court of Law of the Nazi Party and correspondence regarding lawsuits submitted to the Court in which Party members were accused of various charges;
 
 File NS36/13 (pp. 140-190 in the scan) includes accusations ...

Recommendations -- Background: Historical patterns of conflict -- Conflict in 2003: widening the divide -- The Chadian connection -- Khartoum responds in force. -- Abuses in Darfur by government forces. Patterns of government attacks in Darfur: a policy of forced displacement -- Bombing of civilians in North Darfur -- Repeated raids in West and South Darfur -- The Janjaweed militia and links to the ...

"Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach shows that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities from killings and expulsions ...

Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow ...

"Focusing on events in Rwanda, Armenia, and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Holocaust, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates how historically- and culturally-specific ideas led to genocidal sexual violence. Expert contributors also consider how these ideas, in conjunction with issues relating to femininity, masculinity and understandings of gendered identities, contributed ...

Genocide never happens by chance. Nowhere was this more true than in Rwanda between April and July 1994 when thousands of hate-inspired Hutu extremists carried out a well-organized campaign of killing, rape, and mutilation that left more than 800,000 dead in 100 days. Most of the casualities were members of the minority Tutsi ethnic group, the rest were moderate Hutus who advocated peaceful coexistence ...

The Imperial Japanese Army was a legend in its own time. To the defenders of Singapore and Bataan, its soldiers were demonic supermen. The willingness of Japan consistently to fight to the last man remains a benchmark of courage today. Yet these heroes of Saipan and Iwo Jima were also capable of unparalleled bestiality--the rape of Nanking, the use of slave labor on the Burma-Siam Railway, gross neglect ...

Recommendations. -- Methods. -- Background: attitudes towards policing. History of policing in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria -- Structure and organization of the Nigerian police force. -- Deaths in police custody. -- Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Types of torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment -- Who is targeted: Arrest of friends or relatives of a ...