Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide examines why and how children were mistreated during genocides in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among the cases examined are the Australian Aboriginals, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Mayans in Guatemala, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the genocide in Darfur. Two additional chapters examine the issues of sexual and gender-based violence against children and the phenomenon of child soldiers.
Following an introduction by Samuel Totten, the essays include: ‘Australia”s Aboriginal Children’; ‘Hell is for Children’; ‘Children: The Most Vulnerable Victims of the Armenian Genocide’; ‘Children and the Holocaust’; ‘The Fate of Mentally and Physically Disabled Children in Nazi Germany’; ‘The Plight and Fate of Children vis-a-vis the Guatemalan Genocide’; ‘The Plight of Children During and Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide’; ‘Darfur Genocide’; ‘Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Children during Genocide’; and, ‘Child Soldiers.’ Contributors include: Colin Tatz, Henry C. Theriault, Asya Darbinyan, Rubina Peroomian, Jeffrey Blutinger, Amanda Grzyb, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Sara Demir, Hannibal Travis, and Samuel Totten.
The editor and several of the contributors have personally investigated and witnessed the aftermath of genocidal campaigns.
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