Defining the horrific : readings on genocide and Holocaust in the 20th century / [edited by] William L. Hewitt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Defining the horrific -- Close to home : Native American genocide -- What is yours is mine : colonialism -- The almost forgotten genocide : Armenia -- Death by hunger : Ukraine -- The holocaust -- Myths and history : Manchuria -- There are bombs, and there are bombs : Hiroshima -- Death by hunger reprise : China -- Rwanda, Sudan, Angola case studies : post-colonial Africa -- With friends like these... case studies : Argentina and Guatemala -- Cambodian "autogenocide" -- Case studies : Indonesia, East Timor, and Bangladesh -- Ethnic cleansing : Bosnia -- A tough neighborhood : the Middle East : Iraq ; Israelis and Palestinians -- Bastard child of the Cold War : North Korea -- Epilogue : commission by omission.