Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
Contents:
Three decades of human rights abuses in Afghanistan: an overview / Patricia Gossman -- The Soviet Union explains its intervention in Afghanistan / Boris Gromov -- The Afghan government reacts to US President Jimmy Carter's state of the union address / The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan -- A report to the United Nations on the Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan / Felix Ermacora -- A United Nations resolution on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan / United Nations -- The rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan / Kim Masters Evans -- Genocide was an accepted Soviet anti-guerilla tactic / Claude Malhuret -- Soviet land mines endangered children but did not specifically target them / Rae McGrath -- Soviets used chemical weapons against Afghan mujahideen and civilians / Stuart J.D. Schwartzstein -- The Soviet occupiers derailed Afghanistan's justice systems / Michael Barry, Omar Babrakzai, and Ghafoor Yussofzai -- Afghanistan needed humanitarian aid as well as military support to halt genocide / Edward Girardet -- The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a key factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union / Rafael Reuveny and Aseem Prakash -- US involvement in Afghanistan yielded numerous unforeseen consequences / David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis -- Life for Afghans in a war zone / Niyaz Turdi as told to Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits -- Mother of three reflects on work in Afghanistan / Jan Cartwright -- Afghanistan war: lessons from the Soviet war / Edward Girardet -- Afghanistan's last two Jews standing / Steven Gutkin -- The systemic abuse of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan / Human Rights Watch.
Summary:
The Genocide and Persecution series provides high school, early college level, and general interest readers with anthologies of previously published materials on acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other instances of extreme persecution, with an emphasis on events taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The series offers basic historical background on these significant events in modern world history, presenting the issues and controversies surrounding the events, and providing first-person narratives from people whose lives were altered by the events, either directly or indirectly.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.