With the verdict today by the United Nations tribunal investigating genocide in Cambodia, I thought it would be timely for me to both collect several previously-posted “The Best…” lists related to genocide, and to add additional links to events not covered in them.
First, here are links to existing “The Best…” lists:
The Best Web Resources On Darfur
The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust
The Best Resources For Learning About The Warsaw Uprising
The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank
The Best Sites To Learn About Genocide In Rwanda
Now, here are additional genocide-related resources:
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent interactive timeline, slideshow, and video on the genocide in Cambodia.
The Rise and Fall Of The Khmer Rouge is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.
“Khmer Rouge Tribunals” is an interactive from the Associated Press.
Ripples of Genocide is an excellent multimedia feature on the Congo. It was created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Holocaust Museum also has a good feature on Preventing Genocide Today. It includes sections on “What Is Genocide?”; “Who Is At Risk?”; a “Photo Gallery”; and a “Pledge Wall.”
PBS has an interactive map and other resources on the genocide of Native Americans.
Facing History has many genocide-related teaching resources, including the examples I’ve already cited and others such as the tragedies in Armenia and Bosnia.
Speak Truth To Power is a project of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights that includes a curriculum of seventeen lessons. The lessons include ones on genocide and human trafficking. They would have to be modified for English Language Learners, but they look useful. They include videos but, unfortunately, they’re all on YouTube, which make them inaccessible (online, at least) for most students).
Cambodians re-enact Khmer Rouge massacre on ‘Day of Anger’ are photos from MSNBC.
Suspected war criminal Ratko Mladic was recently arrested. He is accused of being responsible for committing horrific war crimes against Bosnian Muslims. His crimes may, or may not, exactly fit the definition of “genocide,” but they’re close enough, so I’m adding resources on him to The Best Resources For Learning About Genocide:
The Long Shadow of The Bosnian War is a slideshow from TIME.
Here’s a lesson on his arrest for English Language Learners.
War Crimes Suspect Ratko Mladic Caught is a New York Times slideshow.
The Hunt For Ratko Mladic is an interactive timeline from The New York Times.
Bosnian Serb War Crimes Suspect Ratko Mladic Arrested in an Associated Press interactive.
The Wall Street Journal also has a useful interactive.
Srebrenica: Worst European atrocity since WWII comes from CNN.
Bosnian Serb war fugitive Ratko Mladic captured is a series of photos from The Big Picture.
Here’s a video from The New York Times:
Cambodia: Khmer Rouge tribunal continues is an Associated Press interactive.
Suggestions are welcome.
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