Recommend Good Books on Genocide

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I would love to understand the history of mass slaughter. Particularly situations where private (and foreign supplied) small arms either did or would have helped. Got any recommendations for good books on any of these topics or others?
  1. khmer Rouge
  2. Kosovo
  3. Syria
  4. Libya
  5. Bosnia and Herzegovina (situation that could have limited the war crimes against civilians)
  6. Darfur (genocide of 480,000 and 2.8 million people have been displaced )
  7. afghanistan (Charlie Wilson's War - held back the Russkies)
  8. Poland in WW2 - "The Columbia guide to the Holocaust" says 10% of population died on page 49
  9. Russia in WW2 - "The Columbia guide to the Holocaust" says 11% of population died on page 49. 25% were racial killings.
  10. Mogadishu (not entirely sure on this one but I thought they were oppressed)
  11. Iraq (didn't we give them AK47s and train them?... Citizens & police)
  12. Mao (60 million died?)
Feel free to list other massacres.
 
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Wounded Knee.
Sand Creek.

Arms in the hands of the victims there would have made a difference I think.

I do not see this thread contributing much.
 
Some of those places are more examples of revolution/insurrection/resistance, than they are of genocides.

Rwanda would be a prime example of genocide. Now, whether Africa needs to be more thoroughly armed as a means of preventing that happening will probably be a controversial discussion.
 
The history of the wars in central Europe from about 1200-1700 is replete with lots of genocide from all directions. I am sometimes amazed there was anyone left alive in the Germanies.
 
The rape of Nanking' by Iris Chang.
Covers atrocities in China by the IJA.
 
A stomach and page turning read
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The fact that it turns your stomach and also is true is exactly why it should be in the history section...so that we don't forget what people can and have done to each other.

OP: I'm a little confused by a number of the events on your list. Are you looking for information on genocides or on instances of civilian use of firearms?
 
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"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
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A good book (and very long) but it does not really go into the Jewish problem as much as you might think a book like that would. it is a little dated as well. still well worth reading.
 
Wounded Knee.
Sand Creek.

Arms in the hands of the victims there would have made a difference I think.
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The victims were armed at both Wounded Knee and Sand Creek. In fact, the shooting at Wounded Knee started when a sergeant was wrestling with a Sioux warrior, trying to take his gun away from him.
 
Keep in mind that the Holocaust in Europe carried out by Germany was not racial killing as so many people may think. The Jewish people are not a race but rather identified by their religious beliefs. In Europe, they were Caucasian, just like Germans.
 
In addition to that, we tend to have a skewed view of the Holocaust, believing it killed only Jews. The Holocaust actually killed 12 million people -- 6 million Jews, 3 million Catholics, and the rest Gypsies, the mentally handicapped, political enemies of the regime and so on.

The Japanese also carried out a Holocaust in China, where about 11 million innocent people were killed -- but this has been ignored by Western historians.
 
A quick review of the numbers for you from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO):

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart

Scroll down to "The Mother of All Stats" chart. Note the comments in the right-hand column. This chart is part of JPFO's ad for their "Death By Gun Control" book. (Recommended.)

People have asked us to present the whole JPFO argument in one place. We have done it. Available now in an easy-reading format and a handy size, the new book is entitled Death by Gun Control: The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament.
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Home page and credit for quote:
http://jpfo.org/

Terry, 230RN
 
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Those numbers on that chart referencing 20 million soviet deaths are dated. The 20 million number was a low end estimate from our side of the iron curtain sixty years ago. More modern estimates give Stalin alone possibly over 43 million and total soviet civilian deaths at over 60 million.
 
The Stalin remark above reminded me of another one, the Katyn Massacre of Polish Officers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Genocide (in a slightly different sense) of a segment of a population, that is, the army. Of course, a few incidental civilians who were also a threat to the Regime were included:

Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".[1]
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I mean, after all, if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.

Terry, 230RN
 
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