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Never again?

A review of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan. The evil that men do: A review of books on the Armenian Genocide. A review of Genocide before the Holocaust by Cathie Carmichael. From Der Spiegel, Erich Follath on Holocaust as Career: The Khmer Rouge, the Nazis and the Banality of Evil. The horrors of the Khmer Rouge's rule may be in the past, but the question of whether its crimes amounted to genocide lingers on. Genocide or "a vast tragedy"?: University students in an Alberta classroom try to decide. Never again?: A look at what the Holocaust can't teach us. A review of Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s by Michael Marrus. A book by its cover: Judging Holocaust memoirs by appearance only. Shalom Auslander is at work on a new project: a comic novel about genocide. Ending our age of suffering: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen on a plan to stop genocide (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more on Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity). The first chapter from "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor by Geoffrey Robinson. John Prendergast on five myths about genocide and violence in Sudan. Musa Hilal has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands, but the Janjaweed leader claims he's just a peacemaker. The accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out (and more). Philip Gourevitch on the Mutsinzi Report on the Rwandan genocide. Felix Holmgren on how Philip Gourevitch wrote the victors' history book. Sarah Sewall on a genocide policy that works.