How Mass Atrocities End Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq
Iraq
Atrocity as political capital
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Interview, police captain, Baghdad, March 2014. Interviewee requested anonymity.
Interview, member of Baghdad Provincial Council. Baghdad, March 2013. Interviewee requested anonymity.
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