The Search for Justice: Trocaire: A History

by Maye, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781847301673
• ISBN10: 1847301673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Veritas Pubns

Summary

Trcaire has been at the heart of some of the biggest international stories over the past four decades. From the famine in North Korea to the killing fields of Cambodia; from the lawless state of Somalia, the political struggles of Central America and Zimbabwe and the plight of the Palestinian people, Trcaire champions justice and human rights for the world's poorest people.

Author Biography

Brian Maye is a journalist and historian, specialising in modern Irish history and politics. He is the author of Fine Gael 1923-1987 (1993) and Arthur Griffith (1997).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
The Development of Peoples: Establishing Trócaire	p. 21
The Struggle for Zimbabwe's Independence	p. 30
The Anti-Apartheid Campaign	p. 42
The Marcos Regime in the Philippines	p. 59
'Communists Need to Be Loved As Well': Breaking the Vietnam Aid Embargo	p. 74
The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia	p. 94
The Good Shepherd: Dark Days in El Salvador	p. 112
The Somoza Dictatorship: Nicaragua's Tragic Decade	p. 130
The Ethiopian Famine and its Aftermath	p. 138
Brazil: 'A Social and Economic System of Injustice'	p. 153
Somalia's Humanitarian Crisis	p. 174
The Response to Genocide in Rwanda	p. 194
The Tragic Fate of Nigeria's Ogoni People	p. 219
North Korea: The 'Slow-Motion' Famine	p. 236
'Death of a Nation': The Indonesian Occupation of East Timor	p. 249
Hurricane Mitch Devastates Honduras	p. 267
The 'Jubilee 2000' Campaign Against the Indebtedness of the Developing World	p. 280
'The Gardeners of the World, Not Its Plunderers': Making Poverty History	p. 298
The Tsunami Disaster in South-East Asia	p. 318
Gaza: 'The World's Largest Open-Air Prison'	p. 337
Trócaire's Ground-Breaking Work in Development Education	p. 353
Postscript: Facing the Challenges of the Future Justin Kilcullen	p. 366
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