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War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues)

Book information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2010
ISBN
0313359377, 9780313359378
LCC
K5301 .K73 2010
Open Library ID
OL23989030M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2000158 bytes)
Pages
304\304
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as such. War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues examines the types of war crimes and the motivations behind them, as well as the laws that seek to control and abolish these heinous acts.Within the handbook, centuries of war crimes and genocides are analyzed and catalogued. At the same time, the author offers a history of the development of the rules of war, enabling readers to grasp the importance of such precedent-setting events as the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, and to see the gradual evolution of the laws intended to punish perpetrators and prevent future barbarism.

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