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Crimes of war : what the public should know

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The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed in accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war.

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Title

Crimes of war : what the public should know

Call No

K5301

Authors

Gutman, Roy
Rieff, David
Anderson, Kenneth, 1956-

Subjects

War crimes.
War crimes.
Law of war.
Genocide.
Genocide.
Human rights in armed conflicts.
Civil war.
Slavery.
Humanitarian assistance.

Language

English

Published

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1999.
1999

Publication Desc

399 p. : ill. ;

ISBN

0393047466

LCCN

98035643

Dimensions

24 cm.

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The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed in accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war.

Content Note

International Humanitarian Law: An Overview /Lawrence Weschler 18 -- Act of War / David Turns 24 -- Aggression / Steven R. Ratner 25 -- Apartheid / Steven R. Ratner 26 -- Arab-Israeli War / Benny Morris 28 -- Israel's Views of the Application of IHL to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip / Kenneth Anderson 38 -- Armistice / Howard S. Levie 39 -- Belligerent Status / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 42 -- Biological Experiments / Sheldon H. Harris 43 -- Biological Weapons / Terence Taylor 46 -- Blockade as Act of War / Christopher Greenwood 48 -- Bosnia / Florence Hartmann 50 -- Bullets -- Cambodia / Sydney Schanberg 58 -- Carpet or Area Bombing / Horst Fischer 66 -- Cease-fire -- Chechnya / Barry Renfrew 68 -- Chemical Weapons / Peter Pringle 74 -- Child Soldiers / Anna Cataldi 76 -- Children as Killers / Corinne Dufka 78 -- Civil Defense / Heike Spieker 80 -- Civil Patrols / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 81 -- Civil War / A. P. V. Rogers 82 -- Civilian Immunity / Heike Spieker 84 -- Civilians, Illegal Targeting of / Joel Greenberg 85 -- Cluster Bombs -- Collateral Damage / Horst Fischer 88 -- Collective Punishment / Daoud Kuttab 89 -- Colombia / Douglas Farah 92 -- Combatant Status / A. P. V. Rogers 97 -- Command Responsibility / Nomi Bar-Yaacov 98 -- Common Article 3 -- Compelling Military Service / Patrick J. Sloyan 100 -- Concentration Camps / Ed Vulliamy 102 -- Crimes against Humanity / M. Cherif Bassiouni 107 -- Crimes against Peace / Steven R. Ratner 109 -- Cultural Property and Historical Monuments / Peter Maass 110 -- Customary Law / Theodor Meron 113 -- Dangerous Forces: Dams, Dikes, and Nuclear Stations / Erich Rathfelder 116 -- Dead and Wounded / H. Wayne Elliott 118 -- Death Squads / Jean-Marie Simon 121 -- Deportation / Roy Gutman 123 -- Detention -- Disappearances / Corinne Dufka 125 -- Distinction, Principle of -- Due Process / Gideon Levy 127 -- Due Process Rights 130 -- Enforced Prostitution -- Environmental Warfare / Mark Perry, Ed Miles 132 -- Kuwaiti Oil Wells / Robert Block 134 -- Ethnic Cleansing / Roger Cohen 136 -- Evacuation of Civilians from the Battlefield / H. Wayne Elliott 139 -- Executions, Extrajudicial / Don Oberdorfer 142 -- Camera as Witness / Alex Levac 145 -- Extermination of Civilian Population -- Food Convoys -- Forced Labor / John Ryle 148 -- Free Fire Zones / Lewis M. Simons 151 -- Gases -- Genocide / Diane F. Orentlicher 153 -- Grave Breaches -- Gray Areas in International Humanitarian Law / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 158 -- Guerrillas / Jon Lee Anderson 159 -- Gulf War / Frank Smyth 162 -- Health Care System / Eric Staver 170 -- Hors de Combat / Kurt Schork 172 -- Hospitals / Charles Lane 174 -- Hostages / Sean Maguire 177 -- Humanitarian Aid, Blocking of / David Rieff 179 -- Humanitarian Intervention / David Rieff 181 -- Identification / H. Wayne Elliott 186 -- Illegal or Prohibited Acts / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 188 -- Immunity from Attack / Emma Daly 189 -- Imprisonment of Civilian Population / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 191 -- Incendiary Weapons -- Incitement to Genocide / Colette Braeckman 192 -- Indiscriminate Attack / Roy Gutman, Daoud Kuttab 195 -- Types of Indiscriminate Attack 198 -- Internal Displacement / Maud S. Beelman 199 -- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) / Michael Ignatieff 202 -- International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission / Frits Kalshoven 205 -- International vs. Internal Armed Conflict / Steven R. Ratner 206 -- Common Article 3 207 -- Iran-Iraq War / Jonathan C. Randal 208 -- Irregulars / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman 216 -- Journalists Protection of / William A. Orme, Jr. 218 -- Journalists in Peril / Frank Smyth 220 -- Judicial Proceedings -- Jurisdiction, Universal / Francaise Hampson 222 -- Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello / Karma Nabulsi 223 -- Just and Unjust War / Karma Nabulsi 224 -- Labor Camps -- Legitimate Military Targets / Gaby Rado 226 -- Levee en Masse / Karma Nabulsi 229 -- Liberia / Mark Huband 230 -- Limited War / Peter Rowe 236 -- Mass Graves / Elizabeth Neuffer 238 -- Medical Experiments on POWs / Sheldon H. Harris 241 -- Medical Transports / Michael Ignatieff 243 -- Medical Personnel / Eric Stover 244 -- Medico-Legal Investigations of War Crimes / David Rohde 245 -- Mercenaries / Elizabeth Rubin 248 -- Military Necessity / Francoise Hampson 251 -- Military Objectives / Hamilton DeSaussure 253 -- Mines / John Ryle 256 -- Murder of Civilians -- NATO and the Geneva Conventions / Roy Gutman 258 -- Nuclear Weapons / Burrus M. Carnahan 260 -- Occupation of Territory / Caryle Murphy 263 -- Paramilitaries / Christiane Amanpour 266 -- Parlementaires / Ewen Allison 269 -- Partisans -- Perfidy and Treachery / David Rohde 270 -- Persecutions on Political, Racial, or Religious Grounds / William Shawcross 272 -- Pillage / Thomas Goltz 276 -- Poisonous Weapons / Gwynne Roberts 279 -- Prisoner of War Camps / H. Wayne Elliott 282 -- Prisoners of War, Non-repatriation of / Mark Huband 286 -- Property: Civilian, Destruction of / Amira Hass 288 -- Property: Wanton Destruction / Victoria Brittain 292 -- Proportionality, Principle of / Horst Fischer 294 -- Protected Persons / Heike Spieker 295 -- Quarter, Giving No / John Burns 298 -- Rape -- Red Cross / Red Crescent Emblem / Christion Jennings 301 -- Refoulement / David Rieff 304 -- Refugees, Rights of / David Rieff 306 -- Reprisal / Frits Kalshoven 309 -- Reprisal Killings / Kenneth Anderson 310 -- Resistance Fighters -- Rwanda--The Genocide / Mark Huband 312 -- Rwanda--Refugees and Genocidaires / Lindsey Hilsum 316 -- Safety Zones / Adam Roberts 320 -- Sanctions / Tom Gjelten 321 -- Sexual Violence / Thom Shanker 323 -- Sexual Violence: Systematic Rape / Alexandra Stiglmayer 327 -- Sexual Violence: Enslavement and Forced Prostitution / George Rodrigue 328 -- Shields / Robert Block 330 -- Sick and Wounded / Eric Stover 334 -- Siege / Tom Gjelten 336 -- Slavery / Pierre Richard 339 -- Soldiers, Rights of / Peter Rowe 342 -- Starvation / Marita Vihervuori 344 -- Terrorism / Rich Mkhondo 348 -- Terrorism against Civilians / Serge Schmemann 351 -- Torture / Nicole Pope 352 -- Total War / Peter Rowe 355 -- Training in International Humanitarian Law / Michael H. Hoffman 356 -- Transfer of Civilians / Thomas Goltz 357 -- Treachery -- Truce -- Undefended Towns / Adam Roberts 360 -- United Nations and the Geneva Conventions / Roy Gutman 361 -- Unlawful Confinement / Ed Vulliamy 365 -- Victims, Rights of / Lindsey Hilsum 369 -- Wanton Destruction / Jeremy Bowen 372 -- War Crimes, Categories of / Steven R. Ratner 374 -- Water Supplies and Works, Destruction of / Emma Daly 377 -- Weapons / Burrus Carnahan 379 -- Willful Killing / Peter Maass 381 -- Willfulness / A. P. V. Rogers 383 -- Afterword / Kenneth Anderson 384 -- Note on the Law and Legal Terms / Alan Dorsey 386 -- Major International Humanitarian Law 386 -- Selected Legal Resources On-Line 388.