"This encyclopedia examines the entire history of crimes against humanity, during both war- and peacetime. With more than 500 entries, it covers a wide range of relevant topics: human rights, war criminals, war crimes trials, examples of genocide, international organizations and international law concerning war crimes, and more. This revised edition also includes updated information on recent human rights and war crimes trials. Also included is a primary resources section with documents that are vital to understand this subject."--P. [4] of cover.

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Intruduction -- Aboriginals (Australia), mistreatment of -- Aceh, war crimes in -- Acosta, Jorge Eduardo -- act of war -- Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions -- Afghanistan, human rights violations in -- aggression -- Ahtisaari, Martti -- Albania, human rights violations in -- Algeria, human rights violations in -- Alien Tort Claims Act -- Alliance -- American Convention on Human Rights -- Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst, first baron -- Amin, Idi -- amnesty -- Amnesty International -- Angola, war crimes in -- Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention -- Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act -- apartheid -- Arbour, Louise -- Argentina, human rights violations in -- Argentine Anticommunist -- Arkan -- Armenia, human rights violations in -- Armenian genocide -- arms, trafficking in and control mechanisms -- Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions -- asylum, political -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Australia, human rights violations in -- Azerbaijan, human rights violations in -- Babi Yar -- Bahrain, human rights violations in -- Bangladesh, human rights violations in -- Barbie, Klaus -- Bashir, Abu Bakar -- Bashir, Omar al- -- Basson, Wouter -- Belarus, human rights violations in -- Belgian war crimes tribunal -- belligerent status -- Benenson, Peter -- Berbers, human rights abuses of -- Bhutan, human rights violations in -- Biafra, war crimes in -- biological weapons -- Boere, Heinrich -- Bokassa, Jean-Bedel -- Bolivia, human rights violations in -- Bormann, Martin -- Bosnia and Herzegovina, human rights violations in -- Bousquet, Rene -- Brandt, Karl -- Brazil, human rights violations in -- Brunner, Alois -- Bulgaria, human rights violations in -- Bunche, Ralph Johnson -- Burkina Faso, human rights violations in -- Burundi, war crimes in -- Cambodia, human rights violations in -- Cambodia, war crimes in -- Cambodian Genocide Program -- Cameroon, human rights violations in carpet bombing -- Carter Center, The -- Cavallo, Ricardo Miguel -- Ceausescu, Nicolae -- Central African Republic, human violations in -- Chad, human rights violations in -- Changchun, famine in -- Chechnya, war crimes in -- chemical weapons -- children's rights -- Chile, human rights violations in -- China, human rights violations in -- CIA war crimes archive -- civilian immunity -- Clark, Ramsey -- Clauberg, Carl -- cluster bombs, banning of -- collateral damage -- collective punishment -- Colombia, human rights violations in -- combatants, rights of -- comfort women -- Committee to Protect Journalists -- Comoros, human rights violations in -- concentration camps -- conflict diamonds -- Congo (Brazzaville), human rights violations in -- Congo, Democratic Republic of the, war crimes in -- Contreras, Manuel -- Convention against Torture -- Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons -- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction -- Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees -- crimes against humanity -- Crimes of War Project -- Croatia, human rights violations in -- Cuba, human rights violations in -- cultural property, protection of -- customary law -- Cyprus, human rights violations in -- dams and dikes, protection of -- Darfur, war crimes in -- Dayton accords -- de Kock, Eugene -- Del Ponte, Carla -- Demjanjuk, John -- deportations -- dirty war -- disappearances -- displaced person camps -- Doctors Without Borders -- Doctors' Trial -- Doihara, Kenji -- Dominican Republic, human rights violations in -- due process -- Dunant, Jean-Henri -- Duvalier, Francois "Papa Doc" -- Duvalier, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" -- D'Aubuisson, Roberto -- Donitz, Karl -- East Timor, human rights violations in -- ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) -- Ecuador, human rights violations in -- Egypt, human rights violations in -- Eichmann, Adolf -- Einsatzgruppen -- Eizenstat, Stuart -- El Mozote, massacre in -- El Salvador, war crimes in -- Equatorial Guinea, human rights violations in -- Eritrea, human rights violations in -- Ethiopia, human rights violations in -- ethnic cleansing -- European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) -- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights -- euthanasia program (Nazi) -- executions -- extrajudicial killings -- extraordinary rendition -- Final Solution -- Finta, Imre -- forced labor -- forensic medicine and human rights -- Frank, Hans -- free-fire zones -- Freedom House -- Frick, Wilhelm -- Fritzsche, Hans -- Fujimori, Alberto -- Funk, Walther -- Gabon, human rights violations in -- Gambia, human rights violations in -- Garzon, Balthasar -- Gaza, war crimes in -- Geneva Conventions -- genocide -- Genocide Convention -- Genocide Watch -- Georgia (Republic of), human rights violations in -- Germans, expulsion of germ warfare -- Gestapo -- ghost prisoners -- Global Rights -- Global Witness -- Goebbels, Joseph -- Goldstone, Richard J. -- Gotovina, Ante -- Great Famine (Holodomor) -- Grotian moment -- Grotius, Hugo -- Guantanamo detainees -- Guatemala, human rights violations in -- Guinea, human rights violations in -- Gujarat, massacres in gulag -- Guyana, human rights violations in -- Guzman, Juan -- Goring, Hermann -- Habre, Hissene -- Hague Conventions -- Haiti, human rights violations in -- Haitian human rights violators -- Halabajah (Iraqi Kurdistan) -- Hama, massacre in -- Hamdan, Salim Ahmed -- Hamdi, Yaser Esam -- Hazara, persecution of -- Heim, Aribert Ferdinand -- Helsinki accords -- Hernandez Martinez, Maximiliano -- Hess, Rudolf -- Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan -- high-value detainees -- Himmler, Heinrich -- Hitler, Adolf -- Hmong, persecution of -- Holocaust, French collaboration in -- Honduras, human rights violations in -- hors de combat -- hostages -- Human Rights Convention -- human rights reports (U.S. State Department) -- Human Rights Watch -- human shields -- humanitarian aid, barring of -- humanitarian intervention -- Hussein, Saddam al-Tikriti -- Ibrahim, Ashraf -- identification of combatants -- Ieng Sary -- illegal acts -- immunity from attack -- imprisonment of civilians -- incitement to genocide -- India, human rights violations in -- indiscriminate attacks -- Indonesia, human rights violations in -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- Internal Displacement Project -- internally displaced persons -- International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) -- International Commission of Jurists -- International Commission on Missing Persons -- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) -- International Court of Justice (ICJ) -- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- International Criminal Court -- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) -- International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) -- international humanitarian law (IHL) -- International Justice Mission -- International Labor Organization (ILO) -- International Monitor Institute -- Iran, human rights violations in -- Iraq, human rights violations in post-Saddam -- irregulars -- Israel, human rights violations in -- Ivory Coast, human rights violations in -- Izieu, children of -- Jackson, Robert Houghwout -- Jamaica, human rights violations in -- Jedwabne, massacre in -- Jemaah Islamiyah -- Jiang Yanyong (Chiang Yen-yung) -- Jodl, Alfred -- Jordan, human rights violations in journalists, protection of just and unjust wars -- Kaltenbrunner, Ernst -- Karadzic, Radovan -- Kashmir and Jammu, human rights violations in -- Katyn Forest, massacre in -- Kazakhstan, human rights violations in -- Keitel, Wilhelm -- Kenya, human rights violations in -- Khieu Samphan -- Kiang Kek Iev (Deuch) -- Kim Il Sung -- Kim Jong Il -- Klarsfeld, Serge -- Koch, Erich -- Kony, Joseph -- Kosovo, war crimes in -- Kramer, Josef -- Krupp, Gustav von Bohlen -- Kunz, Samuel -- Kurdistan (Iraq), suppression of -- Kyrgyzstan, human rights violations in -- Laos, human rights violations in -- Lawyers Without Borders -- League of Nations -- legitimate military targets -- Lemkin, Raphael -- Leopold II -- levee en masse -- Ley, Robert -- Liberia, human rights violations in -- Libya, human rights violations in -- Lidice, massacre in -- Lieber Code (Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field) -- limited war -- Lopez Rega, Jose.