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Radical evil on trial
- Title
- Radical evil on trial / Carlos Santiago Nino.
- Author
- Nino, Carlos Santiago.
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [1996], ©1996.
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- Description
- xii, 220 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government.
- Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to democracy and in shaping the human rights policies of President Raul Alfonsin after the fall of the military junta in 1983: The centerpiece of Alfonsin's human rights program was the trial held in a federal court in Buenos Aires in 1985, which resulted in the convictions of five of the leading members of the junta that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.
- Placing the Argentine experience in the context of the war crime trials at Nuremberg, Tokyo, and elsewhere, Nino examines the broader questions raised by human rights trials.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-206) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Punishment as a Response to Human Rights Violations: A Global Perspective -- 2. Retroactive Justice in Argentina -- 3. Political Problems of Trials for Human Rights Violations -- 4. The Morality of Punishing and Investigating Human Rights Violations -- 5. Legal Problems of Trials for Human Rights Violations -- Conclusion: The Role of International Law.
- ISBN
- 0300067496 (c : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95053689
- OCLC
- ocm33983697
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries