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Crimes of war : what the public should know

Title
Crimes of war : what the public should know / edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff ; legal editor, Kenneth Anderson.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Gutman, Roy.
  • Rieff, David.
  • Anderson, Kenneth, 1956-
Description
399 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • War crimes
  • Kriegsverbrechen
  • Humanitäres Völkerrecht
  • Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
  • Oorlogsmisdaden
  • International criminal law
  • LAW OF WAR
  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICTS
  • WAR CRIMES
  • GENOCIDE
  • ETHNIC CLEANSING
  • CIVIL WAR
  • SLAVERY
  • HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 388).
Contents
Preface / Roy Gutman, David Rieff -- Foreword / Richard Goldstone -- International Humanitarian Law: An Overview / Lawrence Weschler -- Act of War / David Turns -- Aggression / Steven R. Ratner -- Apartheid / Steven R. Ratner -- Arab-Israeli War / Benny Morris -- Israel's Views of the Application of IHL to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip / Kenneth Anderson -- Armistice / Howard S. Levie -- Belligerent Status / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman -- Biological Experiments / Sheldon H. Harris -- Biological Weapons / Terence Taylor -- Blockade as Act of War / Christopher Greenwood -- Bosnia / Florence Hartmann -- Bullets -- Cambodia / Sydney Schanberg -- Carpet or Area Bombing / Horst Fischer -- Cease-fire -- Chechnya / Barry Renfrew -- Chemical Weapons / Peter Pringle -- Child Soldiers / Anna Cataldi -- Children as Killers / Corinne Dufka -- Civil Defense / Heike Spieker -- Civil Patrols / Ewen Allison, Robert K. Goldman -- Civil War / A.P.V. Rogers -- Civilian Immunity / Heike Spieker -- Civilians, Illegal Targeting of / Joel Greenberg -- Cluster Bombs -- Collateral Damage / Horst Fischer -- Collective Punishment / Daoud Kuttab -- Colombia / Douglas Farah -- Combatant Status / A.P.V. Rogers -- Command Responsibility / Nomi Bar-Yaacov -- Common Article 3 -- Compelling Military Service / Patrick J. Sloyan -- Concentration Camps / Ed Vulliamy -- Crimes against Humanity / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Crimes against Peace / Steven R. Ratner -- Cultural Property and Historical Monuments / Peter Maass.
ISBN
  • 0393047466
  • 9780393047462
  • 0393319148
  • 9780393319149
LCCN
98035643
OCLC
  • ocm40499774
  • 40499774
  • SCSB-8978391
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library