The Genocide Convention: An International Law AnalysisThe Genocide Convention explores the question of whether the law and genocide law in particular can prevent mass atrocities. The volume explains how genocide came to be accepted as a legal norm and analyzes the intent required for this categorization. The work also discusses individual suits against states for genocide and, finally, explores the utility of genocide as a legal concept. |
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... conduct, calling it “the murder of a nation.”2 It would be another generation, however, before an international crime would be defined to write into law what Toynbee had in mind. A commission appointed by the World War I Allies to ...
... conduct, calling it “the murder of a nation.”2 It would be another generation, however, before an international crime would be defined to write into law what Toynbee had in mind. A commission appointed by the World War I Allies to ...
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... conduct. The Nuremberg indictment, in describing acts of the accused constituting war crimes, recited: “They conducted deliberate and systematic genocide, viz., the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian ...
... conduct. The Nuremberg indictment, in describing acts of the accused constituting war crimes, recited: “They conducted deliberate and systematic genocide, viz., the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian ...
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... conduct be part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population. Additionally, the killing must be part of a “mass killing.”15 Crimes against humanity, including both persecution and extermination, have been charged ...
... conduct be part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population. Additionally, the killing must be part of a “mass killing.”15 Crimes against humanity, including both persecution and extermination, have been charged ...
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... conduct was part of a widespread and systematic attack specifically against civilians, to record a conviction for genocide alone does not reflect the totality of the accused's culpable conduct.”16 In that circumstance, a genocide ...
... conduct was part of a widespread and systematic attack specifically against civilians, to record a conviction for genocide alone does not reflect the totality of the accused's culpable conduct.”16 In that circumstance, a genocide ...
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Contents
Calling to Account | 21 |
GenocideS Legal Environment | 61 |
Genocidal Intent | 88 |
The Victims of Genocide | 137 |
The Scale of Genocide | 162 |
Techniques of Genocide | 189 |
Genocide by a State | 215 |
Why Genocide? | 265 |
Appendix | 285 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 299 |
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