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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... whole or in part.” A decade after the Khmer Rouge trial, the world watched in horror as atrocities unfolded in Bosnia. Killings and rape were being used to force the Muslim population of Bosnia out of their home areas, and the term ...
... whole or in part.” A decade after the Khmer Rouge trial, the world watched in horror as atrocities unfolded in Bosnia. Killings and rape were being used to force the Muslim population of Bosnia out of their home areas, and the term ...
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... whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands—literally scores of thousands—of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German police-troops upon the Russian patriots who defend their native soil. Since the ...
... whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands—literally scores of thousands—of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German police-troops upon the Russian patriots who defend their native soil. Since the ...
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... Tribunal: Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946, vol. 1, pp.43-44, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (1947). Genocide, the extermination of whole categories of human beings, was The Genocide Convention 6.
... Tribunal: Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946, vol. 1, pp.43-44, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (1947). Genocide, the extermination of whole categories of human beings, was The Genocide Convention 6.
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An International Law Analysis John Quigley. Genocide, the extermination of whole categories of human beings, was a foremost instrument of the Nazi doctrine.”12 Defining Genocide The UN Charter, adopted in 1945, proclaimed human rights as ...
An International Law Analysis John Quigley. Genocide, the extermination of whole categories of human beings, was a foremost instrument of the Nazi doctrine.”12 Defining Genocide The UN Charter, adopted in 1945, proclaimed human rights as ...
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... whole, so that each member state of the United Nations was represented. Each member state appointed a person to represent it in the Sixth Committee, and some states added alternate representatives and advisors. Many of these appointees ...
... whole, so that each member state of the United Nations was represented. Each member state appointed a person to represent it in the Sixth Committee, and some states added alternate representatives and advisors. Many of these appointees ...
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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