Geoffrey Robertson

An Inconvenient Genocide

Who Now Remembers the Armenians?

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Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey Robertson, a former UN appeals judge, sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the massacres and deportations of over one million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 were a crime against humanity that amounted to genocide. Now in paperback.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781849548977
• ISBN-10: 1849548978
• Artikelnr.: 42602840

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Robertson: GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights legal practice. A barrister, academic, author and broadcaster, Robertson is the author of several books including Crime Against Humanity and The Tyrannicide Brief.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Armenian Question 15
Chapter 2: The History 35
Chapter 3: The Evidence 59
Chapter 4: The Law 91
Chapter 5: Justifying Genocide 125
Chapter 6: The Politics of Genocide Recognition 149
Chapter 7: Genocide Equivocation: A Case Study 159
Chapter 8: Should Genocide Denial Be a Crime? 193
Chapter 9: Reparations 217
Chapter 10: Conclusion 237
Note on the Author 247
Acknowledgements 249
Appendix 1 251
Appendix 2 254
Endnotes 257
Index 289