Arnold Krammer

War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to the Issues

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future. Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as such. War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues examines the types of war crimes and the motivations behind them, as well as the laws that seek to control and abolish these heinous acts. Within the handbook, centuries of war crimes and genocides are analyzed and catalogued. At the same time, the author offers a history of the development of the rules of war, enabling readers to grasp the importance of such precedent-setting events as the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, and to see the gradual evolution of the laws intended to punish perpetrators and prevent future barbarism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313359385
• Artikelnr.: 37840432

Autorenporträt

Arnold Krammer is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. A highly praised teacher for more than three decades, Krammer has written a number of books in both English and German about POWs, among them Nazi Prisoners of War in America and Hitler's Last Soldier in America (with Georg Gaertner), Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Enemy Aliens, and more than forty articles ranging from World War I, through the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter 1 War Crimes in History Chapter 2 Searching for the Law Chapter 3 The Worst War Crime of All Chapter 4 Punishment
at Last Chapter 5 The Rules Are Changing Appendix-Primary Documents Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV)
October 18
1907 International Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Geneva
July 27
1929 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations
1948 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
August 12
1949 (Geneva Convention III) Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12
1949
and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)
Geneva
July 1977 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel
Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
1984 Memorandum for John A. Rizzo
Acting General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency
from Office of the Assistant Attorney General
August 1
2002 Bibliography Index