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War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law : A Guide to the Issues, PDF eBook

War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law : A Guide to the Issues PDF

Part of the Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series

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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.

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