Crimes of War : What the Public Should Know + nemokamas atvežimas! | knygos.lt

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In this timely A-to-Z guide, award-winning journalists, television reporters, and photographers, together with leading legal scholars and military law experts define the major war crimes and key terms of law and take a fresh look at nine recent wars using the framework of international humanitarian law. The 140 articles by 90 authors from twelve countries feature subjects that include Sydney Schanberg on Cambodia, CNN's Christiane Amanpour on paramilitaries in Bosnia, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen on Chechnya, and filmmaker Gwynne Roberts on Saddam Hussein's gassing of Kurds. Leading scholars include Cherif Bassiouni on crimes against humanity, Howard Levie (who drafted the Koran War armistice) on armistice, Diane Orentlicher on genocide, and Steven Ratner on war crimes. Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa, the UN Tribunal's renowned first prosecutor, wrote the foreword, and Lawrence Weschler of The New Yorker contributes a historical overview. The photojournalists include Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas, Sebastian Salgado and Annie Leibovitz.