Arnold Krammer, "War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues"

Arnold Krammer, "War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues" 
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0313359377 |

The issue of government-sanctioned torture is very much a part of today's headlines, but it is nothing new. In 1915, nearly 800,000 Armenians were murdered by the Turks and no one was punished. The same number of people perished in the 1994 Rwanda genocide—in just 100 days. In four years, between 1975 and 1979, Cambodia's Pol Pot regime was responsible for the deaths of just under two million people.

Contents 
 Acknowledgments    
 Chapter 1 War Crimes in History               1
 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 Offi ce of the Assistant Attorney General, August 1, 2002 
 Bibliography
 Index