War Crimes:: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice

By Aryeh Neier

Aryeh Neier, human rights activist and former executive director of Human Rights Watch, has created a work that is both a comprehensive history and a forward-looking treatise on the institution of war... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812923812
• ISBN13: 9780812923810
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Times Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

War Crime

My Teacher is makeing us read a book so i picked this one i have not read it yet. I heard that this book is a good one so i went and pick it up. I cant wait till i read this book.

Extract from ?Books on Bosnia?, London 1999

This impressive work, by an Auschwitz survivor and lifelong campaigner for human rights, first reviews earlier attempts since Nuremberg to devise international mechanisms to deal with crimes against humanity, then examines the events in Bosnia and Rwanda which led to the creation of the special tribunals at The Hague which, the author hopes, may lead to the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (although, in the former Yugoslav case, Neier argues that setting up the Tribunal was the right decision for the wrong reason, since it was in large part a substitute for decisive action to prevent the crimes). Specific chapters are devoted to concentration camps, siege warfare, rape, incitement to mass murder, and guilt, and the whole work constitutes a powerful argument in favour of the Tribunals, concluding that: `for the first time in human history, those committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or the ultimate crime, genocide, would have to reckon seriously with the possibility that they would be brought before the international bar to face truth, be held accountable, and serve justice.'

A superb overview of the history of crimes against humanity

With the carnage in Kosovo now at an end, there is no better time to pick up this book - Mr. Neier is an objective, humane authority who mixes outrage and common sense in a tasteful and comprensive discussion of war crimes, international law, and preventive measures.