Crimes Of War Rev/Exp Pa (Gutman)

by Gutman,Roy

• ISBN13: 9780393328462
• ISBN10: 0393328465
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war remains unique and essential. More than 140 distinguished experts from the media, military, law, and human rights groups examine recent conflicts in light of international humanitarian law, including: Afghanistan (Patricia Gossman), the Congo (Gerard Prunier), terrorism (Anthony Dworkin), Guantánamo (Mark Huband), Darfur (John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen), occupation (George Packer), independent contractors (Peter Singer), war and insurgency (John Burns), and detention and interrogation (Dana Priest). Christiane Amanpour writes on Bosnian paramilitaries, Jeremy Bowen on Chechnya, and Gwynne Roberts on Saddam Hussein. Through case studies, definitions of key terms, and explanations of what is legal and what is not'”illuminated by 150 stunning duotone photographs'” Crimes of War reveals what every citizen should know about war and the law.

Table of Contents

International Humanitarian Law: An Overview	p. 22
Act of War	p. 28
Afghanistan	p. 30
Aggression	p. 37
Apartheid	p. 39
Arab-Israeli Wars	p. 40
The Second Intifada and After	p. 49
Israel's Views of the Application of IHL to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip	p. 54
Armistice	p. 55
Belligerent Status	p. 58
Biological Experiments	p. 59
Biological Weapons	p. 62
Blockade as Act of War	p. 64
Bosnia	p. 66
The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal	p. 72
Bullets [see Weapons]
Cambodia	p. 76
Carpet or Area Bombing	p. 84
Cease-fire [see Armistice]
Chechnya	p. 86
Chemical Weapons	p. 93
Child Soldiers	p. 95
Children as Killers	p. 99
Civil Patrols	p. 100
Civil War	p. 101
Civilian Immunity	p. 103
Civilians, Illegal Targeting of	p. 104
Cluster Bombs [see Weapons]
Collateral Damage	p. 107
Collective Punishment	p. 108
Colombia	p. 110
Combatant Status	p. 115
Command Responsibility	p. 117
Compelling Military Service	p. 119
Concentration Camps	p. 121
Congo, Democratic Republic of	p. 126
Courts and Tribunals	p. 132
Crimes against Humanity	p. 135
Crimes against Peace	p. 137
Cultural Property and Historical Monuments	p. 138
Customary Law	p. 141
Customary Law: The ICRC Study	p. 142
Dangerous Forces: Dams, Dikes, and Nuclear Stations	p. 144
Darfur	p. 146
Dead and Wounded	p. 152
Death Squads	p. 155
Deportation	p. 157
Detention and Interrogation	p. 159
Disappearances	p. 165
Distinction, Priniciple of [see Civilian Immunity]
Due Process	p. 167
Due Process Rights	p. 170
Environmental Warfare	p. 172
Kuwaiti Oil Wells	p. 174
Ethnic Cleansing	p. 175
Evacuation of Civilians from the Battlefield	p. 178
Executions, Extrajudicial	p. 180
The Camera as Witness	p. 183
Extermination of Civilian Population [see Crimes against Humanity and Genocide]
Food Convoys [see Humanitarian Aid, Blocking of]
Forced Labor	p. 186
Free Fire Zones	p. 189
Gases [see Chemical Weapons and Poisonous Weapons]
Genocide	p. 191
Gray Areas in International Humanitarian Law	p. 196
Guantanamo	p. 198
Guerrillas	p. 205
Gulf War	p. 208
Health Care System	p. 216
Hors de Combat	p. 218
Hospitals	p. 220
Hostages	p. 223
Humanitarian Aid, Blocking of	p. 225
Humanitarian Intervention	p. 227
Identification	p. 232
Immunity from Attack	p. 234
Incitement to Genocide	p. 236
Indiscriminate Attack	p. 239
Types of Indiscriminate Attack	p. 241
Internal Displacement	p. 242
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)	p. 245
International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission	p. 248
International vs. Internal Armed Conflict	p. 249
Common Article 3	p. 251
Iran-Iraq War	p. 252
Iraq	p. 260
Irregulars	p. 268
Journalists, Protection of	p. 270
Journalists in Peril	p. 272
Judicial Proceedings [see Due Process]
Jurisdiction, Universal	p. 274
Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello	p. 275
Just and Unjust War	p. 276
Labor Camps [see Concentration Camps and Forced Labor)
Legitimate Military Targets	p. 278
Levee en Masse	p. 281
Limited War	p. 282
Mass Graves	p. 284
Medical Experiments on POWs	p. 287
Medical Transports	p. 289
Medical Personnel	p. 290
Medico-Legal Investigations Of War Crimes	p. 291
Mercenaries	p. 294
Military Necessity	p. 297
Military Objectives	p. 299
Mines	p. 302
Murder of Civilians [sea Willful Killing]
Nuclear Weapons	p. 304
Occupation	p. 307
Paramilitaries	p. 312
Parlementaires	p. 315
Partisans [see Civil Patrols]
Perfidy and Treachery	p. 316
Persecutions on Political, Racial, or Religious Grounds	p. 318
Pillage	p. 322
Poisonous Weapons	p. 324
Prisoners of War	p. 328
Prisoners of War, Non-Repatriation of	p. 333
Private Military Firms	p. 335
Property, Civilian, Destruction of	p. 338
Proportionality, Principle of	p. 341
Protected Persons	p. 342
Quarter, Giving No	p. 346
Rape [see Sexual Violence]
Red Cross/Red Crescent Emblem	p. 349
Refoulement	p. 352
Refugees, Rights of	p. 354
Reprisal	p. 357
Reprisal Killings	p. 358
Resistance Fighters [see Guerrillas]
Rwanda	p. 360
Safety Zones	p. 366
Sanctions	p. 367
Sexual Violence	p. 369
Sexual Violence: Enslavement	p. 373
Sexual Violence: Systematic Rape	p. 376
Shields	p. 378
Sick and Wounded	p. 382
Siege	p. 384
Slavery	p. 387
Soldiers, Rights Of	p. 390
Starvation	p. 392
Terrorism	p. 396
Torture	p. 400
Total War	p. 402
Training in International Humanitarian Law	p. 403
Transfer of Civilians	p. 404
Undefended Towns	p. 408
United Nations and the Geneva Conventions	p. 409
Unlawful Combatants [see Combatant Status]
Unlawful Confinement	p. 412
Victims, Rights of	p. 415
Wanton Destruction	p. 418
War Crimes, Categories of	p. 420
Water Supplies and Works, Destruction Of	p. 423
Weapons	p. 425
Willful Killing	p. 427
Willfulness	p. 429
Afterword	p. 430
Note on the Law and Legal Terms	p. 432
Major International Humanitarian Law	p. 432
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