Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence
This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism to deepen our understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.
This book examines the narratives surrounding the Musa Daghian rebellion and its consequence in present-day Hatay, Turkey. Analyzing both Armenian and Ottoman primary sources, Kemal Cicek examines the Armenian resistance, flight to the Musa Mountain, and eventual rescue by the Allies' navy.
Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees suffer a series of wrongs and oppressions, and so are owed restitution and aid-as a matter of justice-by socio-political institutions. She makes the case that they should be viewed differently than migrants but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities.
Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warf
This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of WW2. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues, is given by the testimony of the veterans of Unit 731.
This book examines reasons for the horrific cruelty of members of the Japanese in Nanking, China in 1937; the German Einsatzgruppen in Russia, from 1941-1943; the Russian Army in Dresden, Germany in 1945; the Americans at Nogunri, Korea in 1950; the Americans at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968; and the Americans at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004.
Never again! the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences -from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.
Examines the complex world of international criminal justice in several hot spots including the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda. The author suggests ways to provide an effective justice system that entrusts the potentially destabilising work of crime war crimes justice to the very states affected by the crimes.
Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context
The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001 aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or commissions for the trial of accused terrorists. This title explains what military tribunals are, and how they function.