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Justice for the Rwandan Genocide

On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal.
… On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. The date … On September 2, 1998, the first conviction for the crime of genocide was entered by an international tribunal. … Genocide … Justice for the Rwandan Genocide
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… prison sentence. Their crime: they had used the term "genocide" in reference to the Ottoman treatment of Armenians … language. Indeed, Turkey has denied the existence of the genocide, and the number of Ottoman scholars, both within … is the culmination of his long-time study of the Armenian Genocide. This work, based on more than six-hundred new …
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

Srebrenica and its Memory

In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… Gravestones at the Potočari genocide memorial near Srebrenica. In July 1995, in the … the atrocities at Srebrenica met the legal definition of genocide . To date, international and Bosnian state courts … Mladić, who were both found, among other crimes, guilty of genocide in Srebrenica and sentenced to life imprisonment. …
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

… the international community’s attention on the issue of genocide . As part of an effort to prevent a horror like the … Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . The new convention established a clear definition for the crime of genocide. Importantly, this landmark international agreement …
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S

Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
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From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
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graveyard at memorial to Srebrenica

Srebrenica

In July 1995, over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
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Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)