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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights - Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire (Hardcover)
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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights - Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire (Hardcover)
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In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates
that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency
methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the
work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was
manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines
three British counterinsurgency campaigns-Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden
(1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland
(1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use of a newly
available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files,
International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive
Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many
other sources. Drohan argues that when faced with human rights
activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect
public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to
brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture
during interrogation. Some of the topics discussed in the book,
such as the use of violence against civilians, the desire to uphold
human rights values while simultaneously employing brutal methods,
and the dynamic of wars waged in the glare of the media, are of
critical interest to scholars, lawyers, and government officials
dealing with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those to
come in the future.
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