The "ethnic cleansing" that has gripped the Balkans for much of
this decade is but another chapter in the long history of man's
inhumanity to man. Hopeful but unflinching in the face of such
realities, Howard Ball's book focuses on international efforts to
punish perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes. Combining
history, politics, and critical analysis, he revisits the killing
fields of Cambodia, documents the three-month Hutu "machete
genocide" of about 800,000 Tutsi villagers in Rwanda, and casts
recent headlines from Kosovo in the light of these other conflicts.
Beginning with the 1899 Geneva Accords and the Armenian genocide
of World War I, Ball traces efforts to create an institution to
judge, punish, and ultimately deter such atrocities-particularly
since World War II, since which there have been fourteen cases of
genocide. He shows how international military tribunals in
Nuremberg and Tokyo set important precedents for international
criminal justice, tells what the international community learned
from its failure to stop Pol Pot in Cambodia, and describes the ad
hoc tribunals convened to address genocide in the Balkans and
Rwanda. He then focuses on the establishment of the International
Criminal Court with the Treaty of Rome in 1998 and assesses its
probable future.
The book also analyzes the reluctance of the United States to
sanction the ICC, tracing longstanding U.S. reluctance to grant
criminal justice jurisdiction to an international prosecutor. Ball
examines questions of national sovereignty versus international law
and reminds us that although most Americans consider such horrors
to be problems of other countries, these are in fact countries in
which many of our own citizens have their roots.
With its unique focus on the ICC, "Prosecuting War Crimes and
Genocide" is a work of both synthesis and advocacy that combines
history and current events to make us more aware of the racist
fervor with which these brutalities are carried out, more alert to
the euphemisms in which they are cloaked. It forces us to ask not
only whether the killing will stop, but whether humanity can
prevent future genocides.
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