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Violence All Around (Hardcover)
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Violence All Around (Hardcover)
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A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe, before
and after the September 11 attacks, to document abuses committed by
warlords, terrorist groups, and government counterterrorism forces.
Whether reporting on al Qaeda safe houses, the mechanics of the
Pentagon's smartest bombs, his interviews with politicians and
ordinary civilians, or his own brush with death outside Kabul, John
Sifton wants to help us understand violence-what it is, and how we
think and speak about it. For the human rights community, the
global war on terror brought unprecedented challenges. Of special
concern were the secret detention centers operated by the CIA as it
expanded into a paramilitary force, and the harsh treatment of
prisoners throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. In drafting legal
memoranda that made domestic prosecution for these crimes
impossible, Sifton argues, the United States possessed not only the
detainees but the law itself. Sifton recounts his efforts to locate
secret prisons and reflects on the historical development of
sanctioned military or police violence-from hand-to-hand combat to
the use of drones-and the likelihood that technology will soon
enable completely automated killing. Sifton is equally concerned to
examine what people have meant by nonviolent social change, and he
asks whether pure nonviolence is ever possible. To invoke rights is
to invoke the force to uphold them, he reminds us. Ultimately,
advocates for human rights can only shame the world into better
behavior, and their work may involve advocating the very violence
they deplore.
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