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Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt - Criminal Consciousness in Argentina`s Dirty War (Hardcover, New)
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Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt - Criminal Consciousness in Argentina`s Dirty War (Hardcover, New)
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Is it possible that the soldiers of mass atrocities-Adolph Eichmann
in Nazi Germany and Alfredo Astiz in Argentina's Dirty War, for
example-act under conditions that prevent them from recognizing
their crimes? In the aftermath of catastrophic, state-sponsored
mass murder, how are criminal courts to respond to those who either
gave or carried out the military orders that seem unequivocally
criminal? This important book addresses Hannah Arendt's
controversial argument that perpetrators of mass crimes are
completely unaware of their wrongdoing, and therefore existing
criminal laws do not adequately address these defendants. Mark
Osiel applies Arendt's ideas about the kind of people who implement
bureaucratized large-scale atrocities to Argentina's Dirty War of
the 1970s, and he also delves into the social conditions that could
elicit such reprehensible conduct. He focuses on Argentine navy
captain Astiz, who led one of the most notorious abduction squads,
to discover how he and other junior officers could justify the
murders of more than ten thousand suspected "subversives." Osiel
concludes that legal stipulations labeling certain deeds as
manifestly illegal are indefensible. He calls for a significant
change in the laws of war to preserve both justice and the
possibility of dialogue between factions in such sharply divided
societies as Argentina. Osiel's proposals have profound
implications for future prosecutions of Pinochet's lieutenants,
Milosevic's henchmen, the willing executioners of Rwanda and East
Timor, and other perpetrators of state-endorsed murder and torture.
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