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Unimaginable Atrocities - Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals (Paperback)
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Unimaginable Atrocities - Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals (Paperback)
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As international criminal courts and tribunals have proliferated
and international criminal law is increasingly seen as a key tool
for bringing the world's worst perpetrators to account, the
controversies surrounding the international trials of war criminals
have grown. War crimes tribunals have to deal with accusations of
victors' justice, bad prosecutorial policy and case management, and
of jeopardizing fragile peace in post-conflict situations. In this
exceptional book, one of the leading writers in the field of
international criminal law explores these controversial issues in a
manner that is accessible both to lawyers and to general readers.
Professor William Schabas begins by considering the discipline of
international criminal law, outlining the differing approaches to
the description of international crimes and examining the frequent
claims relating to the retroactive application of these crimes. The
book then discusses the relationship between genocide and crimes
against humanity, studying the fascination with what Schabas calls
the 'genocide mystique'. International criminal tribunals have
often been stigmatized as an exercise in victors' justice. This
book traces how this critique developed and the difficulty it poses
to the identification of situations for prosecution by the
International Criminal Court. The claim that amnesty for
international crimes is prohibited by international law is
challenged, with a more nuanced approach to the relationship
between justice and peace being proposed. Throughout the book there
is a strong historical perspective, with constant reference to the
early experiments in international justice at Nuremberg and Tokyo.
The work also analyses the growing pains of the International
Criminal Court as it enters its second decade.
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