war crime: References & Edit History

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General overviews of war crimes include George Creel, War Criminals and Punishment (1944); Leon Friedman (ed.), The Law of War: A Documentary History, 2 vol. (1972); Donald A. Wells, War Crimes and Laws of War, 2nd ed. (1991); Lawrence Weschler, A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990, reissued 1998); Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); Aryeh Neier, War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice (1998); and Richard Goldstone, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (2000). War crimes against women are treated in Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals (1997).

The war crime tribunals in Nürnberg and Tokyo are discussed in Richard H. Minear, Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial (1971, reissued 2001); Robert E. Conot, Justice at Nuremberg (1983); John L. Ginn, Sugamo Prison, Tokyo: An Account of the Trial and Sentencing of Japanese War Criminals in 1948, by a U.S. Participant (1992); Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir (1992); Joseph E. Persico, Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial (1994, reissued 2000); Irwin Cotler (ed.), Nuremberg Forty Years Later: The Struggle Against Injustice in Our Time (1995); and Arieh J. Kochavi, Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied War Crimes Policy and the Question of Punishment (1998).

Discussion of the Rwanda and Yugoslavia UN war crimes tribunals can be found in Virginia Morris and Michael P. Scharf, An Insider’s Guide to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Documentary History and Analysis, 2 vol. (1995); M. Cherif Bassiouni and Peter Manikas, The Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1996); Karine Lescure and Florence Trintignac, International Justice for Former Yugoslavia: The Working of the International Criminal Tribunal of The Hague (1996; originally published in French, 1994); and Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998, reprinted 2000).

Mary Margaret Penrose

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Add new Web site: CORE Reader - What is a War Crime? Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Congressional Research Service - War Crimes: A Primer. Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: United States Institute of Peace - Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and War Crimes. Jun 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Pace University Digital Repository - War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Jun 19, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - What is a war crime, and who gets held accountable? Here's what you need to know. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Explainer: What is a war crime? Jan 08, 2023
In the last sentence of the article, changed “2016” to “2019” and “some 120” to “more than 120.” May 03, 2022
Add new Web site: TRIAL International - War Crimes. Oct 24, 2019
Media added. Dec 26, 2018
Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - War Crimes Trials. May 03, 2017
Updated the number of countries that have ratified the International Criminal Court statute through 2016. Dec 22, 2016
Media added. Jun 09, 2015
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - War Crime. May 26, 2011
Changed "The Netherlands" to "the Netherlands." Sep 03, 2010
Article revised. Jun 23, 2005
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