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Genocide since 1945 /
In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a ""crime without a name"", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has rec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Colección: | Making of the contemporary world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a ""crime without a name"", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has recurred repeatedly. Millions of people have been murdered by sovereign nation states, confident in their ability to act with impunity within their own borders. Tracing the history of genocide since 1945, and looking at a number of cases across continents and decades, this book discusses a range of critical and inter. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (177 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1280874279 9781280874277 9780415606349 0415606349 9780203115046 020311504X 9781136293689 113629368X 9786613715586 6613715581 1136293671 9781136293672 |