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Our First Televised Genocide, Kenneth Lasson Apr 1991

Our First Televised Genocide, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

It is absolutely appalling that we have come so casually to observe the carnage, so passively to view the starvation over breakfast papers or dinnertime newscasts, so helplessly to watch these totally bereft human beings trudging barefoot over treacherous terrain toward the middle of nowhere.

There are other questions as well, of course, not as easily answered. Where are all their voices now, those demonstrators who so vociferously opposed war, ostensibly out of an overweening reverence for life? Is the latter-day holocaust being systematically perpetrated in northern Iraq any less horrifying than a direct hit on a camouflaged bomb shelter …


The Development Of Minimum Standards For The Protection And Promotion Of Rights For Indigenous Peoples, Laura Stomski Jan 1991

The Development Of Minimum Standards For The Protection And Promotion Of Rights For Indigenous Peoples, Laura Stomski

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.


Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons, Howard S. Levie Jan 1991

Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Appendix: Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations Jan 1991

Appendix: Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Modern Technology And The Law Of Armed Conflict At Sea, Horace B. Robertson Jr. Jan 1991

Modern Technology And The Law Of Armed Conflict At Sea, Horace B. Robertson Jr.

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Index Jan 1991

Index

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects Of Attack, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison Jan 1991

Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects Of Attack, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Noncombatant Persons A Comment To Chapter 11 Of The Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations, Frits Kalshoven Jan 1991

Noncombatant Persons A Comment To Chapter 11 Of The Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations, Frits Kalshoven

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Self-Determination And World Public Order, Lung-Chu Chen Jan 1991

Self-Determination And World Public Order, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.


International Human Rights Law In Soviet And American Courts, Lori Fisler Damrosch Jan 1991

International Human Rights Law In Soviet And American Courts, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

To what extent should domestic courts apply international law – specifically the international law of human rights? I would like to examine this question with reference to two very different states: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States. For quite distinct reasons, neither of the two has yet fully embraced the idea of direct application in national tribunals of the body of international law that regulates the relationship between human beings and their own governments. As the post-Cold War era unfolds, it is time to ask whether either or both of these erstwhile adversaries might finally be …