Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice
matthew gream
matthewgream at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 3 12:44:11 PST 2000
No doubt readers of this forum will be interested in Geoffrey Robertson's
``Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice``
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713991976) in which he does
excellent justice to tracing the origins of human rights and international
human rights causes, especially as it evolved post nuremburg through the
UNHRC, The Balkans, General Pinochet, Kosovo, East Timor and The ICC.
Geoffrey is scathingly critical of the hypocrisy of international diplomacy
in its failure to uphold agreed upon conventions and fundamental rights for
individuals. His explanation not only illustrates circumstances as they
occurred, but he tends to decribe how they should be, in order that "justice
is seen to be done".
Although there is no mention of cryptography, the insights into geopolitics
and "the merry-go-round in geneva" illustrate the cogs and lubricants in the
international framework of legal and diplomatic wangling. Fans of Jack Straw
will be pleased that he "did the right thing" in the case of Pinochet, and
my hero Noam Chomsky gets a brief message (his incisive criticisms on
American foreign policy - and Robertson holds nothing bad in criticising the
continuing hypocrisy).
Matthew Gream
Brussels, December 2000
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