State Responses to Crimes of Genocide : What Went Wrong and How to Change It,...

by Ewelina U. Ochab, David Alton

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State Responses to Crimes of Genocide : What Went Wrong and How to Change It, Hardcover by Ochab, Ewelina U.; Alton, David, ISBN 303099161X, ISBN-13 9783030991616, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness such atrocities as committed by the Nazi regime. While, arguably, there has been no such great loss of human lives as during WWII, genocidal incidents have and still take place. After WWII, we have witnessed the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, to name only a few. The responses to these atrocities have always been inadequate. Every time the world leaders would come together to renew their promise of 'Never Again’. However, the promise has never materialised. In 2014, Daesh unleashed genocide against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq. Before the world managed to shake off from the atrocities, in 2016, the Burmese military launched a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. This was followed by reports of ever-growing atrocities against Christian minorities in Nigeria. Without waiting too long, in 2018, China proceeded with its genocidal campaign against the Uyghur Muslims. In 2020, the Tigrayans became the victims of ethnic targeting. Five cases of mass atrocities that, in the space of just five yea

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9783030991616
• Condition: Fine

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