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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Scheffer, David John (1953-....)
Titre(s) : All the missing souls [Texte imprimé] : a personal history of the war crimes tribunals / David Scheffer
Publication : Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : x- 533 p.- [16] pl. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Human rights and crimes against humanity
Lien à la collection : Human rights and crimes against humanity
Comprend : Introduction : ambassador to hell ; An echo of Nuremberg ; It's genocide, stupid
; Credible justice for Rwanda ; Abandoned at Srebrenica ; The pastor from Mugonero
; Unbearable timidity ; The siren of exceptionalism ; Futile endgame ; Rome's aftermath
; Crime scene Kosovo ; Freetown is burning ; The toughest cockfight ; No turning
back ; Postscript on law, crimes, and impunity.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-500) and index
Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to
create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright
and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer
was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans,
Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent
International Criminal Court. All the Missing Souls is Scheffer's gripping insider's
account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war
crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights
atrocities in our time. Scheffer reveals the truth behind Washington's failures during
the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the anemic hunt for notorious
war criminals, how American exceptionalism undercut his diplomacy, and the perilous
quests for accountability in Kosovo and Cambodia. He takes readers from the killing
fields of Sierra Leone to the political back rooms of the U.N. Security Council, providing
candid portraits of major figures such as Madeleine Albright, Anthony Lake, Richard
Goldstone, Louise Arbour, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Richard Holbrooke, and Wesley Clark,
among others. -- From publisher description
Sujet(s) : Tribunaux criminels internationaux -- 20e siècle
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1993-2001
Cour pénale internationale -- Et les États-Unis
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691140155 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0691140154 (hbk.) (alk. paper)
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