Human Rights Review articles from April 2000

Human Rights Review archives from April 2000

Letters and Comment.
April 1, 2000... To the Editor: First of all, I would like to thank Human Rights Review for the thoughtful, wide-ranging and informative forum on Kosovo in Voume One, Number Two, and for including my contribution in the forum. I appreciate Cushman's...

Genocide or Civil War?: Human Rights and the Politics of Conceptualization.
April 1, 2000... This issue of Human Rights Review features mainly theoretical and empirical articles on the subject of genocide and civil war. The original idea to put together an issue on these themes came from the alarming recognition that the end of the...

Innocent Denials of Known Genocides: A Further Contribution to a Psychology of Denial of Genocide [1].
April 1, 2000... On the morning I was to give an address to an international conference in Yerevan, Armenia on "The Psychology of Denial of Known Genocides," I awoke with the following dream: A Rabbi--probably American--is visiting a then Iron Curtain...

Democracy, Internal War, and State-Sponsored Mass Murder.
April 1, 2000... As the bloodiest century in human history comes to a close, [1] we have finally begun to recognize patterns in the use of state-sponsored mass murder. Evidence suggests that these large scale killings often occur in the presence or aftermath of...

Civil Wars and Genocide: Paths and Circles.
April 1, 2000... Is it "genocide or civil war?" the editor asks. But this is the wrong question. For it is often war--international and internal--and genocide. Genocide virtually always occurs within a context of war, and sometimes triggers war or the renewal...

Conflict in East Timor: Genocide or Expansionist Occupation?
April 1, 2000... In the annals of crime of this terrible century, Indonesia's assault against East Timor ranks high, not only because of its scale--perhaps the greatest death toll relative to the population since the Holocaust--but because it would have been so...

Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Human Rights Abysm.
April 1, 2000... The ongoing catastrophe in Sudan is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. There are no exceptions. Sudan, which is geographically largest of African nations, bears this ghastly distinction with terrible clarity. Numbers tell...

Bringing the Khmer, Rouge to Justice.(Khmer Rouge movement)
April 1, 2000... In 1974, I began a quarter century of research on the Khmer Rouge movement. As an undergraduate I wrote an empirical study of their insurgency against the Sihanouk regime in the late 1960s' and soon published several shorter articles. At first...

Genocide or Genocidal Massacre?: The Case of Hungarian Prisoners in Soviet Custody.
April 1, 2000... During the Second World War, and in the early post-war period, approximately 600,000 Hungarian citizens were captured by the victorious Soviet army. About one-third of these prisoners perished in the Soviet camps. In October 1993, a huge marble...

A Neglected Holocaust.
April 1, 2000... Adam Hochschild's recent book, King Leopold's Ghost, published in 1998, reviews the events in the Congo Free State from roughly 1885 to 1908. [1] Roughly half of the region's population, approximately ten million people, disappeared in that...

Soldiers' Rights and Medical Risks: The Protest Against Universal Anthrax Vaccinations.
April 1, 2000... On June 17, 1999, in the first contested court martial concerning refusal of recently mandated anthrax vaccinations, Lance Corporal Jared Schwartz was sentenced to thirty days confinement and a dishonorable discharge. Later that week, four...

The Idea of Human Rights.
April 1, 2000... Michael Perry, The Idea of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 162 pp. In his recent book, The Idea of Human Rights, Michael Perry addresses three separate but interlocking questions: 1) is the idea of human rights...

New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse.
April 1, 2000... Jean Bethke Elshtain, New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. With contributions by Fred Dallmayr, Martha Merritt, and Raimo Vayrnen. New Wine in Old Bottles...

An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others.
April 1, 2000... Edith Wyschogrod, An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi + 280 pages. The heterological historian, the "protagonist" of Edith Wyschogrod's...