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Aubrey Menen. "The Rape of Bangladesh." The New York Times (1972): 5.
Abstract: Pregnant rape victims wait at an abortion clinic in Dacca. During the campaign of terror in Bangladesh, the erstwhile East Pakistan, thousands of raped women were raped by West Pakistani soldiers. Now many victims have been shunned by their husbands and families.
Keywords: Rape as a weapon; 1971; Pakistan; East Pakistan; Bangladesh; Birangona
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আ ত ময়মনী. জামায়াতে ইসলামীর বিবর্তন ও প্রসঙ্গকথা. ময়মনসিংহ, বাংলাদেশ: আসহাবে কাহাফ মজলিস.
Keywords: জামায়াতে ইসলামী; মওদুদী; আবুল আ'লা; Jamat-e-Islami, Moududi
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Feierstein, Daniel. "The Concept of Genocide and the Partial Destruction of the National Group." Logos. 11.1 (2012).
Abstract: This paper posits that the concept of genocide is still relevant in the twenty-first century. In particular, it will show that:
1) The Genocide Convention does not exclude Lemkin’s essential notion that modern genocides are attempts to destroy the identity of national groups. Therefore the concept of genocide can be applied to a much wider range of cases than is generally supposed.
2) The notion of “destruction of a group” is specific to the concept of genocide and is not contained in the definition of “crimes against humanity”.
3) The broadening of crimes against humanity (to include “terrorism” among others) makes it all the more important to distinguish such crimes from genocide. Arguably, accusations of human rights violations are already being used to undermine the sovereignty and political independence of non-hegemonic states with the excuse of defending an ever increasingly list of loosely defined “human rights”. In such cases, the genocides of the past can easily provide an excuse for armed intervention in quite different situations, to neutralize insurgent or opposition groups.
Keywords: Genocide, systematic killing, Genocide Convention, Lemkin, human rights
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Hirsch-Allen, Jake. Why International Criminal Tribunal Should Not Call Genocide “Genocide”: The Importance of Employing Judicial Notice Correctly in Establishing a Historical Record., 2009.
Abstract: The paper focuses in particular on Karemera, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s (ICTR) most prominent decision on judicial notice, and to a lesser extent, on the ICTR’s Semanza decision and on the Canadian trial of Ernst Zundel. The analysis of judicial notice case law is meant to be illustrative rather than exhaustive but the conclusions are meant to apply to international and even domestic criminal law more generally.
The paper uses the Karemera decision to argue that international criminal tribunals
should sparingly take notice of previously adjudicated facts instead of, for instance, taking for granted that the Rwandan genocide is common knowledge in a genocide trial. In addition to better safeguarding defendants’ rights – and these are the most important counterweight to judicial notice’s benefits – this approach to judicial notice will improve the creation of an authoritative factual record. This judicial record could in turn advance the tribunals’ place in international society and history.
Keywords: ICTR, Semanza decision, Karemera decision
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Slutter, Goran. Commentary on Kvocka Case.
Abstract: This a commentary on a case
Keywords: Kvocka, ICTY
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