The Twentieth-Century Experience

Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide

THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY EXPERIENCE - Howard Ball

The purpose of the author in writing this book focus on tells us the atrocities that leaders have been committed without impunity. He analyzes why and what should be done with those who commit acts of genocide; Nazi murder; war crimes and crimes against humanity. " Most of the chapters focus on the world community's post-World war I efforts to address the general issue of defining crimes of universal jurisdiction and ensuring trial and punishment of those found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, or genocide. "

The author based his theories in any different kind of research, but the Internet was his meaning font of research. He also got some advises from friends who know about these subject.

It is not clear what should be done for those who committed genocide. Opinions vary among five alternatives of punition:

* Amnesty - It consists in give pardon to those who committed crimes against humanity.

* Exile - The banishment is other alternative to punishment of the leaders responsible for genocide.

* Vengeance - This alternative consists in shoots those who committed atrocities.

* Criminal Trial - Judge those responsible in court.

Crimes against humanity are hard reality that has been existed along the twentieth-century. Civilians and war enemies were the victims of all kind of atrocities during the World War I.

There wasn't an interest of creation of international organizations that could punish or help those who were injuries by the rules that leaders thought would be right to showing their power. The early twentieth century could count just with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the Catholic Church.

Some regulations as the treaty signed to ban the use of explosive bullets in battle, 1868; the Lieber's code of behavior; the conference at the Hangue, 1899 were created as a way to fight war. "Both the 1899 and the 1907 conventions raised anew issue regarding the conduct of war.... That "duty" meant that the occupier "shall take all the measures in his power