Crimes contre l'Humanité : Barbie, Touvier, Bousquet, Papon

Crimes contre l'Humanité : Barbie, Touvier, Bousquet, Papon

Author: Sorj Chalandon

Publisher: FeniXX

Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+01:00

Total Pages: 843

ISBN-13: 2259281370

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Klaus Barbie, Paul Touvier, René Bousquet, Maurice Papon. Quatre hommes, quatre destins, un même crime. Face aux juges, le premier s’est refusé à admettre jusqu’à son identité. Confronté aux témoins directs, aux femmes et aux hommes suppliciés en sa présence, Klaus Barbie a prétendu s’appeler Klaus Altmann. Portrait d’un soldat vaincu. Paul Touvier, lui, a nié. Jusqu’au bout, psychopathe antisémite, maladroit et haineux, il a tenté de se dissimuler dans les replis du temps passé, appelant à son aide ceux qui estiment cette page d’histoire définitivement tournée. Portrait d’un homme traqué. Maurice Papon, lui, s’est battu. Fatigué, malade, il a contesté point par point chacun des mots de l’accusation, chacune des vérités de l’histoire. Portrait d’un fonctionnaire plein de zèle. René Bousquet, enfin, a croisé la mort avant la justice. Christian Didier, assassin illuminé, a décidé de frapper en solitaire, nous privant de la vérité. Quatre hommes. Echappés des procès de l’épuration, des justices expéditives. Quatre hommes rattrapés par le temps, par l’Histoire, par leurs victimes. Quatre procès des années 1980 et 1990 pour juger de l’accusation la plus grave qui soit : le crime contre l’humanité. Ce livre est un document. Audience après audience, chroniquées dans Libération, le long travail de la justice. Barbie, Touvier, Papon qui se défendent. Et aussi Didier le délirant, qui nous explique pourquoi il a tué Bousquet. Mais surtout, les mots des victimes, de simples gens, des survivants, venus à la barre les uns après les autre, chavirés, tremblants, encore meurtris, venus nous murmurer qu’un jour ils furent martyrisés pour la seule raison qu’ils étaient nés juifs.


Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Author: Caroline Fournet

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1782250700

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This book explores the ambiguities of the French law of genocide by exposing the inexplicable dichotomy between a progressive theory and an overly conservative practice. Based on the observation that the crime of genocide has remained absent from French courtrooms to the benefit of crimes against humanity, this research dissects the reasons for this absence, reviewing and analysing the potential legal obstacles to the judicial use of the law of genocide before contemplating the definitional impact of this judicial reluctance and the consequent confusion between the two crimes. Whilst it uses the French law of genocide and related case law on crimes against humanity as its focal points, the book further adopts a more general standpoint, suggesting that the French misunderstandings of the crime of genocide might ultimately be symptomatic of a more widespread misconception of the crime of genocide as a crime perpetrated against 'a group'.


Shades of Indignation

Shades of Indignation

Author: Paul Jankowski

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1845453654

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Corruption is far from disappearing, yet now it inspires resignation rather than indignation - and as such, it has lost its power to scandalize. Jankowski claims that such transformations tell a tale. The state that once aspired to pre-eminence as the sole magnet of loyalty, touchstone of probity, and guarantor of right, has yielded significant ground to the individual who is now more likely to elevate his own dignity and cry scandal on his own behalf."--Jacket.


The Papon Affair

The Papon Affair

Author: Richard Joseph Golsan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780415923644

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Introduction to International Criminal Law

Introduction to International Criminal Law

Author: M. Cherif Bassiouni

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 1259

ISBN-13: 9004186441

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This title covers the history, nature, and sources of international criminal law; the ratione personae; ratione materiae - sources of substantive international criminal law; the indirect enforcement system; the direct enforcement system; and much more.


The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide

The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide

Author: Caroline Fournet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1317037022

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This highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society. In her book, Caroline Fournet examines the law relating to genocide and explores the apparent failure of society to provide an adequate response to incidences of mass atrocity. The work casts a legal perspective on this social phenomenon to show that genocide fails to be appropriately remembered due to inherent defects in the law of genocide itself. The book thus connects the social response to the legal theory and practice, and trials in particular. Fournet's study illustrates the shortcomings of the Genocide Convention as a means of preventing and punishing genocide as well as its consequent failure to ensure the memory of this heinous crime.


Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Justice

Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Justice

Author: Mark Findlay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317137175

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This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies. In developing arguments in relation to these problems, the authors use international sentencing and the question of victims' interests and expectations as a focus. The conclusions reached are wide-ranging and haighly significant in challenging existing conceptions for appreciating and giving effect to the justice demands of victims of war and social conflict. The themes developed demonstrate clearly how comparative contextual analysis facilitates our understanding of the legal and social contexts of international punishment and how this understanding can provide the basis for expanding the role of restorative international criminal justice within the context of international criminal trials.


The Era of the Witness

The Era of the Witness

Author: Annette Wieviorka

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780801443312

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What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.


Justice in Lyon

Justice in Lyon

Author: Richard J. Golsan

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-06-29

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1487534175

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The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France’s first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon" during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews and Resistance fighters. Following a lengthy investigation and the overcoming of numerous legal and other obstacles, the trial began in 1987 and attracted global attention. Justice in Lyon is the first comprehensive history of the Barbie trial, including the investigation leading up to it, the legal background to the case, and the hurdles the prosecution had to clear in order to bring Barbie to justice. Richard J. Golsan examines the strategies used by the defence, the prosecution, and the lawyers who represented Barbie’s many victims at the trial. The book draws from press coverage, articles, and books about Barbie and the trial published at the time, as well as recently released archival sources and the personal archives of lawyers at the trial. Making the case that, despite the views of its many critics, the Barbie trial was a success in legal, historical, and pedagogical terms, Justice in Lyon details how the trial has had a positive impact on French and international law governing crimes against humanity.


Genocide in International Law

Genocide in International Law

Author: William Schabas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-08-31

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780521787901

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The 1948 Genocide Convention has suddenly become a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. The succinct provisions of the Convention are now being interpreted in important judgements by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and a growing number of domestic courts. In this definitive work William A. Schabas focuses on the judicial interpretation of the Convention, debates in the International Law Commission, political statements in bodies like the General Assembly of the United Nations, and the growing body of case law. Detailed attention is given to the concept of protected groups, to the quantitative dimension of genocide, to problems of criminal prosecution including defenses and complicity, and to issues of international judicial cooperations such as extradition. He also explores the duty to prevent genocide, and the consequences this may have on the emerging law of humanitarian intervention.