Contents
Part I:
Overview
CHAPTER 1:
Introduction: History and Complicity
Adam Jones
CHAPTER 2:
Shades of Complicity: Towards a Typology of Transnational Crimes against Humanity
Peter Stoett
Part II:
Genocide, War Crimes and the West
CHAPTER 3:
Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa: Genocide and the Quest for Recompense
Jan-Bart Gewald
CHAPTER 4:
Genocide by Any Other Name: North American Indian Residential Schools in Context
Ward Churchill
CHAPTER 5:
The Allies in World War II: The Anglo-American Bombardment of German Cities
Eric Langenbacher
CHAPTER 6:
Torture and Other Violations of the Law by the French Army during the Algerian War
Raphaëlle Branche
CHAPTER 7:
Atrocity and Its Discontents: US Double-mindedness about Massacre, from the Plains Wars to Indonesia
Peter Dale Scott
CHAPTER 8:
Bob Kerrey’s Atrocity, the Crime of Vietnam and the Historic Pattern of US Imperialism
S. Brian Willson
DOCUMENT 1
Inaugural Statement to the Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal
Jean-Paul Sartre
CHAPTER 9:
Charles Horman versus Henry Kissinger: US Intervention in 1970s Chile and the Case for Prosecutions
Mario I. Aguilar
CHAPTER 10:
The Wretched of the Nations: The West’s Role in Human Rights Violations in the Bangladesh War of Independence
Suhail Islam and Syed Hassan
CHAPTER 11:
Indicting Henry Kissinger: The Response of Raphael Lemkin
Steven L. Jacobs
CHAPTER 12:
Crimes of the West in Democratic Congo: Reflections on Belgian Acceptance of ‘Moral Responsibility’ for the Death of Lumumba
Thomas Turner
CHAPTER 13:
In the Name of the Cold War: How the West Aided and Abetted the Barre Dictatorship of Somalia
Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
CHAPTER 14:
The Security Council: Behind the Scenes in the Rwanda Genocide
Linda R. Melvern
CHAPTER 15:
US Policy and Iraq: A Case of Genocide?
Denis J. Halliday
DOCUMENT 2
Criminal Complaint against the United States and Others for Crimes against the People of Iraq
DOCUMENT 3
Letter to the Security Council
Ramsey Clark
CHAPTER 16:
The Fire in 1999? The United States, NATO and the Bombing of Yugoslavia
David Bruce MacDonald
CHAPTER 17:
Collateral Damage: The Human Cost of Structural Violence
Peter G. Prontzos
Part III:
Truth and Restitution
CHAPTER 18:
Institutional Responses to Genocide and Mass Atrocity
Ernesto Verdeja
CHAPTER 19:
International Citizens’ Tribunals on Human Rights
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
CHAPTER 20:
Coming to Terms with the Past: The Case for a Truth and Reparations Commission on Slavery, Segregation and Colonialism
Francis Njubi Nesbitt
DOCUMENT 4
Declarations on the Transatlantic Slave Trade
World Conference Against Racism
Part IV:
Closing Observations
CHAPTER 21:
Afghanistan and Beyond
CHAPTER 22:
Letter to America
Breyten Breytenbach