Index

Aboriginals, of Australia, 35, 36, 108

Abuja Declaration, 373

accomplices, definition of, 34

accountability trials and, 330

truth commissions and, 3334

aerial bombardment

of Afghanistan, 3859

of Berlin, 118

civilians and, 165

civilian infrastructure in Afghanistan, 3889

effectiveness of, 11920

of German cities, WWII, 11628

of Hamburg, 118

Iraq and, 275

Liddell Hart and, 124

of Tripoli, 1734

US in Vietnam, 167, 168

of Yugoslavia, 27696

Afghanistan, 38399

bombing of, 3859

aid supply, 3856

prisoners of war, 38992

Africa, neoliberalism and, 318, 407

Africa Watch, 244

African and African Descendants’ World Conference Against Racism, 362

agricultural subsidies, 318

aid commodities, complicity and, 41

al-Qaeda, 384

Albania

deaths, Milosevic and, 293

Macedonia and, 28990

alcoholism, residential schools and, 1078

Algeria

France and, 13444, 147

‘police’ operations in, 1347

US alliance with, 393

war crimes in, 6

Alien Tort Claim Act, 374

Allende, Salvador

election of, 18891

US obstruction of, 1913

Allies, bombardment of German cities, WWII, 11628

Amherst, Lord Jeffrey, 95

amnesties

restorative justice and, 332

trials and, 331

Anglo-American bombardment, of German cities, WWII, 11628

Angola, truth commissions and, 338

Annan, Kofi (UN Secretary-General), 299, 31314

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 2945

anti-globalization, global movement for democracy and, 320

anti-Semitism, Lemkin and, 215

apartheid, 361

Argentina

IMF policies, 316

truth commissions and, 333

Armenians, Turkey and, 79

arms transfer, Barre dictatorship and, 244

assassination program, Vietnam, 165, 166

assimilation, and North American Indians, 86

Atlacátl Brigade, as US trained, 158

atrocities

institutional responses and, 32743

US double-mindedness about, 14660

US imperialism and, 16478

see also torture; rape

Aussaresses, Paul, 6

Australian Aboriginals, 35, 36, 108

Ba’ath party, 268

Balkan Syndrome, depleted uranium and, 285

Bangladesh

charges against Kissinger and, 5, 218

creation of, 20512

human rights violations and, 20312

Barre, Siad, 24155

US assistance to, 2468

Basso, Lelio, 356

Baudouin, King, 237

Belgium

Congo and, 67, 11

death of Patrice Lumumba and, 23039

Rwanda and, 262

Belgrade, bombing of, 284

Bell, General J. Franklin, 154, 1558

Berlin, bombing of, 118

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 206

Biko, Steve, 368

Binza Group, 235

biological genocide, 81

definition of, 82

biological warfare, US imperialism and, 174

Black Hawk Down (film), 2523

black reparations movements, 36175

Blood Telegram, 2089

Blue Book

Herero and, 636

white settler unity and, 656

boarding schools, see residential schools

bombing, see aerial bombardment

Bosch, Orlando, 3967

Bosnia–Herzegovina

complicity and, 389, 42

NATO air-strikes and, 277

Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice, 135, 136

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros (UN Secretary-General), 38

Brazil

neoliberalism and, 318

reparations and, 365

Breytenbach, Breyten, 910

Briand–Kellogg pact, 181

Britain

bombing of German cities, 121

bombing of Yugoslavia, 290

crimes against Iraq and, 27073

German South West Africa and, 636

Wealth disparity, 3067

Brittain, Vera, 124

Bryce Report, 978

Bush, President George (Sr.), 3967

Somalia and, 2512

Butcher of Hargeisa, see Hersi, General Said

Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 261

Cambodia, 5

Kissinger and, 5, 207, 219

perpetrator population and, 338

US war crimes and, 355

Canada, 37, 834

complicity and, 40

residential schools, see residential schools, North American Indians

tribal dissolution and, 88

capitalism

defense of, 30810

neoliberal, contradictions of, 310

see also global capitalism

Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 92

Carmichael, Stokely, 354

Casement, Roger, 11

Castro, Fidel, 396

Chad, truth commissions and, 338

Chamberlain, Neville, on aerial

bombardment, 123

chemical warfare

US imperialism and, 174

US in Vietnam, 167

children

cluster bombs and, 2867

forced transfer of, 8890

in Iraq, 2658, 274

structural violence and, 299300, 305

Chile

CIA in, 18891

Kissinger and, 5, 210, 218

truth commissions and, 367

US intervention in, 18697

China

Kissinger and, 208

Chirac, Jacques, 6

Chivington, Colonel John, 88, 153

Churchill, Sir Winston, 124, 1256

CIA

Afghan prisoners of war and, 38990

Ba’ath party and, 268

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 284

in Chile, 18891

Congo and, 232, 238

death of Partice Lumumba and, 2346

Guatemala and, 1589

Phoenix program, 165

civilian deaths

Afghanistan, 388

bombing of Yugoslavia, 2815

Civilian Implementation Mission (CIM), 279

civilian infrastructure, Afghanistan, 3889

Clarion campaign, 122

Clark, Ramsey, 27073, 277

Iraq and, 265

Clinton, President Bill

Kosovo bombing and, 278

US crimes against Iraq and, 27073

cluster bombs, 2867

Cochran, Johnnie, 363, 370

Colby, William, 188

collateral damage, structural violence and, 299321

Cologne, bombing of, 118

Colombia, reparations and, 365

colonialism, 377

execution of hostages, 13940

indigenous peoples and, 356

massacre and, 147

reparations and, 467, 36175

Columbus, Christopher, 171

comfort women, Japan and, 356

communism, Congo and, 235

compensation, truth commissions and, 334

complicity

Barre dictatorship and, 2412

Kissinger and, 222

resonant, 357

as theme, 324

transnational crimes against humanity, 3149

see also perpetrator population; public participation

Concentration Camp Syndrome (CCS), residential schools and, 106

concentration camps, 1557

Guantánamo, 404

Herero–German war, 59, 62

Namibia, 60

Congo

Belgium and, 67, 11

CIA and, 238

death of Patrice Lumumba, 23039

Congolese National Movement (MNC-Lumumba), 233

conscience, aerial bombardment and, 1247

Constantinescu, President Emil, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 289

Contact Group Plan, NATO air-strikes and, 277

corporal punishment, residential schools and, 1013

covert war, US in Vietnam, 1667

crimes against humanity

definition of, 22, 371

transnational, 3149

criminal culpability, residential schools and, 11011

criminal law, retroactivity of, 2245

Cripps, Stafford, 349

Crocker, Dr Chester, 244, 245

Cuba

priorities of, 31314

US sanctions against, 3967

cultural genocide, definition of, 82

culture of impunity, obligations and, 448

cultures of resistance, residential schools and, 101

Cyprus, charges against Kissinger, 218

da Silva, Luis Ignacio Lula, 318

Dallaire, Lieutenant-General Romeo A., 261

Danube, bombing, 283, 289

Darwin, Charles, 299

de Beauvoir, Simone, 354

depleted uranium (DU), bombing of Yugoslavia and, 2856

democracy

anti-globalization and, 320

defense of, as pretext, 203

Moscow show trials and, 352

structural violence and, 311

truth commissions and, 3345

in Vietnam, 1667

‘democrisy’

definition of, 9

dissidence and, 818

denial

Herero past and, 66

Holocaust and, 79

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), 104, 105

Détachement Opérationnel de Protection (DOP), 140

Deutsche Bund in Südwestafrika, white settler unity and, 65

Deuxième Bureau, 140

development assistance, structural violence and, 41, 49

development gap, US imperialism and, 171

DeVine, Michael, 158

Devlin, Lawrence, 2389

Dewey, John, 3512

Dewey Commission, 3523

Dimitrov, Georgi, 350

diplomatic failure, US intervention in Chile, 1935

direct participation

complicity and, 423

definition of, 34

disease, indirect killing by, 959

Dresden, 126

bombing of, 118, 182

Churchill on, 1256

drugs money, KLA and, 287

Durban Conference (2001), 371

East Timor, 5, 148

charges against Kissinger and, 5, 218

forced resettlement, 1557

US psywar and, 153, 1559

see also Indonesia

economic expansion, structural violence and, 312

economic sanctions

Iraq and, 2656, 2735

US intervention in Chile, 1912

education

for extinction, 87

imposing oppressor’s national pattern and, 923

North American Indians and, 84

Egypt

aid to Barre regime and, 249

arms for Rwanda, 40

electric shocks, 14041

Elkhorn School, Manitoba, 93, 94

El Mozote, massacre at, 149

El Salvador

death squads, 158

truth commissions, 367

US-backed atrocities in, 1489

US-trained forces and, 155

Endecott, John, 172

enemy, definitions of, 137

English, exclusive use of, 912

Enola Gay, 1267

environment

protection of, 321

structural violence and, 31113

treated as infinite resource, 312

environmental degradation, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 284

epidemics, residential schools and, 959

Estorff, Major von, Herero and, 62

ethical dilemmas

aerial bombardment and, 1247

‘just war’ concept, 116

ethnic cleansing, KLA and, 288

Eurocentrism, origins of human rights and, 2012

European Economic Commission (EEC), aid to Barre regime and, 249

extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl), Herero and, 612

Feraoun, Mouloud, 141

Final Solution, see Holocaust

Fischer, Joschka, 59

flogging, Herero and, 64

forced expulsions, 281

forced labor, as slow death measure in residential schools, 99101

foreign courts, trials in, 337

foreign governments, truth commissions and, 3389

‘forever war’, Vietnam as, 1758

Fort Benning, Georgia, 151, 152

40 Committee, 189

France

Algeria and, 6, 13444, 147

attacks on legitimacy of law, 143

complicity in Rwanda, 40

reparations and, 363

FRAPH death squads, 331

foreign governments and, 339

‘free fire’ zone, 165, 167

free trade, 308

G7 nations and, 317

Frei, President Eduardo, 188

French Army, in Algeria, 13444

French military

legality of actions of, 13842

torture and, 1424

Friedman, Milton, 308

Garzon, Judge Baltasar, 187, 210

Geneva Accords (1954), US thwarting of, 1667

Geneva Convention, 1367

violations of, in Iraq, 267

genocide

biological, 81

definition of, 35, 789, 8083, 398

Iraq and, 2649

Lemkin’s definition of, 21617

origin of word, 21415

and Rwanda, 2623

UN definition and colonial cases, 35

Genocide Convention, Vietnam war crimes and, 355

German cities, bombing of, 11628

Germany, Herero of South Africa and, 5973

global capitalism, tribunals and, 348, 357

global warming, 311

obligations and, 47

global wealth, 3058

globalization, 34

definition of, 308

as destructive process, 434

as greed, 31519

opposition movement, 178

as political freedom, 308

US imperialism and, 171, 175

Goering, Hermann, 350

Greece

charges against Kissinger and, 218

depleted uranium and, 286

US war crimes and, 293

Group of Seven (G7), 357

free trade and, 317

Guantánamo, Cuba, 389, 404

Guatemala

Commission for Historical Clarification, 338

US aid and, 158

US-trained forces and, 1545

Gulf War (1990), 277

cluster bombs and, 287

depleted uranium and, 285

Gulf War Syndrome, 285

Guzmán Tapia, Judge Juan, 196

H-Genocide email list, censorship on, 3979

Hague Convention (1907), 168

Martens clause in, 348

Haiti, US imperialism and, 174

Hamburg, bombing of, 118

Harris, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’, 121, 126

Hart, Liddell, 124

Health issues, poverty and, 302

Helms, Richard, 189, 1913

Herero, 6063

denial of past of, 66

Imperial Germany and, 5973

Namibian independence and, 71

nationalist struggle and, 70

representations to UN, 679

unity and, 71

Herero Peoples Reparations Corporation (HPRC), 72

Hersi, General Said, 246

Hiroshima, bombing of, 182

Hitchens, Christopher, on Henry Kissinger, 5, 2079, 21819

Hitler, Adolf, 33, 172, 348

Ho Chi Minh, 166, 354

Hoare, Colonel Mike, 232

Holbrooke, Richard, 2778

Holocaust, 789

complicity and, 32

globalization and, 44

Herero and, 69

intentionality and, 33

settlement for slave laborers, 363

trials and, 331

Holocaust Slave Reparations Fund, 374

Home Child program, British policies and, 108

Horman, Charles, US intervention in Chile, 1937

hostages, killing of, 13940

US policy and, 1578

housing, damaged in German cities, 117

Howe, Admiral Jonathan, 252

human rights

Eurocentrism and, 2012

international citizens’ tribunals, 34659

law and, 327

as pretext for Western political action, 20112

Human Rights Watch, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 282

Hungary

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 289

Soviet suppression and, 336

hunger, as avoidable, 310

Hussein, President Saddam, 268

Hutu Power forces, 261

perpetrator population and, 338

identity, destruction of, in residential schools, 9092

Imperial Germany, Herero and, 5973

imperialism

globalization and, 315

US, 16478, 3924

impunity, obligations and, 448

inclusive democracy, 320

independence, judiciary and, 337

indifference

complicity and, 379

definition of, 34

indigenous peoples, 35, 36

alcoholism and, 1078

colonial policies and, 356

languages of, prohibition on speaking, 912

US imperialism and, 170

see also individual peoples

indirect killing, by disease, 959

Indonesia

atrocities and, 148

US double-mindedness about, 14952

US psywar and, 1559

see also East Timor

Indonesian Army (ABRI), US support for, 150

Information Awareness Office, 394

information gathering, torture and, 13840

instability, regional

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 28990

KLA and, 2879

institutional responses

future social unrest and, 342

mass atrocity and, 32743

reparations and, 46

international legislation, Kissinger and, 22021

international citizens’ tribunals

human rights and, 34659

Moscow show trials, 3513

reform and, 3589

Reichstag fire and, 34851

Vietnam war crimes and, 3535

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 136, 262

International Criminal Court (ICC), 358

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), 227

International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, 356

international law, bombing of German cities and, 1214

International Military Education and Training (IMET), 152

International Military Tribunal (IMT), Nuremberg, 22021

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

aid to Barre regime and, 249

Argentina and, 316

Yugoslavia and, 304

International War Crimes Tribunal, 353

internment

and French Army in Algeria, 1389

North American Indians and, 95

intervention, culture of impunity and, 45

Iraq

aerial bombardment of, 275

sanctions and, 3946

UN Security Council and, 2735

US crimes against, 2703

US occupation of, 8

US policy and, 2649

Ireland, British policies in, 108

Israel

Holocaust and, 79

reparations and, 371

Italy, aid to Barre regime and, 248

Jamaica, reparations and, 363

Japan

comfort women and, 356

wealth and, 305

Johnson, President, 151

Joint Combined Education and Training (J-CET), 152

Jones, Commissioner William A., 87

Judeocide, see Holocaust

judiciary, independence of, 337

just war concept, 116

Kabila, Laurent, 239

Kapuuo, Clemens, 69

Kasavubu, President Joseph, 233, 2356

Katanga, 2312

Katjavivi, Peter, 70

Keating, Colin, 2623

Kenya, reparations and, 363

Kenyatta, Jomo, 364

Kerrey, Bob, 45, 43, 164, 166, 1767

KFOR, KLA and, 288

Khulumani Support Group (KSG), 361, 374

Khymer Rouge, perpetrator population and, 338

Kissinger, Henry, 56, 8

accusations against, 20911

in Chile, 18997

complicity and, 43

Christopher Hitchens on, 5, 2079, 21819

indicting, 21827

international legislation and, 22021

retroactive criminal law and, 2245

Kohl, Chancellor Helmut, 71

Kopassus Red Berets (RPKAD)

US support for, 150

US-trained forces and, 1559

Korry, Edward, 1889, 190

Kosovo

economic implosion and, 304

NATO bombing and, 27896

Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), 2789

in Macedonia, 290

regional instability and, 2879

Krstic, General Radislav, 293

Ku Klux Klan, 85

Kutako, Hosea, 69

labor, forced, in residential schools, 99101

Lacoste, Robert, 136

landmines, US in Vietnam, 167

Laos, 5

Kissinger and, 5, 207

Latin America, truth commissions, 332

Latin American republics, US imperialism and, 1723

Lau, Brigitte, 66

law, 337

black reparations movements and, 3634

and French Army in Algeria, 13444

Kissinger and, 22021

and violence, 13842

League of Nations, anti-Semitism and, 215

legal strategies, black reparations movements and, 3634

legislation, international, Kissinger and, 22021

Lemkin, Raphael, 8083, 21427

Leupp, Francis, 86

libertarian municipalism, 320

Lincoln, President Abraham, 201

Liverpool, slave trade, 78

loans, globalization and, 316

Lumumba, Patrice, 7

death of, 23039

Lynd, Staughton, 354

Macedonia, bombing of, 28990

Mackenzie, General Lewis, 252

McVeigh, Timothy, 3

Major, Prime Minister John, crimes against Iraq and, 27073

managed atrocities, definition of, 148

Mandela, Nelson, 314

Mapirapan, Columbia, 155

market democracies, 308

mass movement, black reparations and, 3623

mass transfers, in Canada, 84

massacre, US double-mindedness about, 14660

material contributions

complicity and, 3942

definition of, 34

material resources, 34041

Mbeki, Thabo, 407

Mekong Delta, US imperialism and, 1646

Menchú, Rigoberta, 196

Mengistu Haile Mariam, Colonel, 242, 245

mercenary troops

complicity and, 412

Congo and, 232

Mescalero Apache Reservation, 89

military, spending on, 307

military coup, US intervention in Chile, 1935

Milosevic, Slobodan, 227, 27980

Albanian deaths and, 293

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 285

Kissinger and, 210

Operation Deliberate Force and, 2778

Missing (film), and US intervention in Chile, 194

missionaries, Herero and, 623

Mitchell, Colonel William J. Billy, 173

Mobutu, Joseph-Desiré (Mobutu Sese Seko), 232, 233, 234

mode of transmission, institutionalization and, 33940

Mogadishu, US troops and, 2523

Mollet, Guy, 135

Montenegro, bombing, 283

moral responsibility, death of Patrice Lumumba and, 23039

Moscow show trials, 3513

Muenzenberg, Willi, 349

Mugabe, Robert, 364

Mumia Abu-Jamal, 357

Murillo, Governor Luis, 365

Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, 3

Musharraf, President Pervez, 21112

Muslim nationalism, 20312

Namibia

Herero–German war and, 59, 6063

independence, Herero unity and, 71

UN and, 67

napalm, US in Vietnam, 167

national pattern

destruction of, in oppressed groups, 9092

imposing that of oppressor, 923

nationalist parties, Namibia and, 69

nationalist struggle, Herero and, 70

native peoples, see indigenous peoples

NATO

war crimes and, 293

Yugoslavia and, 160, 27696

Nazism

crimes of, 181

Holocaust and, 32, 33, 44, 789, 331

‘just war’ concept and, 116

Nendaka, Victor, 234

neoliberalism, definition of, 308

New Deal

residential schools and, 97

Ngo Dinh Diem, 166

Niazi, Lieutenant-General A.A.K., 205

Nicaragua

US-backed atrocities in, 1489

US imperialism and, 174

Nigeria

poverty and, 301

Shell and, 40

Nixon, President Richard

Allende and, 191

US intervention in Chile, 189, 192

North America, 836

see also Canada; US

North American Indians, 78111

alcoholism, 1078

colonial policies and, 356

education and, 84, 85

health laws, 858

heirship problem, 867

as ‘not human’, 878

residential schools, see residential schools, North American Indians

North American News Sources (FIN), 194

North, Oliver, 150

Northern Alliance, 384, 387

Novi Sad, bombing of, 283

nuclear attack, Iraq and, 3956

nuclear weapons, obligations and, 47

Nuremberg Principles, and US in Vietnam, 168

Nuremberg Tribunal, 1814

aerial bombardment and, 126

Kissinger and, 22021

war crime definition and, 127

O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 231

obedience, residential schools and, 92

Oblates’ schools

St. Joseph’s, Williams Lake, 104

St. Philip’s, Saskatchewan, 102

obligations, impunity and, 448

Ogletree, Charles, 363, 370

oil, Barre dictatorship and, 2434

Oil-for-Food program, Iraq and, 2656

Okahandja, Namibia, 60

Operation Allied Force, 276, 27696, 27980

US war crimes and, 2925

Operation Anvil, 363

Operation Barracuda, 234

Operation Condor, 187, 196

Operation Deliberate Force, 277

Operation Endless Deployment, 3924

Operation Gomorrah, 118

Operation Speedy Express, 165

Operation Thunderclap, 118, 122

Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), 144

Pakistan, 20312

aid supply and, 386

Pan-African Truth and Reparations

Commission, 36972

Panama, US seizing of, 1723

Patria y Libertad, 190

patriotism, residential schools and, 91, 92

Pax Americana, 383

pedophilia, residential schools and, 1035

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), 356

Pershing, General, 154

personnel resources, 34041

Philippines, self-determination and, 356

physical genocide, definition of, 82

Pilger, John, 383

Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 85

Pinochet, Augusto, 226

arrest of, 186

declassification of documents, 187

Kissinger and, 20910

Pinter, Harold, US imperialism and, 1745

Pires, Alexander, 363, 370

Poindexter, John, 394

political campaign, reparations and, 3646

political freedom, globalization as, 308

political identity, obligations and, 48

political will, institutional responses and, 341

Portal, Sir Charles, 121

possession, structural violence and, 312

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), residential schools and, 106

poverty

as avoidable, 310

globalization as cure for, 308

health issues and, 3023

structural violence and, 299300, 305

powerlessness

Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal and, 183

as virtue, 347

Prabowo, General, 1512

Pratt, Captain Richard Henry, 87, 92

prisoners of war, Afghanistan and, 38990

Project Wizard, 234

Provisional Government for the Algerian

Republic (GPRA), 137

psychological dysfunction, residential schools and, 1056

psychological war (psywar)

Afghanistan and, 3878

developing, 1525

East Timor and, 1559

managed atrocity and, 148

public participation

Holocaust and, 32

see also complicity; perpetrator populations

punishment, residential schools and, 1013

Raboteau trial, Haiti, 331

racial identity, reparations and, 46

racism, 3779

Britain and, 78

radiation, depleted uranium and, 2856

Rahman, Justice Hammodur, 203

Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, 204, 207

Rambouillet Peace Agreement, 279, 291

rape, 1412

Reagan, President Ronald, Barre dictatorship and, 244

realpolitik, charges against Kissinger and, 218

rebels, definition of, 139

recompense, see reparations

reconciliation, truth commissions and, 3345

Red Berets (RPKAD)

US support for, 150

US-trained forces and, 1559

refugees, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 281, 2878, 294

regional instability

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 28990

KLA and, 2879

rehabilitation, truth commissions and, 334

Reichstag fire trial (1933), 34851

relocation, US pacification program, 1567

reparations, 467

culture of impunity and, 45

Herero of and, 5973

sources of claims, 46(table)

types of claims, 47(table)

residential districts, aerial bombardment of, 11819

Residential School Syndrome (RSS), 1056

residential schools, North American

Indians, 78111

Christian religion in, 9091, 923

Concentration Camp Syndrome, 106

corporal punishment, 1013

destruction of identity, 9092

epidemics in, 959

expenditure per child, 93, 94

forced labor, 99101

forced transfer of children, 89

pedophilia, 1035

post-traumatic stress disorder, 106

punishment, 101

renaming in, 90

slow death measures, 935, 99101

starvation, 935

suicide, 1023

torture, 1013

tuberculosis, 96

resistance, residential schools and, 101

resonant complicity, 357

definition of, 34

restoration, in Vietnam, 176

restorative justice, truth commissions and, 3323

retributive justice, 327, 32830

definition of, 328

trials and, 329

retroactive criminal law

and Kissinger, 2245

right to protection from, 225, 336

Riaruako, Dr Kuaima, 72

Robinson, Randall, 370

Romania

bombing of Yugoslavia and, 289

Kissinger and, 208

Romero, Archbishop Oscar, 158

Roosevelt, President

on aerial bombardment, 123

Panama and, 1723

Rosewood Compensation Act (1994), 364

Roskilde hearings, 355

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), forced transfer of children and, 89

rule of law

trials and, 331

truth commissions and, 3345

Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary Donald, 253

Afghan prisoners and, 392

Russell, Bertrand, 347, 3534

Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal, 1815, 3534

Russia, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 294

Rwanda, 227, 26063

complicity and, 378, 40

institutional responses and, 341

perpetrator population and, 338

Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), 261

Ryan, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick, 194

sanctions, 2656

UN Security Council and, 2735

Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 88, 153

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1815, 354

colonization and, 1089

Sarwo Edhie, US psywar and, 155

Saudi Arabia, aid to Barre regime and, 249

Schneider, René, 197

kidnapping of, 19091, 196

Schrader, Carl, Herero and, 69

Scott, Duncan Campbell, 88, 95, 98, 102

Scott, Michael, Herero representations to UN, 679

secular theodicy, obligations and, 48

security forces

privatization of, 412

see also mercenary troops

segregation, need for truth and reparations commission on, 36175

selective intervention

complicity and, 379

definition of, 34

September 11th attacks, 299, 383, 392

Iraq sanctions and, 394

Serbia, complicity and, 42

Serbian Radio and Television headquarters, bombing of, 283

sexual terrorism, residential schools and, 1035

Shebarghan, Afghan prisoners of war and, 390

Shell, complicity in Nigeria, 40

Sheridan, General Phil, 87

Sherman, General William Tecumseh, 172, 364

Siddon, Tom, 1045

Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 214

Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 339

Simes, Dr. A.B., 93, 94

slavery, 3779

Britain and, 78

global capitalist system and, 370

need for truth and reparations commission on, 36175

US imperialism and, 17071

slow death measures, residential schools, 935, 99101

smallpox, North American Indians and, 95

Smith, Adam, 313

Smith, Captain John, 172

Somalia, US embassy in, 247

social unrest, institutional responses and, 342

socialism, US obstruction of, in Chile, 1913

Somali National Movement (SNM), 245

Somalia

avoiding responsibility for, 2524

Barre dictatorship and, 24155

US reactions to 1988 massacres, 25051

South Africa

complicity and, 337

institutional responses and, 341

truth commissions and, 333

South African Truth and Reconciliation

Commission (TRC), 3678

South West African National Union

(SWANU), Herero and, 69

South West African Peoples Organization

(SWAPO), Herero and, 69

Southern Africa

Imperial Germany and, 5973

recompense for Herero, 5973

Sovereignty Package, 84, 846

Soviet Union

Barre dictatorship and, 2412

Moscow show trials, 3513

suppression in Hungary and, 336

Spanish–American war, 172

Srebrenica, complicity and, 389

Stalinism, Moscow show trials and, 352

Star Wars ballistic missile defense, 307

starvation

in Afghanistan, 3845

as avoidable, 310

residential schools and, 935

state terrorism, Afghanistan and, 3878

station policy, Australian Aboriginals and, 108

Stockholm Syndrome, residential schools and, 106

structural adjustment policies (SAPs)

globalization and, 316

US imperialism and, 171

structural violence

democratized economies and, 319

development assistance and, 41, 49

human cost of, 299321

subsidies, 318

free trade and, 318

Sudan, complicity and, 40, 41

Suharto, General, US support for, 150

suicide, residential schools and, 1023

supervenience, definition of, 33

SWANU, Herero unity and, 71

SWAPO, Herero unity and, 71

Taliban, 384

as prisoners of war, 38992

stability after fall of, 386, 387

Talisman, complicity in Sudan, 40

terror bombing, 120

terrorism

definition of, 387

economics and, 299

US as responsible for, 314

Teruggi, Frank, US intervention in Chile, 194

Thanh Phong

Bob Kerrey and, 164

US war crimes and, 45

Thousand Bomber Raid, 118

Thucydides, 8

Torgler, Ernst, 349, 350

torture

Afghan prisoners of war and, 38990

as entrenched in ‘civilized’ behavior, 141

and French Army in Algeria, 6, 13844

information-gathering and, 13841

residential schools and, 1013

US troops and, 3912

Total Information Awareness system, 394

totalitarian states, 308

toxic gases, bombing of Yugoslavia and, 284

transfer, forced, 8890

transnational, definition of, 31

transnational crimes against humanity, 3149

transnational democracy, 357

trials

accountability and, 330

amnesties and, 331

Holocaust and, 331

independence of judiciary and, 337

retributive justice and, 329

rule of law and, 331

truth and, 33031

victim recognition and, 330

tribunal movement, 3568

tribunals

international citizens’, 34659

retributive justice and, 32830

Trotha, Lieutenant-General Lothar von, 612

denial of Herero past and, 66

Rev. Michael Scott and, 68

Trotsky, Leon, 3513

truckers’ strike, Chile, 193

truth commissions, 3278, 333, 3669

accountability and, 333

Angola, 338

Argentina, 333

Chad, 338

Chile, 367

compensation and, 334

definition of, 332

democracy and, 3345

El Salvador, 367

independence of judiciary and, 337

Latin America, 332

Pan-African, 36972

reconciliation and, 3345

rehabilitation and, 334

restorative justice and, 3323

rule of law and, 3345

Sierra Leone, 339

on slavery, 36175

South Africa, 333, 3678

therapeutic benefits, 333

truth and, 333

victim recognition and, 334

Zimbabwe, 341

truth and reparations committee on slavery, segregation and colonialism, 36175

Tshombe, Moïse, 2312, 236

tuberculosis bacillus, North American Indians and, 96

Turkey, Armenians and, 79

Tutsi, 26063

UK, see Britain

UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), 261

UN Charter, and US in Vietnam, 168

UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 83, 220

UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), 81, 83

UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), 280

UN Resolutions, 2656, 291

UN Security Council

crimes against Iraq and, 2735

economic sanctions and, 2678

Herero and, 679

Iraq and, 2656

lack of challenge to, 263

Rwanda and, 38, 26063

Secrecy of meetings, 260

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 202

US

aerial bombardment by, 1212, 27696, 3849

Afghan prisoners-of-war and, 38990

aid supply to Afghanistan, 386

alliance with Algeria, 393

Barre dictatorship and, 2412, 2468

Chile and, 18697

critique of actions of, 10

death of Patrice Lumumba and, 2346

death of Moïse Tshombe and, 236

double mindedness about atrocity, 14660

Geneva Accords and, 1667

global capitalism and, 315, 357

imperialism, 16478

Indonesia and, 14952, 1559

Iraq and, 8, 1535, 2649, 27073

military build-up since September 11th attacks, 3924

military–industrial complex and, 307

NATO’s founding agreement and, 291

North American Indians and, 846

poverty and, 302

psywar, 1529

reparations and, 3712

as responsible for terrorism, 314

Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal and, 183

Rwanda and, 38

Somalia, reactions to massacres in 1988, 25051

slavery and, 17071, 361, 3779

torture and, 389, 3912, 404

Vietnam, intervention in, 1679, 3535

war crimes and, 36, 2925, 3535

wealth disparity and, 306

US Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 85

US Institute for Peace (USIP), 244

US Torture Victim Protection Act (1991), 337

US–Philippine war, 1534

van der Lubbe, Marinus, 34851

Vernichtung, problematization of term, 66

victim recognition

trials and, 330

truth commissions and, 334

Vietnam, 45, 43, 1589, 164, 166, 1767

charges against Kissinger and, 218

corpse display, 156

as ‘forever war’, 1758

imperialism and, 16970

restoration in, 176

Kissinger and, 5, 207

Russell War Crimes Tribunal, 1815

US and Geneva Accords (1954), 1667

US imperialism and, 16478

US war crimes and, 45, 2925, 3535

war against terrorism, as fig leaf, 4045

war crimes

definition of, 127

US and, 45, 2925, 3535

War Crimes Tribunal, need for permanent, 1845

Washington Consensus, 315

Washington, George, 172

water, and sanctions in Iraq, 266

water supplies, 311

Waterberg, annihilation of Herero at, 61

West, definition of, 21

West Pakistan, Kissinger and, 5

Western complicity, 3149

Barre dictatorship and, 2412

Western Europe, wealth and, 305

white settler unity, Blue Book and, 656

Wilson, President Woodrow, 201

US imperialism and, 173

Windhoek

British command in, 634

hanging of Herero at, 623

Rev. Michael Scott at, 67

wiretapping, Kissinger and, 219

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 78, 109

women, attack on ‘purity’ of, 1412

World Bank

aid to Barre regime and, 249

Yugoslavia and, 304

World Conferences against Racism, 361, 3779

world peace, US as threat to, 314

World War II, aerial bombardment of German cities, 11628

Yahya Khan, General, 2056, 207, 209

Yanomami, of Brazil and Venezuela, 35

Yugoslavia

bombing of, 27696

complicity and, 389

economic implosion and, 304

NATO and, 160

Zapatista revolt, 178

Zimbabwe, truth commission, 341