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All the missing souls : a personal history of the war crimes tribunals

Scheffer, David

2012,2011,2013

Overview

Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. All the Missing Souls is Scheffer's gripping insider's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time. Scheffer reveals the truth behind Washington's failures during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the anemic hunt for notorious war criminals, how American exceptionalism undercut his diplomacy, and the perilous quests for accountability in Kosovo and Cambodia. He takes readers from the killing fields of Sierra Leone to the political back rooms of the U.N. Security Council, providing candid portraits of major figures such as Madeleine Albright, Anthony Lake, Richard Goldstone, Louise Arbour, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, Richard Holbrooke, and Wesley Clark, among others. -- From publisher description.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 1993-2001 / 20th century / Arrest warrant / Bill Clinton / Biography / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political / Cambodia / Carla Del Ponte / Civilian / Crimes against humanity / Customary international law / David Scheffer / Defendant / Department of State / Dept. of State / Diplomacy / Elizaphan Ntakirutimana / Ethnic cleansing / Extradition / Foreign policy / Foreign relations / Fugitive / General biography and genealogy / Geneva Conventions / History / Hostage / Human Rights Watch / Imprisonment / Impunity / Indictment / Injustice / Insurgency / International Committee of the Red Cross / International Court of Justice / International Criminal Court / International criminal courts / International criminal courts -- History -- 20th century / International criminal jurisdiction / International criminal law / International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / International humanitarian law / International law / International Military Tribunal for the Far East / John Shattuck / Jurisdiction / Justice / Khmer Rouge / Kofi Annan / Kosovo / Lawyer / Lawyers / Lawyers -- United States -- Biography / Legislation / Madeleine Albright / Member state / Military occupation / Nuremberg / Nuremberg trials / Officials and employees / Peacekeeping / Persecution / Personal Memoirs / Pol Pot / Political / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights / POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy / Prosecutor / Radovan Karadžic / Ratification / Ratko Mladic / Richard Goldstone / Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court / Rwanda / Rwandan genocide / Scheffer, David / Sierra Leone / Special court / Special Court for Sierra Leone / Srebrenica / Statute / Terrorism / Torture / Treaty / Tribunal / Tutsi / U.S.A / United Nations / United Nations Convention against Torture / United Nations Security Council / United States / United States -- Foreign relations -- 1993-2001 / United States Department of State / United States. Dept. of State -- Officials and employees -- Biography / War / War crime / War crimes / Warfare / World War II / Writing / Yugoslavia
• ISBN: 0691157847, 9780691157849, 9781400839483, 1400839483, 0691140154, 9780691140155