Thousands of Darfurian refugees huddled under straggly trees in furnace-like heat and unforgiving desert winds in Eastern Chad while a group of Physicians for Human Rights experts stared at the landscape. Goats, donkeys, and other livestock looked like mere skeletons. That was nearly three months ago, following a field investigation in which dozens of eyewitness […]
Richard Goldstone
Richard J. Goldstone is the the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, who served as a chief prosecutor with the United Nations' international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia.
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Exposing Atrocity
Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, Priscilla B. Hayner. Routledge, 340 pages, $27.50. In South Africa under apartheid, so many whites who benefitedfrom the system did not question the human costs–the deaths indetention, the forced removals of hundreds of thousands of their fellowcitizens, and the laws that demeaned and attacked the very dignity ofthe […]