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Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law

Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law

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General LawGeneral Military HistoryGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0765806630
ISBN13: 9780765806635
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 1999
Pages: 327
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries. Prosecutors and judges in such cases, says Osiel, rightly aim to shape collective memory. They can do so hi ways successful as public spectacle and consistent with liberal legality. In defending this interpretation, he examines the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials, the Eicnmann prosecution, and more recent trials in Argentina and France. Such trials can never summon up a collective conscience of moral principles shared by all, he argues. But they can nonetheless contribute to a little-noticed kind of social solidarity.

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