Throughout history humanity has been through countless wars waging from B.C. to present day. In every war there has been a massacre of innocent lives due to religious or social reasons. Today we call the gruesome event Genocide. Howard Ball in his book Genocide: a Reference Book goes through detail of how after World War II; Humanity starts to look at these massacres as not just crimes of war or of injustice, but crimes against Humanity itself.
In pages of the book, Howard Ball not only explains the events but also the solutions that the world took in order to deal with the atrocity of war. In the first few chapters he explains the events of World War II and how after the United Nations “would devise strategies to stop” mass murders and bring aid to the victims as soon as possible (Ball 31). After that it talks about the creations of ICC’s (or better known as the International Criminal Courts) to bring justice to does who were responsible for the horrific events. Later in the book in gives examples of certain people who putt on trial of their crimes and were successfully given justice based on their crimes. …show more content…
In the book there are many treaties and ideas that take too long or never happened due the lack of support from the international community. For an example, when the UN wanted to implement the ICC for all war crimes the United States of America “voted against all future resolutions establishing UN operations” because you know America needs to be in everything (Ball 82). Yes America voted yes under the Clinton administration and then it got revoked by Bush because it would not stand up for America’s constitution. The reason why the ICC did not wanted to be biased based on one nations polices. Sadly these lack of support caused victims to suffer longer in Rwanda where a whole ethic group was massacred because they were not the
In pages of the book, Howard Ball not only explains the events but also the solutions that the world took in order to deal with the atrocity of war. In the first few chapters he explains the events of World War II and how after the United Nations “would devise strategies to stop” mass murders and bring aid to the victims as soon as possible (Ball 31). After that it talks about the creations of ICC’s (or better known as the International Criminal Courts) to bring justice to does who were responsible for the horrific events. Later in the book in gives examples of certain people who putt on trial of their crimes and were successfully given justice based on their crimes. …show more content…
In the book there are many treaties and ideas that take too long or never happened due the lack of support from the international community. For an example, when the UN wanted to implement the ICC for all war crimes the United States of America “voted against all future resolutions establishing UN operations” because you know America needs to be in everything (Ball 82). Yes America voted yes under the Clinton administration and then it got revoked by Bush because it would not stand up for America’s constitution. The reason why the ICC did not wanted to be biased based on one nations polices. Sadly these lack of support caused victims to suffer longer in Rwanda where a whole ethic group was massacred because they were not the