Centuries of work by moral philosophers, and military, theological and legal scholars have produced what must strike any reasonable person as equable, if not altogether comprehensive, international standards for the ethical treatment of innocents in time of war. Genocide and war crimes are nothing new under the sun, as a cursory perusal of the Book of Esther, or the instructions given the Hebrews in Leviticus as to how they were to conduct themselves vis a vis the inhabitants of the promised lands they were about to take possession of, will confirm. The war crimes trials now going on in the former Yugoslavia have reopened the question of the causes of atrocity raised after the realities of the Nazi death camps were brought home to the rest of the world 50 years ago. Orono ME 04469-5711 "Nowadays there's no such animal as a noncombatant" Guerrilla Warfare - JSCOPE XIX GUERRILLA WARFARE WHEN TAKING CARE OF YOUR MEN LEADS TO WAR CRIMES by Davida Kellogg
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