Genocide and international law
Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm
On the occasion of the publication of Yves Ternon’s books Genocide. Anatomy of a Crime, ed. Armand Colin, 2016, and Genesis of International Law. Des pères fondateurs aux conférences de La Haye, ed. Karthala, 2016.
Excerpt from the back cover of the book "Genocide, anatomy of a crime" by Yves Ternon, Armand Colin, 2016.
A comparative approach of three proven genocides of the 20th century – European Jews, Armenians from the Ottoman Empire, and Tutsi from Rwanda – allows us to understand the specificity of the crime of genocide. International criminal justice, born in the 20th century, is the consecration of the work carried out since antiquity by jurists who, each in his own political space and the movement of thought of his time, founded international law.
