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International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts. By Chile Eboe-Osuji. Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012. Pp. xvii, 354. Index. $178, €130.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
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1 An illustrative but not exhaustive list of book length contributions to this literature includes Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals(1997);Human Rights Watch, Shattered Lives:Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath(1996); Nicola Henry, War and Rape:Law, Memory and Justice (2011).
2 see Statute of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Art. 5(g), SC Res. 827, annex (May 25, 1993); Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, Art. 3(g), SC Res. 955, annex (Nov. 8, 1994).
3 see Prosecutor v. Akayesu, No. ICTR-96-4-T, Judgment, para. 731 (Sept. 2, 1998).
4 As William Schabas’s foreword to the book observes, there is evidence that the crime of rape was proscribed in the laws of war as early as the Lieber Code during the American Civil War (p. xvi).
5 See, e.g., Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem:A Report on the Banality of Evil(1963); Arne Johan Vetlesen, Evil and Human Agency:Understanding Collective Evildoing (2005).
6 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Art. 25(3)(c), July 17, 1998, 2187 UNTS 90.
7 see Prosecutor v. Tadić, Appeal on Jurisdiction, No. IT-94-1-AR72, pt. 4 (Oct. 2, 1995) (sep. op. AbiSaab, J.).