Innocent Civilians

Innocent Civilians
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781403907462
ISBN-13 : 1403907463
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Download or read book Innocent Civilians written by C. McKeogh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice.


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