From Belfast to Basra, and Back Again
Автор:
Susan McKay, 144 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781781486528
Susan McKay is an author and journalist based in Dublin. She is the author of the highly acclaimed "Bear In Mind These Dead" (2008) and the widely praised "Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People" (2005). From the Introduction by Gareth Peirce: "This record of the tiny organisation, British Irish Rights Watch, operating on barely a shoestring, is highly educative. Achieving the organisation's objective - to use international law as a framework in which to challenge the British state's actions towards individuals and entire communities in the North of Ireland - had to depend, first and foremost, on the vigorous pursuit and collection of evidence, building up from unchallengeable data, the "data" being the detailed experience of men and women of decades of profound injustice. Of course familiarity with detail means that its repetition in other arenas can be immediately recognized and analysed - torture by the British Army in Iraq in 2003 employing the same techniques used (and...
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