TYRANTS WREAKING DEATH and destruction are much in the news lately. Saddam Hussein has been charged with crimes against humanity, and will eventually be tried in Baghdad. Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian President, is on trial in The Hague, accused of war crimes and genocide in Bosnia. In both cases, the challenge before the prosecutors is to prove that the defendant exercised ‘command responsibility’, meaning that he either ordered atrocities, or knew they were occurring and did nothing to stop them.

Literary Review

Aug 2004

Categories

Adam LeBor

The Decline and Fall of a Friendship

A Nice Little Earner

Blood Lines

Not All it Seems

The Swedish Schindler

Seeds of Discord

The Dark Side

Hunting the Stern Group

Aftershocks of the Risorgimento

The Other Naqba

Divided City

Ottoman Atrocity

Black Vs White

Touching the Void

Change by the Sea

Atrocity in Europe

Drunk Again, Khayyam?

The Ottoman Question

1967 & All That

The Battle for Budapest

A Gigantic ‘Balagan’

Report from Sarajevo

If These Pages Could Talk

What a State to Be In