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"...International law is political... We must abandon the myth
that with law we enter the secure, stable and determinate. In reality we
are simply engaged in another discursive political practice about how we
should live.." -
Dr
Colin J Harvey [see also
Human Rights & the Tamil
Nation ]
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* Omer Yousif Elagab - International
Law Documents Relating to Terrorism
"The book provides a single text covering all the basic documents in
international law relating to terrorism, extracts from judicial decisions and the relevant
UK material." more
Goodhart, Lord William et al. Judicial
Independence in Sri Lanka - Report of a Mission to Sri Lanka (14-23 September 1977) by
the Centre for the Independence of Judges and lawyers, Geneva Switzerland, 1998
* Primo Tregua Levi
-
If
This Is a Man and the Truce (Penguin Modern Classics)
From reviews at Amazon.com: "If I had to nominate one book from
the 20th century to give to a person from another century it would be this one.
Reading 'If This Is A Man' was a humbling experience in a way that no
other book or movie I have encountered in my life has been.
People sometimes suggest that the Holocaust is old news, part
of a long ago past. The day after I finished Levi's book I heard five English
soccer fans singing songs about Belsen, imitating the sound of gas escaping and
yelling "turn on the shower" - and laughing. I've debated with
educated Americans who believe the Holocaust was exaggerated and that most of
the deaths were caused by disease. One in seven French voters support a man who
is in Holocaust denial. Perhaps these people would not be changed by this book,
but I hope that a hundred years from now, millions of people will still be
reading Primo Levi and learning from this sad, brave, modest man.
If you are a man, no matter if you're Jew or German or
whatever else, you cannot read this book emotionless. This is something so
strong words are not enough to describe it. Nobody must forget, nobody must
repeat what's so honestly described in this pages. Primo Levi committed suicide
40 years later, never able to chase those days off his days and nights. We owe
him and everybody who suffered that atrocity at least the promise to keep on
reading his testimony, generation after generation, no matter our race, religion
or gender..."
* Primo Tregua Levi - Survival
in Auschwitz : The Nazi Assault on Humanity
From the Book Description: "In 1943, Primo Levi, a
twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was
arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival
in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death
camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance.
Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival
in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the
human spirit."
*Martin Luther King Jr.
- A Knock at
Midnight : Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr
- Clayborne Carson(Editor), Peter Holloran (Editor). Paperback (January 2000)
from the inside flap: - a definitive collection of eleven of Martin Luther
King's most powerful and spiritual sermons, moving and meaningful words to live by for
everyone. 'Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher. This was my first calling
and it still remains my greatest commitment'.
*Martin Luther King
Jr.
- A Testament
of Hope : The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. James Melvin
Washington (Editor), Paperback (January 1991)
"...The strong man holds in a
living blend strongly marked opposites. Not ordinarily
do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the
realists are not usually idealistic. The militants are not generally known to be passive,
nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self assertive or the self assertive
humble. But life at its best is a creative syntheses of opposites in fruitful harmony....
truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in the an emerging synthesis
which reconciles the two.
Jesus recognised the need for
blending opposites. He knew that his disciples would face a difficult and hostile world,
where they would confront the recalcitrance of political officials and the intransigence
of the protectors of the old order. He knew that they would meet cold and arrogant
men whose hearts had be hardened by the long winter of traditionalism. So he said to them,
'Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves'. And he gave them a formula for
action; 'Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves'. It is pretty difficult
to imagine a single person having simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and
the dove, but that is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and
the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart...
...We do not need to look far to
detect the dangers of soft mindedness. Dictators, capitalising on soft
mindedness, have led
men to acts of barbarity and terror that are unthinkable in civilised society. Adolf
Hitler realised that soft mindedness was so prevalent among his followers that he said, 'I
use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few'. In
Mein Kampf
he asserted: 'By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make
people believe that heaven is hell - and hell, heaven... The greater the lie, the more
readily it will be believed...' There is little hope for us until we become
tough minded...
A nation or a civilisation that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on an installment plan..."
*Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Coretta Scott King - Words of Martin
Luther King, Jr. / Paperback / 1992
*Robert Melson, et al Revolution and
Genocide : On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust , 1986
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