Research Catalog

Title

Against the crime of silence; proceedings of the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal, Stockholm, Copenhagen. Edited by John Duffett. Introd. by Bertrand Russell. Foreword by Ralph Schoenman.

Author

International War Crimes Tribunal.

Publication

New York, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duffett, John
• Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

Description

ix, 662 pages illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Summary

"Proceedings of the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal, Stockholm, Copenhagen."

Subjects

• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War > (1961-1975)
• Actes de congrès
• Conference papers and proceedings
• proceedings (reports)
• Congress
• War crimes
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Atrocities
• Atrocities
• War Crimes

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Introduction / Bertrand Russell -- Foreword / Ralph Schoenman -- Editor's Preface / John Duffett -- To The Reader -- Aims and Objectives of the Tribunal -- Personnel of the Tribunal -- Exchanges of Correspondence with Heads of State -- Message from Bertrand Russell to the Tribunal -- Jean Paul Sartre's Inaugural Statement -- Opening Statement to the First Tribunal Session / Bertrand Russell -- Statement of the President of Sessions -- Trial of Japanese War Criminals -- Tokyo 1946-1948 / Jean Chesneaux -- Summary of Historical Report / Professor Gabriel Kolko -- American Intervention in Vietnam -- 1945 to 1964 / Jean Chesneaux -- Historical Report on U.S. Aggression in Vietnam -1964 to 1967 / Charles Fourniau -- International Law and the Military Draft, testimony / Stanley Faulkner -- Summary of a Juridical Report / Samuel Rosenwein -- Juridical Report on Aggression in Vietnam / Japanese Legal Committee -- Report from Cambodia / Bernard Couret -- Report from Cambodia and North Vietnam testimony / Tariq Ali -- On Cambodia / Mme. Rena Kahn -- Testimony on Cambodia / Wilfred Burchett -- Questioning of a Khmer Mercenary -- Extracts from a Summary Report on the Bombing of the Civil Population in the North / Abraham Behar -- Non-Military Targets and Methods of Attack / Y. Ishijima -- Bombardment of Civilians in North Vietnam / John Takman, Axel Hojer -- American Bombing in North Vietnam / Jean Michel Krivine -- On the Destruction of the Leprosarium of Quinh Lap / M. Francis Kahn -- Report on Civilian Bombardment / Professor S. Kugai -- Report from North and South Vietnam / Marta Rojas -- Extracts from the Testimony of Alejo Carpentier -- Investigations of U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam / Lawrence Daly -- Report on American Bombing of North Vietnam / Ralph Schoenman -- Report on Bombing of North Vietnam /Charles Cobb and Julius Lester -- Effects of the Aggression Against the DRV on Public Health / Roberto Guerra -- Testimony and Medical Report of Vietnamese Victims Examinations of Wounded from U.S. Bombing / Henrik Forss -- Report on the Destruction of Dikes: Holland 1944-1945 and Korea 1953 / Professor Gabriel Kolko -- Significance of the Destruction of Dikes in North Vietnam / Professor Fujio Yamazaki -- Some Facts on Bombing of Dikes / Professor Makato Kandachi -- Bombing of Dikes and Irrigation Systems in the DRV / Tsetsure Tsurushima -- On the Law of Land Warfare / Frank Pestana -- Extracts from Fundamentals of Aerospace Weapons Systems' / Manual of the U.S. Air Force ROTC, Air University -- Technical Aspects of Fragmentation Bombs / Jean Pierre Vigier -- Combined Report on Anti-Personnel Bombs / Members of the Japanese Scientific Committee -- Effects of Anti-Personnel Bombs on the Human Body / F. Mazas and J. Zucman -- Statement on the rentagon's Denial of the Use of CBUs / Vladimir Dedijer -- Report from North Vietnam on Civil Bombardment / J.B. Neilands -- The Bombing of Dai Lai / Gerard Chaliand -- Summary of the First Two Charges / Lelio Basso -- Verdict of the Stockholm Session -- Closing Address to the Stockholm Session / Bertrand Russell -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Opening Statement to the Second Tribunal Session / Bertrand Russell -- Opening Address to the Second Session / Jean Paul Sartre -- Greetings to the Tribunal from American Supporters / Carl Oglesby -- Report on the Law of War / Yves Jouffa -- Incendiary Weapons, Poison Gas, Defoliants Used in Vietnam / Abraham Behar -- On Chemical and Biological Warfare in Vietnam / Alexandre Minkowski -- Report of the Sub-Committee on Chemical Warfare in Vietnam -- Extracts from a Report on Agricultural Chemicals Used in Vietnam / Japanese Scientific Committee -- Napalm and its Effects on Human Beings / Gilbert Dreyfus -- Patterns of Bombing of Civilians in the North / Wilfred Burchett -- Escalating Bombardment of North Vietnamese Cities / Antonello Trombadori -- Juridical Report on the Treatment of War Prisoners and Civilians / Solange Bouvier Ajam -- Testimony and Questioning of David Kenneth Tuck: Former Specialist Fourth Class with the U.S. 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam -- Testimony and Questioning of Peter Martinsen: Former Prisoner of War Interrogator with the 541st Military Intelligence Detachment in Vietnam -- Testimony and Questioning of Donald Duncan: Former Special Forces 'Green Beret' in Vietnam -- Report of the Commission of Inquiry to the United States / Gisele Halimi --Study on the Erosion of Moral Constraint in the Vietnam War: testimony Compiled by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam -- A Doctor Reports from South Vietnam / Erich Wullf -- Report on American Conduct of the War in the South / Jean Bertolino -- On Treatment of Civilians / Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridon -- On The Treatment of Women and Children in the South / Madelaine Riffaud -- Imprisonment and Torture of Political Prisoners / Mrs. Pham Thi Yen -- Depositions. Taken Concerning South Vietnam / Hugh Manes -- Report of the Seventh Inquiry Commission Concerning the Zones in the South Under NLF Control / Roger Pie -- Summary Report on Complicity of Thailand and the Philippines / Charles Fourniau -- Commission Combined Report on the Complicity of Japan in the Vietnam War / Japanese Committee -- The United States and Laos / Wilfred Burchett -- U.S. Actions Against Laos / Lt. Guillermo Frank Llanes -- On Genocide / Jean Paul --Sartre Summation on Genocide / Lelio Basso -- Summary and Verdict of the Second Session -- Appeal to American and World Opinion read by Dave Dellinger -- Bertrand Russell's Final Address to the Tribunal, Copenhagen, December, 1967 -- Illustrations.

ISBN

• 0950030031
• 9780950030036

LCCN

68055747

OCLC

• ocm00002493
• 2493
• SCSB-160945

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library