Abstract
The ongoing tragedy in Eastern Congo contains so many tragic lessons that it should shake to their very foundations all comfortable ideologies about human rights and politics. The atrocities in the DRC should implicate all but have so far resulted in almost limitless impunity. Here, I briefly put human rights law on trial for its role in perpetuating this tragedy.
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Simmons, William Paul
(2009)
"Human Rights Law on Trial in the DRC,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 9:
Iss.
9, Article 5.
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