Reviews for The International Law Of Civil War

The average rating for The International Law Of Civil War based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-30 00:00:00 Elizabeth Jochman 23/1/11 I watch Terry Gilliam's Brazil for the first time and wonder how anybody could think that the subject matter of this review and discussion could possibly be a grey area. This means you, Paul...HOW could you....how COULD you????????????????? Have you seen this movie? It's about rendition and torture; slogans like Suspicions Builds Confidence; what life is like when we decide safety is more important than freedom. -------------------------- 19/1/11 Update: a piece contrasting the behaviour of Canada and Australia when the US has taken one of its citizens... Can I be a Canadian? Pleeasssee? -------------------------- Observing in the press recently that Sweden has been involved in a couple of known instances of 'rendition', passing human beings over the to the US to be dealt with in a US kind of way, I wondered whether Australia is known to engage in this practice. I couldn't find any cases of handing people over to the US, but there are a couple of infamous instances of the Australian government failing to support citizens who have been taken by the US. One is Hicks and the other is Habib. You aren't going to read his story, I didn't and hardly anybody has. But you can see the gory lowlights here: It's written by Richard Neville, an Australian name that will be well known to the Brits. As he speaks out against rendition here, it is worth recalling that in the past in the UK he was defended by Geoffrey Robertson who is at the moment defending Assange against the possible threat of being given to the US via Sweden. We may in general become a cynical lot, happy to be well-fed and not care the way we used to, but here are two guys who do still care and are still doing the right thing. It's hard not to cheer for them.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Catriana Hernandez What a book! Very informative. I felt really sorry for the people in prisons all over the world especially the detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo but the strength these people have is what amazed me and impressed me greatly. It definitely opened my eyes on issues I never thought about before. It made me realise how scary and mean the world we live in is. I have respect for the author for fighting for justice and for his fellows and I wish he lives with his family peacefully after what they've gone through.