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From Nuremberg to Bosnia
Rosenberg, Tina | May 15, 1995 issue

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It seems odd to see a dozen or so of the nation's leading human rights lawyers gather to praise a general. But the human rights movement owes much of its legal foundation to the work of General Telford Taylor, an assistant U.S. prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and the chief prosecutor in the twelve subsequent trials held by U.S. military courts from 1946 to 1949. Nuremberg gave legitimacy to the concept that the world had something to say about how governments treat their own citizens. In 1950 the United Nations codified Nuremberg's most important statements into seven Nuremberg Principles, which have since been adopted by the legal systems of almost every major nation.

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HUMAN rights; BASIC needs; SOCIAL justice; SOCIAL movements; MILITARY courts; UNITED States
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