Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer Exonerating Child Soldiers Charged With Grave Conflict-related International Crimes /

• Main Author: Grover, Sonja C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Law.; Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Human Rights.; International Criminal Law.

This book provides an original legal analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of the genocidal forcible transfer of children. Legal argument is made regarding the lack of criminal culpability of such child soldier ...

Table of Contents:

• Children's Rights Participation Rhetoric: Distorting the Plight of the Child Soldier
• The Fallacious Demonization of Child Soldiers
• Recruitment and Use of "Child Soldiers" in Hostilities by Armed Groups Committing Mass Atrocities and/or Genocide as Itself a Form of Genocide
• Challenging the Attempt to De-legitimize the Human Rights Claims of Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer
• Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms: A Re-victimization of Child Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer?
• Concluding Remarks.