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Author Drohan, Brian, 1983- author.

Title Brutality in an age of human rights : activism and counterinsurgency at the end of the British empire / Brian Drohan
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland
Summary "In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns--Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources. Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during interrogation"-- Publisher's Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Counterinsurgency -- Cyprus
Counterinsurgency -- Yemen (Republic) -- Aden
Counterinsurgency -- Northern Ireland
Human rights -- Cyprus
Human rights -- Yemen (Republic) -- Aden
Human rights -- Northern Ireland
Postcolonialism -- Great Britain
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Counterinsurgency
Human rights
Postcolonialism
SUBJECT Cyprus -- History -- War for Union with Greece, 1955-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004440
Yemen (Arab Republic) -- History -- 1962-1970. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006000518
Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092558
Subject Cyprus
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Yemen (Republic)
Yemen (Republic) -- Aden
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017026166
ISBN 9781501714672
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