Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria

by Fabian Klose

Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence explores the relationship between the human rights movement emerging after 1945 and the increasing violence of decolonization. Based on material previously inaccessible in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, this comparative study uses the Mau Mau War (1952-1956) and the Algerian War (1954-1962) to examine the policies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244958
• ISBN13: 9780812244953
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"